Education
The Huntington’s education programs serve a broad audience and provide enrichment for members of the institution, casual visitors, school teachers, children, and adults. Programs range from lively activities for preschoolers to intensive five-week institutes for K-12 classroom teachers.
On average, The Huntington’s school programs serve approximately 12,000 children and 750 teachers each year. Students from throughout Los Angeles, San Diego, Ventura, and San Bernardino counties participate in 11 different school field trip programs, free of charge. Lesson plans in science, art, and the humanities, developed by Huntington educators and scholars, and that feature The Huntington’s collections, are put to use in schools nationwide.
Explorers Summer Day Camp Returns with Exciting New Classes - Register Now!
Huntington Explorers is a summer day camp in July and August with new and exciting classes each year geared for children ages 5-12. The classes celebrate the wonders of The Huntington through garden explorations, hands-on activities, gallery investigations and educational fun.
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Students Perform Langston Hughes-Inpired Poetry at The Huntington
Students from southland high schools participated in a poetry contest, performing their writings on April 29 at a special morning performance of The Langston Hughes Project, Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz.
Pictured left to right: Jiven Flores, Cleveland High; Graciela Martinez, Summit High; Professor Ron McCurdy; Charles Balcom, Cleveland High; Joshua Casas, John Muir High.
The morning began with a multi-media event bringing the poetry of Langston Hughes to life through a powerful performance of words, images, and music, featuring a live jazz quartet led by Dr. Ronald McCurdy, professor of music at USC, and accompanied by a reading of Hughes’s “Ask Your Mama.” At the end of the program, four students read their poems to an audience of classmates, teachers, and Huntington staff and volunteers.
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