CPP's after-school program provides dance, theater, and music classes that reflect the multicultural nature of the Cambridge community. Students come from every race, ethnicity, economic background, neighborhood, and school in Cambridge: CPP has never turned a child away because of lack of funds. Teachers are professionals in their fields, class size is small, and instructors return year after year as important adult mentors. Semester-long courses in everything from hip hop to Scottish step dance, storytelling to mime, set design to video, include field trips, visits by guest artists (musicians, choreographers, stage combat teachers) and performance opportunities at the end of the term. Begun in 1985 to enrich the cultural life of the people of Cambridge, CPP's collaborations with the city's Department of Social Services and Community Schools program mean that classes are held in school buildings and are easily accessible to all. More than 300 children a year in over 30 classes in 10 schools get safe, active choices after school--and an introduction to the lifelong joys of the arts. Won't you support this winning combination?