Our Mission
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center serves as a bridge for dynamic storytellers to produce theatrical, musical, and dance productions that inspire dialogue, foster relationships, and drive societal transformation with our vibrant communities.
We do this through a range of culturally diverse performances, educational sessions, and enhanced accessibility options.
Our Values
Community
Our neighborhood, Queens, is New York City's most multicultural area. It's home to many immigrants, each contributing a wealth of cultural diversity from across the globe. Art, in all its forms, fosters conversations and fortifies community bonds. We're devoted to boosting voices that were typically overlooked in history. We aim to tear down the walls that hinder participation, education, and creation in theater. We're convinced that through joint creativity, we uplift our communities.
We view ourselves as a platform for civic conversations, with art as the centerpiece.
Collaboration
We strive for full and open collaboration to create the highest quality work that represents our community’s values. Collaboration is core to the art form of theatre, and is at its best when all perspectives, voices, skills, and ideas of those involved are integrated into the process and utilized. We aim to mentor open discourse and exchange while working on productions and presenting, and strive for a shared vision while celebrating the individual voice.
Inclusion
We strive to be a community of empowered individuals ready to evolve and the voice of marginalized groups in the theatre world. Our featured pieces, productions, and activities, seek to represent and celebrate the wide range of theatre makers at work in the current theatre world including BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), LGBTQI+, Neurodiverse, body diverse, disabled artists and those representing a variety of religions, beliefs and cultural backgrounds. We strive to explore and produce thought-provoking work that inspires and challenges both our audiences and our own community.
We aim to foster creative and intellectual discovery and critical thinking. We seek to discover and nurture fresh, representative voices, we aim to push boundaries, think out of ‘our’ box, stretch possibility, drive new developments.