Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus (THEARC)

The Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus (THEARC) is a $27 million, 110,000 square-foot campus located east of the Anacostia River in Washington, DC’s Ward 8. THEARC was built and is operated by Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR), a nonprofit 501-c-3 organization.

THEARC brings together an array of comprehensive programs and services from eleven partner agencies:

Building Bridges Across The River (BBAR)
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington FBR Branch
Children's Health Project of DC
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Corcoran ArtReach
Covenant House of Washington
Levine School of Music
LIFT-DC
Parklands Community Center
Trinity Washington University
The Washington Ballet
The Washington Middle School for Girls

In addition to THEARC Theater, a 365-seat community theater that is the only theater of any kind located east of the Anacostia River in Washington, DC, THEARC includes a regulation size gym, libraries, computer labs, classrooms, dance, music and visual arts studios, an art gallery, public playgrounds, gardens and other first-rate facilities.