Destiny Arts Center

Only one day left to apply for our Healing Arts Career Pathway mentorship! Selected participants will receive career and life skills coaching focused on the connections between the arts, wellness, and healing practices. Through hands-on training and mentorship, you will deepen your understanding of what you learn and explore career and leadership opportunities in the healing arts. As part of a vibrant cohort, you will use your new skills to initiate community projects that reflect your unique perspectives and needs as young people from across the East Bay! For more information, please visit our application portal at: https://lnkd.in/gZVHVB24

We're so grateful to our sponsors for being a part of Experience the Extraordinary: A Destiny Arts Center Celebration. Your generosity uplifts our mission to inspire social change through the arts. With your support, we raised $137,200 which will impact over 5,600 young people across 50 partner sites and at our North Oakland studios with our movement arts classes to discover their creativity and power. THANK YOU! San Francisco Foundation East Bay Community Foundation Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Kaiser Permanente Kapor Center Red Oak Realty Bridge Bank Ferrari Orthodontics

From seed to blossom, explore the raw and uncomfortable truths that accompany growth with Wildflower, a hip-hop dance and theater performance production by Destiny Arts Center. Join us May 4th & 5th, 2024 at Zellerbach Playhouse. #DestinyArts #DAYPC #DestinyArtsWildflower #RoadtoWildflower #Youth #Dance  #hiphop #BIPOC Tickets are available now: https://lnkd.in/gbnKgVkT

For over 35 years, Destiny Arts Center has skillfully created a community in any space where we offer our dance and martial arts programming. Take a look at the beauty of bringing love to the community in Carter Gilmore Park, and let the summer memories warm you through this video. "Destiny is a space for family and community where young people can actually be themselves, feel safe, have their dignity, and also have a community they can connect to ... those three things can create a space for young people to achieve their highest potential. That's what Destiny is." --Sensei Tesfaye Tekelu, Destiny Arts Martial Arts Director Help Destiny create community by making a gift today.   Visit https://lnkd.in/gUrKa3iV #AnnualGiving #GiveLove #GiveCommunity #OaklandYouth #DestinyArts #Oakland

Summertime and the livin’ is… Expensive - many families cannot afford programs for their kids all summer. And boring - many young people spend the day in front of a screen to pass the time. This past summer, Destiny Arts Center created a safe space for a new group of young people in Carter Gilmore Park in East Oakland. Neighborhood kids rode by and dropped their bikes to watch martial arts demonstrations. Young people practiced hip-hop moves to participate in weekly dance battles. Destiny created a space for the youth and their families to experience joy and lean into love. Giving youth a space to move, process their emotions, and feel connected is essential to community healing and is grounded in the violence prevention roots upon which Destiny was founded. You already know that Destiny is more than a Center, Destiny is a community, Destiny is a feeling. Destiny can create a safe space, no matter where that space is. Bringing Destiny's love and care to community members where they live to access our programs easily is an embodiment of equity. This is why we now work in nearly 50 partnerships throughout the East Bay to reach over 5,000 young people in present and consistent ways, providing high-quality, culturally relevant movement arts classes. With your contributions, we can continue to reach young people where they are and where they need us, providing a chance to move and be with a community that cares about them and their wellbeing. It takes strength to lean into love and let it hold you. https://lnkd.in/gUrKa3iV Photo credit: Beatriz Escobar

We're proud to announce that Destiny Arts Center is a 2023 California Arts Council grantee! California's state arts agency supports Destiny's work through its Impact Projects program, specifically for The Elders Project. Created by Risa Jaroslow, Artistic Director of Risa Jaroslow & Dancers, in partnership with Sarah Crowell, Artistic Director Emeritus of Destiny Arts Center in 2017, The Elders Project provides opportunities for youth and elders to support and learn about one another and co-create work that expands movement possibilities for all ages. #ArtsCA #eldersproject #destinyartscenter #oakland

At over 50 residencies, Destiny Arts Center’s teaching artists must be able to teach no matter what is happening at their site that day. A portable speaker brings joy into every space. Starting each class with a moment of meditation brings everyone onto the same wavelength. Schools and afterschool programs can sometimes feel chaotic, and Destiny teaching artists can use their block rocker speakers to find a peaceful place to move together with young people. By making a gift today, you will support our ability to provide teaching artists with this essential equipment and keep their focus on the young people in their classrooms. Please help us reach our goal today! We are so grateful for your support. https://lnkd.in/ghBpwjuU #destinyartscenter #Oakland #InCommunity #SafeSpace

Destiny's Martial Arts program was recently featured in a gathering of the Promising Futures cohort. A project of Futures Without Violence, Promising Futures aims to enhance the capacity of child and family-serving organizations to respond to and prevent domestic violence. This video, led by Sensei Tes and shot and edited by Yoram Savion, exhibits the peaceful warriors that Destiny's program cultivates. It showcases the power of martial arts to heal trauma and create healthy minds and bodies.