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The Asian Arts Initiative is a community-based arts

We envision the Charlottesville area as a place where a thriving group of local artists unsettles and transforms our community to work toward a more just, beautiful future. New City Arts Initiative (NCAI) brings together local creators and the local community to spark connection, inquiry, and social transformation.

CAPE increases students’ academic success, critical thinking and creativity through research-based arts driven education.

To stimulate interest in Fauquier county and Virginia history by preserving the evidence of our past, connecting it to our present and educating the community about its importance to our future.

TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER AND INSPIRE CREATIVITY THROUGH THE POWER OF ART.

from the website: Navarasa Dance Theater's mission is to make the arts accessible to all through performances, classes and social awareness. We believe that the performing arts are a source of inspiration for society, a means of expression and an integral part of every person's life. Art is not just a pastime of the privileged; it is a necessity for all. Furthermore, Navarasa Dance Theater believes that art is an effective and powerful medium to create awareness and to mobilize people for positive social change. Navarasa works with all forms of arts to create social justice awareness and to empower people, especially people of color and people from low-income communities. Navarasa Dance Theater offers classes in Bharatanatyam Classical Dance, Kalari ppayattu Martial Arts, Yoga (in-studio and online); as well as workshops in Aerial dance Mallakhamb rope and pole, Ways of Expression (Story telling through your body), Physical Theater for Emotional Expression, Contemporary Dance in a multi-cultural world, Acting for Dancers, Movement for Actors, and Voice. Navarasa's Dance for Everyone program offers free training and scholarships in performing arts for low-income students of dance and martial arts, with programs in Kerala, India; Boston, MA and Los Angeles, CA. Navarasa's touring dance theater company has performed in Asia, North America and Europe for almost 20 years.

The Bali Children's Project is a non-profit dedicated to education as a means of improving the lives of disadvantaged young people in Bali. It is founded on the belief that children, empowered to realize their potential, will enrich their own lives, their villages and the world that we all share. Bali Children's Project's programs include School Sponsorships for Children, Schools Renovations, Library Renovations, Sex and Health Awareness, Child Protection Workshops and more. The Bali Children's Project is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit charitable foundation registered in the USA (EIN 26-0014889) and in Indonesia (NPWP: 02.096. 823.903.000). The work of the BCP is wholly dependent upon the generous donations of individuals and organisations.

EnActe Arts is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which produces contemporary theatrical projects that explore multicultural issues with particular reference to the South Asian Diaspora and provides education programs to foster performing Arts talent in the community. Our mission is three-fold: To bring quality South Asian themed stories to universal audiences. To offer a talent development platform where theatre professionals work with aspiring amateurs to foster the growth of local performing talents. We place a particular emphasis on producing new works by upcoming playwrights. To offer theatre education programs in acting, stage design and management and script-writing. EnActe believes in collaboration with other performing arts organizations, corporations, and universities to foster arts in the community. EnActe has produced shows in various cities including Houston, San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Exeter and Seattle. Many of these productions have led us to partnerships with distinguished universities and arts organizations such as Emerson Arts College, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Asian Art Museum (SF), Philips Exeter Academy, The Menil Collection (Houston), Seattle Asian Art Museum. In order to bring unique stories to a wide audience, we seek your support as a corporate sponsor. Your partnership with EnActe will help nurture and showcase new voices from under represented communities and support this age-old form of theater art.

StarStruck Theatre is a non-profit Children’s Performing Arts Center that enhances the lives of children and their families by providing a safe and educational space for growth and performance thereby creating citizens of exemplary character in our community and beyond.

ACI partners with emerging artist leaders of color, and arts influencers who hold institutional power in the contemporary art world, to collectively build equity, access, and inclusion through transformational leadership development.

Pipeline makes theater of the imagination. Our company thrives on adventure and believes no story is worth telling without a little risk. We love our villains as much as our heroes, especially in those puzzling moments when we can’t quite tell them apart. Above all, we aim to leave you with stories that stick somewhere in your heart, your brain, or your guts.

Inaside Chicago Dance advances innovative artistry through choreography, performances, and educational programs to heighten the state of the art in the Midwest. The vision of Inaside Chicago Dance is to enrich the art form of dance by nurturing the dancer as a performer, choreographer and teacher and by making dance accessible to all ages through performances, workshops and outreach.