CSV is the home to over a dozen artistic, cultural and educational organizations. These are flourishing companies that are enhancing the artistic and cultural life of New York City through their diverse contributions to the public.

La Tea (Latin American Theater Experimental & Associates) Theater Company is the oldest resident theater at CSV. Founded in 1982, La Tea is committed to nurturing and promoting Latin American literature, music and visual art. La Tea seeks to maintain its cultural heritage and to strengthen and advance the understanding of the contributions made by Latinos to our society.

SEA -Society of the Educational Arts, Inc./Sociedad Educativa de las Artes, Inc. was founded in 1985 in Puerto Rico , operating in New York since 1993, SEA is a not-for-profit Hispanic/Bilingual Arts-in-Education Organization dedicated to the empowerment and educational advancement of children and young adults. SEA is New York's Only Hispanic/Bilingual Arts-in-Education Organization and is considered one of the most culturally diverse with a professional bilingual Artist/Teacher staff that represents over 15 Latin American countries and over 22 countires overall. Currently, SEA is implementing programming in over 25 school districts throughout New York City as well as throughout Puerto Rico . Currently, SEA's programming is reaching over 100,000 a year in New York and Puerto Rico .

Latino Experimental Fantastic Theater (L.E.F.T) was founded in 1994, to strengthen and develop social and cultural awareness of Latinos in New York City . L.E.F.T. addresses social and economic issues affecting the health and general well being of the Latino population of New York City , through the direct medium of theater and community related programs. L.E.F.T. produces and conducts educational programs for diverse audiences, to promote education, and to improve the quality of the life of Latinos.

HOLA, Hispanic Organization for Latin Actors is a Hispanic arts service organization committed to exploring and expanding available avenues for projecting Hispanic artists and their culture into the mainstream of the Anglo-American industry, culture, and society. Since its founding 27 years ago, HOLA's objective has been to gain an accurate, educated and non-stereotypical portrayal of Hispanic culture and its people through the arts and media. HOLA's active involvement with the industry at large enables it to create positive job opportunities for its members and to pursue increased access to such opportunities. In HOLA's quest of these pursuits, it offers a variety of services and programs designed to serve Hispanic talent and the entertainment/communications industries - networking the two for the enrichment of both.

Moxie Films, founded in 1995, is a New York City based organization, which includes the brands MoxieDocs, MoxieStage, and the New Century Writer Awards. Launched in January 2001, Founder/Director Drew R. Figueroa has raised over $500,000 in-kind support for the Moxie Films Program via sponsorships established with leading Film, Media, Industry product and service providers. The Moxie Films Program was established for the sole purpose of facilitating under-served artists. Presently, assisting but not limited to documentary filmmakers, theatre producers, screenwriters and playwrights.

Mark DeGarmo Dancers/ Dynamic Forms, Inc. was founded in New York City in 1982 by choreographer, dancer, arts educator, and artistic director Mark DeGarmo and incorporated as a not-for-profit organization in 1987. The company's mission is based on the interplay of three long-standing tenets: creation, production, performance and documentation of works by Mark DeGarmo; education of the community, especially its children, about dance and the role of the arts in society; and intercultural communication and inquiry leading to greater exchange and understanding among people from diverse cultures.

Afro Brazil Arts (ABA)/ Capoeira Angola Palmares Academy ,a non-profit organization founded in 1991, expand the circle of people who express themselves through art with capoeira instruction, performance and the production and distribution of educational material. Programs include the Capoeira Angola Palmares Academy , Capoeira Workshop and Residency Program, Afro Brazil Arts Dance Troupe, and Educational Material. Through the Capoeira Angola Palmares Academy NYC, ABA gives capoeira classes to adults and children. The academy program was initiated in 1989 and operates primarily out of our own studio at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. In more than 1,000 shows, the Afro Brazil Arts Dance Troupe has thrilled over 700,000 youth and adults with African and Brazilian rhythm and dance. For the past decade, Afro Brazil Arts has performed in theaters, universities and schools throughout the U.S.

Féraba is an African dance and percussion ensemble. The members of Féraba originally came from Austria , Japan , the USA and West Africa and brought their diverse cultural backgrounds with them to this growing eclectic company. A true melting pot in its most delightful form, Féraba's musicians play music from Guinea , Mali and Senegal on traditional instruments, such as the balafon and djembe and doun doun drums, while the dancers blend African movement and rhythms with the percussive sounds and tones of tap dance.

DIV ARTS, a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is preserving cultural heritage through youth oriented presentations, performances and lectures on jazz, classical and world music, thus promoting cultural understanding and familiarity.  Div Arts is currently programming their 2006 free youth music workshops on Wednesdays 6-8pm in the CSV Center’s Gallery.

ARTS FOR ART, Devoted to the arts as a borderless, multi-disciplinary terrain where all things are possible, Arts for Art is a non-profit organization that seeks to provide a platform where all kinds of can not only present their work but experience fruitful contact with fellow artists and their audiences in a mutually sympathetic environment. Operating outside the realm of corporate-stamped New York art and music festivals. Arts for Art has focused its efforts on a kind of annual summit meeting called the Vision Festival.

Rooted in the Lower East Side community, with its history of progressive action in the arts, the festival is global in its outreach. Nightly concert programs feature unique collaborations between jazz, contemporary and world music performers, dancers, poets and visual artists. The core component of artists are drawn from New York and chosen by a committee of musician peers, with additional performers invited from other regions. (New Orleans, San Francisco, Chicago) as well as Europe and Japan. Dance, visual art and poetry participants are invited by separate curators who are, themselves part of each field.

COBU (Japanese Taiko Drumming, Inc.) was founded in 2000 by Yako Miyamoto and Japanese Soul Company in New York. COBU is an exceptional performance project that seeks to combine the art of the Japanese TAIKO Drum and American tap dancing. The group’s name [COBU] means "Dance like Drumming, Drum like Dancing!"). The group uses CSV to rehearse on a year-long basis and conducts a weekly Taiko drumming class on Saturdays. They currently perform twice a year for three weeks in the CSV Flamboyan Theater.

SHUL of New York , The Children's School has three religious education programs for girls and boys. NEW: We have two new classes for younger children. Our Dagim class for 5- and 6-year-olds meets on 2nd and 4th Thursdays from 4-5:30 at the Sol Goldman YM-YWHA, 344 E. 14th Street; Our Keshet class for 3- and 4-year-olds meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays from 4:00-5:00 at the Sol Goldman YM-YWHA. The classes are supervised by Rabbi Burt, and taught by Marsha Leo (a retired New York City Early Childhood Educator), assisted by Joan Rothenberg (former religious school teacher at the Village Temple ), with musical instruction by Eli Seidman (the Shul of New York band).

Our ongoing class for 7-12 year-olds, taught by Rabbi Burt, meets once a week for 1 1/2 hours at the Velez Center , 4:30-6pm , 107 Suffolk Street (east of Norfolk and just north of Delancey).