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The Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) at Culver City High School was established in 1996 to provide intensive, professional level arts education and training for high school students after the regular school day. The AVPA curriculum includes majors in Visual Art, Dance, Music, Theatre, and Film. The Academy is guided by four credentialed CCHS teachers and supplemented by the talents of many professional artists working in their respective fields.
The mission of the AVPA Foundation is to enrich and enhance the arts education program provided by the AVPA. Established in 2005, the Foundation raises funds used entirely to support afterschool classes and workshops, student performances, exhibitions and screenings, instructional materials and field trips, improvements to facilities and equipment used by AVPA, and other activities and services integral to the AVPA program. Funding sources include grants and donations from parents, community members, businesses and foundations. |
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The Culver City Education Foundation is a charitable, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and enhancing quality educational programs for every student in the Culver City Unified School District. To accomplish our mission, the Foundation reaches out to the community to secure funds and resources.
Grants CCEF funds innovative and enriching programs benefiting students in the Culver City schools. During the past two school years, CCEF has funded 56 projects, totaling nearly $165,000. Projects impact all schools and all academic areas. Recent CCEF Major Projects In February 2009, a state-of-the-art science lab was opened for the 500 students at El Rincon Elementary School. Many local businesses, parents, neighbors and community members participated, raising a total of $110,000 during 2008. A major fundraising campaign to purchase new books for the Culver City High School library was begun in October 2007. Over $41,000 was raised and over 1,000 new books purchased. |
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Providing Opportunities for all Culver City Middle School Students to participate in after-school athletics & academics & arts (including musical theater, dance, music, fine art, computer graphics & animation). Beyond supporting the after-school programs our mission includes funding campus beautification to enliven our campus with art and green space. We are currently searching for funds to paint a mural in the library, install a water wise native plant garden in our central courtyard, buy a piano or find a donated one for our musical theater program, musical theater needs another $10,000 this year alone for sets, costumes and salaries.
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The Farragut Fan Club's mission is to raise money and support for Farragut Elementary School from the community for important aspects of our children's education that otherwise would not be available. The Fan Club is dedicated to fundraising to support computer lab aides, an art aide, and a music specialist that are used to fully support the computer lab and arts program.
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The mission of No Limits is to meet the auditory, speech and language needs of deaf children and enhance their confidence through the theatrical arts and individual therapy as well as provide family support and community awareness on the needs and talents of deaf children who are learning to speak.
To meet the needs of each child at No Limits, all children receive one hour of individual auditory speech and language therapy twice a week. This therapy is taught by a certified teacher of the deaf. Following academic tutoring No Limits kids focus on public speaking skills and self confidence by integrating the tools of our renowned theatrical techniques. Our programs include: - Auditory Speech & Language Program - Literacy Program - Weekly Parent Education - Talk It Up: A Language-based Program for children - Live It Up: Teen Program No Limits is also the home to No Limits Theater Group, a theater company for oral deaf children. |
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Since 1999, the Bridge Program at Antioch University Los Angeles (AULA) has been doing something simply revolutionary: providing college classes to low-income adults in Los Angeles, at NO cost to students. Bridge students earn up to 15 units of college credit while studying philosophy, literature, art history, and writing over a 9 month period, while studying the cultures, landscapes, and histories of LA neighborhoods.The cost of a college education has tripled over the past decade; Bridge provides more than access to what would otherwise be an expensive education, however. Our experience has shown that, when encouraged to read, analyze, and write about the humanities, Bridge students not only develop critical academic skills; they also expand in academic self-confidence, develop a greater sense of agency, and begin to affect change in their personal lives, careers, and communities. Often, this change is transformational.
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The Story Project's project-based curriculum utilizes the storytelling arts in the classroom empowering youth, improving literacy while furthering self-esteem. Often taught by mentors from the professional entertainment community, our students create short films, plays, song lyrics, puppet shows, board games, murals, manga/comic books, poetry chap books, fables, photography projects and more, the only limitation is the student’s imagination. At the end of our 12 to 16 week semester, each of these class projects is then presented to the community in a “Premiere Night”, an evening that celebrates the arts and accomplishment. A national non-profit founded in 1998 in Los Angeles, today The Story Project extends from Culver City to Maryland and looks to empower more youth in more of America’s cities in the very near future.
It's The Story Project's goal to provide the tools necessary to every student's own, personal “Happily Ever After”. Write on! |
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The Willows Community School is a non-profit independent school located in Culver City, California, serving 425 students grades Development Kindergarten through 8th.
The school provides a balanced approach to education in an environment that nurtures connection, fosters character, values content, inspires creativity and builds community. |
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