Blue Bear School of Music is San Francisco’s preeminent school of rock, blues, jazz, folk, and pop music. A vibrant community that offers a place for making, learning, and sharing music, Blue Bear is a home for aspiring musicians of all ages and skill levels, and a place where each student’s unique talents and goals are recognized and supported. Stephanie Lamond is the Little Bears director & marketing manager.

The mission of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation is to bring the creative, multicultural spirit of Keats into children’s lives and literature with programs that support arts and literacy in public schools and libraries.

Fratello Marionettes, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, has been entertaining audiences around the world through the art of marionettes since 1989. The company continues the tradition of classic marionette performances. All of the puppets you see in their repertoire are conceptualized and built by the puppeteers themselves, with painstaking attention to detail.

2020 marks the 150th anniversary of Golden Gate Park, a historic place that has never been more beautiful or beloved. With a focus on free events and activities, the Golden Gate Park sesquicentennial will celebrate the open, democratic nature of parks. The yearlong celebration is organized by the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department and the San Francisco Parks Alliance.

C.K. Itamura is the creative director of Phineas & Company, founder of the Book Arts Roadshow Project, and an artist member of The Center for Book Arts.

San Francisco SPCA's Puppy Dog Tales (PDT) Reading Program promotes literacy in at-risk youth populations and works closely with school and library staff to foster a love of reading in children. Reading to an adult might seem overwhelming, so participants in this program read to therapy dogs. This helps make reading a sustained, individual activity that children eagerly anticipate.