The Arts Education Brown Bag series is a bi-monthly event where we bring lunch to the library and learn from our arts education colleagues. 

This month: 
Jasmine Yep Huynh
Manager of Youth Programs and Teacher Support
San Francisco Ballet

RSVP not necessary.

A collection of Bay Area Theatre Companies, Teaching Artist Guild (TAG) and Arts Education Alliance Bay Area are combining efforts to host an open call for Theatre Teaching Artists. We are seeking theatre artists of various levels of experience with students of various ages (K-Adult), and we particularly encourage bilingual teaching artists and teaching artists of color to apply. 

Expand your toolkit by learning new techniques to help keep a class on track while being fun, engaging, and respectful of all of your students. Learn why were hesitant to use the term "classroom management" in our event description.

Read about how successful the event was last year. This year's event will have the same structure but with a new set of presenters.

Arts advocates from around the nation will be gathering in San Francisco for the Americans for the Arts Annual Convention. If you are registered for the conference, you can participate in a whole range of activities that comprise the arts education thread.

You do not need to be registered to take part in this cocktail party. Just bring your business cards and be ready to schmooze. 

Thank you to Americans for the Arts and the Museum of African Diaspora for hosting this free event.

At this meeting, we will discuss the SF Department of Children, Youth, and their Families (DCYF) coming 5 year funding RFP and strategize about how to get the word out to arts providers.

Bi-monthly Arts Education Policy Roundtable: The purpose of this forum is to provide timely information for arts provider organizations and individuals about activities and policies of agencies, including SFUSD and DCYF, that support arts education programming in the city of San Francisco.

Click here to see notes from past Arts Education Policy Roundtable. 

We've survived and thrived through another school year.

Celebrate with current and future members of the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area.

The first TWENTY guests to arrive get a FREE drink. RSVP here to qualify.

The Arts Education Brown Bag series is a bi-monthly event where we bring lunch to the library and learn from our arts education colleagues. 

This month:
 

Arts Education in a Social Justice Era

We will discuss the urgent need for arts education in our current political climate and how teaching artists and organizations can create intention within the classroom with an all-star panel including:

• Mariah Landers Ed.M., Alameda County Office of Education
• Shanna Bowie, Youth Art Exchange 
• LeShawn Holcomb, Artist and Educator

You are invited to the SFUSD Arts Festival Celebration.

The best visual art by students in the district will be on display along with student performances. Enjoy light refreshments while we honor students and their teachers.

This is a great opportunity for San Francisco's entire arts education community to come together.

On the agenda this month:

• Is there a teaching artist shortage in the Bay Area. Are you having trouble recruiting?
• Advocacy and resistance. How can we work together to advance arts education in the current political climate?

Bi-monthly Arts Education Policy Roundtable: The purpose of this forum is to provide timely information for arts provider organizations and individuals about activities and policies of agencies, including SFUSD and DCYF, that support arts education programming in the city of San Francisco.

Click here to see notes from past Arts Education Policy Roundtable. 

The Creative Practice Exchange (aka Curriculum Slam) is a forum for you to see how the best arts educators in the Bay Area bring creativity, critical thinking, and innovation to their classrooms. Each presenter has 7 minutes and 14 slides to tell their story.

Bring lunch to the library and learn from your arts education colleagues. This time, the Bimonthly Arts Education Brown Bag Lunch, will feature Elisa Salasin, Program Director, Developmental Teacher Education Program, University of California, Berkeley and Nives Wetzel de Cediel, Lecturer, Developmental Teacher Education Program, University of California, Berkeley discussing: Deepening Pre-service Practice of Arts Integration in a Summer School Context.

How do we create and support trauma-responsive work in our programs, teaching artists and practice? Carlee Adamson, Equity Coach with Oakland Unified Public Schools, will lead an interactive workshop exploring the building blocks of trauma-relevant practice.

image: Chikako Yamashiro, Your voice came out through my throat, 2009. Video. © Chikako Yamashiro. Courtesy of Yumiko Chiba Associates.

Bi-monthly Arts Education Policy Roundtable: The purpose of this forum is to provide timely information for arts provider organizations and individuals about activities and policies of agencies, including SFUSD and DCYF, that support arts education programming in the city of San Francisco.

Click here to see notes from past Arts Education Policy Roundtable. 

This fair will be attended by an art coordinator from every school in the San Francisco Unified School District as well as educators and parents from around the bay area.

Reserve your table now.

Join us for the most comprehensive gathering of arts education organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

For parents, teachers, administrators, teaching artists, and arts education advocates to meet representatives from a wide range of arts provider organizations in the bay area.

In a special workshop for members of the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area, KQED Learning will teach participants to tell a short and compelling true story about your organization using just your phone and free online software.

This event workshop will take place over two sessions. Please, commit to attending both sessions.

• 4:30-6:30 pm, Wed. Jan. 11, 2017

• 4:30-6:30 pm Wed. Feb. 8, 2017.

Members only.
Register by December 20.

Bi-monthly Arts Education Policy Roundtable: The purpose of this forum is to provide timely information for arts provider organizations and individuals about activities and policies of agencies, including SFUSD and DCYF, that support arts education programming in the city of San Francisco.

Every two months, arts educators bring a lunch and gather in San Francisco to learn more about their colleagues. This month, the featured program will be the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area.

Bi-monthly Arts Education Policy Roundtable: The purpose of this forum is to provide timely information for arts provider organizations and individuals about activities and policies of agencies, including SFUSD and DCYF, that support arts education programming in the city of San Francisco. Donn Harris...

The Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area is co-sponsoring this event with Arts for a Better Bay Area (ABBA):

Join us as the Cultural Space Committee of ABBA frames the November Ballot (focused on SF) and answers questions.

There will be time to mingle, hear presentations about the arts specific Measures, get updates on ABBA Committees, check out event Co-Presenter tables, and ask our resident policy experts questions. 

Join Bay Area arts and education leaders for an evening of wine, food, music and storytelling in celebration of the 6th Annual Creative Impact during National Arts in Education Week. This year’s celebration at the new and beautiful San Francisco Opera Education Studio will include focused conversation...

Expand your toolkit by learning new techniques to help keep a class on track while being fun, engaging, and respectful to all of your students. Learn why were hesitant to use the term "classroom management" in our event description...

Bi-monthly Arts Education Policy Roundtable: The purpose of this forum is to provide timely information for arts provider organizations and individuals about activities and policies of agencies...