COMPAS

The soul of any community is revealed by its commitment to the arts. Over the last decade the SDBA has spearheaded a range of community development efforts that have expanded its scope into the arts.

The COMPAS program began in the winter of 2007 as a collaboration between performing artists in the community, and the SDBA.  This group of highly talented and motivated people worked to define the creative needs, & programming of the organization, as the SDBA worked to create a solid business model and secure funding.  The unlikely duo created COMPAS, The Center for Music and Performing Arts- Southwest, serving more than 400 students a season.

Specifically, the SDBA has provided youth-based arts and recreational opportunities through the incubation of a performance arts center. Programming takes place in a professional quality studio and practice performance areas in the restored Odd Fellows Building. The COMPAS initiative offers 60% Latino programming.  As a project of the SDBA, COMPAS is committed to the mission of enriching the community through the arts and is supported in part by the McGregor Fund and Skillman Foundation.

WDET Featured COMPAS in a broadcst on February 12, 2009.  Click here to listen and learn more about COMPAS!