Our Mission
building community and raising consciousness through the arts

•  Invention: Creative Problem Solving
•  Intervention: Conflict Resolution
•  Inspiration: Transformation of Problems into Empowered Solutions

H'artWorks, Inc. is a non-sectarian 501(c)(3) arts and education agency grounded in and guided by creative artistic free expression. We provide art and drama classes, a community computer lab, art shows, plays, recreational activities, recreational activities, and community and neighborhood development opportunities to the diverse community of children and families served by or near Horace Mann Elementary School in Long Beach, California.

Core Values
The following core values are the arteries that feed the heart, the beat of the community, and help H'artWorks encourage creative expression through visual arts, technology, music, dance, theatre, and the spoken word.

Freedom
We want to foster and nurture creativity in everyone we meet, and provide structured (and unstructured) spaces in which they may express their passions, fears, and creativity in a variety of forms.

Diversity
We are dedicated to the community of Long Beach. As the most multicultural city in the U.S. (2000 U.S. Census), we recognize that ongoing dialogue is essential. We recognize the power of the arts to forge lines of communication across cultural, ethnic and economic divides, and we actively seek to encourage that communication.

Community Empowerment
We support and empower community dialogues and engagement, and we encourage communities to rise above racial and other divisions, choosing instead to listen and grow together. We provide a range of services, such as support groups, yoga, after-school tutoring, youth leadership development, parenting skills, and recreational activities.

Respect
We provide a safe space for people to explore their potential as caring, creative beings, and seek to assist individual enrichment, while serving the broader surrounding community. Cooperative relationships with other talent in the community have resulted in the realization of a holistic community center devoted to the mission of H'artWorks. Everyone is respected and encouraged to be innovative.

A Continued Commitment to Excellence in Expression
Through Arts and Education

The following is a list of current and future programs available through the Arts,
Drama and Technology Education branches of the H'artWorks Organization.

Art and Drama

Drama Classes to Fill in the Gaps
(Current Program)

In addition to a commitment to provide the students of Horace Mann Elementary School with up-to-date technological resources, the H'Art Works programs are dedicated to filling the artistic gaps left by drastic cutbacks in district funding.

Drama classes focus on developing team-building skills, self-esteem, expression and aiding students in discovering their own unique and creative voices through games, text analysis and the fundamental elements of acting. Sessions are 6 – 12 weeks. 12-week sessions culminate in a small production for friends and family.

The Third Street Project
(Modeled after the Virginia Ave Project in Santa Monica, CA) (Future Program)

The Third Street Project is a community of professional artists devoted to positively influencing inner city youth by engaging them in the disciplined practices of creating original theater in order to stir, motivate, and guide them to reach their full human potential.

Housed at Immanuel– A Center for Conscious Living, the Third Street Project's vision is not only to prevent gangs and truancy but to create future leaders, future problem solvers and to help future geniuses realize their potential. The Third Street Project, like the Virginia Avenue Project, is a community of professional artists committed to the long term mentoring of our youth.

State of the “Arts”
After School Art Classes

Students use a variety of mediums during these 4 – 6 week sessions, which encourage team and skill building, creative free expression, collaboration and imagination. All of our sessions include art materials and supplies. Classes are conducted under the supervision of one master teacher and two assistant teachers in the Art Room facility at Immanuel– A Center for Conscious Living.

Technology

The Cecil L. Murray: “Field of Dreams”
Community Computer Lab & Resource Center
(Current Program)

In an on-going collaboration with Horace Mann Elementary School, and in cooperation with Frank and Faye Clarke of Educate the Children and Councilman Frank Colonna, Immanuel– A Center for Conscious Living, and H'Art Works was able to transform a vacant room in the church into a fully functioning computer lab with 21 monitors and Pentium II Processors, complete with DSL internet connection capabilities.

With labor and materials donated from both Educate the Children and the Electrician's Union, students of Horace Mann, the YMCA Summer Camp Program, and youth and families from the immediate community have up-to-date access to the latest in internet and educational software training.

“Authoring Our Future”
(Future Program)

“Authoring Our Future” is a long-term mentoring program that matches storytelling with film editing and technology. Designed to target at-risk middle and high school students, the “Authoring Our Future” program will provide necessary team and skill building, as well as opportunities for creative self-expression through the use of technology and filmmaking and the potential to participate in an internship within the film industry.

In the course of the program, the students will write, produce, and edit a short film. The resulting film will have a screening for the school community, friends, and family of the participating students.Between 40 and 60 students, grades 6 through 12, will participate in the program. Students will have 4 hours per week of classroom instruction, and an additional 4 to 8 hours of unsupervised time to prepare their work.

Qualified professionals in the film and entertainment fields will conduct the classes. Guest lecturers will include prominent people from the Hollywood community.

Extended Community Contributors
(The Pieces of our “H'art”)

The following contributors, programs and individuals collaborate with us to create
the members of the H'artWorks' community.

