New Jersey Music and Arts, Inc. is a non profit educational performing arts organization whose purpose is to further an awareness of culture and the arts and their importance with young people, and also to bridge spirituality with the multidisciplinary theatrical performance of music, drama, and dance. NJMA accomplishes this in two ways.
1) With a performing arts school of Music, Drama and Dance with a low or no tuition for students 1-12 grade. The One Heart Dancers, The Little Players and The New Hope Players are the resident performing arts groups of NJMA, made of students coming from different areas of northern New Jersey.
2) Promoting a performing arts series with public performances that include the NJMA students and professional performing artists invited to share their talent with the NJMA students. NJMA offers also free performances in Passaic County, to a multiethnic audience and welcomes multiethnic students.
The NJMA performing arts series was founded in 1998 and is based in Clifton. The performances are held at the Passaic County Community College in Paterson.
NJMA has received yearly grants from Passaic County Culture and Heritage Council since 2003 and provides a family oriented entertainment for audiences of northern New Jersey at inexpensive ticket price. NJMA presents every year 2 fully staged productions by the Garden State Opera. NJMA has received a special award from Passaic County Cultural and Heritage Council in 2005 for exceptional service to the community through the arts. .
This project is funded, in part, by the Passaic County Cultural and Heritage Council at Passaic County Community College, through a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of the State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
A special thanks to
the Family Federation for World Peace and
Unification of New Jersey
