Serious Fun After School, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing arts enrichment during out of school time at affordable rates, so that our children have the opportunity to participate in the best that New York has to offer. Our priority is providing our students with the highest quality content, while overseeing the safety and security of our students.

In order to provide the highest quality content, Serious Fun partners with professional artists who are dedicated to providing age-appropriate experiences for our students and class sizes are limited for more individualized attention.

NYChessKids was founded by International Master, Saudin Robovic. The organization’s chess lessons are directed at improving academic excellence by encouraging and training students to become problem solvers, critical thinkers, and admirable leaders. They offer a variety of experienced teachers that will appeal to a children’s specific needs. They offer chess instruction for people of all ages (some as young as 3 1/2 to 4 years old). Students also take part in chess-related tasks like puzzle solving, lessons on demonstration boards and analysis sessions. 

Art House Astoria (AHA) has been an active part of the Astoria neighborhood since the fall of 2009. Their mission has been to bring affordable art and music education to Astoria and the surrounding Queens area.

AHA employs quality, NYC-based instructors who possess great energy and passion for their art. They also offer private and group lessons from toddlers to adults and as such, the variety of group classes lowers the cost for individual students. Art House Astoria also offers a variety of discounts including multiple lesson discounts and family discounts.

Alvin Ailey is a dance organization that is committed to bringing dance into classrooms, and communities in order to impact the lives of people throughout the world. Ailey Arts In Education & Community Programs include special performances, lecture-demonstrations, technique classes, and curriculum-based residencies.

Global Kids, Inc. (GK) is a nonprofit educational organization for global learning and youth development that works to ensure that youth from underserved areas have the knowledge, skills, experiences and values they need to succeed in school, participate effectively in the democratic process, and achieve leadership in their communities and in the world.

Global Kids reaches over 3,000 students, "GK Leaders," each week in New York City and Washington, DC through its in-school and after school global education, social action, digital media, and service-learning programs.

Founded in 1989, Global Kids seeks to address the lack of global education and leadership opportunities for youth from neighborhoods whose racial and ethnic groups are largely underrepresented academically, politically and professionally.

Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc., strives to present, preserve, interpret, proselytize and advocate on behalf of avant-garde art, especially forms that may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect, cultural bias, their ephemeral nature, or politically unpopular content. Franklin Furnace is dedicated to serving artists by providing both physical and virtual venues for the presentation of time-based art, including but not limited to artists' books and periodicals, installation art, performance art, and unforeseen contemporary avant-garde artforms; and to undertake other activities related to these purposes. Franklin Furnace is committed to serving emerging artists; to assuming an aggressive pedagogical stance with regard to the value of avant-garde art to life; and to fostering artists' zeal to broadcast ideas.

Stop Motion Animation Program chipAway Productions, in association with the Queens World Film Festival will provide Filmmaker Mentors (professional filmmakers/animators) and Production Assistants (film students) who will immerse your students in a fast-paced hands-on animation production environment. On the first day, students will rotate through live-action film production crew positions (Director, Director of Photography, 1st Assistant, Slate, Boom and Talent) learning on-set etiquette and developing their abilities to collaborate. As the weeks progress, students will work in Production Teams to tell stories via animation through self-contained projects including table top set-ups with miniature green screen backgrounds, larger scale 'People Movers' and projects against a 20' X 12' greenscreen. As students develop their projects, they will gain mastery over the equipment and strengthen their storytelling techniques. Because of the collaborative nature of film production, students may find themselves contributing to several projects, working in multiple production roles.

Welcome to The New Victory Theater!

Love of theater STARTS here. Love of theater GROWS here. Love of theater LASTS here.

The New Victory Theater is New York City's premier performing arts nonprofit entirely devoted to kids and families. Located on iconic 42nd Street, The New Victory presents extraordinary productions of theater, dance, circus, opera and music from around the world at affordable prices. But for the 2 million people who have passed through our doors since 1995, a visit to the New Vic is so much more than the shows on stage...