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Article Excerpt
FROM THE OUTSIDE, Destiny Arts Center (De-escalation Skills Training to Inspire Nonviolence in Youth) is a splash of color on an otherwise gray, sidewalk. Occupying three small storefronts on San Pablo Avenue, one of the busiest thoroughfares in Oakland, California, Destiny Arts Center greets visitors with a bright photo collage of youth dancing, doing martial arts, creating art for peace, competing in tournaments, performing, and participating in outdoor adventures.
Inside, the Center contains a diversity of races, ages, body sizes, music, and dance styles. One studio is full of young children ages 3-6 demonstrating karate exercises for their instructor. Next door in a hip-hop class, students ages 7-12 concentrate every muscle and fiber of their bodies on keeping up with the rhythm and pace of a new routine. Down the hall, another class learns samba moves.
Behind the dance studios, children mill in and out of the Center's office in need of Band-Aids, ice, or...
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