•  Peace Garden Yoga
Penny Richards Instructor

•  Heartichoke Personal Cuisine
Angela Uys, Founder/Chef

•  Shoreline Squares Square-dancing
Lee St. John, Officer

•  Bluff Heights Pilates
taught by Sinnamon Carbone

•  Kindermusik
taught by Gabriela Perez Ungalde

•  Long Beach Unified School District

•  Horace Mann Elementary School
Wanda Oliver, Principal

•  NAction Family Network
Kay Coulson, Director

•  Educate the Children
Frank & Faye Clarke, Directors

Rev. Dr. Jane Stormont Galloway, Pastor
H'artWorks, Inc. Founder/Executive Director

Rev. Dr. Jane Stormont Galloway has long been passionate about healing the communities around her. She is a 30year career actor, educator, and counselor with a specialty in addictions recovery and therapeutic theatre. She's a community builder/activist who focuses on social justice concerns including AIDS treatment and community support services, mental health and holistic healing for all ages and abilities.

Dr. Galloway's vision for the community of Long Beach is larger than her passion for the arts, greater than her devotion to the mentally ill and differently-abled, wider than her dedication to addictions recovery. Her vision for Long Beach is to empower it to become the model by which the rest of the country, and world, will follow: a model for peace amidst diversity. She envisions and strives to create a diverse community, embraced and celebrated for its individuality, yet united by a common goal to nurture and heal through community. In other words, “The Beloved Community.”

Long Beach is the most multi-cultural city in the most powerful country in the world and Dr. Galloway works to bridge the gap between divergent groups, empowering them to find a common ground by fostering real dialogue about diversity and healing wounds through intentional dialogue about misunderstandings resulting from the rapid demographic changes in Long Beach.

She has focused unflinchingly on encouraging open communication among the Long Beach community, and where needed, seeking out and teaching new ways of communication. By serving the children of Horace Mann Elementary School through H'art Works, Inc., Dr. Galloway has also succeeded in creating a community center focused on providing a “home away from home” where youth have access to technology, arts, job training and mentoring in a safe, supportive environment.

It is Dr. Galloway's belief that by focusing on the commonality of humanity, while honoring the individuality, Long Beach will be successful in establishing a functioning community where diversity is embraced and celebrated, and not the source of destruction.

H'artWrks
A Brief History

The foundation for H'artWorks was started several years ago when Rev. Dr. Jane Stormont Galloway, the pastor of Immanuel– A Center for Conscious Living arrived at a dying church and realized that her ministry would need to include the greater community to prosper. Today ICCLB is a thriving spiritual center passionate about providing an open and inclusive spiritual environment through service and community enrichment. H'artWorks is a means to that end.

To reach this vision, Rev. Galloway, an artist herself, and former career actress of thirty years, quickly started sowing the seeds to healing the decaying church by playing host to a series of community meetings and discussion groups all designed to forge bridges of communication and growth in a divided community.

Shortly after arriving at Immanuel, Rev. Galloway contacted Horace Mann Elementary School's new principal, Wanda Oliver, and the two began a relationship resulting in the first art and drama classes provided to the Horace Mann students and taught under the emerging model that would become H'artWorks. Today, ICCLB and H'artWorks have hosted the Mann 5th Grade Promotion/Graduation exercises for the last three years, in addition to several other programs and activities that have been provided for the children.

It soon became apparent to Rev. Galloway that discord was brewing in the neighborhood regarding underlying tensions among newly diverse residents. (Long Beach is “the most multicultural city in America” – 2001 Census) In response, Rev. Galloway enlisted the support of the National Conference for Community and Justice, and members of the Long Beach Human Relations Commission in hosting three difficult, often painful, but ultimately clarifying, relationship-building meetings with Principal Oliver, members of the Neighborhood Association and leaders and members of Rev. Galloway's congregation.

These meetings opened doors to collaboration among community members – the community has channeled energies, which were being used to divide, into creative endeavors and intentional bridge building activities.

This new model, which officially became H'artWorks in January 2004, went on to host a series of other community enriching events such as a sober rave for teens, a hip hop dance competition, holiday ornament-making event for the families of Southern California who had lost their homes in the 2002 fires, and the creation and completion of a state-of-the-art community computer lab: The Cecil L. Murray: “Field of Dreams” Community Computer Lab and Resource Center, dedicated to providing Internet and technological services to the students of Horace Mann, and the greater Long Beach community. (Named for Rev. Galloway's mentor and former pastor Cecil L. “Chip” Murray, FAME LA.)

Today, H'artWorks continues to offer classes in art and drama and is enjoying new relationships with the YMCA Outreach/CORAL department, the Long Beach Museum of Art, CalTek.Net and Educate the Children, and the Department of Mental Health, as it seeks to provide future programs such as the Third Street Project, modeled after the hugely successful Virginia Avenue Project in Santa Monica, “Authoring Our Future” – a long term mentoring program that matches storytelling with film editing and technology, and the new “Creatibility” program that works with persons that are marginalized due to recognizable disability, but who have the potential to rejoin the mainstream of society. “Creatibility” is an entrepreneurial incubator designed to tap into the latent genius of this community in a climate of community support, skill building and on-going mentoring.

H'artWorks is part of a larger vision for ICCLB to serve as a Cultural Center for the community while providing holistic healing in every room of the building. And as a non-sectarian 501(c)(3) arts and education agency grounded in and guided by creative artistic free expression, and with core values honoring freedom of expression, diversity, community empowerment and respect, H'artWorks is an organization with a mission to prove that when it comes to healing, heart works.