Grants for the Arts

Annual Report 2019 / 2020 Contents Grants for the Arts: A Continuing Legacy of Support 3 for Arts and Culture Grants for the Arts FY 2019-2020 Budget 5 Grants for the Arts Programs 6 Annual Grants to San Francisco Arts Organizations 7 Parades and Festivals 43 Cultural Centers 46 Re-Granting Programs 47 Grantee Services 48 Arts and Tourism and Other Programs 49

Grants for the Arts 401 , Suite 321 San Francisco, CA 94102 T: 415.554.6710 F: 415.554.6711 www.sfgfta.org

GFTA Staff Matthew Goudeau, Director Jason Blackwell, Associate Director Khan Wong, Senior Program Manager Ecaterina Burton, Senior Finance, Data & Operations Analyst Valerie Tookes, Adjunct Senior Operations & Finance Manager Kara Owens, Program Coordinator

Annual Report: San Francisco Study Center Edits: Mike Ortiz, Repromail

© 2019-2020, Grants for the Arts

Cover images: Illuminate the Arts’ Pink Triangle at sunset. PHOTO: Matt Biddulph • Visitors view Ficre Ghebreyesus’ Zemesh Behr’s Magic Garden as part of the Ficre Ghebreyesus: City with a River Running Through exhibition at theMuseum of the African Diaspora. PHOTO: Kelly Stuckley, Jr. • Urban Jazz Dance Company dancers from left to right: Antoine Hunter, Zahna Simon, and Leah Maim Mendelson. PHOTO: RJ Muna • All Nations Drums sing an Honor Song in recognition of Opening Night at the 44th Annual American Indian Film Festival at Brava Theatre. presented by theAmerican Indian Film Institute. PHOTO: BKS Photography • Eye Zen Presents OUT of Site: SOMA with actors, from left to right, Ryan Hayes, Brian Freeman, Marga Gomez, and Landa Lakes. PHOTO: Robbie Sweeny • Aztec dancer in ceremony at Marigold Project’s El Día de los Muertos. PHOTO: Lila Maes-Shah

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As City Administrator, it is my great privilege to direct the Grants for the Arts program.

Over the last 18 months there has been considerable change at Grants for the Arts. On November 6, 2018, Proposition E passed to restore the historic Hotel Tax allocation for arts and cultural programming. As Hotel Tax revenue grows, so does city funding for the arts. Should hotel revenues decrease, as is the current case, the allocation falls no more than 10% in any given year.

In February 2019, we welcomed a new director of Grants for the Arts and established a new GFTA Advisory Panel that meets regularly and open to the public. The panel also created revised funding criteria for arts organizations looking at ways the city can more intentionally and methodically utilize a scorecard to guide our grantmaking in terms of racial equity and uplifting artists, disciplines and traditions that have been underrepresented.

It is with this intentionality in mind that we tackle the current and unforeseen challenges presented by COVID-19 to keep our arts and culture sector vibrant. In June, GFTA and the San Francisco Arts Commission announced $2.5 million in grants to support working artists and cultural organizations financially impacted by COVID-19, essential operational grant funding which will positively impact the sector’s economic recovery.

While this emergency has disrupted and paused many live performances, Grants for the Arts remains a vital lifeline to preserve and sustain the artists and organizations that make our City truly one of a kind during this extraordinarily challenging time.

Thank you to the Grants for the Arts staff and Advisory Panel for their many efforts in support of the agency’s grantmaking strategies. I invite you to join us in this critical work to improve our pursuit of these principles in our grantmaking.

In closing, if you are an arts organization in San Francisco, Grants for the Arts is here for you.

Sincerely, Naomi M. Kelly City Administrator

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Like so many of our grantees, at Grants for the Arts the COVID-19 crisis has disrupted the way in which we work and significantly impacted our budget.

In spite of the challenges, we remain committed to our mission to promote the city by supporting the arts. This mission reflects our desire to support the broadest array of arts organizations of all disciplines, cultures, and budget sizes in all of the city’s districts. Our mission also respects our agency’s funding source, the Hotel Tax, by helping to support an arts ecosystem that attracts conventions and visitors.

When making investments in the arts community, we aim to work hard and live up to our agency’s values of accountability, equity, transparency, and vibrancy. We hope that you feel that these values are reflected in our Fiscal Year 2020 grantmaking presented in this Annual Report.

We strive for ongoing, active engagement with the community with the goal of being responsive not just to the needs of our grantees, but also to the visitors and residents who are experiencing the public programs supported by Grants for the Arts.

We recognize that we still have lots of room for improvement. Please let us know if you have ideas for how we might elevate the voices of organizations not always heard in our grantmaking strategies. With your support, Grants for the Arts will continue to be an arts and culture-funding trailblazer for many more years to come.

Best regards, L. Matthew Goudeau Director, Grants for the Arts

Grants for the Arts 2019 / 2020 Annual Report 4 FY 2019-2020 Budget

Special Projects and General Fund, Unexpected Needs, $517,798.00, 3% $843,400.00, 5% Re-Granting, Carry Forward, $270,000.00, 2% $2,512,144.00, 14% Grantee Services, Administrative $943,688.00, 5% Overhead, $1,065,967.00, 6%

Revenue

Expenses

Support for City’s Hotel Tax, General Operating Support, Cultural Agencies, $14,670,000.00, 83% $13,023,370.00, 76% $1,014,665.00, 6%

Grants for the Arts’ revenue sources for FY 2019-2020 included the San Francisco Hotel Tax, the City’s General Fund, and a Carry Forward of unspent funds from previous fiscal years. Expenses for FY 2019-2020 included line items to support the City’s Cultural Agencies, (which consisted of interdepartmental work orders to the San Francisco Film Commission, Rec & Park for support of the Park Band, San Francisco Arts Commission for support of all of the City’s Cultural Centers and the SFAC Galleries), Special Projects and Unexpected Needs (SPUN) grants and Grantee Services (which include support for the Arts and Tourism position at SF Travel, San Francisco Arts Monthly, Community Vision, Northern Grantmakers, and Intersection for the Arts to underwrite GFTA related labs and workshops).

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About Grants for the Arts

At Grants for the Arts (GFTA), our mission is to promote the City by supporting the arts.

GFTA, a division of the City and County of San Francisco’s City Administrator’s Office, strives to be a stable, dependable resource for nonprofit arts and cultural organizations who successfully meet funding criteria, and is committed to supporting the full spectrum of art and culture in San Francisco.

Established through a combination of City and State legislation, GFTA has evolved into an international model of arts funding with annual revenue derived from the Hotel Tax. Since its inception in 1961, GFTA has distributed nearly $400 million to hundreds of nonprofit arts and culture organizations in San Francisco. This investment helps to make our City a great place to live, work, and visit.

GFTA’s mission is fulfilled through six grant programs:

General Operating Support—Arts: offers unrestricted, General Operating Support grants to arts and cultural nonprofits that are physically based in San Francisco and have as their primary purpose the public performance or display of art in San Francisco. (see pages 7-42)

General Operating Support—Parades and Festivals: offers unrestricted, General Operating Support grants to arts and cultural nonprofits that are physically based in San Francisco and have as their primary purpose the presentation of parades or festivals in San Francisco public spaces. (see pages 43-46)

Grantee Services: supports the internal capacity of current and prospective GFTA grantees, enhancing their abilities to fulfill missions and to create and present art-related programming. (see page 48)

Re-Granting: extends the reach of GFTA’s grantmaking through grants to organizations that make grants in turn to a wide variety of artists and smaller arts organizations. (see page 47)

Special Projects and Unexpected Needs (SPUN): helps organizations manage an unforeseen emergency or take advantage of an unanticipated opportunity that will enhance its work. Through budget enhancements or amendments made by the Mayor and Board of Supervisors, GFTA may be allocated one-time resources to make grants in special program areas or for special projects. (see page 50)

Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund (VACF): supports San Francisco nonprofit arts organizations for facilities maintenance, capital improvements, and equipment acquisition. VACF was established by the Board of Supervisors in 1984, allowing San Francisco property tax payers to add a contribution to their tax bill to benefit the arts. No grants were awarded for this program in Fiscal Year 2020. (see page 49)

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Clockwise from top: PUSH Dance Company artists, from left, Ashley Gayle, Kao Vey Saephanh, Elizabeth Sheets and Katerina Wong. Photo: Matt Haber • Antoine Hunter, Rashad Pridgen, Travis Rowland and Matthew Wickett in Zaccho Dance Theatre’s “Dying While Black and Brown.” Photo: Kegan Marling • Performances by Gamelan Sekar Jaya, left, and Tiruchitrambalam at San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival/World Arts West, 2016. Photos: RJ Muna

