Known as Southern California’s “School of Rock,” the Huntington Beach Academy for the Performing Arts (HB APA) Media and Entertainment Technology (MMET) Department encourages their students to write and perform original songs of their own: culminating in a performance of these songs at the annual PLAYLIST concert.

PLAYLIST is the purest distillation of our purpose and mission at APA. It is a souped-up support vehicle that transports students to creative places they could never reach on their own. It’s a big rock & roll festival show full of our students’ latest creative work in original music and film, paired with the best in contemporary music. Since PLAYLIST always seems to land on Valentine’s Day, we thought to lean into that as a theme. So bring your sweetie to see what the MMET kids have concocted in the eighth iteration of this classic concert. It will be exciting, full of discovery and hope, and probably equal measures of pleasure and pain...just like love.