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  • ACERS (Arts & Cultural Experiences of Railroad Square)
    ACERS (Arts & Cultural Experiences of Railroad Square)
    Association/Club/Group/Guild;  Business/Retail;  Dance;  Education;  Festivals/Markets;  Film/Video;  Food/Drink;  Kids/Family;  Literature/Poetry;  Music;  Nonprofit;  Retail;  Special Events;  Theatre;  Visual Art/Fine Craft
    Our mission is to foster Arts & CUltural experiences at Railroad Square Art District for Tallahassee’s residents and visitors alike. our initiatives FIRST FRIDAYS For the past 20 years, Railroad Square has best been known for the exciting and popular First Friday festival. This festival offers a lively, enjoyable experience with open galleries/shops, live music, and food. Railroad Square’s First Fridays have been recognized nationally by Forbes and Huffington Post and is Tallahassee’s most popular, longest-running monthly cultural event! As of Sept 2020, this staple Tallahassee event is being organized and hosted by ACERS (virtually for now). Tune in — and watch past productions — on Facebook or YouTube . ART GARDEN EVENTS The Art Garden is Railroad Square’s event venue, with overflow capacity up to 3,000 people. This recently built amenity is the “town square” of the art district. The surrounding shops, greenspace, colorful murals, and central location make it a fantastic community gathering space. Using this venue, ACERS will host events highlighting a variety of artistic mediums and cultural/community interests. The Art Garden will be available for other approved community uses as well. ARTS INCUBATOR Artists need both inspirational studio space to create and also well-trafficked gallery space to display their work to the public. Most artists can’t afford to have both. ACERS hopes to work with Railroad Square to repurpose the Breezeway Marketplace (right next to the new Hyatt Hotel) into an affordable space for artists to both create and sell their work, an incubator or co-working facility for artists much like the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA or Oolite Arts in Miami, FL
  • Artist Series of Tallahassee
    Artist Series of Tallahassee
    Association/Club/Group/Guild;  Corporation;  Education;  Kids/Family;  Music;  Nonprofit;  Special Events
    The Artist Series of Tallahassee works to foster an appreciation of classical music, promote and encourage music performance, and increase the depth, diversity, and profile of classical music audiences in Tallahassee and greater North Florida. The 2016-17 Concert Season marks our 22nd anniversary presenting a diverse selection of outstanding classical music performances by renowned ensembles and brilliant emerging soloists. Artist Series concerts take place in beautiful Opperman Music Hall on the FSU campus. The intimate setting gives patrons a chance to see the visiting performers up close in a venue with wonderful acoustics. Past visiting artists include the Takács String Quartet; “Baroque Music and Dance”; PROJECT Trio; Harlem String Quartet; Vassily Primakov, piano; Imani Winds; Bella Hristova, violin; the Brentano String Quartet, Zuill Bailey, ‘cello, and Chanticleer. Each year the Artist Series selects an acclaimed classical music ensemble as Artist-in Residence. The nationally award winning program includes multiple outreach workshops for underserved or marginalized people, and a regionally marketed public concert.  
  • Asian Coalition of Tallahassee
    Asian Coalition of Tallahassee
    Association/Club/Group/Guild;  History/Heritage;  Kids/Family;  Nonprofit;  Special Events
    To unite the Asian Communities in the Big Bend Area and promote the Asian culture.
