City at Peace is a nationally recognized nonprofit organization that empowers teenagers
to create safe, peaceful and productive lives and communities. Using the performing arts as
a vehicle, City at Peace is developing the next generation of engaged community leaders.
City at Peace operates year long programs that bring together vastly diverse groups of youth from all over a
city. They go through an intense year long creative process through which they write an original musical
whose stories come from their lives and their ideas for a better world. They also create community change projects where they take those
ideas and act on them in their city.
City at Peace envisions a society where teenagers are valued, respected and
play a leading role in creating vibrant communities.
“City at Peace helped me mature from a teenager to a young man. It brought out the hidden talent that I had inside of me. I was shaped into a leader. I am now an individual that knows how to deal with the curves of society; the curves that oppress, depress and destroy individuals. I learned that life isn’t perfect and that there are other people in this world that need a helping hand, a pair of arms or someone to put a smile on their face. Thanks to City at Peace,I am able to be that person”
- Hector Santana, 17, City at Peace
—New York
