Sunset Cultural Center's mission is to serve as a multi-purpose gathering space that enriches, educates, and entertains through quality, diverse cultural offerings. Our vision is making the arts accessible, inclusive, and meaningful.
Classroom Connections engages students through a series of in-classroom work shops featuring Sunset Presents artists, followed by a matinee at Sunset Center- often a students first- to watch a professional, live performance on-stage. Participating students range from kindergarten to high school, special needs to at-risk, across Monterey County. Two Sunset Presents performances are selected for Classroom Connections annually. This season’s featured performances are "MOMIX: Alice" and "The Peking Acrobats".
Classroom Connections gives students an intimate, hands-on experience of the connection between process and product. We aim to empower students by breaking down the process of creating an artistic product step-by-step with the artists themselves, showing that success is not mysterious or unattainable. On the contrary, everyone can achieve their goals by developing the skills and determination to succeed.
Sunset Cultural Center believes in the potential of Monterey County's next generation; our goal is to help them believe in themselves.
The hard work of the Sunset Center is vital to helping our students' develop holistically and as participants in our greater community and its artistic offerings. Without this effort, our students are effectively marginalized from the world outside their socio-economic sphere. -Middle School Principal
- Natalie B
