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Diablo Ballet is an award-winning internationally recognized professional performing dance company committed to enriching, inspiring, and educating children and adults through the art of dance. Presenting acclaimed classical and contemporary ballets, the company performs in Walnut Creek at the Lesher Center for the Arts and productions on tour.  Diablo Ballet is committed to exposing youth to the arts through its renowned PEEK Outreach Programs which have reached over 75,000 underserved school children in the East Bay since 1995. In addition, Diablo Ballet has served thousands of at-risk teenage girls and boys incarcerated in the Juvenile Justice system since 2015. In August of 2019, Diablo Ballet launched its Ballet School, the first in the history of Contra Costa County operated by a professional ballet company, which also offers Dance for Parkinson's classes free of charge for Parkinson's patients and their caregivers.

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We believe that creative people can change the world. Pillar gives them the space to do it. Whether you need a home base for your growing business, the support of an engaged community, onsite childcare services, or a beautiful space for work and reflection, our door is open.

Pillar. Built for the most productive you.

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Viva el Español is a non-profit Spanish Language and Culture Center, teaching Spanish to toddlers to adults.

For pre-school and elementary school kids, our curriculum is designed to spark and expand children's interest in Spanish by engaging them in creative activities including music & movement, arts & crafts, interactive games, and literature.

Our methodology includes:

=       Full-immersion approach

=       Multi-sensory, content-based curriculum

=       Learning through fun and creative activities

=       Focus on comprehension and language production early on, as scaffolding to build reading and writing abilities in later grades

=       Resources that can be used to extend learning from classroom to home

=       Optional special events and cultural fieldtrips where language can be used in context

Through our total immersion approach, children learn the Spanish language naturally and easily – as they learned their first language. The immersion approach to teaching a second language maximizes the time students get to practice the language they are learning without being slowed down by having to translate what they hear and speak. 

The lessons are rich and varied, and use a multi-sensory approach to ensure that children absorb and remember the words and phrases they are hearing and using. During each theme, vocabulary and phrases are presented using a variety of visual, auditory, kinesthetic activities – there by appealing to children with different learning styles, and reinforcing through various means the target vocabulary.

Ample opportunities for oral participation and peer interaction are provided.  Classes are structured to make fun and creative activities part of an educational process that targets effective language acquisition. We give them the opportunity to hear, speak, create and move while using Spanish.

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