Our Programs
Education & Engagement
CAPA’s Education & Engagement Department believes everyone in our community deserves to experience the transformative power of the arts. Through free and low-cost creative experiences, we enrich the lives of Central Ohio residents with diverse, accessible programming. Our community collaborations help us bring this vision to life.
School Programs
Passport to Learning Series
Take your students on a journey of learning with CAPA’s Passport to Learning Student Matinee Series. Carefully selected to enhance curriculum and make learning fun, this series makes history, math, science, and literature come alive by using the power of the arts on the stages of Columbus’ finest historical theatres.
CAPA Marquee Awards
The CAPA Marquee Awards are designed to celebrate, support, and advocate for high school musical theatre education throughout Central Ohio.
Broadway for Kids
Applause Program
For fourteen years, Broadway in Columbus (a partnership between Broadway Across America and CAPA) has made subsidized tickets available for educators and their students through the Broadway for Kids APPLAUSE Program.
Broadway in the Classroom
CAPA’s Broadway in the Classroom program introduces students from Title 1 high schools to musical theatre during an engaging curriculum-based program.
Community Programs
ARISE
ARISE (Arts through Intergenerational Social Engagement) is a six-week intergenerational program focused on storytelling through the fine arts.
Día de los Niños (Day of the Children)
A FREE celebration with music, dance, crafts, a theatre show, food truck and more!/ Una celebración GRATUITA con música, danza, artesanías, un espectáculo de teatro, camión de comida y más!
Schooled on Poetry
A collaboration between CAPA, the Thurber House, The Ohio State University, The Poetry Foundation, The Columbus Foundation and poet-educator Peter Kahn is the culminating celebration of a year-long Spoken Word poetry project serving schools in central Ohio.
Community Engagement
Because we strive to bring the transformative power of the arts into our community, each year Education & Engagement creates one or more projects at no charge to participants. Each project is designed with a particular performance and/or theme in mind, so the experience has a lasting effect on the community.
Education Resources
Careers in the Arts
This video series will help students in grades 6-12 explore the many career opportunities the fine and performing arts have to offer.
Behind the Curtain
Take a look backstage as Jason Gay, CAPA’s Vice President of Theatre Operations, explores some little-known features of our historic Columbus theatres.
Dig Deeper Series
This video tutorial series will help you learn new skills and information, deepen your artistic study, and continue your theatre practice from wherever you can watch.
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