Program Spotlight: Music

Mia and Nick dance at the Valentine's Day concert

Read about our Rock Rules Valentine’s Concert! by Mia Siino & Claire Ramaley One of our most popular programs at GiGi’s Playhouse Sacramento is the Music Program- Rock Rules! Run by Alan Ray, this class welcomes musicians ages 5 and up to live out their rockstar dreams! From Mia- “I love Mr Alan, and I…

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Program Spotlight: LMNOP!

Learn more about this specialized, FREE therapeutic program that’s all about language development and fun!! Language, Movement, and our Peeps (LMNOP) is one of our most attended programs at GiGi’s Playhouse Sacramento, and we love having so many families participating!! LMNOP is an interactive and engaging program designed to guide parents and young children with…

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Best of All: Fantastic Friends Kicks off 2024!

A Vision Board Party to celebrate the New Year! By Mia and Holly Siino Every year, Fantastic Friends kicks off our programming by creating vision boards during our first session. First, each person did their brainstorming for their goals for 2024. Then we assembled our boards using magazine pictures. Finally, we shared the boards with…

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Sacramento Kings in the (Play)house!

Sacramento Kings player Domantas Sabonis poses with the GiGi's Playhouse board members.

This past December, GiGi’s Playhouse Sacramento had an extra special guest visit us at the Playhouse- Domantas Sabonis from the Sacramento Kings! The three time NBA All Star joined us for a Destination Discovery Holiday Party; we had a great time hosting him & his team! Sabonis joined in on the festivities alongside our participants…

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Happy Holidays from GiGi’s Playhouse Sacramento!

By Mia Siino & Claire Ramaley We’re having a great holiday season at GiGi’s Playhouse Sacramento! Over the last month we’ve hosted three extra fun holiday events- Photos with Santa, Rock Rules Holiday Concert, and a Destination Discovery Holiday Party with a surprise guest! Our resident rockstar/super special volunteer Mia attended all three events and…

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Golf Outing Featured Team- Fairway Friends!

This year at our 4th Annual Golf Outing we’ll have a new group teeing off thanks to longtime Playhouse supporters; the Judd Team at Your Home Sold Guaranteed Realty Legends! With their support/sponsorship we’re fielding a team we’re calling “Fairway Friends” comprised of self advocates & volunteers from our Fantastic Friends group! Our players have…

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Hey Good Lookin’ Whatcha Got Cookin’?

GiGi’s Playhouse Sacramento kicked off GiGi’s Kitchen this summer for three different age groups- kids 6-12, teens 13-17, and adults 18+! The program surpassed all of our expectations! We had a massive amount of participants completely engaged and eager to come back again! “I am so sad that GiGi’s Kitchen summer session has ended, BUT…

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You’re In for SO Much Joy! | Nic’s Story

My pregnancy with Nic was easy. I had no substantial or prolonged morning sickness like I’d had with my previous two pregnancies, no major aches, pains, swelling, or other typical discomforts that one might experience, and the entire family was happy and excited for our last little love to join us. Of course, given my…

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One month down, a lifetime to go!

I can’t believe we’ve already been open for a month, and what a month it’s been!   Grand Opening  We opened on May 16th and had between 400-500 people turn out for the festivities. We had special guests Roseville Mayor Krista Bernasconi, GiGi’s founder and Chief Belief Officer Nancy, and the inspiration for it all: THE GiGi.…

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Why GiGi’s | Lisa

Picture of a little boy with Down syndrome

We were told about halfway through the pregnancy with my first son that, due to prenatal screening results, our son had a 1 in 150 chance of having Down syndrome. We were given additional options to confirm whether or not he had Down syndrome. My husband and I decided to not proceed with additional testing…

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