Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center
Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center provides quality dance, music, theater, and martial arts programs for ages 3.5 and up!
Martial Arts Year-End Demonstration
Saturday April 26 2025
Parents and friends of Mind-Builders Martial Arts Program are invited to witness this year-end demonstration, highlighting the techniques, exercises and skills students have honed throughout the year. Come celebrate their achievements in self-discipline, strength, and practice!
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Folk Culture Final Presentation: Bronx Flow
Friday May 2 2025
The spaces, places, and people that shape our everyday lives.
Take a journey with the interns of the Dr. Beverly J. Robinson Folk Culture Program as they highlight Tradition bearers and heritage practices that have shaped the stories, practices and lives of many. Gain an appreciation of the powerful creativity residing and rooted in Mind-Builders' own backyard—The Bronx—by listening and witnessing to the stories and art of several Tradition bearers of our borough! Learn about the techniques and processes Folk Culture interns used to weave vibrant stories together to uncover connection and parallel experiences across New York City and the African Diaspora.
Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center
Music Recital Show 1: Strings, Vocals and Keys
Saturday May 3 2025
The Mind-Builders' Music Department presents a collection of performances from our music classes, split into four auditorily spectacular recitals. Students have worked with their respective teachers throughout the year to hone their skills and prepare a selected piece to demonstrate their progress.
Bronx Music Hall
Music Recital Show 2: Strings, Vocals and Keys
Saturday May 3 2025
The Mind-Builders' Music Department presents a collection of performances from our music classes, split into four auditorily spectacular recitals. Students have worked with their respective teachers throughout the year to hone their skills and prepare a selected piece to demonstrate their progress.
Bronx Music Hall
Music Recital Show 3: Rumble in The Bronx
Sunday May 4 2025
The Mind-Builders' Music Department presents a collection of performances from our music classes, split into four auditorily spectacular recitals. Students have worked with their respective teachers throughout the year to hone their skills and prepare a selected piece to demonstrate their progress.
Bronx Music Hall
Music Recital Show 4: Grand Finale
Sunday May 4 2025
The Mind-Builders' Music Department presents a collection of performances from our music classes, split into four auditorily spectacular recitals. Students have worked with their respective teachers throughout the year to hone their skills and prepare a selected piece to demonstrate their progress.
Bronx Music Hall
PYT Showcase
Tuesday May 6 2025
Join us for an unforgettable evening of entertainment as the talented students of our Positive Youth Troupe (PYT) Theatre Program take the stage!
This culminating showcase features a dynamic mix of performances, including improvisation, monologues, devised scenes, and musical theatre numbers. Curated from class lessons, student discussions, and creative explorations, this event highlights the talent, creativity, and growth of our performers.
Don’t miss this exciting celebration of theatre and storytelling!
Pregones/PRTT
Dance Recital: S.H.E. Slays: Strength.Heart.Empowerment
Saturday May 17 2025
Join us for "S.H.E. Slays: Strength.Heart.Empowerment" dance performance of presented by Mind-Builders Dance Department., The theme of this energetic and dynamic performance featuring hundreds of our dance students and faculty highlights women's strength, resilience, and independence through dance and movement. Featuring guest artists, live music, and exciting dance routines in a variety of dance styles, from Ballet, to Tap, to African dance, S.H.E. showcases our Dance students’ skills, technique and artistry.
Evander Childs Educational Campus
Dance Recital: Super Kids Unite: Dance to Save the Day!
Sunday May 18 2025
Join us in celebrating the superpowers of our students in our annual dance performance: Super Kids Unite: Dance to Save the Day! Featuring exciting dance routines in a variety of dance styles, and showcasing Mind-Builders' youngest dance students’ skills, technique and artistry on a grand stage, this performance highlights the creativity, wide range of talent and accomplishments of our youth!
Evander Childs Seating Chart
Reserve Kwanzaa Regeneration Show Tickets!
Saturday December 21 2024
Celebrate Kwanzaa with Us!
