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Located on Lehigh Avenue in North Philadelphia, Portside Arts Center provides creative arts instruction to children, teens, and adults of all ages. Our Toddler, Child, and Teen classes include painting, drawing, music, drama, arts & crafts, and more. All of our classes are taught by local teaching artists and certified arts instructors.

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About Portside Arts Center:

The Portside Arts Center holds Visual Arts, Musical Arts and Performing Arts classes year-round, 6 days a week. We provide high-quality low-cost arts instruction to over 1,200 children, teens, adults, and seniors per year.

Unleash Your Inner Creativity:
By building self-awareness, and appreciation of one's own inner creativity and artistic skills, we aim to transform the lives of individuals, improve their academic and economic success and awaken a person's social and civic sense in order to raise the quality of life in our neighborhoods.

Our Mission:
Our mission is to empower the people of our community with opportunities to develop their artistic abilities, awaken the imagination, and build self-esteem and confidence.

Creative Arts Programs for Kids & Teens::

Toddlers Classes:
- Creative Movement
- Little Artists

Kids Classes:
- Acting
- Arts & Crafts
- Children's Robot Shop
- Clay Studio
- Creative Movement
- Dance Classes
- Drawing Club
- Family Art Class
- Girl Power Arts & Crafts
- Home School Visual Arts
- Saturday Arts & Crafts
- Special Needs Arts

Teen Classes:
- Art ProjeX
- Crochet Projects
- Drawing Club
- Dye & Sew a Tote Bag
- Mosaics HandsOn
- Quilting Projects
- Robot Shop
- Shibi Projects
- Stop Motion Animation
- Sit & Stitch
- Teen Digital Photography
- Teen Acting
- The Art Of Stained Glass
- Yoga

Private Music Classes:
- Guitar
- Piano
- Bass
- Voice
- Violin
- Viola

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Address: 2531 Lehigh Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19125, USA

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