Light Bringer Project programs and activities serve those of all ages and backgrounds, with a special emphasis on youth and education. Notable among these are:

Room 13 (1st site in America): James Foshay Learning Center, South Los Angeles; 2nd site, Eliot Middle School, Altadena, CA, 3rd site: Marjorie Street, Torrance, CA (neighborhood model), 4th site: John Muir High School, Pasadena, CA. This international program was begun in Coal, Scotland by primary school students who managed to create their own self-sustaining art studio and influence students in other countries to follow their lead. At the present time, ROOM 13 is operating in Mumbay, India, Kathmandu, Nepal, United Kingdom, and South Africa. The global model will be expanding to many other parts of the world, including 70 studios planned for South Africa by the year 2010. ROOM 13 Los Angeles is the first such studio in North America, initiated by Light Bringer Project in partnership with TBWA\Chiat\Day Worldwide. In 2009, Light Bringer Project has established the second U.S. model at Eliot Middle School in Altadena, CA. The third, a neighborhood model, was created by Founders of ProjectDesignStudio, in Torrance, CA. Room 13/Marjorie, is populated by elementary aged youngsters, their parents and siblings. Light Bringer Project is happy to announce the opening of the fourth Room 13, at John Muir High School this fall. John Muir High School, in Northwest Pasadena, provides an ideal setting for Room 13. Many students who graduate from Eliot Middle School will then attend John Muir. In this way, the culture of Room 13 continues and the students carry forward their own creative projects and initiatives to the next level of their educational lives. L.A. Futures Academy (L.A. advertising headquarters and L.A. Public High Schools) Since 2000, The L.A. FUTURES ACADEMY engages senior high school public school youth in the professional work environment while illuminating the many disciplines associated with the advertising, marketing, design and communication fields. The program is shaped to strengthen learning communication, and life skills through mentorships, standards-aligned curriculum and student-driven team building projects. We also work in association with Think LA, a regional media, marketing and advertising collaborative which is committed to establishing Los Angeles as a center of innovation, The One Club, Multicultural Advertising Training Program (MAT), TBWA\Chiat\Day, Saatchi & Saatchi, DDB, IgnitedUSA, Rubin, Postaer & Associates (RPA), The Phelps Grup, GreyWorldwide, and Muse Advertising, among others. Expressing Feelings Through Art (Los Angeles County High Schools) Expressing Feelings Through Art, is an arts and literacy prevention program delivered to public high school students of L.A. County. Begun in 1982, the program is a partnership of Light Bringer Project, a community-based nonprofit, and Mental Health America of Los Angeles, which is dedicated to service and education for mental health recovery and wellness. Expressing Feelings Through Art (EFTA) is highly valued by faculty participants and serves approximately 600 students per year. In the course of the program, students in 9^th through 12^th grades are challenged to create works of art that tell stories that hold personal meanings for them. Topics run the gamut of subject matter and emotional tone and are often as moving as they are original. The students must also engage in an exercise of writing that sheds light on their visual imagery, provoking a thoughtful articulation of the stories they were artistically driven to tell. A standards-based syllabus and instructional guidebook is also provided to each teacher. The curriculum, itself, is designed to broaden the students’ understanding of traditional and contemporary artmaking techniques, and to help strengthen their creative voices. For many of the students who find artmaking to be cathartic, this mentored self-exploration is very powerful. At year’s end, a jury of community artists and writers give awards and small scholarships to outstanding students. The Annual EFTA Exhibition and Awards Receptions have been held throughout Los Angeles, to provide easy access to all the students and families of L.A. County. These locations include: The Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles City Hall, Pasadena Central Library, Watts Towers Arts Center, Olvera Street Art Gallery, Beverly Hills City Hall, Otis College of Art and Design, TBWA\Chiat\Day Advertising Agency, Polytechnic High School, Hollywood Library, and the Judson Gallery at Judson Studios. We believe that EFTA has contributed greatly to the students’ self-esteem, and has gone a long way to build their visual and communication skills. Perhaps, equally important, it gives them a positive outlet through which they can tell us what matters to them most. Pasadena Chalk Festival (Paseo Colorado, Pasadena) With approximately 600 participating visual artists from all over Southern California, The PASADENA CHALK FESTIVAL has grown to become the largest street painting festival in the world. Last year the proof was made, it is official, in 2010 we broke the Guiness Book of World Records for largest display of Chalk Art at one time in one place. The past year’s 19th anniversary event attracted a crowd of 120,000 to Paseo Colorado in Pasadena’s civic center over the course of the two-day weekend (Father's Day). Chalk also features a wide range of world music and family art making opportunities. It's always free-of-charge to the public. Pasadena Doo Dah Parade (East Pasadena) DOO DAH'S 33rd occasional parade will celebrate the spring season in its typically off-beat style. Begun in 1978 as a spoof of Pasadena's Rose parade, the PASADENA DOO DAH PARADE has grown from a grassroots event to gain national recognition as the original "outsider" public event. The 33nd DOO DAH guarantees to send up a wooly range of mischiefs, grounded superheroes, political pundits, homegrown satirists, art car inventors, and other bohemian frolickers. Classic DOO DAH marchers have included the Synchronized Marching Briefcase Team, the Lounge Lizards, Conehead Queens, and the Torment of Roses. The event now takes place in East Pasadena, and as always, is free to the public. www.pasadenadoodahparade.info. Zorthian Ranch Oral History Project (Conducted in the greater Pasadena/Los Angeles area) Over the last half-century, Altadena's Zorthian Ranch became a nexus of bohemian activity, attracting figures of influence from all walks of life, spanning the arts and sciences. Along with many others, Light Bringer Project recognized a need to preserve the history of the Zorthian Ranch through the personal accounts of family members and notable friends and associates. Without a deliberate attempt to capture these stories, many of them will be lost forever. In the larger picture, we will have neglected to document the creative vitality and originality that Jirayr and Dabney Zorthian and others brought to our local environment. The Project, specifically, hopes to document and transcribe thirty  oral histories which will become publicly accessible at a variety of community venues and available on the internet. 24-Hour Gallery (80 North Raymond, and Holly Street) An outdoor gallery featuring emerging and contemporary visual artists of the Los Angeles community. Located across from Memorial Park Metro Gold Line Station, the 24-HOUR GALLERY presents ongoing exhibitions on a monthly rotating basis. Drive, bicycle or stroll around the corner from 80 N. Raymond (across from the Pasadena Senior Center) and see a variety of unique and original contemporary artists' works, curated by Los Angeles fine artist, Margaret Adachi. The window gallery came to be through the 1% for the Arts (Cultural Trust Fund) with the City of Pasadena, and were installed at the time the building was erected. Light Bringer Project works in close partnership with the HOA of the building. Salons at the Castle (Historic Castle Green in Pasadena) Guests attending enjoy highly original artists presenting anything from genre music, classical piano, to live theatre performance, to art exhibitions. Each SALON is different and is staged in the elegant Grand Salon or Ballroom of the historically preserved turn-of-the-century landmark. Visual and performing artists’ talents are supported through this program.