In every community where we work, we lead a seven-month-long project that includes three parts:

Cultural Leadership Workshop - a leadership-development program for youth using artistic tools in addition to developing professional skills in the various fields of production.

Each group is facilitated by a local peer-mentor and two or three volunteers who are involved in their communities and plan to keep serving their communities.

The participants of these workshops is made up of about 30 youth come from varying ethnic, religious, and socio-economic backgrounds, reflects the local community and  creates cross cultural relationships between the youth.

The workshops create young cultural leadership, social and cultural empowerment and community involvement.

The participants learn, using tools developed by the organization, to get to know their city and neighborhood better and the potential of culture creation exists in their community. As the program continues, the teens receive tools in the fields of leadership, in addition to professional production skills such as event managing, marketing and advertising, communication and P.R, time management, local fund raising (money`s worth only) art and set design and much more.

Hometown Battle of the Bands Event Lead and produced by the youth group, this event brings together 10-13 local bands / artists. The youth from the local cultural leadership group are incharge of all the production stages from finding the local artists to marketing and P.R.

The "Festival Beshekel" event is the final step in the project.

The teens are taking an active part of the profetional production team and work with the organization through out the year to ensure that each "Festival Beshekel" event will reflect the community in which it is held and appeal to all of its members.

After the summer festival, our production and volunteers coordinator continues mentoring these groups and their peer-mentors in order to ensure a substantial continuation for the group and its cultural role within the community. So far, about sixty percent of our workshop graduates have stayed involved culturally and socially in their communities, and we aim to expand this number.