Block 1 is from September 4 to December 12, 2024. Presentation Week is December to December 19, 2024.

a new way to school

Our new location at 92 Race St. in Holyoke houses two live venues: a 500 person capacity performing arts center, De la Luz Soundstage, and a 150 person capacity theater, De la Luz Divine. Together the venues create the foundation for our new De la Luz Technical Arts Institute where students work together with staff to produce real public concerts and events.

De la Luz is a major performing arts center hosting internationally touring artists. 

LightHouse Holyoke and Laudable Productions have co-created De la Luz Technical Arts Institute, a dynamic live performance venue coupled with a comprehensive music business training program in the former Gateway City Arts venue in downtown Holyoke. Each event at De la Luz is produced by a small cohort of Technical Arts Institute youth: LightHouse students, alumni, and young adult interns, guided and supported by experienced staff. 

The program currently has two tracks: (1) Stagecraft: a hands-on vocational track where youth learn technical production skills such as sound engineering, lighting design, and video production; and (2) Producers: a cohort based program where youth work alongside professional event producers through the entire lifecycle of promoting a concert - from talent buying, budgeting and marketing, through execution on day of show. 

The vocational program dovetails with summer work opportunities and job placement for youth who are interested in working in the field of technical production, while the skills acquired as part of the producers program have broad applicability in just about any field (project management, collaboration, communication, marketing, audience building, and budgeting). 

De la Luz Technical Arts Institute launched in July, 2024 with an initial cohort of youth. After a couple weeks of training the crew joined the team producing Hartford Live, a weekly pop-up concert produced by GoodWorks Entertainment in downtown Hartford, CT.

In the very near future De la Luz Technical Arts Institute will expand to include additional vocational tracks open to youth throughout Western Massachusetts. First to launch will be a culinary track where youth can train in a range of kitchen and cafe management skills, earning certificates of competency leading to paid work.

Future tracks in the planning stages will include carpentry, metal work, and other arts-focused professional training.

Now accepting student and intern applications from youth aged 14-24 to participate in our Production Academy program. Three month minimum commitment: two afternoon meetings per week, plus the event itself. 

Interested?

Production Academy Inquiry

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Availability

Production Academy classes/internships meet twice per week for one hour on a Monday/Wednesday or Tuesday/Thursday schedule. Options are 1:00-2:00, 2:00-3:00, or 3:00-4:00, with additional expectations around attendance at shows. 

Commitment is per trimester, about 12 weeks in Fall, Winter, and/or Spring.


Thanks for your interest!

We will be in touch to discuss next steps. Please also feel free to call LightHouse at 413-420-8299.


When everything about school is different, you will love learning.

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413-420-8299

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