Welcome to the VAGABOOM! website
VAGABOOM! is a program that gives Youth an opportunity to learn to work in a team, exploring a variety of rare skills. We blend exciting aspects of art, acrobatics, circus arts, music, theater performance and production, and movement to nurture the Youth’s awareness of their skills as an amazing expressive vehicle in this world. We provide a unique educational environment, and small teacher/student ratio in classes. We create original stage performance productions, fusing fun with education.
Due to massive budget cuts in schools, particularly in the Arts, Physical Education and Music departments, we offer a one of a kind fusion of these expressive art forms, in a safe and encouraging environment.
Our goal is to continue to offer this unique program for free, particularly to schools and neighborhoods that are worst effected by the budget cuts.
Did You Know?
A 1998 study on community based arts organizations found that young people who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three days each week through at least one full year are:
* 4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement
* 3 times more likely to be elected to class office within their schools
* 4 times more likely to participate in a math and science fair
* 3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance
* 4 times more likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem
* Participate in youth groups nearly four times as frequently
* Read for pleasure nearly twice as often
* Perform community service more than four times as often
It has been shown that arts education makes a tremendous impact on the developmental growth of every child and has been proven to help level the "learning field" across socio-economic boundaries. Arts education also has a measurable impact on at-risk youth in deterring delinquent behavior and truancy problems while increasing overall academic performance among those youth engaged in after school and summer arts programs targeted toward delinquency prevention.