Best Arts Organization Daly City Near Me

4worldlovers: 2 studios in Daly City and Millbrae serving the San Francisco Bay Area


At Happy Picasso, we aim to create awareness of and arouse interest in the arts among children of all ages, and to develop a solid foundation of creativity and arts appreciation.

4worldlovers:
Performing Arts Workshop is a Bay Area, BIPOC-led nonprofit organization established in 1965 to equalize access to arts and arts education and help young people develop critical thinking, creative expression, Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL), and essential life skills.

Today, the Workshop brings sequential arts instruction grounded in inquiry and reflection to more than 4,200 students ages 3-18 each year. Our artists conduct 11-60 session residencies in world dance, music, spoken word poetry, and theater arts. To advance equity in education, we prioritize working with communities with fewer arts education resources available to them.

The Workshop’s success in youth development-based arts education has been recognized by UNESCO, the U.S. Department of Education, and the National Endowment for the Arts and has been featured in Youth Today magazine and IssueLab, an online journal for research on promising social practices. Performing Arts Workshop has been honored four times by the California State Senate and Assembly and twice by the City of San Francisco for its work with youth.

One day in the mid-1950s, as a young dance teacher was teaching one of her classes of young girls in her Telegraph Hill Studio, a group of teens who hung out at the adjacent pool hall approached her. They asked the teacher, Gloria Unti, if she would teach them karate, so they could hone their fighting skills. She told them she didn’t know karate, and offered them yoga instead. They didn’t know what yoga was. After several fits and starts, some weeks later the boys returned, their curiosity persisting. Gloria admitted she wasn’t sure what to do with them. But one day, she tried something different. She put on some kabuki music, instructing the boys to make up a movement of any sport, she would step out and return to guess it. She figured they’d probably take off. What happened instead shifted her entire perception and changed her life’s course:

“They brought me back in the room, and they had the most incredible sequence. Not only was it creative, non-stereotypic, not just dribbling a ball… you know, it was really unbelievable, it had a beginning, a middle, and an end. I was shocked.”

Today, pivotal moments like the one that started it all are happening with our teaching artists in every classroom, every day. Our teaching artists keep alive Gloria’s vision of the students in Workshop classes “not only as technicians, but as creative people who have the beauty and the ability to express themselves poetically.”

4worldlovers: Manuia Polynesian Revue is a Bay Area dance company that's been performing music and dances from Hawaii, Tahiti, Tonga, New Zealand, Samoa and other South Pacific Islands for over 20 years. We teach dance classes for all ages in Daly City and also offer live Polynesian entertainment for all types of special events from luau parties to half-time shows.

Enhance the ambience of your luau event with award-winning musicians and dance performers. Whether it's a wedding or a corporate party, our entertainers will transport you on an unforgettable trip through the Polynesian islands.


Learn traditional Tahitian ori, hulas and dance routines from other Polynesian islands. Taught by our most experienced professional dancers, our classes are open to all ages (4+), all dance levels and all genders.