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Helps people develop skills and knowledge to improve their lives and communities. Offers a variety of programs for learners of all ages.

Class offerings include acting classes, arts and crafts, before and after-school child care, driver's education, equestrian center, music lessons, sports and recreational activities, swimming lessons, and more.

- Artist-in-residence programs in schools.

- Community education and after-school programs.

- Fall, Winter, and Summer classes where participants create and perform plays, learn acting skills, and develop life skills.

- Interdisciplinary Theatre Arts Program for schools.

- Summer day camps.

Camps are designed to meet the needs of each individual participant, whether they are a seasoned performer or someone stepping on stage for the first time. With a focus on process and skill development, additional intensive opportunities, new stories, as well as past favorites for all young theatre artists.

- Main Stage Theatre: Shows with a social justice focus. Naked Stages provides a mentorship opportunity for early career performance artists in Minnesota. - Chicago Avenue Project: Features two performances each year, spring and winter, where kids and their adult acting mentors star in 10-minute plays written just for them by adult playwrights, and kids and their adult playwriting mentors write 10-minute plays that are performed by adult actors. - Breaking Ice: A diverse company of professional actors portrays real-life situations that are customized to meet the goals, needs, and culture of each unique organization that PUC serves. Performances blend drama, music, poetry, movement, and humor in a series of dynamic scenes to explore how systemic inequities, implicit bias, and common misperceptions show up in relationships, creating uncomfortable interactions that inhibit innovation, motivation, and productivity in the workplace. Following the performance, trained facilitators lead the group in a reflective discussion to deepen awareness and practice exploring the tough stuff together. Visit website at Breakingice.org. - McKnight Community Engaged Artists and Culture Bearer Fellowships: Support for mid-career artists who use their artistic practice to engage relationship aimed at producing social or cultural transformation

- Performing apprentice program: Post-high school theatre training

- Theatre arts training (TAT), youth workshop training programs 

Provides community education in the following areas: - Arts and crafts - Computers - Cooking - Dance, music, and drama - Fitness classes - Language instruction

- ACT test preparation

- Acting

- Adapted sports/games

- American Sign Language and German language instruction

- Ballet

- Basketball

- Beadwork

- Belly dancing

- Bingo

- Boxing

- Bridge game

- Chess

- Computer classes

- Cooking

- Drawing

- Exercise

- Field trips

- Figure skating

- Gardening

- General health education

- Gymnastics

- Homebuyer counseling

- Jazz dancing

- Karate

- Mature driver training

- Painting

- Parenting skills classes

- Sculpture

- Self-defense

- Sewing

- Snowshoeing

- Swimming lessons

- T'ai Chi

- Table tennis

- Taekwondo

- Volleyball

- Writing

- Yoga

- In-school programs and residencies - Theatre/acting classes and workshops for youth ages 2 - 17

Offers a variety of recreational activities and youth enrichment programs. Provides a variety of different parks that feature boat access points, swimming pools, walking trails, and more. Parks include: 

- Bruce Nawrocki Park - Edgemoor Park - Gauvitte Park - Hilltop Park - Huset Park East - Huset Park West - Keyes Park - LaBelle Park - Lomianki Park - McKenna Park - Ostrander Park - Prestemon Park - Ramsdell Park - Silver Lake Park - Sullivan Lake Park

Arts programs provide activities and experiences that encourage creativity, independent thinking, relationship building, confidence, and self-motivation:

- Acting

- Creative writing

- Movement and dance

- Music

- Visual art

Connect programs offer options to help people meet their health and wellness goals, including:

- Fitness and relaxation classes

- Healthy relationships and sexuality education

- Individualized wellness/health planning

- Memberships to fitness centers

Provides recreational services, including:

- Family Fun Nights: Storytime, kids in the gym, family swim, bake and take, field trips - Gymnastics for boys and girls - Youth Enrichment: Piano lessons, recorder lessons, ballet and creative movement, youth choir, Tae Kwon Do, self defense karate, babysitter training, computer fun, creative dramatics, beginning chess, games, tutoring for kids grades 3 - 6

Community education programs and classes: - Archery - Ballroom, Hawaiian, Tahitian and square dancing instruction - Basketball, softball, volleyball and football - Business consulting services - Computer classes - Cooking classes - CPR/First Aid - Day camps with drawing instruction, sculpture instruction, skateboarding, ice hockey, acting instruction and chess - Field trips - Fishing - Foreign language instruction - Golf - Gym games - Knitting instruction - Mature driver training - Painting classes - Parenting classes - Parenting skills development - Personal finance instruction - Photography instruction - Sewing instruction - Sign language instruction - Swimming lessons, aquatic exercise and lifeguard training - T'ai Chi Ch-uan, swimming, exercise classes/groups and aerobics - Woodworking instruction - Writing instruction - Youth Development/Youth Service: Programs involving high school youth in service learning opportunities in the community. Portion of funding is used to provide integration support to youth with disabilities into existing community education programs.

