Initiatives
Outreach
We can (and do) shout it from the hilltops: Arts-based education works! We also head straight into the community to help raise awareness of the benefits of arts education and arts-based learning. Focusing on access and inclusion, we seek to create pathways to an arts-based education where all voices are heard, respected, and celebrated.
Fun(d)raising
We raise fun (and funds) in support of Asawa SOTA’s the groundbreaking educational model.
Whether we’re organizing a community party or planning a fundraising campaign, we celebrate a culture of generosity, where sharing our stories and our resources benefits all of us.
Image: Performers at the 2016 fundraiser MixMatch at the DNA Lounge. Students, alumni, families, educators, and Bay Area luminaries gathered in support of Asawa SOTA.
Arts Ambassadors
Shine a light on art in the schools: book Asawa SOTA students, alumni, and educators as spokespeople and entertainers at your events.
From fairs and assemblies to festivals and corporate parties, we can help arrange whatever you envision — a chamber orchestra, a panel discussion, a world drumming workshop, face painters, a poetry slam, show tunes, a stage crew . . .
Image: World Dance and World Music students at Jerry Garcia Amphitheater. They appeared in the McLaren Park public performance with Duniya Dance and Drum Company. Photo by Vijay Rakhra
Big Ideas
We’re taking it to the streets: The Art Truck is coming.
We’re aiming to take Asawa SOTA into the community — particularly into arts-underserved schools — with a mobile arts studio where kids can try art, design, dance, music, writing, poetry, and more. Connecting them with resources inside and outside their schools, the Art Truck helps pave pathways to an arts-based education at Asawa SOTA and beyond.
Image: A visualization of the Art Truck. We’re aiming to take it to the streets.
Header image: Asawa SOTA World Dance students at Festa Brasileira. Photo: Heidi Alletzhauser Photography