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The Big Thought team and our partners are able to achieve success in our community through our social and emotional focus, experiential learning, community-centered partnerships, equity lens and future focus.

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(A)LIVE

Middle School Students
Performance Art
School Year
Direct to Youth
(A)LIVE is a campus and hub-based after-school poetry club that builds youth's interpersonal skills, sparks their creativity, strengthens their poetic technique, and equips them to with the verbal vision to design their own future.

Artivism

High School Students
Middle School Students
Performance Art
Visual Art
Youth Action
School Year
Direct to Youth
In Artivism, youth discover the intersection of art and activism through art exploration, community engagement, and advocacy.

Community Action Team

Young Adults
College and Career
Youth Action
Year-Round
Direct to Youth
Big Thought’s Community Action Team provides civic engagement opportunities, career workshops, relationship-building experiences, and resources to current and past program participants.

Creative Solutions

High School Students
Middle School Students
Performance Art
Restorative
Visual Art
Summer
Direct to Youth
Creative Solutions is an arts-as-workforce intervention program for youth who have encountered the justice system.

Dallas City of Learning

Elementary School Students
High School Students
Middle School Students
Young Adults
STEAM
Year-Round
Learning Systems
Dallas City of Learning is a citywide initiative to ensure all students have access to high-quality summer learning programs that stem summer learning loss.