We Collaborate With Many Organizations
In Our Community
"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
Center 1
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
Center 1
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