Children’s After School Arts (CASA)

CASA (Children’s After School Arts) is an independent, nonprofit creative arts after school program dedicated to guiding San Francisco’s youth toward open expression, expansive hearts, and questioning minds. We provide a safe, comfortable, and inspiring environment in which children in Kindergarten through 6th grade receive creative and performing arts instruction.

CASA takes special pride in outreach to children with challenging social, academic, and family issues; we embrace LGBTQ+ families and children who express gender variance. Our generous scholarship offerings allow CASA to create an especially rich cohort of children from a variety of San Francisco’s demographics.

At CASA, children are free to be themselves within a safe and structured arts curriculum. Our students graduate with a love for the arts, but more importantly, they each leave us with a drive to be a better human being.

CASA kids are treated to classes in a wide variety of artistic disciplines led by our team of talented teachers. Previous on site classes have included: creative engineering, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, fashion design, acting, improvisation, playwriting, cabaret, songwriting, breakdancing, and more! In CASA’s ‘Magical Arts’ classes, students can create potions, salves and tinctures to address personal and global concerns. Magical Arts classes use elements of the natural world and cultural spirituality to showcase the magic in everyday life.