$2,383,130 Dance

ABADA Capoeira San Francisco is Caminos Flamencos is dedicated to Chinese Cultural Productions dedicated to teaching, promoting and producing Flamenco programs with features the Lily Cai Chinese Dance preserving the Brazilian dance form a fresh, contemporary approach, Company, which presents classical, capoeira. reflecting the contemporary Flamenco folk and modern dances based on the $45,200 Nuevo movement. traditions of China’s various ethnic 3221 22nd Street $25,000 groups. San Francisco, CA 94110 26 Seventh Street, 5th Floor $32,000 415.206.0650 San Francisco, CA 94103 Center, www.abada.org 510.531.9986 Landmark Bldg. C-353 www.caminosflamencos.com San Francisco, CA 94123 Alonzo LINES Ballet develops 415.474.4829 new work blending classical ballet, Capacitor dance company’s work is www.lilycaidance.org ethnic and modern dance; the group inspired by technology and science, tours regionally, nationally and incorporating multimedia, martial arts Circo Zero, founded in 2001 by internationally. and acrobatics. Keith Hennessy, makes live $156,520 $21,650 performances sparked by current and 26 Seventh Street, 5th Floor 645 Haight Street, #11 historic social realities, particularly San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94117 around queer identity, with 415.863.3040 415.308.1952 interdisciplinary and experimental www.linesballet.org www.capacitor.org work rooted in contemporary dance and performance, and drawn from Amy Seiwert’s Imagery is a Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance circus, theater, music, visual and contemporary ballet company tours nationally and internationally, conceptual art. founded by choreographer Amy presents new and traditional works $18,440 Seiwert in 2004 to express her belief as well as international festivals, and 2842 that the language of classical ballet has runs the Chhandam School, the largest San Francisco, CA 94110 relevance for the current time. kathak institution in North America, 415.842.2273 $36,940 with sister schools in Boston, Toronto, www.circozero.org 613 Peralta Avenue Mumbai and Kolkata. San Francisco, CA 94110 $58,290 415.305.8900 2325 Third Street, Suite 320 www.asimagery.com San Francisco, CA 94107 415.333.9000 Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers, a www.kathak.org woman-centered dance ensemble, is dedicated to fostering cross-cultural collaboration that examines difficult contemporary issues. $37,130 3574 22nd Street San Francisco, CA 94114 415.602.3777 www.abdproductions.org

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Dance Brigade, a contemporary Dancers’ Group presents local Embodiment Project creates and dance theater company, also produces dancers’ work in admission-free stages multimedia dance theater and presents a variety of programs at public performances; serves as a fiscal concerts comprised of hip hop and Dance Mission Theater, a venue in the sponsor for local artists; publishes other dance forms. The company’s Mission District. a monthly newspaper; administers original works combine movement, $66,060 re-granting programs; and supports live music, theater and spoken word 3316 24th Street the exchange of information about that “serve as unifying vehicles San Francisco, CA 94110 performances, arts spaces and artistic for social change and promote 415.826.4401 opportunities via online and email appreciation and understanding of www.dancebrigade.org platforms. urban social dance forms.” $64,140 $19,210 Dance Film SF brings dance to wider 44 Gough Street, Suite 201 901 , Suite 306 audiences through the development, San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94103 production and presentation of 415.920.9181 415.626.2787 dance-based films with two core www.dancersgroup.org www.embodimentproject.org programs, the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and its Co-Laboratory Deborah Slater Dance Theater Epiphany Dance Theater is an program. Through these programs, the presents work dealing with topical interdisciplinary company dedicated group celebrates the best dance films issues, combining original dance, to the artistic vision of dance from around the world, supports Bay theater and music with multimedia experimenter Kim Epifano, who Area filmmakers and choreographers images. collaborates with diverse artists to in the creation and distribution of $16,330 produce original works. new dance works created specifically 3288 21st Street, #71 $39,940 for the camera, and engages diverse San Francisco, CA 94110 1448 Market Street audiences in the wonderful world of 415.267.7687 San Francisco, CA 94103 dance film. www.artofthematter.org 415.647.1443 $7,500 www.epiphanydance.org 601 Van Ness Avenue, Suite E426 Duniya Dance and Drum Company San Francisco, CA 94102 performs and teaches traditional Flyaway Productions dance company 844.567.3333 and unique blends of dance and produces site-specific as well as www.sfdancefilmfest.org percussion-based music from Punjab, traditional venue dances, often using India, and Guinea, West Africa, in aerial apparatus. a range of program formats, from $37,040 traditional proscenium shows to 1068 Bowdoin Street performances and dance lessons at San Francisco, CA 94134 San Francisco clubs and restaurants, 415.672.4111 and presentations at free public www.flyawayproductions.com festivals and parades. The company also tours and teaches classes at Garrett Moulton Productions schools throughout the West Coast, contemporary dance company strives and travels annually to West Africa. to be an ongoing creative force in the $19,600 Bay Area, presenting annual home 1832 Castro Street seasons as well as touring. San Francisco, CA 94131 $34,660 415.401.5948 351 Shotwell Street Left page: Dancers Brendan www.duniyadance.com San Francisco, CA 94110 Barthel and Norma Fong in 415.864.6716 Robert Moses’ Kin’s “SILT.” www.janicegarrettanddancers.org Photo: RJ Muna

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Hope Mohr Dance creates, presents Lenora Lee Dance gives artistic voice Na¯ Lei Hulu I Ka We¯kiu, a modern and fosters contemporary dance at the to the experiences of Asian Americans hula troupe translated as “the many intersection of critical thinking and the through the creation and presentation feathered wreaths at the summit held body through two core components: of large scale interdisciplinary dance in high esteem,” produces an annual to engage in rigorous creative inquiry works integrating movement, music, season and performs to audiences that manifests in artistic excellence, video projection and text that tell across the country. and to deepen critical discourse stories of family, community and $47,850 around dance. transformation in the face of the 153 Bradford Street $24,220 challenges of building a life in America. San Francisco, CA 94110 P.O. Box 225237 $20,250 415.647.3040 San Francisco, CA 94122 44 Montgomery Street, #2310 www.naleihulu.org 415.867.5570 San Francisco, CA 94104 www.hopemohr.org 415.816.9376 Navarrete x Kajiyama Dance Theater www.lenoraleedance.com Founded in 2001, the NAKA Dance Jess Curtis/Gravity Inc., a “research Theater creates interdisciplinary and development vehicle” for live LEVYdance, a modern dance performances that explore socio- performance, focuses on creating company, ignites its audience’s political and environmental issues an engaging and highly physical awareness of shared human experience using dance, storytelling, ritual, entertainment that addresses ideas through the art of dance. multimedia installations and site- of substance and relevance to a $35,000 specific environments. broad public. 19 Heron Street $7,780 $38,620 San Francisco, CA 94103 44 Gough Street, Ste. 201 849 Divisadero Street, #4 415.701.1300 San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94117 www.levydance.org 415.920.9181 415.435.7549 www.nkdancetheater.com www.jesscurtisgravity.org Margaret Jenkins Dance Company is dedicated to the making and touring of ODC/San Francisco is a major modern Joe Goode Performance Group is a new work, international exchange, and dance company presenting work by modern dance company stretching the community programs. its three founding choreographers traditional boundaries of dance and $71,510 in local seasons, plus national and theater. 507 Polk Street, #320 international tours. $65,600 San Francisco, CA 94102 $165,000 499 Alabama Street #150 415.861.3940 351 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA 94110 www.mjdc.org San Francisco, CA 94110 415.561.6565 415.863.6606 www.joegoode.org Mark Foehringer Dance Project is a www.odcdance.org classical ballet company that creates both dynamic and lyrical dances that ODC Theater, a multipurpose often contain comedic elements. venue, offers a broad range of local, $42,570 national and international artists in 1388 Haight Street, #28 contemporary and traditional dance, San Francisco, CA 94117 music, performance and poetry. 415.640.2784 $75,000 www.mfdpsf.org 351 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA 94110 415.863.6606 www.odcdance.org

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Presidio Performing Arts Foundation/Presidio Dance Theatre creates cultural change, global dialogue and human connection through the artistry of dance, adhering to the philosophy that dance can deepen human connections, share the collective wisdom of worldwide cultures, and reinforce compassion among performers and audiences alike. $40,000 P.O. Box 29066 San Francisco, CA 94141 415.561.3958 www.presidiodance.org

