Live Arts' current, ongoing project is the "Pass It On" workshops, in which film and television professionals work as "advisors" with young people in creating music videos. The program, which includes peer and instructor evaluations at several stages, requires participants to create ideas for pieces of approved contemporary music that contain positive messages, then write, shoot and edit the videos with professional guidance and assistance.

We hold free screenings for all participants, project personnel, family members, other invited guests, as well as people in the community. The program's goal is to help participants develop marketable skills while providing self-expression in a medium they have a well developed interest in.

After the very successful pilot program was conducted at HOLA (Hearts of Los Angeles Youth) in the Rampart District in 2004, a second workshop was run there in 2005. In the second half of 2005 the workshop was run in East LA at Plaza de la Raza, an after school arts education center founded by the Eddie Alberts Family in the 1950's. Live Arts Group decided at that time to experiment running our workshop at a youth probation center. In January of 2006, the workshop ran at the Stonewall Day Program (G.L.A.S.S.) a probation center for LGBT youth in the Wilshire District. Two more successful programs rounded out 2006 with a Summer session at Canoga Park Youth Arts Center and the most recently completed Fall session at A Place Called Home in South Central Los Angeles.

With the overwhelming success of these past workshops, we are experiencing a high demand for the return of the PIO workshop. Our goal is to develop our capacity to bring the class to the centers we have worked with as well as to include in our curriculum the ability to serve homeless youth and drop in centers.  For the first half of 2007, Live Arts Group is making a commitment to expanding public awareness of our workshop and developing inventive ways of presenting our curriculum to a variety of youth populations.

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