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by Ketra Oberlander

Resources - List of Arts Programs
Visual, Performing, and Multidisciplinary Arts Programs and Classes for Children and Adults with Disabilities in the Greater Los Angeles Region
The descriptions of classes and programs in this directory were provided by the organizations themselves. Listings are provided for informational purposes only and do not denote an endorsement by the National Arts and Disability Center.
We found 13 record(s).
    Ballet For All Kids
    Tarzana, 5 Phone: 818 723-6924
    Email: bonnie@balletforallkids.com
    Internet: http://www.balletforallkids.com
    Description:

    Ballet For All Kids’ aim is to teach children of all abilities and disabilities classical ballet. 

    Ballet For All Kids believes that every child has strengths that can be used as a springboard to learn new skills and enhance each child’s personal sense of accomplishment.  To this end, The Schlachte Method uses a wide variety of teaching methods to accommodate all styles of learning including: visual learning, auditory learning, vestibular learning, and emotional intelligence.


    UCPLAy Project
    United Cerebral Palsy 6430 Independence Ave,
    Woodland Hills, 5 91367
    Phone: 818 782 22 11 ext 605
    Email: okaraolis@ucpla.org
    Description:

    UCPLAy Project offers unique, child driven workshops and artistic experiences for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. While the projects will take many forms, a silent movie, a play, a puppet show, a circus or a picture book the heart of work remains the same. To give children a place to develop friendships, their expression and beleif in their own abilities. 


    Exceptional Children's Foundation Art Center
    3750 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
    Los Angeles, 5 90008
    Phone: (323) 290-6030
    Fax: (323) 290-6029
    Email: hrecf@ecf.net
    Internet: http://www.ecfartcenter.com/
    Description: One program offered by The Exceptional Children's Foundation is the Art Center. Established in 1968, the Art Center has provided program participants with professional art training, studio facilities and a nurturing artistic environment. The Center also offers instruction in independent living skills, recreation and adult education. Participants range in age from 18 to 65.  Over the years, the Art Center program has become nationally recognized for leadership in demonstrating that individuals with developmental disabilities have the ability to produce fine art.

    LA Goal
    4911 Overland Ave.
    Culver City, 5 90230
    Phone: (310) 838-5274
    Fax: (310) 838-5379
    Email: info@lagoal.org
    Internet: http://www.lagoal.org
    Description: LA Goal is a local non-profit organization founded in 1969, which serves adults with developmental disabilities. LA Goal programs include counseling, employment training, physical fitness and training in social skills and interaction for more than 100 adults, as well as practical/emotional support for their families. The objective of LA Goal programs is to empower each individual to reach his or her fullest potential.

    Media Access Office
    Verdugo Jobs Center
    1255 S. Central Ave.
    Glendale, 5 91204
    Phone: 818/409-0448
    Fax: 818/507-4319
    Internet: http://www.disabilityemployment.org/med_acc.htm
    Description: The Media Access Office was established in 1980 by the California Governor's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, and entertainment and media industry professionals. They recognized the need to provide a liaison between performers with disabilities and the media and entertainment industry. The Media Access Office is currently administered with assistance from the State Employment Development Department and is guided by a Subcommittee comprised of professionals representing all facets of the entertainment and media industry. The office is also supported in part by the Friends of the California Governor's Committee on Employment of People With Disabilities, Inc., a private, non-profit (501) c(3) organization.

    St. Madeleine Sophie's Center & Sophie's Gallery
    2119 E. Madison Ave.
    El Cajon, 5 92019
    Phone: (619) 442-5129 ext. 33
    Fax: (619) 442-9651
    Email: info@stmsc.org
    Internet: http://www.stmsc.org
    Description: Founded in 1966, SMSC offers comprehensive programs that serve developmentally disabled adults. Our focus is on functional skills required for self advocacy, community integration, employment and self care.

    William Grant Still Art Center
    2520 S. West View Street
    Los Angeles, 5 90016
    Phone: (323) 734-1164
    Fax: (213) 485-1610
    Email: joyce.maddox@lacity.org
    Description: The William Grant Still Arts Center offers special art programs for individuals with disabilities in the performing arts, visual arts, museum tours, and music, photography. Services are accessible to individuals with physical disabilities, and seniors. The center offers festivals and exhibitions where both disabled and non-disabled artists perform.

