Posts in Grades 6-8
Texas Music Museum

Discover hidden Texas music legends! Our program introduces kids to Mexican American & African American musicians who exceeded expectations, showcasing their journey to success. A captivating exploration of Texas music history with musicians of color, inspiring dreams without limits.

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Austin Soundwaves

Austin Soundwaves offers engaging music performances and workshops for K-12 students in English and Spanish. We also offer Creative Learning Initiative residencies and music education programs throughout Austin ISD.

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Latinitas

Club Latinitas is a media and technology after-school program where all girls are mentored and guided by trained program leaders teaching design, photography, video and audio production, web and graphic design, podcasting.

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Tapestry Dance

Tapestry’s vision, presentations and preservation of contemporary rhythm and percussive dance, educates audiences from around the country on tap dancing’s unique heritage and value.

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Art For The Sky

Art for the Sky is an awe-inspiring, whole-school artist residency devoted to developing children’s knowledge about our planet, our history, and our responsibility for the future through the creation of giant-scale work of art!

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Impact Arts, Inc.

Impact Arts provides robust and diverse programs, including new digital musical theatre curriculum for students in grades 3-12. We offer a diverse selection of workshops for students! From college audition prep to Shakespeare to voice and movement technique (and more!) we can come to you!

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UTeach Fine Arts (College of Fine Arts at UT Austin)

UTeach Fine Arts faculty and students learning to become fine arts teachers are ready to engage PK-12 students and teachers! We provide lessons and activities in art, music, dance and theatre education in your classroom, at UT, online, and in the community.

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Ryah Christensen

For the past 20 years, Ryah has fabricated small and large scale mosaic works for private and public audiences. More recently, Ryah has specialized in collaborating with communities, in schools and neighborhoods, helping them create vibrant, durable works of art that tell their stories.

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Changing Lives Youth Theatre Ensemble

Our original plays spark dialogue about interpersonal violence, giving young adults the knowledge, skills, and confidence to navigate their own relationships and stand up against sexual harassment and bullying as courageous allies.

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Austin Bat Cave

ABC partners with local schools and nonprofit organizations to deliver high-quality writing programs and instruction to students ages 6-18. We offer a variety of creative writing programs including fiction & poetry as well as assistance with college and scholarship essays, resume writing, and more.

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Leap of Joy

Leap of Joy is moving to give at-risk youth empowerment and self-acceptance through dance and performance arts. Primarily at Title 1 schools within Austin ISD, now including free virtual classes for all. Everyone deserves a chance to DANCE!

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The VORTEX

The VORTEX creates and presents new, innovative theatre—world premiere plays, operas, musicals, and devised collaborations. The VORTEX fosters educational programming, including our award-winning Summer Youth Theatre. We offer on-campus as well as virtual performances.

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Indigenous Cultures Institute

Online production of Yana Wana's Legend of the Bluebonnet. The story of a young girl's discovery of her Indigenous heritage and all the comes with this deeply moving experience. Also, Aztec danza performances for large assemblies, after COVID restrictions are lifted. Speakers on Texas Indians.

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Fusebox Festival

Now in it's 18th year, Fusebox Festival is an annual event each April that features theater, dance, film, visual art, music, literature and more, from hundreds of local, national, and international artists at unique locations across the city of Austin. The festival is 100% free to attend.

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George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center

The George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center's education offerings provide quality programming and classes that emphasize African American and African Diaspora contributions to the arts, history, culture, society, and thought across the globe.

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