EPACENTER

EPACENTER is a creative youth development organization that serves young people with programs that support their creative expression and honor their lived experience. Each year, EPACENTER works with more than 900 youth residing in East Palo Alto and the surrounding communities of Redwood City and East Menlo Park. It provides free arts instruction, arts workforce training, and arts-based social-emotional programming focused on positive outcomes for vulnerable youth aged six to 25. Support of EPACENTER advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy through the Program Delivery substrategy.

EPACENTER is a youth development center in East Palo Alto that amplifies the creative potential in every young person. The organization hosts community art festivals and events, and each year provides free instruction in dance, theater, music, creative writing, and media arts to 500 local youth, ages eight to 18. This grant advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy by supporting a creative youth development organization in East Palo Alto, a city with few such resources, and will support EPACENTER’s adaptation planning and implementation.