  • Bach Parley String Academy
    Bach Parley String Academy
    Education;  Kids/Family;  Music;  Nonprofit;  School;  Special Events
    The Bach Parley String Academy offers violin, viola, and cello lessons for students of all ages, along with ukulele group classes. Visit us here: www.tallahasseebachparley.org/stringacademy Our Faculty:  Valerie Arsenault, Megan Sahely, William Sahely, Zlatina Staykova Contact Us: Phone: (850) 792-2981 Email: bpstringacademy@gmail.com If you want to start lessons and don’t have an instrument, please contact us before you buy or rent one. You might see what you think is a good deal online, but there are a lot of poor quality instruments out there. We can help you find a fine quality instrument to rent or purchase within your budget. You can also visit our resources page here. Our Mission is to cultivate in young people an appreciation of and achievement in music, nurture positive character development, and bridge cultural divisions through the common language of music. Our Music Education Curriculum Private lessons on violin, viola, & cello Performance Opportunities, Masterclasses & All-State Preparation Workshops Group lessons for technique, performance, & chamber music Vision/Core Values Provide high quality instruction on violin, viola, and cello at the central location of St. John’s Episcopal Church Develop the character of the whole child (including leadership, focus, determination, reliability, responsibility) Bring together students of different backgrounds through the study and performance of music Cultivate a lifelong appreciation of music  
  • Chain of Parks Art Festival
    Chain of Parks Art Festival
    Educational;  Environmental;  Festivals/Markets;  Food/Drink;  Gallery/Museum;  History/Heritage;  Kids/Family;  Music;  Nonprofit;  Special Events;  Visual Art/Fine Craft
    Ranked one of the top Fine Art Shows in the nation, LeMoyne’s Chain of Parks Art Festival is north Florida’s premier outdoor fine art festival. The Festival is ranked in the Top 100 Fine Art Festivals by Sunshine Artist Magazine for the last 10 years, reaching #1 in 2017, #5 in 2018 and #3 in 2019. The Festival awards over $10,000 in cash prizes with 150 juried artists competing. The Chain of Parks Art Festival has been recognized as a Legacy Event by Visit Tallahassee due to the 40,000+ visitors and patrons it attracts. All proceeds from this juried Fine Art festival benefit LeMoyne Arts, a non-profit community-based art center. The festival will kick-off with an FSU Opening Nights Special Presenting Artist Event on Thursday evening, then on Friday the festival will have a new feature of Workshops & Local Artist Demonstrations and finally, the highly anticipated festival weekend with artists in the park will be located along the majestic oak-lined Park Avenue, just east of Monroe Street in beautiful downtown Tallahassee, the two-day festival is free and open to the public. Art, culture, and local heritage is abundant at the festival with over 150 fine artists, pop-up studios for children to experience making art, live entertainment on the Main-stage, 3-D live chalk artists, and more! The festival features a wide variety of local food from the region’s food trucks and restaurants as well as a bar serving craft beer, wine, Mimosas, Bloody Mary’s and more. Visitors view and purchase amazing one-of-a-kind works from fine artists from all over the US while enjoying a weekend of fun, fine art, culinary delights, children’s festival and live entertainment. Learn more at www.ChainofParks.com
  • Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee
    Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee
    Education;  Film/Video;  Gallery/Museum;  Kids/Family;  Nonprofit;  Special Events;  Theatre
    The Challenger Learning Center (CLC) of Tallahassee is a 32,000 square-foot facility located on beautiful Kleman Plaza in downtown Tallahassee. The CLC is the K-12 educational outreach facility of the Florida A&M University – Florida State University College of Engineering and strives to foster long-term interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM); create positive learning experiences; and motivate students to pursue higher education and careers in these fields. To accomplish this mission, the CLC features a state-of-the-art Space Mission Simulator and utilizes the immersiveness of an IMAX® 3D Theatre, the Downtown Digital Dome Theatre & Planetarium, and hands-on or demonstrational science techniques and equipment. The CLC is part of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education international network and offers field trips, camps, weekend and family-friendly programming every month, birthday parties, facility rentals, public mission simulations, a membership program and more.
  • City of Tallahassee
    City of Tallahassee
    Education;  Festivals/Markets;  Government;  History/Heritage;  Special Events
    Local Government- organized classes, education and outreach.
  • Council on Culture & Arts (COCA)
    Council on Culture & Arts (COCA)
    Dance;  Gallery/Museum;  Literature/Poetry;  Media;  Nonprofit;  Special Events;  Visual Art/Fine Craft
    COCA, the Council on Culture & Arts, is a non-profit organization that serves as the facilitator and voice for the arts and cultural industry in Florida’s capital area.  COCA provides information and promotes the arts and culture to both citizens and visitors.  
  • Cross-Cultural Coalition of South Side Tallahassee, Inc.
    Cross-Cultural Coalition of South Side Tallahassee, Inc.
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    The Cross-Cultural Coalition (CCC) is located within the Railroad Square Art Park in the Greater Frenchtown/Southside Community Redevelopment Area (as officially designated by the City of Tallahassee) between FSU and FAMU.  CCC believes that the arts and humanities play a central and integral role in the lives of all people, and are essential to the health and vitality of our community. Our mission is to serve, advance and lead the alliance represented by the Coalition:  the organizations and individuals in and outside the Art Park who cultivate, promote, sustain and support arts and culture. Our goals are: 1) to help small and minority individuals and groups build an environment where the arts, history and culture – and education about them – thrive, and 2) to provide individual awareness of and appreciation for the value of the arts and ethnic/cultural understanding.  The Coalition provides free, exciting and educational cultural events, including two major festivals:  ArtiGras in the Spring and Caribé in the Fall.  These festivals unite and celebrate culture and community in all of their forms, and bring together various geographically disparate communities with shared roots, to create a stronger sense of togetherness and belonging.  Our monthly events include First Friday, Second Saturday Jazz, Second Sunday Songwriters, and Third Thursday Literary Night.  CCC produced the First Annual Sankofa Concert at Cascades Amphitheater (moved to the Moon due to rain) on July 6th, and also recently produced a Benefit Concert for the Bahamas at the Moon that raised thousands for victims of Dorian in Abaco and Grand Bahama.