PUSH Dance Company performs vibrant contemporary dances that provide audiences with an opportunity to examine issues of identity and intersecting cultures based on a philosophy that pure movement and intellect can coexist. $12,460 SAFEhouse Arts presents San Francisco Hip Hop Dance P.O. Box 191974 multidisciplinary arts Festival is an international festival San Francisco, CA 94119 performances; provides low- featuring dance “crews” from all 415.439.9806 cost space and technical support over the , Canada and www.pushdance.org for emerging performers to parts of Europe. self-produce with a focus on $30,000 RAWdance, a company committed to performance art, LGBT groups and P.O. Box 411492 driven, visceral movement, explores the contemporary dance; and produces San Francisco, CA 94141 power and vulnerability of the human the West Wave Dance Festival. 415.297.9740 body; it produces its own work and the $52,490 www.sfhiphopdancefest.com CONCEPT series, a works-in-progress salon 1 Grove Street that features the work of many local dance San Francisco, CA 94107 Scott Wells & Dancers, a artists. 415.518.1517 contemporary dance ensemble, $31,730 www.safehousearts.org creates highly energetic work 105 Sanchez Street created as a result of touch, impact San Francisco, CA 94114 San Francisco Ballet, universally or collision with other dancers. 415.686.0728 acknowledged as one of the world’s $14,550 www.rawdance.org preeminent ballet companies, 80 Turk Street brings together the finest San Francisco, CA 94102 Robert Moses’ Kin is a multiethnic dance international artists and cutting- 415.931.8648 ensemble performing innovative modern edge productions with a passionate www.scottwellsdance.com dance works. and knowledgeable audience, both $26,600 locally and around the globe. 870 Market Street, Suite 567 $428,890 San Francisco, CA 94102 455 Franklin Street Chin-chin Hsu in “Fire of Freedom” by Lenora Lee Dance. Photo: Robbie Sweeny 415.252.8384 San Francisco, CA 94102 www.robertmoseskin.org 415.861.5600 www.sfballet.org Grants for the Arts 20192018 / 20202019 Annual Report 12 Dance (continued)

Smuin Contemporary Ballet carries Urban Jazz Dance Company World Arts West presents the on the legacy of Tony- and Emmy- Founded in 2007 by Deaf San Francisco Ethnic Dance award winner Michael Smuin by choreographer Antoine Hunter, Festival, a festival of dance forms from bringing the joy of dance to new and Urban Jazz Dance Company is the around the world presented annually existing audiences in the Bay Area only Deaf-led professional dance in June. The festival, which has through innovative performances of company in the Bay Area. The group’s featured thousands of local artists, uncompromising quality. mission is to provide opportunities was created by Grants for the Arts in $150,000 for Deaf and hard of hearing artists 1978. 44 Gough Street, Suite 103 to contribute to the arts and society, $200,210 San Francisco, CA 94103 increasing awareness for Deaf culture Fort Mason Center 415.556.5000 and sign language via the performing 2 Marina Boulevard, Bldg.D #230 www.smuinballet.org arts. Featuring syncopation of urban San Francisco, CA 94123 jazz rhythms, the company values 415.474.3914 Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco, performance and play to connect www.worldartswest.org one of the city’s oldest companies, is a with diverse communities. Annually, professional ensemble that performs Urban Jazz Dance Company produces Zaccho Dance Theatre creates and dances with roots in Spain as well as the Bay Area International Deaf presents performance work that from Latin America, featuring both Dance Festival. investigates dance as it relates to local and international artists. $9,670 place, focusing on making dances $22,410 1446 Market Street that use natural, architectural and 952 Carolina Street San Francisco, CA 94102 cultural environments as points of San Francisco, CA 94107 510.575.9711 This number may departure for movement exploration 415.826.1305 be used by both the Hearing and and narrative. www.theatreflamenco.org the Deaf. $50,000 www.realurbanjazzdance.com 1777 Yosemite Avenue, #330 San Francisco, CA 94124 415.822.6744 www.zaccho.org

Tanya Bello’s Project B. performance at SAFEhouse Arts’ West Wave Dance Festival, 2015. PHOTO: Suzanne Bronk

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Clockwise from top: Litquake’s Lit Crawl Book Fair, 2018. PHOTO: Courtesy of Litquake • Center for the Art of Translation’s Dark Humor and Sharp Teeth – Translator Megan McDowell on Argentinian sensation Samanta Schweblin PHOTO: Courtesy of the Center for the Art of Translation • RADAR Productions’ Drag Queen Story Hour featuring Persia, Library.

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Center for the Art of Translation Litquake, an annual literary festival, RADAR Productions presents a promotes international literature presents an eclectic range of Bay Area, monthly reading series featuring and translation to connect readers, national and international authors in emerging queer writers, as well as students and audiences with writing a series of readings, performances events featuring more well-known from around the world, and makes and “cross-media literary talent at venues throughout the city. great literature accessible to readers happenings.” $22,140 and communities through a literary $45,410 1953 McAllister Street event series, publications and an 57 Post Street, Suite 604 San Francisco, CA 94115 education program. San Francisco, CA 94104 415.216.9641 $13,570 415.750.1497 www.radarproductions.org 582 Market Street, Suite 700 www.litquake.org San Francisco, CA 94104 415.563.2463 www.catranslation.org

City Arts & Lectures presents several series of lectures, conversations and other literary activities with well- known authors and cultural figures. $65,000 1955 Sutter Street San Francisco, CA 94115 415.563.2463 www.cityarts.net

City Arts & Lectures’ events take place at the historic Nourse Theater, now the Sydney Goldstein Theater. Photo: Annabel Mehran

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Clockwise from top: Eric Garcia, StormMiguel Florez, Shawna Virago and Sean Dorsey at the 2015 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival. Photo: Lydia Daniller • “Black High Tea” by Jay Gash, QWOCMAP Filmmaker. Photo: Courtesy of QWOCMAP • Still from “On the Bride’s Side,” 2014, Arab Film Festival. Photo: Marco Garofalo © GINA Films

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3rd i International South Asian Film Berlin and Beyond, presented by Queer Women of Color Media Festival is committed to promoting the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, Arts Project creates, exhibits and diverse images of South Asians through is America’s leading festival of new distributes new films that reflect independent film with monthly and celebrated films from Germany, the lives of queer women of color screening events and the annual Austria and Switzerland. and presents the free, annual Queer International South Asian $21,240 Women of Color Film Festival. Film Festival. 530 Bush Street, Suite 204 $47,200 $24,240 San Francisco, CA 94108 1014 Torney Avenue, #111 992 Valencia Street 415.263.8760 San Francisco, CA 94129 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.goethe.de/sanfrancisco 415.752.0868 415.824.3890 www.qwocmap.org www.thirdi.org Center for Asian American Media presents CAAMFEST, an annual Roxie Theater promotes and preserves American Indian Film Institute Asian American film festival. the art of film and encourages produces the American Indian Film $80,000 independent filmmaking and artistic Festival, the world’s oldest forum 145 Ninth Street, Suite 350 experimentation through daily film dedicated to Native American cinema. San Francisco, CA 94103 screenings, specialty film festivals, The festival focuses on providing a 415.863.0814 self-produced series, live events, diverse audience with opportunities to www.asianamericanmedia.org educational programs and visual arts meet, explore, experience and honor exhibitions. all those involved in the contemporary Frameline presents the annual San $54,720 Native film industry. Francisco International LGBT Film 3117 16th Street $20,000 Festival, offers free screenings of San Francisco, CA 94103-3327 1446 Market Street socially relevant films to the local 415.431.3611 San Francisco, CA 94102 community, makes completion grants www.roxie.com 415.480.9054 to LGBT filmmakers, and distributes www.aifisf.com their work nationally. San Francisco Black Film Festival $109,000 Founded in 1998, the San Francisco Arab Film Festival showcases 145 Ninth Street, Suite 300 Black Film Festival’s mission is to independent films with Arab themes San Francisco, CA 94103 celebrate African American cinema to enhance understanding of Arab 415.703.8650 and the African cultural Diaspora, cultures and experiences. www.frameline.org employing film and video to strengthen $27,740 community identity and to illuminate 3739 Balboa Street, Suite 125 Gray Area Foundation for the Arts’ the depth and diversity of African San Francisco, CA 94121 mission is to apply art and technology American lives and experiences. 415.564.1100 to create positive social impact through $10,000 www.aff.org education, civic engagement, and 762 Fulton Street public programs. San Francisco, CA 94102 Artists’ Television Access supports $34,670 415.922.2094 the production and exhibition of work 2665 Mission Street www.sfbff.org by new artists in video, film, visual arts San Francisco, CA 94110 and multimedia performances. 415.843.1423 $19,500 www.grayarea.org 992 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110 415.824.3890 www.atasite.org

