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EXPERIENCE UNDERSTAND CREATE CONNECT As we celebrate 60 years of educating inspiring and empowering youth through the arts we realize the name Young Audiences no longer reflects our relationships with young people communities or partners who take an active role in and with the artsdesigning performing creating participating leading. We believe that arts are an essential component of both formal education and youth development and that all students deserve access to the transformational educational opportunities intrinsic in arts learning. We partner with artists educators students and community organizations to develop programs that harness the many powers of the arts to build skills bring curriculum vibrantly to life and introduce youth to new cultures and new means of selfexpression. Our donorsupported Expanded Arts Access programs provide adaptive arts learning to youth in underresourced schools hospitals and shelters.