Santa Fe Teen Arts Center/

Warehouse 21

The Santa Fe Teen Arts Center, Warehouse 21 (W21) has been a center for youth entertainment, entrepreneurial opportunities and artistic production for individuals under the age of 21 since 1997. It's unique multi-cultural programs in the performing, music, media and visual arts have served hundreds of teenagers and young adults from all socio-economic and cultural backgrounds.W21 has offered film festivals, movie nights, radio programs; poetry events; comedy shows, theater productions, art exhibitions, lectures and concerts, all of which are supported by teens, young adults/alumni and adults who act as educators and mentors. Workshops are free or low-fee so that all young people can be inspired to empower themselves through artistic expression, self initiatives and productivity. W21 maintains a digital media arts lab, two performance spaces for theater and concerts, films, lectures, meetings and other productions, a gallery for the creation and exhibition of art, a fashion design studio, a recording studio, a screen printing studio and an internet lounge facing the tracks featuring a a retail area in which to sell youth made products and concessions. We initiated a computer programming course for 8-18 yr olds and we train youth career skills in the arts.