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San Francisco Cinematheque San Francisco Independent Film San Francisco Silent Film Festival presents year-round screenings of Festival produces a season that presents four days of a diverse art film classics, neglected films, and includes “IndieFest,” a February festival selection of films made during works by local and national avant- of screenings and events dedicated the silent era with live musical garde filmmakers. to the presentation of independent accompaniment at the . $22,570 film, video and animation; “DocFest,” $66,960 55 Taylor Street a May documentary film festival; and 145 Ninth Street, Suite 230 San Francisco, CA 94102 “Another Hole in the Head,” a horror/ San Francisco, CA 94103 415.552.1990 fantasy film festival held in June. 415.777.4908 www.sfcinematheque.org $32,710 www.silentfilm.org 2240 16th Street, Suite 107 San Francisco Film Society presents San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco Transgender the annual San Francisco International 415.820.3907 Film Festival builds a strong and Film Festival and a year-round array of www.sfindie.com diverse queer community by exhibition, education and filmmaker screening films and videos that services programs. San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, promote transgender visibility $160,000 the world’s oldest and largest by challenging the mainstream 39 Mesa Street, Suite 110 independent Jewish film festival, media’s negative stereotypes, and by The Presidio promotes awareness and pride in the providing transgender media artists San Francisco, CA 94129 diversity of the Jewish experience and opportunities to reach their 415.561.5000 people. intended audiences. www.sffs.org $69,530 $15,000 145 Ninth Street, Suite 200 375 27th Street, #A San Francisco Green Film Festival San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94131 uses the power of film to inspire, 415.621.0556 415.420.1630 inform, and motivate audiences to find www.sfjff.org www.sftff.org their environmental passion and make a difference. $32,500 San Francisco Green Film Festival 145 9th Street, Ste. 220 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.767.1977 www.greenfilmfest.org

Castro Theatre marquee announces the 3rd i San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival, 2015. Photo: Najib Joe Hakim

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Clockwise from top left: MEDIATE Art Group’s “Submerged Turntables,” by Evan and Karina Holm, at the California Academy of Sciences. Photo: William Hollander • Dezi Solèy in a Queer Rebel Productions’ program at African American Art & Culture Complex. Photo: Robbie Sweeny • Rhodessa Jones (front) and cast in Cultural Odyssey’s Birthright? piece entitled “Woman Holding Bowl.” Photo: David Wilson

$2,130,730 19 Grants for the Arts 2018 / 2019 AnnualGrants Report for the Arts 2018 / 2019 Annual Report 19 509 Cultural Center is dedicated Brava! For Women in the Arts Chinese Historical Society of to enriching the cultural life of the produces, co-presents and presents a America collects, preserves and Tenderloin neighborhood with variety of theater, music, spoken exhibits art, artifacts and archives multicultural programming featuring word and film activities by local reflecting the experiences of Chinese in performing artists and gallery and touring artists in its renovated 370- America. exhibits. seat Mission District venue. $62,870 $41,740 $82,620 965 Clay Street 1007 Market Street 2781 24th Street San Francisco, CA 94108 San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94110 415.391.1188 415.255.5971 415.641.7657 www.chsa.org www.luggagestoregallery.org www.brava.org Circus Bella produces non-stop, Acción Latina promotes cultural California Historical Society, founded 60-minute open-air, single ring circus arts, community media, and civic in 1871, inspires and empowers people performances featuring thrilling engagement as a way of building to make the state’s richly diverse past a feats of balance and strength, elegant healthy and empowered Latinx meaningful part of their contemporary demonstrations of grace and poise, communities. lives. and hilarious slapstick antics. Circus $38,000 $81,240 Bella builds upon the traditions of its 2958 24th Street 678 Mission Street predecessors the Pickle Family Circus San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94105 and Make*A*Circus, as well as its 415.648.1045 415.357.1848 European roots, and is dedicated to www.accionlatina.org/encuentro www.californiahistoricalsociety.org creating a new circus movement with a contemporary vision. Asian American Women Artists Chinese Culture Foundation sparks $32,500 Association, dedicated to ensuring intercultural discovery through art, 231 Mullen Avenue the visibility, documentation and education and engagement, presenting San Francisco, CA 94110 well-being of Asian American women contemporary, innovative 415.205.8355 in the arts, presents programs, Chinese and Chinese American www.circusbella.org exhibitions, lectures and workshops exhibitions and performances, and that challenge societal assumptions producing educational Chinatown Circus Center is the oldest and largest and promote dialogue across cultures tours, lectures series and California circus training and performing arts and generations. excursions. center in the U.S. GFTA funds the $15,000 $71,310 monthly series The Circus Center 1890 Bryant Street, #302 750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor Cabaret which distills humor, elegance, San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94108 and grandeur into a circus fête hosted 415.722.4296 415.986.1822 in a uniquely intimate venue with www.aawaa.net www.c-c-c.org live music performed by Cabaret Chanteuse Madame Leanne Borghesi Asian Improv aRts supports the and the Roger Glenn Trio. creation, production, performance and $31,200 recording of new Asian American work 755 Frederick Street in music, poetry and dance. San Francisco, CA 94117 $35,500 415.759.8123 44 Montgomery Street, Suite 2310 www.circuscenter.org San Francisco, CA 94104 415.908.3636 www.asianimprov.org

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CounterPulse is building a Cultural Odyssey creates, produces Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture movement of risk-taking art that and presents original interdisciplinary provides several well-equipped shatters assumptions and builds and multidisciplinary works rooted in venues for diverse small and midsize community, providing space and African American music, dance and groups from all performing arts resources for emerging artists and theatrical traditions. disciplines, subsidized by GFTA cultural innovators, and serving as an $42,970 funding to the Fort Mason Center incubator for the creation of socially PO Box 156680 Presents series. relevant, community-based art and San Francisco, CA 94115-6680 $54,070 culture. 415.292.1850 Fort Mason Center $65,150 www.culturalodyssey.org 2 Marina Boulevard, Bldg. A 80 Turk Street San Francisco, CA 94123 San Francisco, CA 94102 , an internationally 415.345.7500 415.626.2060 renowned of science, art www.fortmason.org www.counterpulse.org and human perception, presents exhibitions, performances, film Fresh Meat Productions creates, Croatian American Cultural Center programs, lectures and workshops. presents and tours multidisciplinary fosters the arts and culture of Croatia, $355,990 transgender arts programs, including Central and Eastern Europe, and the Pier 17, Suite 100 performance, film and the work of Balkans; GFTA supports its public San Francisco, CA 94111 resident company Sean Dorsey Dance. events, including the Croatian 415.563.7337 $47,620 Heritage Festival, San Francisco www.exploratorium.edu 375 27th Street, Apt. A Tamburitza Festival, Hungarian Dance San Francisco, CA 94131-2011 House and the Festival of First Voice produces, presents and 415.355.0071 the Mandolins. sponsors performing arts projects www.freshmeatproductions.org $41,300 that explore the Asian American 60 Onondaga Avenue experience through storytelling and Galería de la Raza presents the San Francisco, CA 94112 Asian-influenced jazz expressions that contemporary work of Bay Area 510.649.0941 blend past and present. Latinx/Chicanx artists, musicians and www.croatianAmericanWeb.org $28,340 theater groups. *Augmented by legislation action $36,000 CubaCaribe preserves and promotes 41 Parsons Street, Suite A 1470 Valencia Street the vibrant cultural and artistic San Francisco, CA 94118 San Francisco, CA 94110 heritage of Cuba, the Caribbean and 415.221.0601 415.826.8009 the wider African diaspora through www.firstvoice.org www.galeriadelaraza.org classes, performances and exhibitions, including an annual festival each Footloose Dance Company produces Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & spring. and presents a mixed format of Transgender Historical Society $21,930 original theater, dance, music, fosters the recovery, preservation, 3316 24th Street improvisational comedy and film/ presentation and understanding of San Francisco, CA 94110-3803 video. lesbian, bisexual, transgender and 415.826.4441 $8,260 gay culture through exhibits, an oral www.cubacaribe.org P.O. Box 885393 history project and public readings. San Francisco, CA 94188 $75,020 415.920.2223 657 Mission Street, #300 www.ftloose.org San Francisco, CA 94105 415.777.5455 www.glbthistory.org