Provides youth and adult enrichemnts including:

- Art club

- Braiding

- Chess

- Child and babysitting training

- Guitar and piano lesson online

- Home alone trainig for 2nd grader and older

- Karate

- Knitting

- Line dance fitness

- Market investing

- Nature class

- Open gym

- Painting classes

- Resoures for retirement

- Senior scene

- Story theater

- Ukulele lessons

Community education programs and classes: - Archery - Ballroom, Hawaiian, Tahitian and square dancing instruction - Basketball, softball, volleyball and football - Business consulting services - Computer classes - Cooking classes - CPR/First Aid - Day camps with drawing instruction, sculpture instruction, skateboarding, ice hockey, acting instruction and chess - Field trips - Fishing - Foreign language instruction - Golf - Gym games - Knitting instruction - Mature driver training - Painting classes - Parenting classes - Parenting skills development - Personal finance instruction - Photography instruction - Sewing instruction - Sign language instruction - Swimming lessons, aquatic exercise and lifeguard training - T'ai Chi Ch-uan, swimming, exercise classes/groups and aerobics - Woodworking instruction - Writing instruction - Youth Development/Youth Service: Programs involving high school youth in service learning opportunities in the community. Portion of funding is used to provide integration support to youth with disabilities into existing community education programs.

Community education programs and classes: - Archery - Ballroom, Hawaiian, Tahitian and square dancing instruction - Basketball, softball, volleyball and football - Business consulting services - Computer classes - Cooking classes - CPR/First Aid - Day camps with drawing instruction, sculpture instruction, skateboarding, ice hockey, acting instruction and chess - Field trips - Fishing - Foreign language instruction - Golf - Gym games - Knitting instruction - Mature driver training - Painting classes - Parenting classes - Parenting skills development - Personal finance instruction - Photography instruction - Sewing instruction - Sign language instruction - Swimming lessons, aquatic exercise and lifeguard training - T'ai Chi Ch-uan, swimming, exercise classes/groups and aerobics - Woodworking instruction - Writing instruction - Youth Development/Youth Service: Programs involving high school youth in service learning opportunities in the community. Portion of funding is used to provide integration support to youth with disabilities into existing community education programs.

The workshop program engages students creatively through a variety of theatre-based activities focused on using body, voice, and imagination to create exciting characters and tell fantastic stories. From improv to playwriting, drama workshops are designed to build confidence, communication, and social-emotional skills in addition to identity exploration through the tools of theatre. Designed for elementary and middle school-aged students, we teach drama workshops at and in partnership with various community organizations such as KIDSTOP, Promise Neighborhood, Too Much Talent, D Blake Center, Youthset, etc.

The Residency program is designed for 5th graders to participate in a capstone project as part of their school day and learning curriculum in their final year of elementary school. Following the show-in-a-week model, GREAT teaching artists work with students Monday -Thursday, leading theatre exercises, auditions, and rehearsals. Through this activity, they are learning the art of theatre as well as life skills such as collaboration and leadership while building empathy and confidence. During the school day on Friday, students perform their show on-site for their classmates, families, and the greater community. This program takes place at school, eliminating the barriers for students to participate. The program not only provides the opportunity for every fifth-grade student in the school to be part of a collaborative production but also builds community and support for the arts.

Community education programs and classes: - Archery - Ballroom, Hawaiian, Tahitian and square dancing instruction - Basketball, softball, volleyball and football - Business consulting services - Computer classes - Cooking classes - CPR/First Aid - Day camps with drawing instruction, sculpture instruction, skateboarding, ice hockey, acting instruction and chess - Field trips - Fishing - Foreign language instruction - Golf - Gym games - Knitting instruction - Mature driver training - Painting classes - Parenting classes - Parenting skills development - Personal finance instruction - Photography instruction - Sewing instruction - Sign language instruction - Swimming lessons, aquatic exercise and lifeguard training - T'ai Chi Ch-uan, swimming, exercise classes/groups and aerobics - Woodworking instruction - Writing instruction - Youth Development/Youth Service: Programs involving high school youth in service learning opportunities in the community. Portion of funding is used to provide integration support to youth with disabilities into existing community education programs.