OUR PROGRAMS
VIDA (the Spanish word for “life”) is an acronym for Vision, Immersion, Diversity, and the Arts. VIDA is an extracurricular Spanish-immersion cultural program for youth ages 8 to 18.
Our programs are designed to foster a passion for language learning and an appreciation for the diversity in the Spanish-speaking world. VIDA offers an immersive Spanish-language cultural experience in art, cooking, dance, literature, and music through engaging activities that make learning an adventure. Through these activities, our participants improve Spanish-language proficiency, gain public speaking, social, academic and creative skills.
For more information, please explore our program offerings.
Mixed-Level Spanish-Language
Cultural Immersion Program
2025 Summer
(Coming Soon)
This program stretches participants' cultural knowledge, vocabulary, and grammar through social interaction and engaging activities in the arts.
Beginner Spanish-Language
Cultural Immersion Program
This program - designed for youth (ages 8-18) with little to no prior Spanish-language exposure - familiarizes participants with the alphabet, numbers, and vocabulary relating to key life skills through social interaction and engaging activities in the arts.
Classes meet once a week for two hours.
Intermediate/Advanced
Spanish-Language
Cultural Immersion Program
Are your child's Spanish-language skills stagnant? Are their English-language skills outpacing their Spanish-language skills? This program - designed for youth (ages 8-18) with significant prior Spanish-language exposure - stretches participants' cultural knowledge, vocabulary, and grammar through social interaction and engaging activities in the arts.
Classes meet once a week for two hours.
"Cultural Explorer" Club
The "Cultural Explorer" Club offers a great opportunity for participants to gain exposure to both the Spanish-language and diversity of Latin American and Latino cultures by exploring Long Island and New York City through group excursions to museums, parks, restaurants, theaters, and other businesses.
Parent Workshop Series
(Coming Soon!)
Is it challenging to inspire your children to speak Spanish? Do they tend to answer you in English? Does your family need ideas to break through to an even richer bilingual life? Our parent workshop series is designed to spark conversations among participants about the adventures and challenges of exposing our children to language and culture, inviting our children to embrace multilingualism, raising multilingual children, and deve ourselves as life-long language learners.