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Genryu Arts promotes, presents Jewish Community Center of The Lab SF, an interdisciplinary and participates in Japanese and San Francisco presents lectures from organization, supports the Japanese American culture through renowned authors, newsmakers development and presentation of taiko (Japanese drumming) and other and thought leaders along with new visual, performing, media and traditional and contemporary music multidisciplinary performances, literary art. and dance forms. including dance, theater, music, film $41,120 $12,890 and family events. 2948 16th Street 2345 Bush Street, #12 $77,890 San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94115-0282 3200 California Street 415.864.8855 415.420.3151 San Francisco, CA 94118 www.thelab.org www.genryuarts.org 415.292.1200 www.jccsf.org Loco Bloco brings together Imprint City is dedicated to activating traditional rhythms, movements and neighborhoods with performing Kearny Street Workshop produces, aesthetics of the African diaspora and visual art events to encourage presents and promotes the work within Latin America and fuses them increased foot traffic and economic of Asian American artists in all with contemporary urban styles of vitality in desolate areas. The group disciplines. music, dance and theater. presents the Bayview neighborhood as $19,760 $50,000 San Francisco’s African American Arts 1246 Folsom Street, #100 3543 18th Street, #20 and Cultural District by continuing San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94110 to produce vibrant arts festivals and 415.503.0520 415.864.5626 public art to increase foot traffic along www.kearnystreet.org www.locobloco.org the commercial corridor. $35,740 Kulintang Arts, popularly known as MEDIATE Art Group showcases 1150 25th Street Kularts, presents contemporary and contemporary sound, installation San Francisco, CA 94107 tribal Pilipino arts. and performance works primarily 415.857.0638 $25,000 through its Soundwave Festival, www.imprintcity.org 474 Faxon Avenue a summer-long sound and arts San Francisco, CA 94112 festival that draws audiences to Intersection for the Arts is a historic, 415.239.0249 unconventional environments artist-run organization dedicated www.kularts.org for site-specific multidisciplinary to helping artists grow through performance experiences, and is the offering various resources–fiscal La Pocha Nostra, a multidisciplinary, culmination of a curated two-year sponsorship, workshops, affordable multimedia company created program. coworking space, arts coaching, by performance artist Guillermo $11,410 public programming opportunities, Gomez-Peña, explores the cultural P.O. Box 170305 residencies and dedicated staff borders between languages, San Francisco, CA 94117 support. cultures, technology and art. 415.484.6278 $66,940 $23,900 www.me-di-ate.net 1448 Market Street 2857 24th Street San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94110 415.626.2787 www.pochanostra.com www.theintersection.org

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Museum of Performance Queer Rebel Productions explores San Francisco Center for the Book is & Design presents public the histories of LGBT people of the only center in the Western United exhibitions, educational programs, color, builds community, fosters States for the creation and display of performances, lectures and intergenerational dialogue, and various forms of “book art,” including screenings and maintains online presents experimental film, poetry fine printing, book structures, lettering resources, an oral history project and and music programs. and more. research facilities, all reflecting San $7,000 $62,670 Francisco’s performing arts history. 762 Fulton Street 375 Rhode Island Street $40,000 San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francsico, CA 94103 893B Folsom Street 415.308.9883 415.565.0545 San Francisco, CA 94107 www.queerrebels.com www.sfcb.org 415.255.4800 www.sfpalm.org Red Poppy Art House serves as a San Francisco Heritage is dedicated performance venue, art gallery, and to preserving the city’s architectural Project Level employs the arts to community resource, hosting more and cultural identity; GFTA funding develop the leadership and creative than 100 events per year, including supports tours of the Haas-Lilienthal skills of San Francisco’s youth of concerts, art exhibits, workshops and House and Walking Tours. color. After-school and summertime artist residencies. $50,000 programs provide teenagers and young $30,000 2007 Franklin Street adults access to artistic mentors, 2698 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA 94109 arts education, performance, and San Francisco, CA 94110 415.441.3000 employment opportunities, and www.redpoppyarthouse.org www.sfheritage.org programs empower youth to express themselves and to incorporate their San Francisco Arts Education Project San Francisco Performances awareness of social justice issues into has a mission is to produce presents internationally acclaimed and their creative work. participatory experiences in the emerging artists in recitals, chamber $7,500 arts for residents of and visitors to music concerts, jazz and dance 762 Fulton Street San Francisco so that all are better programs. San Francisco, CA 94102 equipped to utilize individual and $162,160 415.797.8497 collective creative abilities to face 500 Sutter Street, Suite 710 www.projectlevel.org social, cultural, and economic San Francisco, CA 94102 challenges head on. 415.398.6449 OX, founded in 2008 by performance $22,500 www.performances.org artist Mica Sigourney, presents arts 135 Van Ness Avenue events exploring themes of family, San Francisco, CA 94102 lineage, history, race and class 415.551.7990 issues, transgender issues and the www.sfartsed.org significance of drag. $11,400 1310 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103 347.243.7439 www.cargocollective.com/ micasigourney

Following page: Red Tipped Worms from Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu’s “MU,” a production of First Voice, costumes by Beaver Bauer. Photo: Courtesy First Voice

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Stern Grove Festival Association Youth Speaks, through the Z Space, a hub for artists and presents free, high-quality intersection of arts education, audiences to revel in the creation, performances for all Bay Area youth development practices, civic development and production of residents and visitors; provides paid engagement strategies and quality outstanding new work, commissions, opportunities for professional artists artistic presentation, creates safe develops, presents and produces a full and performing groups in the summer spaces that challenge youth to find, season of new works from a months; serves diverse audiences by develop, publicly present and apply variety of disciplines including presenting a season of varied musical their voices as creators of societal theater, dance, music, performance art and performance genres and artists; change. and new media. and enhances San Francisco’s renown $89,760 $95,570 as a world center of arts and culture. 1663 Mission Street, Suite 604 499 Alabama Street, #450 $100,000 San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94103 832 Folsom Street, Suite 1000 415.255.9035 415.626.0453 San Francisco, CA 94107 www.youthspeaks.org www.zspace.org 415.252.6253 www.sterngrove.org

The Marsh, A Breeding Ground for New Performances annually presents hundreds of diverse productions in its multivenue space in the Mission. $69,530 1062 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110 415.282.6024 www.themarsh.org

The Tenderloin Museum celebrates the rich history of one of San Francisco’s most overlooked neighborhoods through history exhibitions, resident-led walking tours, community programs, and the presentation of original artwork. Positioned at the intersection of art, history, and community, the group explores and amplifies the untold stories of a long-marginalized neighborhood with dynamic programming. $37,240 398 Eddy Street San Francisco, CA 94102 415.351.1912 www.tenderloinmuseum.org

Right: OX production of “Birthday or Boats,” commissioned by the FRESH Festival, 2015. Photo: Robin Sweeney

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Clockwise from top: New Orleans trumpeter Christian Scott at SFJAZZ. Photo: Ronald Davis • Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony. Photo: Bill Swerbenski • Loco Bloco drummers at Dia de los Muertos event, 2014. Photo: Courtesy Loco Bloco