  • Goodwood Museum & Gardens
    Goodwood Museum & Gardens
    Gallery/Museum;  History/Heritage;  Kids/Family;  Nonprofit;  Special Events;  Sports/Outdoors
    Goodwood Museum & Gardens stands among North Florida’s leading cultural and historic attractions. The property has witnessed, and today helps to tell the stories of, every era of modern Florida from the early 19th century to today. Goodwood Museum & Gardens, Inc. was established in 1996 as a not-for-profit steward responsible for the preservation and operation of the historic Goodwood estate as a house museum, an heirloom garden, and a cultural and educational resource for the community. Programming and services at Goodwood include the museum and its collections, the historic buildings and grounds, special events, and facilities rental.
  • John G. Riley Center & Museum of African-American History and Culture
    John G. Riley Center & Museum of African-American History and Culture
    Education;  Gallery/Museum;  History/Heritage;  Kids/Family;  Nonprofit;  Special Events
    The John G. Riley Center/Museum is a historical and cultural gem that sits at the bottom of a hill in downtown Tallahassee, at the corner of Meridian and Jefferson Streets. The Riley historic home represents the thriving black neighborhood, known as Smokey Hollow, that once existed in what is just east of downtown Tallahassee. It is especially significant when compared to other such historical sites in that it is the last vestige we have of the accomplishments of an entire group of people, the black middle class, which emerged in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The mission and purpose of the John G. Riley Center/Museum of African American History & Culture is to discover, archive and illuminate the blended interrelationship of African American, Native American and European history and preserve African American landmarks and legacies throughout the State of Florida as an enduring public resource through tourism and education. Established in 1996,  the museum’s programs provide an environment and means to encourage and empower participants to develop an awareness of and gain an appreciation for the educational and social contributions of African Americans to Florida’s history. HOURS OF OPERATION Monday – Thursday:    10 am – 4 pm Friday – Saturday:    10 am – 2 pm *Other times by appointment only ADMISSION $5.00 Adults & Children $2.00  for Leon County Public School Students INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP TOURS Tours are customized to relate to the needs, interest and age of the individual and groups touring the facility. Self-guided tours are also available during regular operating hours. Contact us for our Tour Reservation Form  and fax it to us 10 days prior to your tour date at 850-681-7000!
  • LeMoyne Arts
    LeMoyne Arts
    Education;  Festivals/Markets;  Foundation;  Gallery/Museum;  Kids/Family;  Nonprofit;  Special Events;  Visual Art/Fine Craft
    LeMoyne Arts has been an integral part of Tallahassee’s cultural landscape since 1964. LeMoyne is dedicated to providing this community and those in surrounding areas with rich cultural opportunities to increase awareness of and interest in the arts. Experience the art of outstanding local, regional and national artists year round. Our four beautiful galleries showcase ten exhibitions each year in addition to our popular holiday show and our Chain of Parks Art Festival, rated one of the top 100 Art Festivals in the Southeast. A full schedule of education classes provides a creative experience for all ages, PreK to adult, ranging from free 1-hour exercises called ArtSparks for PreK, to workshops and eight-week classes. Our professional staff of instructors provide a wide and varied assortment to fill every creative need.
  • Opening Nights at Florida State University
    Opening Nights at Florida State University
    Dance;  Education;  Festivals/Markets;  Film/Video;  Literature/Poetry;  Music;  Nonprofit;  Special Events;  Theatre;  Visual Art/Fine Craft
    The mission of Opening Nights at Florida State University is to present compelling and distinguished artists who provide extraordinary experiences that educate, inspire and connect diverse audiences on and off campus. As the premier performing arts presenter in Florida’s capital city, Opening Nights at Florida State University showcases artists from around the globe as well as provides unique educational experiences for students of all ages. Please sign up for our e-newsletter by clicking HERE, and click HERE to flip through past season brochures and programs.
