WorldBeat Center Youth Programs and Summer Camp
Balboa Park, 2100 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101
About
WorldBeat Center Youth Programs and Summer Camp includes a Performing Arts and Science Summer Camp where children take part in drumming, dance, organic gardening, and learning about African history. The program also involves citizen science through Celebrate Urban Birds, as well as workshops, events, STEM research projects, school tours, Summer Camp programs, internship programs, and private tours.
• Ages: 5–12 years old
WorldBeat Center Youth Programs and Summer Camp is part of the WorldBeat Cultural Center, a nonprofit multi-cultural arts organization dedicated to promoting, preserving, and celebrating the African Diaspora and Indigenous cultures of the world. The organization presents Music, Art, Dance, Multi-Media Arts, Education, and STEAM Research with the stated goal of creating unity within diversity and promoting peace within the San Diego community by raising consciousness. The WorldBeat Cultural Center was founded by Makeda Cheatom in 1993 and began in 1984 as WorldBeat Productions under Executive Director Makeda Dread in San Diego, CA.
Each year, WorldBeat Cultural Center serves over 6,000 children and youth, teaching unity in diversity through drumming, dance, organic gardening, and African history. WorldBeat Cultural Center has partnered with Cultural Homestay International to provide internships in various departments. WorldBeat Center is one of the four CO-PI organizations leading the NOISE Project, a national community science project on the effects of noise pollution funded by the National Science Foundation (DRL-1811234).
The Healing Peace Garden connected to the program functions as an Outdoor Classroom that educates students on agriculture and nutrition and includes countless rare edible and medicinal plants that hold cultural significance. This garden has been identified as a “healing garden” or “noise refuge” that serves as a buffer zone and sanctuary against surrounding urban noise pollution and as a place to destress and relax. It is recognized as the first sustainable, edible garden in Balboa Park and is certified as a Monarch Waystation and a Wildlife Habitat. The Garden welcomes K–12 schools, college groups, and homeschool families for planned workshops and tours and is open for special collaborative events and workshops throughout the year, and there is ongoing work toward an extension dedicated to children called the “Enchanted Children’s Sound Garden.”
WorldBeat Cultural Center also serves as a non-profit community center, a performing arts center for classes and showcasing, a museum, a gift shop, a cafe, and an outdoor classroom. Flags of all nations fly from the ceiling at the Center, and its stage and dance floor have hosted hundreds of acts, artists, and events.
Last updated June 25, 2026.
• Ages: 5–12 years old
WorldBeat Center Youth Programs and Summer Camp is part of the WorldBeat Cultural Center, a nonprofit multi-cultural arts organization dedicated to promoting, preserving, and celebrating the African Diaspora and Indigenous cultures of the world. The organization presents Music, Art, Dance, Multi-Media Arts, Education, and STEAM Research with the stated goal of creating unity within diversity and promoting peace within the San Diego community by raising consciousness. The WorldBeat Cultural Center was founded by Makeda Cheatom in 1993 and began in 1984 as WorldBeat Productions under Executive Director Makeda Dread in San Diego, CA.
Each year, WorldBeat Cultural Center serves over 6,000 children and youth, teaching unity in diversity through drumming, dance, organic gardening, and African history. WorldBeat Cultural Center has partnered with Cultural Homestay International to provide internships in various departments. WorldBeat Center is one of the four CO-PI organizations leading the NOISE Project, a national community science project on the effects of noise pollution funded by the National Science Foundation (DRL-1811234).
The Healing Peace Garden connected to the program functions as an Outdoor Classroom that educates students on agriculture and nutrition and includes countless rare edible and medicinal plants that hold cultural significance. This garden has been identified as a “healing garden” or “noise refuge” that serves as a buffer zone and sanctuary against surrounding urban noise pollution and as a place to destress and relax. It is recognized as the first sustainable, edible garden in Balboa Park and is certified as a Monarch Waystation and a Wildlife Habitat. The Garden welcomes K–12 schools, college groups, and homeschool families for planned workshops and tours and is open for special collaborative events and workshops throughout the year, and there is ongoing work toward an extension dedicated to children called the “Enchanted Children’s Sound Garden.”
WorldBeat Cultural Center also serves as a non-profit community center, a performing arts center for classes and showcasing, a museum, a gift shop, a cafe, and an outdoor classroom. Flags of all nations fly from the ceiling at the Center, and its stage and dance floor have hosted hundreds of acts, artists, and events.
Last updated June 25, 2026.
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