Grand Park welcomes Pomona’s dA Center for the Arts for an hour-long conversation and arts workshop hosted by dA Art leader Bethlehem Martinez. The IG Live workshop will focus on music and motion and include students from the Pomona Unified School District Adults in Transition program. Viewers will also learn more about the dA’s work in listening, encouraging and empowering all ages to be understanding, empathic, inclusive and creative citizens for a better future.

In 1979 a group of artists, musicians, poets, and actors needed a space in the Pomona Valley to create and founded the dA Studios that evolved to The dA Center for the Arts is 1988. The dA provides an inclusive, equitable, and accessible community cultural center for all ages and abilities to explore and experience all the ARTS. The dA is shifting perceptions of the arts from exclusive to inclusive. The dA is inviting accessible conversations about visual arts, music, poetry, dance, theatre, and film that ignite transformational and essential life-long learning. The dA supports listening, encouraging, and empowering all ages to be understanding, empathetic, inclusive, and creative citizens for a better future.

dA’s Grand Park Rec program will feature our music and movement class with our friends from the Pomona Unified School District Adults in Transition program led by dA Art leader Bethlehem Martinez.

Bethlehem Martinez is a performing artist, and educator from Pomona. She is teaching youth and ability first classes in music, movement, and theatre. Bethlehem is also dA’s Goddess of Pomona who leads stories, stretches, and song for families with children ages 0-5. She has performed in numerous plays and operas such as: Danny in the Deep Blue Sea (Danny), The Addams Family (Alice), The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio),Cinderella Opera (Fairy God-Mother), and In the Heights (Carla). She is also a vocalist and guitarist for Mariachi Los Broncos at Cal Poly Pomona. Bethlehem is proud to be a part of the Pomona artistic community.

EVERY WEDNESDAY get well with Grand Park’s REC Center, an all-new virtual program centered around physical, mental and emotional wellness! Feed your mind, body and soul with multilingual and accessible yoga, dance classes, workshops, and more. Find out more info at rec.grandparkla.org.