  • Proof Brewing Company
    Proof Brewing Company
    Business/Retail;  Food/Drink;  Special Events
    Founded by Byron & Angela Burroughs in 2012, Proof Brewing Company prides itself on being an industry leader of innovative beers. Proof Brewing Co. produces big, bold, flavorful beers and remains committed to true artisanal brewing methods in an evolving industry. The brewery has received numerous awards and recognition from the world-renowned Hunaphu’s Day, World Beer Cup, Best Florida Beer, and Paste Magazine. Proof Brewing Company is a proud member of the Florida Brewers Guild. For more information, visit www.proofbrewingco.com,  Facebook: PBCBeer, Twitter: proofbrewingco, and Instagram: proofbrewingco
  • Public Eye Soar, Inc.
    Public Eye Soar, Inc.
    Festivals/Markets;  Gallery;  Special Events;  Traditional Arts;  Visual Art/Fine Craft;  Visual Arts
    The Public Eye Soar Projection Art and Light Festival transforms Panama City architecture into a unique wonderland of light, color, and imagination to share art in all of its forms in unexpected places and ways to delight, surprise, educate and inspire our community.
  • Railroad Square Art District
    Railroad Square Art District
    Association/Club/Group/Guild;  Business/Retail;  Food/Drink;  Kids/Family;  Retail;  Special Events;  Visual Art/Fine Craft
    With more than 70 shops, galleries, and small businesses, Railroad Square is the haven for the CREATIVES of Tallahassee… Railroad Square is best known for the exciting and popular First Friday festival, which occurs on the first Friday of every month, providing a lively, enjoyable experience with open galleries/shops, live music, and food. However, we encourage you to check out the Art District during other times of the month. Many Railroad Square businesses open Thursday through Sunday each week, with a few businesses open every day. Railroad Square is the place to go to support creative LOCAL businesses and experience a variety and uniqueness not found in any other single location in town…from vintage, thrift, and antique stores, to art galleries, creative shops, a non-profit theater, an authentic pinball arcade, a gaming shop, a cult cinema, the largest indoor rock climbing gym in the region, and a specialty kayak shop…there’s something for everyone! Food and beverage options include the Square Mug Cafe, Gamescape Cafe, Railroad Square Crafthouse, and the Crumbox Gastgarden, which is the only cafe in town built out of a real railroad caboose! Please pardon our dust! A hotel is being built at the Railroad Avenue entrance, which will bring additional visitors to the Art District! In addition to Railroad Avenue, you can alternatively enter Railroad Square from FAMU Way. We look forward to seeing you soon!   Some of ther locally owned galleries and shops at Railroad Square include: The Other Side Vintage The Sharing Tree Mickee Faust 621 Gallery Cosmic Cat Comics Renditions, An Art Space Tallahassee Rock Climbing Gym South of SoHo Art Gallery Athena’s Garden Herbal Emporium Tallahassee Buddhist Center Peace on Earth free Yoga studio Exotica Gallery Yrabedra Gallery
  • Southern Shakespeare Company
    Southern Shakespeare Company
    Education;  Festivals/Markets;  Kids/Family;  Literature/Poetry;  Nonprofit;  Special Events;  Theatre
    Southern Shakespeare Company brings the Bard to the Big Bend by offering year-round educational programs, workshops, and community events, culminating in a FREE Shakespeare in the park Festival at Cascades Park in the Spring. Southern Shakespeare also provides unique opportunities for young, budding artists through “The Bardlings”, our junior company. The Southern Shakespeare Company is dedicated to educating and cultivating an appreciation of the arts, while introducing the general public to the works of Shakespeare, making it fun and accessible to all communities.
  • Tallahassee Civic Chorale
    Tallahassee Civic Chorale
    Education;  Music;  Nonprofit;  Special Events
    Established in 1986, the Tallahassee Civic Chorale is a non-profit, non-audition community chorus consisting of approximately 40 to 50 singers, and organized in traditional choral SATB fashion. We perform at least three major concerts annually in the Fall, Spring and Summer, in Turner Auditorium on the Tallahassee Community College campus. We also share our love of singing through performances at local events such as the Festival of Lights and Springtime Tallahassee. For each concert, the Chorale tailors a special program for local assisted living facilities, retirement centers and other groups unable to attend the concert. Performances of the Tallahassee Civic Chorale are made possible in part by the generous donations of its concert patrons, program ads, corporate sponsorships, fund raisers, and grants provided by various civic organizations, the City of Tallahassee, the Council on Culture and the Arts (COCA), and by the support of Tallahassee Community College. Proceeds from the Chorale’s performances help fund a music scholarship at Tallahassee Community College with the TCC Foundation generously matching the Chorale’s scholarship donation. The music scholarship is available for all TCC students who have sung with the Chorale during the previous semester. If you are interested in this scholarship, please contact the Chorale president president@civicchorale.org.
