The Woodruff Arts Center is a campus in Midtown Atlanta that is home to the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the High Museum of Art. It offers plays, concerts, and art exhibits. It also runs arts classes, camps, school programs, and a free play space for children from birth to age five.
Atlanta Music Project helps children and teens learn instruments, sing in choirs, and perform in concerts, with a focus on communities with fewer resources. It covers music tuition and provides instruments for many programs, though registration or after-school fees may apply. Students and alumni can also get college and career guidance and help paying for college.
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra plays classical and special concerts at Atlanta Symphony Hall in Midtown. It also runs programs for young people, such as a training program for student musicians, family concerts and online music lessons. Georgia college students can get a discounted concert pass.
The Atlanta Opera is an opera company founded in 1979. It puts on full operas each season at theaters around Atlanta, and it also makes opera films, runs a new-works festival, and offers education programs.
Eyedrum is a community space in Atlanta for art, music, film and writing. It puts on live music nights, weekly drawing nights, and figure drawing sessions in its gallery. Many shows are open to all ages.
Free Monthly Art Show (The August show is Saturday, August 29, 2026, 7:00PM to 11:30PM)
Atlanta Loves Art puts on a free art show each month on the Atlanta BeltLine. Visitors can see art by about 100 local artists, hear a live band and a DJ, and enjoy food. The program is run by a nonprofit called Courage2Cre8, Inc.
The Fox Theatre is a historic theatre in Midtown Atlanta. It hosts Broadway shows, concerts, comedy, dance, film nights and guided tours. Through Fox Gives it also runs free school programs, a high school arts careers program, scholarships and grants for historic theatres.
The Joseph B. Whitehead Boys & Girls Club is an after-school and summer club for kids and teens at 1900 Lakewood Ave. It gives young people a safe place with a free after-school snack. Members can also join programs like music, sports, leadership clubs, a garden club, and college planning. The club is part of Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta.
3 FM is a nonprofit community radio station in Atlanta that has been on the air since 1973. It plays progressive news and public affairs shows and many kinds of music, and it streams online all day and night. The station also hosts community events and takes volunteers.
Atlanta Pride is a nonprofit that serves the LGBTQ+ community in metro Atlanta and across the South. Each October it holds a free Pride festival and parade in Piedmont Park. It also runs year-round events, supports local Pride causes with grants, and takes volunteers.
This is the John H.S. (The Innovation & Expression Studio). It is part of Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta. Kids and teens come after school to take part in arts-focused activities: performing arts, culinary arts, visual arts, and music and production.
The High Museum of Art is an art museum on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta. It shows historical and contemporary art and traveling exhibitions. It also runs monthly free and low-cost programs, classes, camps, tours, and events for kids, teens, adults, and seniors.
This is the Center for a New Generation club at the Tuskegee Airmen Global Academy, part of Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta. Kids and teens come after school for activities like homework help, reading, STEM, music, art, chess, and cooking and gardening. The club also has a summer camp, and families who cannot pay can ask about help with fees.
The Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs is the City of Atlanta's arts office. It gives grants to arts groups and artists, runs Chastain Arts Center with art classes, and cares for the city's public art. It also puts on the free Atlanta Jazz Festival and offers Atlanta Public Schools students cultural trips at no cost to the student.
The Salvation Army Kroc Center is a big community center in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Atlanta. It has after-school programs, sports, arts, a fitness center with a walking track, classes, and Sunday worship. People can join as members, take classes open to everyone, rent rooms, or volunteer.
The Atlanta Botanical Garden is a large garden in Atlanta where people can walk through plant collections, art and seasonal shows. It also offers classes, kids programs, camps, school tours and volunteer jobs. Its scientists work to protect rare and endangered plants.
King Plow Arts Center is an arts community in historic buildings on West Marietta Street in Atlanta. It has studio and gallery spaces to lease, and people can ask about weddings, private parties, corporate events, and live performances. Visits are by appointment only.
Live Music (Saturday mornings during market season)
Peachtree Road Farmers Market is an outdoor market held on Saturday mornings at The Cathedral of St. Philip in Buckhead. Everything sold there is grown, raised, or made by the seller. The market takes EBT/SNAP and doubles those dollars, up to $50 a visit, and it buys unsold crops from farmers to give to the Intown Cares food pantry.
Central Presbyterian is a church across the street from the Georgia State Capitol in downtown Atlanta.m. every Sunday. The church also supports the Bashor Men's Homeless Shelter, a winter night shelter for men that runs November 1 through March 31.
First Baptist Church Decatur is a church in Decatur. Its Assistance Ministry helps local people who need things like clothing, MARTA cards, gift cards, utility help, housing referrals and job search help, when these are available. Volunteers meet people on Monday mornings by appointment.
