Youth Programs
Performing Arts Residencies
Our Residency programs bring jazz music education to local students in their classrooms, and allow them to demonstrate their newly acquired skills:
Santa Barbara Vocal Jazz (SBVJF)
The Journey Through Jazz residency provides hands-on jazz education to local 4th, 5th and 6th graders. In addition to seven weeks of in-class instruction, students perform live on the Lobero stage, enjoying a professional, hands-on experience with state-of-the-art light and sound.
Please visit santabarbaravocaljazz.com for more information.
The Brubeck Circle Jazz Residency
The Lobero Theatre Brubeck Circle brings New Orleans jazz educator, Derek Douget and his exceptional band of musicians to Santa Barbara to work in classrooms with middle school, high school, and college students studying jazz music. Students receive hands-on instruction in their classrooms, and the opportunity to learn from working musicians about the realities of a life in the arts. This one-week residency serves more than 300 students in 10 schools and after-school programs, and culminates with an on-stage performance by the Douget Band, featuring some of the student residency participants.
Subsidies
Through the John C. Mithun Foundation Community Access Fund, we provide more than $100,000 worth of subsidies to local performing arts and youth performance organizations that perform on the Lobero stage. Recipients include Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, Spirit of Fiesta Auditions, State Street Ballet Academy, Opera Santa Barbara, AHA! Santa Barbara, Nebula Dance Lab and more.
Ticket Inreach
In addition to funding specific Youth and Community Outreach programs, the Lobero provides qualifying students, families and seniors with the chance to experience live performances at the Lobero Theatre, free of charge. Opportunities include performances like It’s Magic!, State Street Ballet, Santa Barbara Revels and our Jazz at the Lobero series. We partner with local music educators and social service agencies to reach hundreds of deserving participants.
Support Our Youth Programs
Obtaining funds for Lobero’s Youth and Community Outreach programs is essential to achieving our dream of a community where art, creativity, and education are typical values and resources. With your gift, the Lobero can continue to offer students the necessary tools to flourish and succeed through engagement with educational arts programming, regardless of financial means.
Together, we can inspire children to continue pursuing the arts throughout their education and, hopefully, throughout their lives.
