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Causes: Children & Youth, Youth Development Programs
Mission: Hartford performs connects all hartford public school students to quality arts experiences that advance student learning and deepen engagement in community.
Programs: Student programs: hartford performs brings professional teaching artists into hartford public school classrooms to teach a variety of subjects using the arts. Students also visit area museums and experience professional dance, music and theater productions in greater hartford's leading cultural venues. During the 2017-2018 school year, hartford performs delivered more than 800 arts education programs to more than 13,000 students in all 32 of the city's prek-grade 8 schools.
professional learning: hartford performs educates certified classroom teachers how to use the arts to enhance their curriculum, and trains professional artists how to work in classrooms and how to use their art forms to meet specific state and national educational standards. Hartford performs provided professional learning workshops to 420 teachers and more than 100 artists during the 2017-2018 school year.