As featured in today’s San Francisco Chronicle, BetterWorld customer and donation recipient Art in Action will be opening the doors next Thursday the 14th in downtown Oakland on its latest project, the Green Youth Arts and Media Center.
An excerpt from today’s Chronicle: “The walls are freshly painted in blues, browns and whites, the bamboo dance floor is polished, and the sound equipment has been tested again and again.
All that’s left is opening day for one of the more ambitious enterprises of musical, video and performance-art creativity that Oakland has seen.
It’s the Green Youth Arts and Media Center, and when it officially starts business on Telegraph Avenue on Jan. 14, the center will offer much more than a building full of professional-caliber recording studios and new computers loaded with high-end multimedia software.
Its backers think it will bring hope to more than 200 underprivileged youths from the meanest streets of Oakland – hope of learning how to creatively channel sadness and rage into a marketable career, or at least into a healing form of expression. For inspiration, they need look no further than the Black Eyed Peas, the superstar hip-hop group whose Peapod Foundation is helping fund the $400,000-a-year center, along with the Adobe Foundation, the city of Oakland and several local nonprofits.”
For more information on the new center and Art in Action: http://artinactionworld.org/
The BetterWorld team will be out in force to help launch this important new addition to Oakland. See you there!
Jacob