  • Tallahassee Live Music Community Charity Group, Inc.
    Tallahassee Live Music Community Charity Group, Inc.
    Dance;  Education;  Festivals/Markets;  Film/Video;  Gallery/Museum;  Kids/Family;  Music;  Nonprofit;  Special Events;  Theatre
    Tallahassee Live Music Community Charity Group is a 501(c)3 organization established in January 2018. We support music and performing arts programs, provide at-risk youth with free musical instruments and lessons, provide apprenticeships in live production, and invest in artist development. Our organization currently occupies a 12, 000 square foot building with three full-sized stages- two indoor, one outdoor atop the bank of the Historic Ochlockonee River in Leon County. The Music Hall, Studio Lounge and Tiki Deck are three separate spaces, each unique and between 4,000-6,000 square feet. We have hosted many non-profit events for the community, with no rental fee required, and 100% of ticket sales and door sales going towards the guest charities cause.  We host all ages, 18+, and 21+ events. We provide full in-house production, including lighting technicians, sound engineers, videographers, and photographers who have a combined 30 years of experience in live shows and the music industry. Experience varies between stage management, band management, tour management, recording studio engineer, live production, songwriting, demo-recording, scratch tracks, stage plots, rigging, and stage construction.
  • Tallahassee Museum
    Tallahassee Museum
    Festivals/Markets;  Gallery/Museum;  History/Heritage;  Nonprofit;  Special Events;  Sports/Outdoors
    The Tallahassee Museum is a 52-acre outdoor Museum located on beautiful Lake Bradford where history, nature, and, wildlife intersect to tell an intriguing story about Florida’s natural and cultural heritage. This unique Museum with its 1880s farmstead, historical buildings, live collection of native wildlife, and scenic grounds provides hands-on learning and entertainment for all ages. The internationally acclaimed exhibit, Jim Gary’s Twentieth Century Dinosaurs, also calls the Museum home.  These vividly colored dinosaurs sculpted from recycled car parts evoke thoughts about art, science and sustainability. Tallahassee Tree to Tree Adventures, the Museum’s new zip line and adventure course, encourages visitors to explore the majesty of nature from high in the trees. There is something for everyone at the Tallahassee Museum.
  • The Sharing Tree
    The Sharing Tree
    Business/Retail;  Education;  Educational;  Environmental;  Festivals/Markets;  Gallery/Museum;  Kids/Family;  Nonprofit;  Retail;  Special Events;  Visual Art/Fine Craft
    To inspire creativity, innovative thinking, and collaborative problem-solving while nurturing children, families, communities, and the environment. We accomplish our mission by providing children, parents, and teachers with: a magical, creative play space designed to develop creative confidence recycled and repurposed materials for creative play, arts, and crafts classes and events for after-school, preschool, home school children, and adults Our New Mission To inspire creativity, innovative thinking, and collaborative problem-solving while nurturing children, families, communities, and the environment. The Sharing Tree was established in 2009 by Tallahassee artist and entrepreneur Carly Sinnadurai as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. The original mission of The Sharing Tree was to collect and redistribute reusable materials to educators, artists and the broader learning community, while simultaneously educating the community in the art of creative reuse. Over the years, The Sharing Tree provided thousands of teachers, students, artists, businesses and families with affordable crafting and art materials, donated over a million dollars in classroom materials annually to local educators and non profits, and diverted over eight hundred tons of reusable materials from our local landfill. In recent years, The Sharing Tree has evolved and grown to include an increasing amount of educational opportunities for children and adults that focus on nurturing creative confidence, while reinforcing healthy values and practices that best sustain people and our planet. Our passion for education has motivated us to reevaluate our mission.
  • The Tallahassee Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society
    The Tallahassee Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society
    Association/Club/Group/Guild;  History/Heritage;  Music;  Nonprofit;  Special Events
    We are a 50 member strong group from Tallahassee, Florida.  Chartered in 1966, The Tallahassee Chapter BHS is one of the longest tenured Barbershop Chapters in the state.  We LOVE performing around our community, and have performed not only in Tallahassee, but Thomasville, Valdosta, Marianna, Wakulla, Crawfordville, Panacea, Apalachicola, Quincy, Midway, Havana, and MANY more!  Come see our two choruses “The Capital Chordsmen” and “The Barbershop Ladies of Tallahassee” as we perform 6 annual Gospel concerts, an Annual Show in the Summer, and several Christmas Concerts during the Holiday Season.  We hope to see you out in the community!
