Los Angeles Music and Art School

Playmaking is a dramatic writing program that engages students ages 9 – 15 in the fundamentals of playwriting over the course of 8 weeks, culminating in a performance of student-written plays by adult actors and the students themselves. The program involves students in all aspects of theater-making, including writing, rehearsing, and designing, validating their unique artistic voices. Playmaking aims to support cognitive and emotional development and to enrich their creative, social, and behavioral growth through creating original work.

LAMusArt's Tuition-Free Music Ensembles program is a free, year-round music program that teaches up to 150 young East LA students musical repertoire, theory, and technique in an equitable setting. The program is divided into five cohorts - Choir, Jazz Ensemble, Mariachi, Youth Orchestra, and Strings - and places emphasis on collaborative musicianship and high caliber performance. Students as young as 7 through seniors attend weekly rehearsals (between 1-2 hours) with their ensemble to learn culturally specific styles of music at no cost.

LAMusArt's Tuition-Free Music Ensembles is a no-cost, sequential, intensive program that provides high quality music education, performance opportunities and intergenerational exchange to predominantly BIPOC youth (ages 7-21) who've been routinely subjected to systemic disinvestment. The year-round program teaches students culturally responsive repertoire, theory and technique in a collaborative setting with offerings such as Choir, Jazz, Mariachi, and Orchestra. Students can join any time and are eligible for a free instrument loan if needed.