Partnerships

Grants


SCPA is a recipient of an After School Safety Enrichment for Teens (21st ASSETs) Grant, which is state administered and federally funded, allowing for after school tutoring, rehearsals, performances and weekend activities for high school students. This work supports our SPSA goals for student achievement in the areas of: English Language Arts, math, graduation/promotion rate, and artistic achievement. Additionally, in the summer of 2009, SCPA added a two-week Summer Arts Intensive in August 2009 where students immersed themselves in their art major to expand their artistic pursuits over the period of four hours a day, five days a week. SCPA's 2009 Summer Intensive was modeled after The Juilliard School's Intensive Program and geared to artistic achievement within the community. It is designed to enrich and advance high school students in their chosen discipline. Approximately 130 students participated in SCPA's Summer Intensive Program.

SCPA continues to develop numerous parent and community partnerships. Our partners provide substantive and meaningful contributions that supplement our curriculum and provide significant opportunities toward student's artistic and academic development, while at the same time enriching the arts within the community. Currently, our seventeen partners provide invaluable insight into the professional world of the creative and performing arts, as well as offered exposure to professional artists at the top of their crafts which provide necessary vision for our students to see what it takes to succeed in these disciplines. Professional development opportunities, workshops for students with guest artists and choreographers, field trips, site visits, and performances are part of the total experience.

Our Partners Include:

  • Old Globe Theatre: guest artist workshops, pre & post theatre discussions, student performance opportunities, tickets to performances
  • La Jolla Playhouse: student representation on the La Jolla Playhouse Student Board of Trustees
  • La Jolla Music Society: workshops, guest artist workshops, tickets to performances
  • Stage 7 Dance, Kathryn Irey: professional development workshops for staff & classes for students
  • The California Ballet: panelists for school-sponsored presentations
  • San Diego Opera: collaboration with the English 3-4 class to create librettos based upon texts, i.e., John Steinbeck's The Pearl in 2009-10 and William Golding's Lord of the Flies in 2008-09; performances of Rumplestilskin for 7th and 8th Grade students in 2008-09, tickets to performances
  • San Diego Symphony: tickets to performances and guest artists' workshops
  • San Diego Lyric Opera: tickets to performances
  • San Diego State University: building career pathways & guest workshops
  • The San Diego Repertory Theater: 2009 Summer Arts Intensive collaborator, panelists for school-sponsored presentations
  • The Starlight Theater: prop & costume access
  • Clay Artists of San Diego: professional development workshops for teachers and classes for students
  • California Student Opportunity and Access Program (Cal-SOAP): provides information about postsecondary education and financial aid to elementary through high school students while raising student achievement levels
  • San Diego Museum of Art: student participation in exhibitions
  • The California Center of the Arts, Escondido: full student productions of Ain't Misbehavin' and A Midsummer's Night Dream performed in this professional venue
  • The local stage employees union of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts (IATSE): consultation on SCPA's technical theater needs and internship opportunities for students
  • Friends of SCPA is a non-profit organization formed in 1993 by parents concerned about cuts in school program funding. The organization involves parents, students, teachers, alumni and the San Diego community in financially supporting the school through grant-writing, institutional giving, fundraising and volunteerism. Friends of SCPA provides funding through donations and grants to replace equipment for the Video-Arts department, musical instruments, garden flowers to beautify the school, transportation for the music department to competitions, the school website, costumes and sets. College Guides for Juniors, daily planners provided to all middle school students, computers for Graphic Arts, and a significant upgrade to the sound system in the Grand Theatre.