Community Arts Partnership (CAP)

The award-winning CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP), a co-curricular program of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), offers free, after-school and school-based arts programs for youth ages 6-18 in every discipline taught at CalArts. Programs are offered at public schools, community centers and social service agencies, covering a thousand square mile radius across Los Angeles County. With classes led by a teaching corps of accomplished CalArts faculty, alumni and student instructors, CAP participants learn to create original works of art and to experiment with prevailing conventions of artistic expression. CAP’s success has served as a model for other arts education organizations locally and nationally. And the program has received numerous honors, including The President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities’ Coming Up Taller Award, which recognizes effective programs that foster the creative and intellectual development of America’s children.

CAP / Hart Park Filmmaking Program

This summer students ages 10-17 are invited to participate in a free, five-day filmmaking program at William S. Hart Park and Museum. Participants will spend a day learning about theatre and acting from Canyon Theatre Guild and four days creating a short silent film with instructors from the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP). Students will have the opportunity to use the latest in filmmaking equipment. All participants must commit to attending all 5 workshop days, plus the screening event.  The workshop will take place on Saturdays from 10:00am to 4:00pm on July 13, 20, 27, August 3 & 10, 2013.  Classes will be held at Hart Hall in the William S. Hart Park & Museum located at 24151 Newhall Ave., Newhall, CA 91321.  A culmination screening will take place on Saturday, September 14, 2013 at 2pm at the CalArts Bijou Theater (2nd Floor), 24700 McBean Parkway, Santa Clarita, CA 91335.  Please note:  Applications are due to the CAP Office on Friday, July 28, 2013 at 5pm.  To download an application, please click here.  

You are welcome to contact Jozben Barrett in the CAP Office at jabarrett@calarts.edu or at (661) 253.7790 for more information about this program.