Through the power of storytelling, Streetside values and cultivates young people's voices, fostering educational equity and building community, literacy and arts skills.

Description:
Through the power of storytelling, Streetside Stories values and cultivates young people's voices, fostering educational equity to build community, literacy and arts skills.

Streetside Stories is an arts education non-profit that uses storytelling, interactive theatre activities and digital storytelling to help a diverse group of middle school students in San Francisco public schools to develop their reading, writing and speaking skills.

We work in San Francisco public middle and elementary schools teaching autobiographical writing and digital storytelling workshops during the school day and after school. Our curriculum is standards based and fun! Each year we produce an anthology of student stories that is available at SF libraries and independent bookstores. We also produce a DVD anthology of mini-movies as part of our Tech Tales program.

History:
Streetside Stories was started by two brothers, Seth and James Levy. Educators, actors and literacy advocates, in 1989, they rode across the country on their bikes on a "Ride for Reading." As they rode across the country they collected stories from young people and retold them to other young people creating a cross country storytelling community.

When they arrived in San Francisco, they decided to do workshops similar to what they had been doing on the road at Everett Middle School, across the street from their apartment. Now Streetside has grown from serving 30 young people in one middle school to serving over 8000 students.

Contact people:

Helen McGrath, Director, Community Outreach, (phone), (email) Linda Johnson, Executive Director, (phone), (email)

Main office number: (415) 864-5221
Office fax number: (415) 970-1090

Address:

3130 20th Street, Suite 311 San Francisco, CA 94110 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.streetside.org

Miscellaneous Information

Besides English, which languages are spoken at your agency?
	Spanish
What is the minimum age for volunteers at your agency?
	16
Is your agency wheelchair accessible?
	Yes
Does your agency have the capacity to host groups of more than 10?
	Yes
Does your agency have the capacity to host groups of more than 20?
	Yes