SPACE Mask Awareness Project
Near & Arnold’s School of Performing Arts & Cultural Education (SPACE) is an acclaimed afterschool performing arts program serving youth ages infant through 18. SPACE, located near downtown Ukiah at 508 West Perkins, offers an innovative year-round program that has become a vital beacon for hundreds of children and their families.
Our program emphasizes diversity, youth leadership, cross-cultural arts, social issues, and exemplary training in the arts. The curriculum may address issues of social, environmental and cultural awareness.
SPACE’s mission is to empower our youth to discover and trust in their innate ability to be creative, responsible and compassionate individuals through effective training in dance, theater, music and cultural education.
The Project
SPACE produced an in-person, outdoor and socially-distanced showing of grantees Olivia Zamora and Gregorio Prieto's documentary they recorded and editing for the Mask Awareness Project min-grant program. SPACE also streamed the film live on Facebook.