Mission & Vision
Mission Statement: The Arts at Center Street provides affordable arts education, community performance opportunities, and outreach programs that equip youth and community members to grow in creative expression, character, and life skills, inspiring them to develop their gifts through artistic mediums, performance, and beyond.
Vision Statement: At The Arts at Center Street, we envision a vibrant, inclusive arts community where children and families are nurtured in an environment that is safe, wholesome, and creatively rich. We are committed to offering programs in dance, music, and theater that protect the innocence of our youngest artists while encouraging them to grow in confidence, creativity, and skill.
Our vision is rooted in values of encouragement, grace, generosity, kindness, hope, and love. We cultivate spaces where gentleness leads, bullying and exclusion have no place, and every participant feels seen, supported, and valued. We believe that clean, age-appropriate content is not only possible—but powerful—and we hold ourselves and our programming to that standard.
Above all, we strive to be a haven where the arts become a joyful and meaningful part of the journey for anyone that participates with The Arts at Center Street. Should any concern arise, we welcome open communication and ask that families connect with our administrative team so we can promptly and compassionately uphold this vision together.
The Venue
The Arts at Center Street is a performing arts venue and home to The Center Street Theatre Company.
The venue hosts a range of acts from bands to poets, musicals and plays. With a seating capacity of 80 - 120, the venue is a unique size to the area, as other nearby theatres have a seating capacity of 30, or 200, but nothing in between. The theatre is equipped with state-of-the-art sound and lighting equipment, including the ability to record every show's audio to Protools, and digitally automate light shows for any production. The venue also has 4k video equipment for visually recording any work performed on the stage.
The performance area is a proscenium stage with an apron, totalling 24' x 24' [16' x 24' upstage, and 8' x 24' on the apron]. The stage is versatile enough to host smaller productions as well as large cast productions and still get an intimate feel with the audience, as the tiered seating allows for even the back row to see facial expressions of performers. The Theater is home to the annual Center Street Dance Academy recital with approximately 100 students performing in total (and up to 12 per dance).
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At the Arts at Center Street, we do not seek to create art simply for its own sake, or to produce something “beautiful” without evaluating the cost. Rather, we recognize art as a tool to communicate values, to provoke emotion and lead to introspection and beneficial conversation. To this end, we foster opportunities for education and performance in dance, music, theater, and poetry and public speaking. We accept the challenge of creating entertainment that is characterized by meaning and substance, that will affect people deeply and play a part in the transformation of their lives for the better.
Arts at Center Street Leadership
SARA DAVIS:
Executive Director
Sara Davis began working with The Arts at Center Street in 2013, and has steadily participated in the growth and development of the organization on the administrative side since then. With a background in dance, music and film, Sara brings experience and administrative expertise to the table. She has assisted in the development and execution of a number of original one act plays, stage plays and musicals over the course of a decade +. Sara has always had a heart to see storytelling done well, and is privileged to be a part of both arts education and production with The Arts at Center Street.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Beverly Webb (Chairwoman)
Canaan Kagay (Treasurer)
Laura Voight
Sara Davis (Secretary)