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In Our Community

This film is called “It’s Not Over” and was made with the Rappahannock Juvenile Detention Center. It was accepted into the Student World Impact Film Festival (2023) and International Social Change Film Festival (2023).

"Thank you for an amazing opportunity for our residents to learn about filmmaking. Your lessons were well received and the residents learned a great deal during your instruction." -Dr. Janet Hodges, Rappahannock Juvenile Detention Center School Principal

We Worked With 58 Schools & Non-profit organizations in 2024.

Light House expands access to arts education for young people through in-school, after-school, and summer workshops. Our goal is to remove barriers to access by teaching any interested student, regardless of their ability to pay.

Since 2003 Light House has conducted free-to-participant filmmaking workshops with nonprofit partners throughout Charlottesville. Our programs encourage self-expression; give under-resourced youth an opportunity to share their diverse perspectives; facilitate collaboration with other local nonprofits and among youth from different areas of our community; and teach technical film skills in addition to transferable soft skills essential for college and the job market. 

Light House teaching artists go into area public and private schools to teach hands-on filmmaking workshops during the school day. We guide students on how to mix their school subjects with collaborative filmmaking and support teachers in implementing project-based learning.

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2024 Partners

Abundant Life

Albemarle Garden Club

Blue Ridge Juvenile Detention Center

Botanical Garden of the Piedmont

Boys & Girls Club Albemarle Campus

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Charlottesville Day School

Charlottesville High School Ecology Class

Charlottesville High School Urban Farming

Community Mental Health & Wellness Coalition

CHEC

Clemons Library Media Center

Community Climate Collaborative (C3)

Four County Players

Girl Scouts of America

Henley Middle School

Indie Short Film Series

Ivy Elementary School

John Plashall

Journalism Freelance project

Live Arts

Lugo-McGinness Academy

Meals on Wheels

Monticello High School

Mountaintop Montessori

Mountain View Elementary

Music Resource Center (MRC)

Peabody School

PEGLLLLab

Reclaimed Hope Initiative

Region Ten "Clear the Air"

Southwood B&G Club

SunTribe

Tandem

Tech Girls

The Gordie Center at UVA

Tom Tom Festival

UVA Collegiate Recovery Program

UVA Equity Center Starr Hill Pathways

UVA Games Lab

UVA Psychology

Virginia Commission of The Arts

Virginia NOW

Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind

Western Albemarle High School Environmental Club

YMCA at Walker Upper Elementary School

2023 Partners

Albemarle Ballet

Albemarle HS ESOL

Beloved Community C'ville

Blue Dharma

Botanical Gardens of the Piedmont

Boy Scouts

Boys & Girls Club Albemarle Campus

Boys & Girls Club Cherry Avenue

Buford Middle School

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Central VA Learning & Listening Exchange

Charlottesville Day School

Charlottesville Free Clinic

Charlottesville HS

CHS- AVID program

Cinema Skateshop

Clemons Library Media Center

Community Climate Collaborative

Indie Short Film Series

International Rescue Committee

Ivy Creek-Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay

Ivy Elementary

Karsh Institute of Democracy

Local Food Hub

Lugo-McGinness Academy

Managing Love

Maupintown Film Festival

Mountaintop Montessori

Music Resource Center

Peabody School

Piedmont YMCA

PVCC

Reclaimed Hope Initiative

Region Ten

Renaissance School

Sin Barreras

Starr Hill/UVA Equity Center

Tandem Friends School

Tech Girls

Tom Tom Festival

United Way

UVA Film Studies

VCA’s Poetry Out Loud

Venus Melite

Virginia Commonwealth University

Walker Upper Elementary

Western Albemarle

Wild Virginia