Next event: Graffiti Legends & Me... Art for the Park 2010

Next weekend

Legendary grafitti artists' work will be displayed and auctioned while I have the honor of sharing my poetry 

BombaRose with TatsCru at 106 & Park

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Click to visit the Park Performing Arts Center

At Park we believe that access to the arts is an essential component to every child’s well-being.  Consuming and practicing forms creative expression is a means to understanding identity, culture and humanism in a global society.  Through arts education, students acquire the skills and awareness that are necessary for personal success and making contributions to their communities and others.   

Our philosophy is informed by research insights on involvement with the arts.  For example, young people who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three days each week for at least one full year are:

• 4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement
• 3 times more likely to be elected to class office within their schools
• 4 times more likely to participate in a math and science fair
• 3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance
• 4 times more likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem

And, young artists, compared to their non-artist peers, are likely to:

• Attend music, art, and dance classes nearly three times as frequently
• Participate in youth groups nearly four times as frequently
• Read for pleasure nearly twice as often
• Perform community service more than four times as often

We offer a wide range of children and youth programming.  Our community based Folk Arts initiative brings guest artists to our in-school and after-school programs.  And our highly-regarded arts faculty offer a variety of classes at all skill levels for children and adults. Recent offerings include: 

Strategic Revitalization Plan.

• Children's Visual Art
• Ballet
• Hip Hop Jazz
• Theater for Children
• Broadway Voices
• Latin Dance for Children and Adults
• Salsa
• AfroCuban Dance
• Latin Percussion for Children and Adults
• Tango
• Music Theory
• Jazz Jam
• Capoeira - Brazilian Martial Art
• Merengue, Bachata & Palo Dance
• Beginner Music/Learn to play a recorder
• Break Dancing

Located in Union City, NJ, Park Performing Arts Center has the distinction of being recognized as "the only institution in the county solely dedicated to the performing arts" by the Hudson County Urban Complex Strategic Revitalization Plan.

Media contact: Lily Arango 201-238-0025

art4park@hotmail.com