Out of Hand Theater’s Creative Kids Program brings professional theater training to schools and afterschool programs in underserved communities throughout Metro Atlanta at no cost to schools or students.

Creative Kids is an Out of Hand Theater Educational Program for children. We offer for free in-school and after-school theater training to schools serving high-poverty student population

Closing the Gap

The City of Atlanta faces one of the nation’s largest economic gaps, which means the opportunity gaps for students born into high poverty and under-resourced neighborhoods are huge compared to an average middle-class Atlantan. Out of Hand is working to close those gaps through art.

Through free 15 week theater training classes, we teach confidence, as well as communication, collaboration, and creative problem-solving skills that will serve our students at home, in the classroom, and beyond. According to a study from the National Endowment of the Arts, students in high-poverty communities that have arts-rich experiences are five times more likely to graduate from high school and three times more likely to receive a B.A. than their peers without access to the arts. Even in communities with less access to the arts.

Out of Hand is committed to providing high-quality arts education at no cost to the students or school, but we can only do that through generous support from grants and individual donors. If you would like to support this work, we hope you will consider sponsoring a student, teacher, or school.

Teacher Sponsors

• Theresa and Judson Stowe - Barack and Michelle Obama Academy

• Kathy Waller - Perkerson Elementary School

• Stefani Ingram Fund- Continental Colony Elementary School