$3,329,520 Music

American Bach Soloists presents and Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Del Sol Performing Arts records historically informed, virtuoso Project presents live music events each Organization presents concerts, instrumental and vocal performances year in an intimate, warm and friendly engages in educational outreach, of Baroque and early classical music. setting that encourages audiences to and commissions new works and $61,100 experience the diversity of the Bay recordings, heightening awareness of 44 Page Street, Suite 403 Area’s arts in an up close and personal contemporary chamber music and San Francisco, CA 94102 way. The group’s concerts draw on a making the art form more accessible. 415.621.7900 wealth of talent, particularly in the jazz $30,050 www.americanbach.org community, in an intimate, 40-seat 754 46th Avenue book-lined setting that encourages San Francisco, CA 94121-3202 Bay Area Omni Foundation for engaged listening. 415.374.0074 the Performing Arts presents $7,500 www.delsolquartet.com concerts featuring a variety of world- 653 Chenery Street renowned and emerging acoustic San Francisco, CA 94131 Earplay, a contemporary music guitarists who explore the stylistic 415.586.3733 ensemble, performs American music range of the instrument. www.birdbeckett.com with an emphasis on works by Bay Area $29,000 and lesser-known composers. PMB 1, 236 West Portal Avenue Center for New Music fosters $13,750 San Francisco, CA 94127 contemporary music’s growth by giving 560 29th Street 415.242.4500 practicing artists access to professional San Francisco, CA 94131 www.omniconcerts.com resources and expertise, and by 415.585.9776 providing them with opportunities www.earplay.org Bay Area Rainbow Symphony to share knowledge and explore new provides a safe, supportive ideas. Golden Gate Men’s Chorus, a 40-plus environment for musicians of all sexual $35,000 voice ensemble, performs a repertoire orientations, gender identities and 55 Taylor Street that ranges from classical programs to gender expressions, and performs San Francisco, CA 94102 fully staged cabaret productions. works by LGBTQ composers; produces 415.275.2466 $22,310 concerts in the spring, summer www.centerfornewmusic.com 116 Eureka Street and fall; and is one of seven LGBTQ San Francisco, CA 94114 orchestras in the United States and one Chamber Music San Francisco 415.668.4462 of only 12 worldwide. produces a concert series at Herbst www.ggmc.org $11,020 Theatre that features high-profile local 2261 Market Street, #178A and touring artists. Golden Gate Performing Arts San Francisco, CA 94114 $50,000 presents the San Francisco Gay 415.578.4852 1314 34th Avenue Men’s Chorus in a home season of www.bars-sf.org San Francisco, CA 94122 various productions and more than 30 415.759.1756 community events with classical, pop www.chambermusicSF.org and holiday repertoires. $152,510 398 Eleventh Street, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94103 415.865.3650 www.sfgmc.org

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InterMusic SF offers a year-round Melody of China, Inc. is an Noe Valley Chamber Music presents variety of concerts featuring small instrumental ensemble performing monthly Sunday afternoon concerts ensembles performing baroque, Chinese music that reflects the synergy that feature well-known and emerging classical, new, jazz, and creative between ancient cultural tradition and chamber music ensembles. music, including its signature annual the modern American experience. $16,050 event, SFMusic Day Live + Free. $17,450 1021 Sanchez Street $16,210 450 A 2nd Avenue San Francisco, CA 94114 135 Main Street, Suite 1140 San Francisco, CA 94118 415.648.5236 San Francisco, CA 94105 415.640.9825 www.nvcm.org 415.710.0551 www.melodyofchina.org www.sffcm.org Noontime Concerts is a free weekly MSA/People in Plazas presents free lunchtime classical music series held Kronos Quartet commissions, summer concerts by local musicians at Old Saint Mary’s Cathedral. performs and records contemporary in various San Francisco outdoor $26,000 string works, tours internationally locations. 660 California Street for five months each year, and $19,900 San Francisco, CA 94108 collaborates with artists from all over 1346 Stevenson Street, B202 415.777.3211 the world. San Francisco, CA 94103 www.noontimeconcerts.org $125,000 415.350.7071 1242 Ninth Avenue www.peopleinplazas.org Old First Concerts presents San Francisco, CA 94122 affordable, year-round performances 415.731.3533 Musical Traditions, home of the Paul of classical and cutting-edge chamber www.kronosquartet.org Dresher Ensemble, creates, produces and recital repertoire by emerging and tours works of new opera/music and mid-career Bay Area professional Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Inc. theater; commissions and performs musicians, as well as visiting produces a concert series featuring new chamber music; collaborates professionals from around the world. a repertoire of masterpieces by with other artists; and supports their $24,860 traditional composers and modern creative work with technical, financial 1751 Sacramento Street classical works. and advisory assistance. San Francisco, CA 94109 $27,000 $41,710 415.474.1608 1 Topaz Way 55 Taylor Street www.oldfirstconcerts.org San Francisco, CA 94131 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.617.5223 415.558.9540 www.leftcoastensemble.org www.dresherensemble.org

Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San New Century Chamber Orchestra, a Francisco celebrates all sexual Grammy Award-nominated ensemble orientations and gender identities, of string musicians, brings a fresh providing an open and artistic approach to classical music. environment for singers committed to $65,000 musical excellence. 665 Third Street, Suite 345 $8,700 San Francisco, CA 94107 584 Castro Street, #486 415.357.1111 San Francisco, CA 94114 www.ncco.org 415.861.7067 www.lgcsf.org

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Other Minds presents an avant-garde Rova:Arts is a saxophone quartet that San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, music festival featuring composers explores musical possibilities through Northern California’s oldest and artists from around the globe commissioned works with other professional chamber orchestra, in concerts, workshops and panel artists presented at annual concerts. presents classical, contemporary and discussions; operates an extensive $8,250 commissioned works that reflect the online new music archive; presents 333 12th Street diverse music and cultural traditions various special new music events; and San Francisco, CA 94103 of America’s past and present. releases albums on its CD label. 415.487.1701 $53,480 $47,630 www.rova.org P.O. Box 191564 55 Taylor Street San Francisco, CA 94119-1564 San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco Bach Choir is an 415.692.5297 415.934.8134 auditioned volunteer choir providing www.sfchamberorchestra.org www.otherminds.org Bay Area concerts focused particularly on the music of J.S. Bach, his San Francisco Chanticleer is an all- Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra contemporaries and predecessors, male chorus acclaimed for its artistry recreates 17th and 18th century music and on rarely heard music of the and versatility that performs locally, on original instruments in local, Renaissance and baroque periods. nationally and internationally. national and international concerts. $38,940 $158,000 $137,000 2443 Filmore Street, #195 44 Page Street, Suite 604 414 Mason Street, Suite 606 San Francisco, CA 94115 San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.922.6562 415.252.8589 415.252.1288 www.sfbach.org www.chanticleer.org www.philharmonia.org San Francisco Boys Chorus musically San Francisco Choral Artists is a PlayGround, a leading Bay Area trains boys, 5 to 13, who regularly chamber ensemble dedicated to the playwright incubator, supports the perform in concerts throughout the performance of choral masterpieces of development of new writers and Bay Area, sing with the San Francisco all eras, styles and regions. new plays through commissions, Opera and Symphony, and tour $12,500 co-productions, a Young Playwrights internationally. PMB 344, 601 Van Ness Avenue, #E Project and the annual Best of $68,000 San Francisco, CA 94102 PlayGround Festival. 333 Hayes Street, Suite 116 415.979.5779 $44,470 San Francisco, CA 94102 www.sfca.org 268 Bush Street, #2912 415.861.7464 San Francisco, CA 94104 www.sfbc.org San Francisco Choral Society, a 415.992.6677 200-member community choir, www.playground-sf.org specializes in large compositions for chorus and orchestra. $32,000 236 West Portal Avenue, Suite 775 San Francisco, CA 94127 415.566.8425 www.sfchoral.org

Opposite page: Eki Shola at New Music Open Mic, Center for New Music, January 2016. Photo: Meerenai Shim

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San Francisco Conservatory of San Francisco Jazz Organization San Francisco Opera, a world- Music, a fully accredited music presents world-class live jazz concerts renowned grand opera company, college, produces numerous public year-round, including the annual San presents annual seasons of classic events including year-round student Francisco Jazz Festival, SFJAZZ Spring and contemporary works featuring and faculty concerts and community Season and the free, outdoor SFJAZZ international artists, and offers young service performances. Summerfest Series. artist professional training programs, $50,000 $190,000 free community concerts, and 50 Oak Street 201 Franklin Street educational activities. San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94102 $680,000 415.503.6230 415.398.5655 301 Van Ness Avenue www.sfcm.edu www.sfjazz.org San Francisco, CA 94102 415.861.4008 San Francisco Contemporary San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom www.sfopera.com Music Players, the oldest new music Band, the first openly gay music ensemble outside the East Coast, uses organization in the United States, San Francisco Symphony, performances, collaborative projects, performs both marching and concert acknowledged as one of the best commissions, and educational band repertoire throughout the Bay orchestras in the United States, outreach activities to help audiences Area and on tour. programs a nine-month concert discover musical repertoire that is $25,000 season, numerous free educational new to them — and to use these 584 Castro Street, #841 and community activities, and tours experiences as ways to better San Francisco, CA 94114-2594 nationally and internationally. understand, interact with, and enjoy 510.823.3931 $649,600 their lives and our world. www.sflgfb.org Davies Symphony Hall $42,040 San Francisco, CA 94102 55 Taylor Street 415.552.8000 San Francisco, CA 94102 www.sfsymphony.org 415.278.9566 www.sfcmp.org

San Francisco Girls Chorus provides an intensive, international-caliber choral music performance and education program for more than 400 girls and young women from all cultural and economic backgrounds. $133,900 44 Page Street, Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94102-5986 415.863.1752 www.sfgirlschorus.org

