How You Can Help Bring Arts Education To Students!
With your partnership Turning the Wheel through arts education will help students foster self-esteem, appreciation of diversity, and communication & leadership skills.
Your donation today will support dancing, singing, art, laughter, and joy for thousands of children in Colorado. You are giving these sweet kiddos the opportunity to find their creativity and beautiful light within. You are giving students the chance to be truly seen.
Just $20 a month will provide one student with two art projects!
“Turning the Wheel, thank you so much for taking the time to move us, to teach us the beautiful colors we hold inside. Thank you for making us the wind, moving around smoothly. Thank you for making us fish, working together.” -Middle School Student, Boulder CO.
Turning the Wheel Productions is a national nonprofit arts and education organization dedicated to making body based creative expression and play accessible to individuals of all ages, experiences, genders, and cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
We are committed to being a contributing force in fostering vibrant, healthy communities nationwide.
Founded in Boulder in 1989 and incorporated in 1993 by dancers and musicians, Turning the Wheel ignites our youth's innate creativity, spirit, and confidence through music, movement, and dance. Now in our 34th year, Turning the Wheel celebrates having touched the lives of over 125,000 people in 12 cities through over 1000 schools and organizations around the country. In Boulder County this year we will continue engaging youth and others with dynamic programming that truly meets participants where they are.
Many of the students we serve are high-risk youth and children who qualify for free lunch programs, as well as youngsters struggling with identity within the mainstream educational system. TTW uses models based on inclusiveness, community engagement, and collaboration, thereby reconnecting youth to their lives and society, encouraging a collective ethic of caring for the group, respecting others' differences, and becoming advocates for healthy lifestyle choices.
By giving youngsters an opportunity to play with imaginative ideas, processes, and movement we help them perform well in other academic fields. Our work helps prepare more young people to play a vital role in the new economy that will depend to a large degree on people who have the skills to imagine new ways of seeing things, to innovate!
As individuals, as facilitators, and as social change artists we raise our voices alongside those seeking racial justice in America. Our work strives to instill an appreciation of diversity and the value of each community member.
Organization name
Turning the Wheel Productions Inc
other names
Turning the Wheel; TTW
1989
Tax id (EIN)
84-1254913
Category
Youth Development, Arts, Culture & Humanities, Education, Public & Societal Benefit
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
1123 County Road 83Boulder County, CO, US
Broomfield County, CO, US