Educational Programs

educational-program

Never Stop Learning

Understanding the value our community members place on education, OLA regularly provides educational programs for children, teens, and adults through such offerings as arts and empowerment workshops, our Conversation Café, and our television shows.

Youth Programs

At OLA we know that the key to creating social change that includes young people is to ensure they are their own agents of change.

They must be the actors and leaders, not the spectators and followers.

OLA provides periodic in-school and after-school empowerment workshops, holds youth dinners facilitated by college-aged Latino students, and organizes educational forums.

OLA provides opportunities for youth to share their ideas with legislators and other stakeholders, holds youth dinners facilitated by college-aged Latino students, and organizes educational forums.

Empowerment Workshops

Youth Dinners

Educational Forums

Scholarship Fund

Learn English or Spanish

Spanish and English are the two main languages spoken on the East End.

OLA’s Conversation Café programs are online and/or in-person mini-courses (usually six sessions long and offered in the fall) designed to help us all communicate better with each other and enrich our daily lives with the freedom and opportunities that speaking another language brings.

Conversation Café Programs

Online and In-Person

Arts Workshops

Providing high-quality arts workshops in Spanish and English is vital to helping to ensure that Latino community members have access to professional artists and art spaces and opportunities to explore the arts.

OLA regularly offers unique and inspiring visual arts, theater, and movement workshops for children, youth, and adults in partnership with local East End arts institutions and professional artists.

OLA’s Media Lab teaches Latino youth filmmaking skills.

Visual Arts

Theater

Movement Workshops

Filmmaking Skills

OLA TV and Radio

We invite you to visit our YouTube page for informational videos on a variety of subjects as well as episodes of our LTV show Conversations with OLA/Conversaciones con OLA, featuring interviews in Spanish and English with community leaders, activists, writers, exemplary young people, and others.

For delicious recipes and lively conversation, see Sabor con OLA, our LTV cooking show, also on our YouTube channel.

To learn more about adolescent mental health concerns and resources, please join Executive Director Minerva Perez as she interviews teens, parents, and mental health care professionals in a three-part series on public radio station WLIW.

Conversations with OLA

Sabor con OLA

OLA Radio Shows