Opposite Page: San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band performing at the Pride parade. Photo: Billy Green

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Voices of Music, an ensemble of Women’s Audio Mission (WAM) Young Women’s Choral Projects up to 30 multi-instrumentalists and is dedicated to the advancement inspires local, national and vocalists who perform renaissance of women in music performance international audiences with the and baroque chamber and orchestral and the recording arts by providing exciting sound and artistry of young music, introduces new audiences of performance opportunities and free women’s voices. The group provides all ages to early music, combining music, recording arts training and San Francisco with a high-quality historically informed performance, mentorship in the only professional young women’s chorus that performs unique collaborations and recording studio in the world built a diverse repertoire from early music consummate artistry. and run by women. Local Sirens, to contemporary works. $28,870 WAM’s performance series, promotes $15,000 127 Downey Street the performance of new work by P.O. Box 170508 San Francisco, CA 94117 exceptional Bay Area women artists, San Francisco, CA 94117 415.260.4687 supporting genres as diverse as hip 415.312.7787 www.voicesofmusic.org hop, Latin folk and jazz, traditional www.ywcp.org world genres, experimental electronic Volti is a professional vocal ensemble and more. dedicated to commissioning and $25,000 performing new music, primarily by 542-544 Natoma Street, #C-1 American composers. San Francisco, CA 94103 $31,550 415.558.9200 P.O. Box 15576 www.womensaudiomission.org San Francisco, CA 94115-0576 415.771.3352 www.voltisf.org

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Clockwise from top: Bella Warda in “Bitterenders” by Hannah Khalil, Golden Thread Productions’ 2015 ReOrient Festival. Photo: David M. Allen • We Players’ “Ondine,” Carly Cioffi and Ava Roy co-directors, 2015. Photo: Stacy Davis • African-American Shakespeare Company’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” directed by Becky Kemper. Photo: Lance Huntley

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42nd Street Moon is a theater American Conservatory Theater, Campo Santo is an award-winning company that celebrates the scripts considered one of the top regional theater ensemble that develops and and scores of uncommon, rarely theaters and actor-training performs culturally diverse work using performed 20th century Broadway conservatories in the United States, the collaborative power of theater to musicals, presented in an intimate produces a 10-month season of create broader community. theater with live music and without plays ranging from world classics to $26,800 amplification. contemporary premieres. 925 Mission Street, Suite 109 $66,350 $365,490 San Francisco, CA 94103 601 Van Ness Avenue, #E3-621 30 Grant Avenue, 7th Floor 415-626-2787 San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94108 www.theintersection.org 415.255.8205 415.834.3200 www.42ndstmoon.org www.act-sf.org Crowded Fire Theater Company produces poetic, bold work, African-American Shakespeare BATS Improv presents a variety innovative in structure, that is created Company produces classical works of improvisational theater from by new and contemporary artists who with a strong cultural perspective, “Theatresports” to improvised address the diverse political and social providing minority artists and their Shakespeare and Broadway musicals. concerns of its audiences. communities opportunities to view $76,000 $41,920 these works in a manner that is Fort Mason Center, B350 870 Innes Avenue inclusive of their cultural heritage. San Francisco, CA 94123 San Francisco, CA 94124 $53,250 415.474.6776 x.4 415.255.7846 762 Fulton Street, Suite 306 www.improv.org www.crowdedfire.org San Francisco, CA 94102-4119 415.762.2071 x8 Bindlestiff Studio, founded in 1989 Custom Made Theatre Company www.african-americanshakes.org as a multidisciplinary theater space, performs a repertoire consisting emerged as a home for Filipino mainly of works by established AfroSolo Theatre Company promotes artists, reflecting and celebrating the playwrights with a small but and presents the experiences of diverse values, traditions and histories consistent level of output from African Americans and people of Filipino and Filipino American emerging writers and regional from the African Diaspora in solo cultures through artistic expression premieres at its permanent home in performances and the visual and and community engagement. Union Square. literary arts. $10,000 $38,750 $8,490 P.O. Box 190205 533 Sutter Street 762 Fulton Street, Suite 307 San Francisco, CA 94119 San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.255.0440 www.custommade.org 415.771.2376 www.bindlestiffstudio.org www.afrosolo.org

Following page: Eddie Lopez as Koko in American Conservatory Theater’s “The Unfortunates.” Photo: Kevin Berne

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Cutting Ball Theater is dedicated to Golden Thread Productions explores Magic Theatre is the Bay Area’s developing experimental new plays Middle Eastern cultures and identities original home for visionary new and re-envisioning classics with an as expressed around the globe, theater dedicated to the cultivation emphasis on language and images. presenting alternative perspectives of bold new plays, playwrights and $52,800 by developing and producing audiences, which reflect the rich 141 Taylor Street aesthetically varied and politically and history of the world in which we live. San Francisco, CA 94102 viscerally engaging theatrical work. $90,000 415.572.7834 $41,250 Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina www.cuttingball.com 499 Alabama Street, #450 Boulevard, Bldg. D San Francisco, CA 94110-2064 San Francisco, CA 94123 EXITheatre produces experimental 415.626.4061 415.441.8001 plays, absurdist classics and www.goldenthread.org www.magictheatre.org performance art in four venues in the Tenderloin, as well as the annual Lamplighters Music Theatre, one New Conservatory Theatre Center, Fringe Festival. of the top Gilbert and Sullivan a performing arts complex and $50,500 companies in the world, performs an professional theater arts school, 156 Eddy Street annual season of light opera classics. presents the year-long LGBT & San Francisco, CA 94102 $68,540 Allied Pride Season, YouthAware 415.931.1094 469 Bryant Street Educational Touring Program, New www.sffringe.org San Francisco, CA 94107 Play Development and Emerging 415.227.4797 Artist Residencies, and a Family Eye Zen Presents is committed to www.lamplighters.org Matinee Children’s Theatre series. unearthing and elevating LGBTQ+ $72,070 histories to better understand queer The Lobster Theater Project 25 Van Ness Avenue, Lower Lobby lineage. The organization creates produces sketch-comedy shows, full- San Francisco, CA 94102 innovative, trans-disciplinary length plays, an annual film festival, 415.861.4914 performance and community- monthly cabarets, short films and www.nctcsf.org building events throughout musical recordings. San Francisco, illuminating $40,570 Phoenix Arts Association Theatre/ under-recognized queer ancestors. 2101 Folsom Street Gallery encourages the development $7,500 San Francisco, CA 94110 of new plays by providing 80 Turk Street 415.558.7721 performance, workshop and rehearsal San Francisco, CA 94102 www.killingmylobster.com space in its downtown venues at a 415.626.2060 reasonable cost for theater companies www.eyezen.org Lorraine Hansberry Theatre/SEW with a wide range of work. Productions presents plays by leading $15,370 foolsFURY Theater Company African American playwrights, as well 138 Carl Street produces and presents new works as a play-reading series featuring new San Francisco, CA 94117 and performance styles that include works. 415.336.1020 music, dance, circus, audience $45,000 www.phoenixtheatresf.org interaction and three-dimensional 762 Fulton Street, Suite 204 visual art. San Francisco, CA 94102 $18,420 415.345.3980 499 Alabama Street, #450 www.lhtsf.org San Francisco, CA 94110 415.377.5277 www.foolsfury.org

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The Playwrights Foundation supports San Francisco Playhouse produces Theatre of Yugen is the only U.S. the work of contemporary American an Off-Broadway-style mainstage company producing new works based playwrights by producing the season of six full productions on the Japanese Noh and Kyogen annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival, annually, including world and West theater forms. as well as other events and programs Coast premieres, the Sandbox New $30,690 throughout the year. Play Program and the Rising Stars 2840 Mariposa Street $43,750 Program, a high school theater San Francisco, CA 94110 1616 16th Street, Suite 350 attendance initiative. 415.621.0507 San Francisco, CA 94103 $82,270 www.theatreofyugen.org 415.626.2176 588 Sutter Street, #318 www.playwrightsfoundation.org San Francisco, CA 94102 Theatre Rhinoceros develops and 415.677.9596 produces original works that examine Area Theatre www.sfplayhouse.org the personal lives and social concerns Company unites emerging artists and of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and audiences through the power of live San Francisco Shakespeare Festival transgender communities. theater that reflects the distinctive presents “Free Shakespeare in the $39,120 voices of the . Park” in the Presidio each summer, 1 Sansome Street, #3500 The group supports artists through as well as school tours, camps and San Francisco, CA 94104 creative development, full produc- educational programs throughout the 415.552.4100 tions, and mentorships that aspire Bay Area. www.therhino.org to engage a new generation of live $82,720 theatre supporters. P.O. Box 460937 We Players presents site-integrated $10,720 San Francisco, CA 94146 performance events that transform 2781 24th Street 415.558.0888 public spaces into realms of San Francisco, CA 94110 www.sfshakes.org participatory theater, bringing 415.484.8566 communities together and reclaiming www.sfbatco.org Shadowlight Productions creates local spaces for public discourse and one-of-a-kind interdisciplinary works civic celebration through art. San Francisco Mime Troupe, that blend ancient shadow theater $25,000 the city’s oldest professional techniques, modern theater, cinematic 1462 14th Avenue theater company, is recognized effects, live music and other media. San Francisco, CA 94122 internationally for creating political $35,000 415.547.0189 theater in parks and other outdoor 22 Chattanooga Street www.weplayers.org locations. San Francisco, CA 94114 $49,210 415.648.4461 855 Treat Avenue www.shadowlight.org San Francisco, CA 94110-2723 415.285.1717 www.sfmt.org

