Boston City Lights is a free non-profit performing arts school located in the South End of Boston. Boston City Lights educates children in dance, singing, acting, music, sound production, DJing, set design, and community participation and organization. The only cost is hard work. In the disciplined training, students build character. In the process of learning to teach other children, they learn responsibility and develop a nurturing attitude. Through community performances and workshops, they learn a sense of social responsibility—for their communities, for their ability to effect change through art and through one-on-one involvement. Through professional performance and touring opportunities, they learn to overcome individual differences, to share and cooperate, to earn respect through hard work, and to never give up on themselves.