Jamestown Community Center

Jamestown Community Center provides youth with development services rooted in the cultural and artistic traditions of their communities. The organization strives to help youth and their families realize their full potential as powerful and healthy members of society. Jamestown Community Center's Loco Bloco Drum and Dance Ensemble program has served low-income children and youth of color in and around San Francisco's historic Mission District for over 20 years. With pedagogy based in the creation and performance of music, theater, and dance rooted in Afro-Latino traditions, the organization annually engages more than 700 youth in arts education programs at neighborhood schools and community centers. Youth performances at San Francisco's annual Carnaval parade and staged performances reach hundreds of thousands of audience members each year.

Jamestown Community Center is a youth development organization that provides programs for youth, parents, and families in and around San Francisco’s Mission District. The organization’s artistic programs are rooted in the culture, music, theater, and dance of Afro-Latino traditions. Each year, more than 400 youth are served in the program’s more than 290 classes and workshops, and through performance opportunities that advance the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy. This grant to Jamestown Community Center will support the arts learning pods project, which provides intensive in-person arts instruction for elementary-age students during school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic.