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Empowering youth through the arts

Elevate WI provides youth and young adults in St. Thomas with safe spaces for artistic expression, holistic development, and community engagement.


Founded five years ago, its center has been operating for three years and has all the facilities of a recording studio. It was a previous grant from the Liberty Foundation which provided the resources to create and implement different programs related to music and theater, among others.


“Thank you so much. Because of your help, we were able to launch the VI Creators program that caters to the development of youth, to empower youth, to provide mentorship and expose them to opportunities to work with industry professionals, and to be trained by them. We are grateful because we were also able to launch our Stagecraft Academy, which is our theater arts program, which ran for eight weeks and helped the youth to be able to create their own show. In addition, we launched Silence to Sound, an audio engineering masterclass: a four-week masterclass program that allowed youth to get the experience to possibly becoming the next big sound engineer,” said L. Omar Owen, executive director & founder of Elevate WI.


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