Young Audiences of Northern California Celebrates March is Arts Education Month
Young Audience artists perform in more than 70 schools in 14 Bay Area counties.
(PRWEB) March 11, 2005
Brazilian dance, Japanese drumming, Middle Eastern music, Irish folk songs, and Native American dance provided by Young Audiences of Northern California will be performed in schools in 14 bay area counties this month in celebration of March is Arts Education Month.
Four Winds, Sittat El Qaib, Celtic harpist Patrick Ball, Caribbean storyteller Asheba, San Francisco Taiko Dojo, and multicultural storyteller Michael Katz will be among the artists who bring their performance arts to 70 schools throughout the month of March. YANCÂ’s classroom residency programs will also be provide over 1,000 students with hands-on arts workshops in theatre, music, dance, visual arts, poetry, and more.
Besides San Francisco, YANC artists will visit schools in such North Bay cities as Vacaville, Vallejo, Santa Rosa, San Rafael and San Anselmo. East Bay cities include Walnut Creek, Moraga, Oakland and Hayward. Peninsula and South Bay sites range from Daly City to San Mateo and Palo Alto, to Cupertino, Santa Clara, and San Jose.
The artists, along with over 130 additional YANC artists, share their talents with more than 375,000 children, families and educators in school assemblies, residency programs, workshops, and professional development sessions each year. They also perform for after-school, community and family programs.
Young Audiences of Northern California (formerly Young Audiences of the Bay Area and Young Audiences of San Jose & Silicon Valley) is the largest arts education provider in the Bay Area. Its mission is to make the arts – classical, contemporary, and multicultural – an essential part of every young person’s education and life.
The non-profitÂ’s programming currently serves pre-kindergarten through high school in 14 Northern California/Bay Area counties including San Francisco, Santa Clara, Alameda, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Marin, Sonoma and Napa.
YANC is one of 30 chapters of Young Audiences, Inc., the nationÂ’s single largest provider of arts education programs in the United States.
For information, call (415)974-5554 or visit www. ya-nc. org. org. Booking information can also be obtained by email: booking@ya-nc. org.
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Media contact only: Karen Pierce Gonzalez Public Relations, 707-792-4376.
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