Point Breeze Performing Arts Center

PBPAC coined the term Arts for Social Change to encapsulate our mission: to use the performing arts as a social action strategy that cultivates talent and revitalizes communities.

Our goal is to help children and youth become not just better artists, but also better people and better community members. Our programs are geared toward building confidence, self-esteem and discipline and cultivating citizenship. So far, this philosophy has been overwhelmingly successful. All of the students who have stayed in PBPAC for more than four years resist the temptation to engage in delinquent activities, report no occurrences of teen pregnancy or fatherhood, show academic improvement during PBPAC participation, matriculate into post-secondary education after graduating from high school, perform community service during PBPAC participation and re-invest in PBPAC as interns and volunteers.