Let us know if you're interested in purchasing tickets for the Apollo Kwanzaa Regeneration Celebration on Saturday, December 21st!
Event Details:
Pick-Up Tickets: 1:15 PM
Show Time: 2:00 PM
Price: TBA
Location: Apollo Theatre, 253 W. 125th Street, Manhattan
Don’t miss out on this vibrant celebration! Sign up now to indicate your interest and hold tickets, and if they’re sold out, you can join the waitlist for a chance to attend!
Apollo Theater
Bone Soup: A Kwanzaa Story
Saturday December 14 2024
Bone Soup: A Kwanzaa Story
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Master Dance Class w/ Kwikstep and Rokafella
Monday November 25 2024
Join us for an exclusive Master Dance Class right here at Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center, led by none other than the Bronx’s own legends, Kwikstep and Rokafella. Icons who continue to embody of the Bronx’s raw energy in every step of their careers.
If you’re 16 or older with a passion for the culture and a desire to learn from two of Hip Hop’s finest, this master class is your opportunity to connect with the roots that have propelled Hip Hop to a global stage.
Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center
Parent Orientation 2024
Saturday September 28 2024
We are excited to kick off the Fall/Spring 24-25 Season with an informative Parent Orientation! This session is designed to provide you with essential information about our programs to ensure a smooth start to the upcoming classes in October.
Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center
Mind-Builders Arts Discovery Week
From September 17 through September 21, we open our doors wide to new and returning students, parents, and community members as an opportunity to sample classes, meet faculty members, hear from Mind-Builders alumni, experience performances, and more! Schedule 1:1 advisement with Mind-Builders to learn more about registration, financial assistance and scholarship opportunities, and other key insights to help build a great year of arts learning with us!
Our Arts Discovery Week is FREE and open to all; attend one day, drop in for a specific session, or participate all week-long in over 20 demo classes/workshops, and learn more about everything that Mind-Builders has to offer.
Special thanks to our event sponsors: Assured Partners, Montefiore Medical Center and TDF
Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center
Dance Recital 2024: Feeling Myself | Sunday, May 19
Sunday May 19 2024
Join us for a celebration of student success and self-expression! Witness our students' incredible progress and confidence as they Show Up & Show Out.
Evander Childs Educational Complex
Dance Recital 2024: Future We | Saturday, May 18
Saturday May 18 2024
We honor the cultural legacy, knowledge, and wisdom passed down by our ancestors, anchoring ourselves firmly in the present as we stride confidently into the future through dance.
Evander Childs Educational Complex
Music Recital 2024 | Sunday, May 5
Sunday May 5 2024
Attend our Sunday, May 5th Music Recital featuring select performances from our Fall/Spring 23-34 music students!
Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Inc. (PRTT)
Music Recital 2024 | Saturday, May 4
Saturday May 4 2024
Attend our Saturday, May 4th Music Recital featuring select performances from our Fall 2023-Spring 2024 music students!
Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Inc. (PRTT)
So You Think You Can Act! | PYT Theater Performance
Friday May 3 2024
Get Ready to be Wowed! Join us for a thrilling show featuring our talented Mind-Builders PYT Theater classes.
The ensemble will share their knowledge and performances of theater history, theatrical aspirations, improvisation, monologue, scene-work, and musical theater; all within our “Game Show - So You Think You Can Act?!”
We invite the Mind-Builders community and audience, through the experience of how we approach the study of acting/theater by including them in selected segments in our Game-Show, to inspire a collaborative sense of play and create an immersive experience within our End-of-Year piece.
Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Inc. (PRTT)
Martial Arts Year End Demonstration
Saturday April 20 2024
Join us for an unforgettable showcase at Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center's Martial Arts End of Year Demonstration on Saturday, April 20th at 4:00pm. From breathtaking forms to powerful techniques, witness firsthand the dedication and skill of our talented students as they take the stage.
RSVP for this free event! Seating is first come, first served.
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