Author: EvaCrawford

The Latest at Greenway Institute for the Arts As the season of GreenwayREADS has drawn to a close, GIA still has many exciting events in store for the remainder of the school year! After School Programming All spring semester long, GIA hosts free arts-based extracurricular programming for...

📣 EXCITING CHANGES HAVE LANDED AT MTP! 📣

Melrose Trading Post has returned to our traditional market layout since March 3, 2024! We are so excited to bring back a new and improved version of our signature food court and festival-style outdoor stage on the lawn in the Fairfax High School quad, back for the first time since early 2020.

• CicLAvia Melrose 2024 •

On Sunday, February 25th, CicLAvia came to Melrose for the first time and celebrated their 50th event!

Greenway Arts Alliance worked alongside CicLAvia to bring great programming to a car-free Melrose Avenue and welcome so many new faces to the Trading Post.

GreenwayREADS 2024: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Every year, Greenway Institute for the Arts and Greenway Court Theatre engage LAUSD students in the GreenwayREADS program. Each participating class is assigned a Teaching Artist to work with the Classroom Teacher to develop the topics...

2018 - $229,106.84 Still with me? Good for you! You’ve made it this far! $221,566 funded after-school drama, dance, and film classes, and in-school arts integration, film, Shakespeare, literature, poetry, and dance classes through the Greenway Institute for the Arts.  Fairfax students graduated as artistically developed, confident...

2017 - $223,516.67 Remember Inkslam? I’ll give you a hint—we first mentioned it in 2009. Well, don’t get too attached to the name. In 2017, Greenway’s annual poetry festival expanded to provide a month-long programming and was renamed the LA Get Down Festival. Happy Birthday, Greenway! This...

2016 - $741,143.67   Greenway welcomed the new year with a new initiative called GreenwayREADS. GreenwayREADS is an ongoing collaboration between Greenway Arts Alliance’s three departments—Greenway Institute for the Arts, Greenway Court Theatre and the Melrose Trading Post—and Fairfax High School. The program involves “a community reading...

2014 - $484,154 Big year, 2015. Big year for the Melrose Trading Post, for Greenway Arts Alliance, and for Fairfax High. Firstly, a hefty $146,435 was deposited into Fairfax’s own donation account. A clerical position in the school’s office was filled and paid for with $55,340. The...