The Bay Area Girls Rock Camp (BAGRC) is a nonprofit organization which aims to empower girls through music education, promoting an environment that fosters self-confidence, creativity and teamwork. The BAGRC strives to challenge gender stereotypes, encourage collaboration and tolerance among peers, and provide a comfortable space for people of all backgrounds to express themselves. Through music lessons, workshops, group activities and performance, girls acquire skills that will help guide them throughout their lives.

Bay Area Girls Rock Camp and Girls Rock After School Program are music programs for girls ages 8 to 18 years old in Oakland, CA. We are a unique, nonprofit organization, with an enthusiastic staff who believe in the importance of fostering creativity, confidence and community for girls. Our programs include instrument lessons, band practice, workshops and performances. Financial aid is readily available for all of our youth programs.

Founded in 2007, BAGRC's inaugural Summer Camp crashed through Oakland in July 2008 at the Julia Morgan School for Girls with 65 girls, 40 volunteers, and a sold-out showcase. In 2009, Summer Camp doubled in size to two sessions serving 130 girls with 70 volunteers. Two new programs also debuted in 2009 - Girls Rock After School Program (GRASP) serving 25 girls, and Ladies Rock Camp (LRC) which doubles as a fundraiser for girls programs, both held at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts in downtown. In 2010, all of BAGRC's programs are going strong and hosted by Oakland School for the Arts.

Founding organizers of BAGRC volunteered for multiple sessions at the Rock 'n' Roll Camp For Girls in Portland, Oregon, before taking the inpiration one step further to start a girls' music and empowerment program in the Bay Area. In 2007, the Portland and Bay Area camps, along with camps all over the world, formed the Girls Rock Camp Alliance, an international coalition of 20 rock camps with a common mission of empowering girls through music education. Now going into its 4th year, the GRCA has a growing membership of 20+ camps, with representation in cities all over the US, as well as in Sweden, Brazil, Germany and the UK.