Youth StARTS Program
Ross Ragland Theater and Cultural Center, 218 North 7th Street, Klamath Falls, OR 97601
About
The Youth StARTS Program brings artists into schools to lead activities in drama, movement, music, visual art, and dance. The program also connects with after-school improv classes, After School Classes, Summer Camp programs, summer camps, and a teen theater program. Arts integration in this program uses teaching practices that have been shown in brain-based research to improve comprehension and long-term retention.
• Ages: 5–11 years old
• Schedule: Artists instruct in three eight week blocks throughout the schoolyear.
The goal of the Youth StARTS Program is to integrate performing arts into the traditional classroom setting. Youth StARTS is an artist in residence program that involves the Ross Ragland Theater, traveling artists, teachers, and both school districts in the Basin. Artists rotate through schools and subjects so that each elementary-aged student in Klamath County Schools receives at least one session each of drama, movement, and music each school year. This collaboration began as a pilot with four rural schools and has developed into a cost effective public-private partnership that has become a state-wide model. Since its opening in 1989, the Ross Ragland Theater has hosted Grammy Award winners, classical, jazz and blues musicians, repertory theater tours, opera, drama, comedy, musicals, tribute bands, multiple rock genres, acapella groups, acrobats, dancers, and children and family shows.
Last updated December 29, 2025.
• Ages: 5–11 years old
• Schedule: Artists instruct in three eight week blocks throughout the schoolyear.
The goal of the Youth StARTS Program is to integrate performing arts into the traditional classroom setting. Youth StARTS is an artist in residence program that involves the Ross Ragland Theater, traveling artists, teachers, and both school districts in the Basin. Artists rotate through schools and subjects so that each elementary-aged student in Klamath County Schools receives at least one session each of drama, movement, and music each school year. This collaboration began as a pilot with four rural schools and has developed into a cost effective public-private partnership that has become a state-wide model. Since its opening in 1989, the Ross Ragland Theater has hosted Grammy Award winners, classical, jazz and blues musicians, repertory theater tours, opera, drama, comedy, musicals, tribute bands, multiple rock genres, acapella groups, acrobats, dancers, and children and family shows.
Last updated December 29, 2025.
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