Victor Valley Arts and Education Center

Embrace the dream.  Share our vision.  See the stars. 

Victor Valley Arts and Education Center (VVAEC) was formed in 2013 as a California Public Service Nonprofit Corporation. We are a tax-exempt 501c (3) public service nonprofit corporation.

Our MISSION is to enrich the lives of the Victor Valley community by advancing access to the performing arts and educational opportunities that advance the arts and literacy.

THE FIRST HIGH DESERT BOOK FESTIVAL 

October 1, 2016     in Victorville, California

On October 1, 2016 we produced the first High Desert Book 

Festival as part of the 

Sixteenth Annual Victorville Fall Festival on Civic Drive. This popular high desert festival attracts over 15,000 people a year. The City of Victorville embraced our idea by providing a dedicated space. Our book festival was a resounding success devoted to authors and those who love the 

written word. Hundreds of visitors made their way through our book festival area supporting our writers. In addition to our local High Desert talent, we had authors come from Arizona, Los Angeles and Northern California. Barnes & Nobles was our anchor exhibitor, with a 20x20 pop-up bookstore where they hosted a tent full of their signature authors. This area led into a Children’s Tent with all-day story time.

         Planning was underway for several months for our second annual festival on October 7, 2017. Our volunteer team and registration did not come together as we had hoped and, unfortunately, we had to cancel the second book festival. But we feel certain we will host one in 2018 and that the spirit of what we started continues as other organizations also 

embrace the concept of bringing together writers and book lovers.

        Yet we support and enjoy all the major book festivals in Southern California.  WON'T YOU HELP US GET HERE!!! We are planning to attend the L.A. Times Festival of Books on April 21-22, 2018 at USC in Los Angeles. We've invited many local High Desert authors to share our booth. This is, without a doubt, the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country with approximately 125,000 people in attendance over the weekend. It was this festival that was the roadmap for our High Desert Book Festival! 

EACH One/ TEACH One ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM             

      As a proponent for education, as well as the arts, we wanted to do more to impact our community and provide learning opportunities for our residents. So, in 2015, we formed EACH ONE/Teach One Adult Literacy Program. This is a free adult literacy program that we conducted at first at the Victorville City 

Library, offering free literacy tutoring to adults who wish to improve their reading skills or learn how to read. It is rewarding beyond measure. We now conduct the program at various locations, depending on the schedule of our tutors and the students. We welcome new tutors and students.

“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.”
― K. Annan, former Secretary General of the U.N. 

EMERGING PLAYWRIGHTS PROGRAM: 

                                                                       WORDSMITH PRODUCTIONS

This is a new undertaking for us that we are still developing. But we see this as a true cornerstone of the future of our nonprofit's efforts.

      Our goal is to help new playwrights realize a first staging of their plays, but also to help them with the licensing process. That involves handling the licensing for theaters interested in producing the play, the royalty payments to the author and distribution of the script to the theater. Most big 

licensing operations have a pretty high bar for new playwrights to qualify for their services. We want to change that and help up and coming playwrights. And the profits from that enterprise will help fund our Emerging Playwrights Program and other of our nonprofit’s projects.  This will be a competitive process and we will accept scripts from high school students through senior citizens. Please follow our website as we continue to develop this.

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• because... VVAEC believes that for a community to become well-rounded that access to the arts is critical. With an immersion in the arts, comes social progress and intellectual discourse.  And literacy... well, it opens new worlds.
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