  • Theater with a Mission
    Theater with a Mission
    Dance;  Education;  History/Heritage;  Kids/Family;  Music;  Nonprofit;  Special Events;  Theatre
    Theater with a Mission performs plays that explore milestones in Florida’s history.  Presented in English spiced with historic Spanish, in period costume with authentic songs and dances, our original scripts and new translations carry audiences across barriers of language, time, and space, into face-to-face encounters with Florida’s Spanish roots and history’s great ideas.
  • USA Dance 6010
    USA Dance 6010
    Association/Club/Group/Guild;  Dance;  Nonprofit;  Special Events
    Our mission is to improve the quality and the quantity of dance in the United States. USA Dance Inc is the National Governing Body for DanceSport in the United States and with more than 150 chapters throughout the country is also the representative organization for all social and recreational ballroom and Latin dancers in America, ranging from pre-schoolers to seniors. For DanceSport, USA Dance Inc is the official member organization of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and the U.S. member of the world governing organization, the World DanceSport Federation (called the WDSF), which is the official global member organization of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Along with the WDSF, USA Dance has the sustaining mission to gain national and global acceptance for DanceSport as an official medal sport in the Olympic Games. With approximately 11,000 U.S. members who financially support the national programs and with an outreach of more than 200,000 dancers, USA DANCE serves the industry as a leader and also as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, approved by the Internal Revenue Service, and is authorized to solicit and receive donations from the public to support its promotional and educational programs. Important USA Dance programs include the support and establishment of chapters throughout the country, financial and training support of our country’s top athletes, organization and regulation of DanceSport competitions at the regional and national levels, encouragement of Special Olympics DanceSport and a K-12 after-school dance programs, support of seniors as recreational dancers and as athletes, fostering of a healthy, productive communications exchange via the general media and the USA Dance website, social media sites and the official publication American Dancer. Essentially, USA Dance has the overall mission to increase the quality and quantity of dance in America. Educational and Charitable Mission: In furtherance of its educational and charitable purposes, USA DANCE INC promotes ballroom dancing as a recognized sport and a recreational activity, providing opportunities to all Americans. Objectives include: Educating the general public on how ballroom dancing, as a sport or activity, can greatly enhance the physical and mental well-being and health of its participants, regardless of age, ability or interest level; Also educating the general public– from pre-school to seniors — about the social benefits of participating in organized dance activities; Fostering and promoting a willingness and spirit of universal cooperation among co-existing dance, sports and social organizations, both for-profit and non-profit, businesses, teaching and competing professionals and amateurs, and other interest groups to sustain a high level of interest and participation in ballroom and latin dancing; Providing a means of information exchange between the various dance related organizations and promoting a healthy and productive interaction between dancers of all organizations; Eliminating restrictive conditions and policies that would prohibit or discourage participation in dance; Promoting, guiding and supporting social and competitive ballroom dance programs at the collegiate and K-12 levels throughout the nation; and, Fostering and helping sustain purposeful USA Dance chapters throughout the United States in all 50 states. Chapter Social & Community Activities: USA Dance chapters create dance opportunities for local citizens by organizing affordable social dances, dance lessons and workshops. Chapter members often present dance education and live demonstrations in nursing homes, retirement homes, hospitals, schools, shopping malls, and other public places, while striving to educate the public regarding the health and social benefits of ballroom dancing. The goal of each chapter is to serve the national mission on a grassroots level, as a leader and a motivation for ballroom dance activities in the community, colleges and schools. A significant portion of USA Dance’s resources are devoted to promoting, organizing and supporting ballroom dancing programs for youth and collegiate dancers. DanceSport Activities: USA DANCE INC organizes and promotes local dance competitions, regional dancesport competitions (called National Qualifying Events), and the USA Dance National DanceSport Championships, where dancers from pre-teen to seniors 55+ compete within their divisions and at varying proficiency levels. At the USA Dance “National”, the United States’ World Teams are selected and represent the USA at upcoming WDSF World DanceSport Championships and World Games. USA Dance works to fund Development and Training Scholarship Funds for the World Teams to help finance their participation.
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