PERFORMING ARTS
    Bethune Theatredance/Dance Outreach
    8033 W Sunset Blvd. #221
    Los Angeles, 5 90046
    Phone: (323) 874-0481
    Fax: (323) 851-2078
    Email: ida@bethunedance.org
    Internet: http://www.bethunetheatredanse.org
    Description: Founded in 1979, Bethune Theatredanse is a dance performance company that blends elements of dance, special effects, fine art, music and video to create a unique theatrical experience. Stories from film, television, artworks and literature are adapted from the fusion of ballet and modern dance. Dance outreach is a training and performance program in movement and dance for individuals with and disabilities. Dance Outreach is an acclaimed education and performance program providing disabled children an opportunity to affirm their capabilities by participating in the world movement and dance.

    Deaf West Theatre Company
    5112 Lankershim Blvd.
    North Hollywood, 5 91601
    Phone: (818) 762-2998
    TDD: (818) 508-8389
    Fax: (818) 762 - 2981
    Email: info@deafwest.org
    Internet: http://www.deafwest.org
    Description: Deaf West Theatre, Inc., was founded in 1991 to directly improve and enrich the cultural lives of the 1.2 million deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who live in the Los Angeles area. DWT provides exposure and access to professional theatre, filling a void for deaf artists and audiences. Serving the cultural, educational, social and employment needs of its constituents, DWT is an institution for the discovery and exploration of artists' identities and stature as artists. Through the medium of Sign Language Theatre, a legacy of deaf culture is created, shared, and preserved. Presenting adaptations of classics, contemporary and original works, DWT is dedicated to the production of theatre of the highest artistic quality, which nurtures and promotes the talents of its actors, writers, directors and designers. DWT productions are presented in American Sign Language with simultaneous translation in English, providing for all an enhanced theatrical experience for all.

    Firehouse Theater Company
    P.O. Box 69913
    West Hollywood, 5 90069-0913
    Phone: (310) 659-6744
    Fax: (310) 659-6644
    Email: oppenheimz@aol.com
    Internet: http://www.firehousetheatercompany.org
    Description: The Firehouse Theatre Company both produces and assists in creating innovative, inclusive, theatrical, musical, and visual arts events. They work as an advocate for artists and audiences with physical or sensory disabilities.

    High Spirits Dance Program
    P.O. Box 40631
    Pasadena, 5 91114
    Phone: (626) 399-5789
    Email: highspiritsdance@mac.com
    Internet: http://www.ymcala.org/Branch/Webpage.aspx?ENT=64&ID=2240
    Description: High Spirits Dance Program is for children and youth with Developmental Disabilities. They work with the mind-body connection, developing rhythm, strength, balance and coordination. They promote both "process" and "product" through weekly classes, rehearsals, and community performances. Lynnette Adams, MA Interdisciplinary Arts Education with a BA in Communications/Theatre has been working for the past twenty years teaching movement/dance, drama, art, music, and video. Working with both children and persons of all abilities, she has used the arts as a learning tool, and has created original works in various art forms that have a "Teaching Tolerance" theme.

    Performing Arts Studio West
    438 South Market Street
    Inglewood, 5 90301
    Phone: (310) 674-1346
    Fax: (310) 674-1349
    Email: psawstaff@earthlink.net
    Internet: http://www.pastudiowest.com
    Description: Performing Arts Studio West provides an environment where adults with developmental disabilities can enhance self-esteem, social skills, and vocational skills through participation in a performing arts curriculum, professionally staged productions and a vocational training component. All classes are taught by entertainment industry professionals. This setting brings together creative actors, singers, musicians and technical personnel - with and without disabilities - combining their talents to produce quality, original entertainment. In the past three years PASW performers have been cast in over 400 roles in film, television, commercial, music video, audio book and theater productions.

    Triumvirate Pi Theatre Company
    P.O. Box 1452
    Culver City, 5 90232
    Phone: (310) 836-2961
    Email: triumviratepi@earthlink.net
    Internet: http://www.tri-pi.org
    Description: Triumvirate Pi Theatre Company is a nonprofit playwrights collective and producing organization which seeks to bring together artists and audiences from all of LA's diverse communities to create and experience provocative live theatre that encourages understanding and breaks down perceived barriers of race, gender, and disability.

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