Girls Rock Santa Barbara empowers female youth and fosters self-confidence, creativity and teamwork by using music and female mentorship as tools for social change. They bring girls together from diverse backgrounds and give them the opportunity to expand their cultural awareness, develop life skills, and tell their unique story. It is less about playing an instrument and more about finding one’s voice through music. Their participants already possess agency and power, and resist oppression in a myriad of creative ways; the Girls Rock program provides them the space, tools and network to amplify that power. Girls Rock Santa Barbara is driven by one simple motto: love the music you make, and love yourself for making it.
Girls Rock Santa Barbara runs a summer and after-school program for girls. They are working together to build a Santa Barbara where youth girls decide what it looks like and feels like to be a girl, trust and support each other, engage each other in a process of collective healing, recognize the power and pleasure of their own creativity, use music as a powerful way to communicate and exchange ideas, and have their voices valued in a collective community dialogue.
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