Enrichment Through Arts (ETA) is an educational and community outreach program offered to selected students in the South Bay Union School District. Its mission is to provide these young minds an opportunity to experience inventive, hands on experience in modern music, film, and theater production techniques and to encourage a lifelong appreciation of the arts. click here to meet our staff!

Enrichment Through Arts

Music Program

The Music program allows students to encounter music through elementary music theory and history, as well as vocal performance and hands on experimentation with MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) synthesizers.

Theater Program

The Theater Program allows students to experience beginning productions for stage, including script reading, stage direction, pantomime, costuming, makeup, and light and set design.

Film Program

The Film program allows students to experience film production through cinematography, Foley, green screen technology, movie editing, and post production, including ADR (Automated Dialog Replacement).

Program Director

Robert Giracello, PhD is an award winning composer, conductor, and educator who lives and works in Southern California.

John Paul the Great University

Enrichment Through Arts instructors are current and former students of John Paul the Great University, a private media college in Escondido, California.

Visual Art Program

The Visual Art program allows students to learn concepts such as perspective, cartooning, color theory, shading, and portait/caricature art.