Join us for an unforgettable summer where rhythm meets the stage. Our Hip Hop Theater Summer Camp is designed to empower young artists through movement, storytelling, and community. Students will build skills in dance, hiphop, theater, and visual art while creating an original performance through collaborative storytelling and movement. This is your chance to learn from the best in the industry at half the price.
 
The People's Conservatory fosters high-level arts creation, study, and performance in service of cultural awareness and positive social change.  As artist educators, we help young artists reveal themselves through experiences that support growth, curiosity, and creative expansion.  Our curriculum centers students' inherent artistic voices and nurtures the next generation of culture keepers.
 
June 15-26, 2026
 
Schedule & Daily Rythm
Monday - Friday 9am-3pm  
9:00 - 9:30 • Morning Meeting: Community connection & daily goals
9:30 - 10:15 • Session 1: Creative Cohort 1 Rotation
10:15 - 10:30 • Snack Break
10:30 - 11:15 • Session 2: Creative Cohort 2 Rotation
11:20 - 12:05 • Session 3: Creative Cohort 3 Rotation
12:10 - 12:55 • Lunch & Outside Play
1:00 - 3:00 • The Lab: Scene work, staging, & production
 
Ages
2nd - 7th Grade
 
Location
New Roads School
3131 Olympic Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Available to students across LA County
 
Tuition
$840
Deposit $100, balance due by May 15th, 2026
*For scholarships and more information, please email rozz@thepeoplesconservatory.org
 
About the Teachers
Tavia Percia is an East Oakland–born theatre artist, educator, and arts activist dedicated to using performance as a tool for healing and social change. A graduate of Oakland School for the Arts, she continued her training at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City, where she also worked and taught in professional theatre spaces.
 
After returning to the Bay Area, Tavia became a company member with the African American Shakespeare Company and founded The Blackberry Collective, a youth theatre initiative focused on empowering inner-city youth to tell their stories and explore their creativity. She has also led theatre programs for incarcerated youth and taught in Oakland public schools, including at Elmhurst United Middle School.
 
Now serving as Co-Chair of the Theatre Department at Oakland School for the Arts, Tavia creates transformative, student-driven work, including projects like “Every 28 Hours,” which amplifies student voices and explores issues of race, identity, and justice. Her artistry lives at the intersection of education, activism, and community storytelling.
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Rozz Nash founded The People's Conservatory--a multidisciplinary arts organization that serves over 5000 students in dozens of schools in the Bay Area in 2017. She is a musician, a vocalist/composer, a choreographer, a theater director, and has been a teaching artist in New York City and the SF/Bay Area and Los Angeles County public and private schools for over 35 years. She served as the Founding Director of Performing and Visual Arts at Roses in Concrete Community School for four years. Previously she was the Artistic Director and creator of the Brooklyn based Caras Youth Contemporary Dance Ensemble--a youth centered social justice and contemporary dance company, the Brooklyn Performing Arts Institute--a year round arts academy for youth ages 13-21, and Co-founder of WERISE--a women’s artist collective that supported entrepreneurship and arts-based business start-ups. She has directed and choreographed musicals and dance performances for Columbia University's Varsity Show, Marymount High School Theatre and Summer drama camp, El Puente Leadership Program, Way Off Broadway Acting School, and The Possibility Project--a national youth development organization. Rozz has facilitated music, theatre and dance residencies for arts organizations such as Creative Music Programs and Learning through an Expanded Arts Program in over 50 schools in NYC for over 25 years. She is also an owner and director of Creative Arts and Music Programs, one of Brooklyn's first multidisciplinary arts camps currently in its 18th year stint. The summer of 2024 Rozz created a summer dance program for the New Roads middle school students and is thrilled to offer an expanded arts program this summer to the elementary and middle school.
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Safahri Ra Hendrix is a hip hop educator, emcee, after school program director, Katrina survivor, and full time Arts Academy Instructor, who over the past 25 years has built an arts education career by teaching, facilitating workshops with teachers, consulting with schools, innovating after school programs, supporting principals, creating summer camps, performing & touring internationally in schools, coaching young artists, and eventually starting his own Hip Hop company which seemed like the natural next step. Several years ago Safahri launched his life love and dream company Pangea to partner with TPC back at his home base in the Bay Area and is excited to bring this work to West LA!
 
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