MISSION AND PURPOSE
The Courthouse Center for the Arts, a non-profit community-based arts organization located in West Kingston, R.I., was founded in 1988. Our mission to enhance the lives of community and its children by providing educational enhancement and enrichment through arts and music, as well as provide quality programs to the community.
Our goal is to provide free, quality and life changing arts and music programs for children of all ages and abilities with inclusion programs for differently abled children. Our instructors offer their craft to benefit our organization and work toward teaching children how to develop their musical and theatrical abilities, thereby increasing their vocabulary, lessening anxiety, teaching sentence structure, increasing speaking abilities, motor skills, and most importantly, for all children, increasing their cognitive learning abilities.
The Courthouse Center for the Arts also provides work readiness programs for differently abled children and adults. Contact us for more information. Educational Advocacy referrals allow us to work with the best professionals in the area. Dedicated volunteers and instructors as well as musicians, keep us at the forefront of our goals.
We also offer weekly concert events featuring local and international artists that will entertain you and get you dancing or swaying and singing in the audience. Don’t be surprised if the band brings you up on stage to sing along. An intimate, most unique experience for concerts and always a meet and greet after the shows. We strive to provide the best musicians from all over to entertain you and have you returning for more.
In addition, we offer low/no cost programs for adults including arts programs, creative writing, photography, exercise programs, self-defense classes, and other exciting opportunities.
We are committed to providing accessible, affordable programming for adults and free programs for children, all while our valued volunteers help to preserve the coolest, historical building and happenings in all of South County.
Our dedicated local sponsors and extremely kind donors support these life-enriching opportunities to the children of our community. Community unity is part of what we do.