Virginia Avenue Project

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

May 31, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$456,977

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

CORE PROGRAM:Our Core Program involves children who belong to our youth center at the Santa Monica Police Activities League. We work with these children from age six through high school.Creative Play 2 - 30 kids, 8 mentors, 1 assistant teacher, 1 lead teacher culminating in an open workshop for parents and friends.Creative Play 2 consists of intermediate acting classes for children ages 6-18 who have successfully completed Creative Play 1. This program runs for 12 weeks every Winter/Spring - two days a week for an hour and a half.Replay - 8 kids, 5 mentors, 1 lead teacher, 16 actors, 8 directors culminating in a production of "Pass It On" at the Miles Memorial Playhouse.Replay invites intermediate young playwrights to write short plays that are directed and performed by professional theatre artists. This program occurs in Winter/Spring two hour sessions twice a week for five weeks. This is followed by a day away when the kids hear their plays read and receive feedback. In the Fall, kids went through a 2-week rewrite workshop before their plays went into production at the Miles Playhouse in November 2011 under the title "Pass It On". One-on-Ones - 8 kids, 2 junior counselors, 8 actors, 8 writers, 1 music director culminating in a production of "Just Desserts" at the 24th Street Theatre.In the One-on-One program an adult writer/performer writes a short play for a child which the two perform together. The rehearsal process takes place during a week away in Ojai at the Oak Grove School - kids and adults rehearse 4-5 hours a day before returning home to perform their plays at a theatre in Los Angeles. Creative Play 1 - 20 kids, 5 mentors, 1 assistant teacher, 1 lead teacher culminating in an open workshop for parents and friends.Creative Play 1 consists of beginning level acting classes - occurs for 6 weeks every fall - one day a week for an hour and a half. Children who complete this program move on to Creative Play 2 during the Winter/Spring.

Activity 3

SMART PARTNERS:20 kids ages 6-18, 20 mentors, 1 lead teacher culminating in the publication of The Buzz magazine.Smart Partners is a creative tutoring program that pairs an adult with a child for the school year to help with homework and participate in creative writing exercises that are published in the Virginia Avenue Project's magazine, The Buzz. Kids and their adult mentors meet once a week for an hour and a half throughout the school year. SMART PARTNERS - LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL:15 8th grade mentors, 15 6th grade mentees, 1 lead teacher culminating in the publication of The Buzz Magazine.A free peer-to-peer creative tutoring program pairing 8th graders with 6th graders who are having trouble adjusting to the rigors of middle school. In addition to homework, the Smart Partner teams participate in creative exercises that are published in the Virginia Avenue Project's magazine, The Buzz.

Filer

EIN

95-4368440