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Clockwise, from top: Museum of Craft and Design’s exhibition “Hands Off: New Dutch Design at the Confluence of Technology & Craft.” Photo: Matthew Millman • Laura Ming Wong’s “Reclaim” from Asian American Women Artists Association’s “A Place of Her Own” exhibition at SOMArts. Photo: Cynthia Tom • Visitors at California Historical Society’s exhibition “Unbuilt San Francisco: The View from Futures Past.” Photo: Courtesy California Historical Society

$1,711,210 Visual Arts

ArtSpan builds community by The Contemporary Jewish Museum Museo Italo Americano researches connecting the public to visual makes the diversity of the Jewish and displays artworks of all media by arts in San Francisco through SF experience relevant for a 21st Italian and Italian American artists. Open Studios, and youth and adult century audience and offers them $47,470 education and art-centric events, new perspectives on Jewish culture, Fort Mason Center creating a platform for artists to thrive history, art and ideas through 2 Marina Boulevard, Bldg. C and fostering a Bay Area that values innovative exhibitions and programs San Francisco, CA 94123 the arts. that educate, challenge, inspire and 415.673.2200 $50,000 engage. www.museoitaloamericano.org 934 Brannan Street $152,120 San Francisco, CA 94103 736 Mission Street Museum of the African Diaspora 415.861.9838 San Francisco, CA 94103 (MoAD), a contemporary art www.artspan.org 415-655-7808 museum, celebrates Black cultures, www.thecjm.org ignites challenging conversations, Burning Man Project creates and sites and inspires learning through the temporary interactive, contemporary Creativity Explored advances global lens of the African Diaspora. art installations in collaboration with the value and diversity of artistic Amplifying the very nature of how San Francisco communities and expression, providing artists with contemporary art presently serves as a neighborhoods. developmental disabilities the means touchstone for pressing issues and as a $35,910 to create, exhibit and sell their art in lens by which to examine history and 660 Alabama Street the organization’s studio and gallery peoplehood, the organization presents San Francisco, CA 94110 and around the world. an array of high-quality exhibitions 415.626.1248 $57,950 that reflect their mission. www.burningman.org 3245 16th Street $154,690 San Francisco, CA 94103 685 Mission Street California College of the Arts, a 415.863.2108 San Francisco, CA 94105 leading arts education institution, www.creativityexplored.org 415.358.7200 presents exhibitions, lectures and www.moadsf.org symposia that feature local, national Illuminate the Arts and international artists, architects, Illuminate’s mission is to rally large Museum of Craft and Design presents designers, writers, and multimedia groups of people together to create exhibits and programs that actively experts. radical works of public art that, explore the role of craft and design in $50,000 through awe, free humanity’s better everyday life. 1111 8th Street nature. Founded in 2011, Illuminate $69,070 San Francisco, CA 94107 was the driving force behind The Bay 2569 Third Street 415.703.9555 Lights that now adorn the Western San Francisco, CA 94107 www.cca.edu span of the Bay Bridge. Almost 415.773.0303 immediately upon flipping the “on” www.sfmcd.org is the only switch, The Bay Lights became one of museum west of the Mississippi the world’s most recognizable pieces dedicated to preserving and exhibiting of public art and it continues today as cartoon art in all its forms. both a mesmerizing piece of art and a $50,130 beacon of possibility. 655 Mission Street $67,470 San Francisco, CA 94105 228 Laidley Street 415.227.8666 San Francisco, CA 94131 www.cartoonart.org 415.786.4332 Following page: “Ferry Building,” ink and watercolor on paper by Andrew Li, 2009, www.illuminate.org for Creativity Explored.

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National Japanese American Muralists Association Root Division, a multi-use space of Historical Society is a multi-arts offers daily mural walks throughout studios, gallery, and classroom, serves organization that uses exhibition the Mission District, gallery the community in the production, and performing arts to present the exhibitions, classes and workshops, education, and presentation of diversity of the Japanese American produces the Urban Youth Art Festival, contemporary visual art. experience. and sponsors Mural Awareness $59,700 $51,020 Month. P.O. Box 411605 1684 Post Street $45,490 San Francisco, CA 94141 San Francisco, CA 94115 2981 24th Street 415.863.7668 415.921.5007 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.rootdivision.org www.njahs.org 415.285.2287 www.precitaeyes.org

Presente: A Tribute to the Mission Community, ©2015 Precita Eyes Muralists Association, directed by Fred Alvarado and Max Marttila with the Precita Eyes Urban Youth Arts Program, 24th and Folsom Street. Photo: Dogpaw Carrillo

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San Francisco Art Institute’s public SF Camerawork presents exhibitions, Southern Exposure supports visual programming, supported by GFTA, lectures and workshops on artists through extensive, innovative features exhibitions and presentations contemporary fine art photography. programming, experimentation, by emerging and internationally $50,000 and collaboration and education, recognized artists and scholars. 1011 Market Street, 2nd Floor providing a resource center and forum $50,000 San Francisco, CA 94103 for Bay Area and national artists and 800 Chestnut Street 415.512.2020 youth in their Mission District space, San Francisco, CA 94133-2299 www.sfcamerawork.org and off-site in the public realm. 415.749.4549 $54,190 www.sfai.edu 3030 20th Street San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco Museum of Modern 415.863.2141 Art is dedicated to making the art of www.soex.org our time a vital, meaningful part of public life through its unparalleled collections, exhilarating exhibitions and engaging public programs. $423,190 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103 “Revolving Doors” was an interactive, site-specific installation atSan Francisco 415.357.4000 Camerawork which invited viewers to enter www.sfmoma.org and manipulate a maze-like configuration mimicking the internal mechanisms of the camera. Photo: Chris Fraser

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Clockwise from top: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy during theSF LGBT Pride Celebration’s 2014 parade. Photo: Arrian Jahangiri • Fili- pino-American Development Foundation’s 2015 Parol Lantern Festival and Parade. Photo: Tony Sy • Aztec dancers at the Cesar Chavez Holiday Parade and Festival. Photo: Courtesy Cesar Chavez Holiday Parade and Festival

$691,500 Parades and Festivals

Au Co Vietnamese Cultural Center’s Chinatown Merchants Association Dyke March is the largest annual signature outdoor event, the Mid- is a two-day festival celebrated in lesbian event in the world, held on the Autumn Harvest Festival, celebrates Chinatown every September, featuring evening before the LGBT Pride Parade the arts and culture of the Southeast crafts, performances, exhibitions and in June. GFTA supports the cultural Asian American communities in San traditional foods. event at Dolores Park that features Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. $25,000 women poets, comediennes, singers $10,000 667 Grant Avenue and local all-female bands. P.O. Box 347042 San Francisco, CA 94108 $6,500 San Francisco, CA 94134-7042 415.982.6306 3543 18th Street, #2 415.298.3705 [email protected] San Francisco, CA 94110 www.aucocenter.org 415.252.9230 Carnaval San Francisco, presented by thedykemarch.org Castro Street Fair, one of the city’s Cultura y Arte Nativa de las Americas, larger and longest-running street fairs, is a two-day Mission District festival Filipino-American Development celebrates cultural and sexual diversity of cultural and community groups Foundation organizes an annual each October. culminating in a parade, considered festival featuring the Parol, a lantern $18,000 the largest multicultural outdoor shaped like a five-pointed star, that 2929 19th Street parade/festival on the West Coast. symbolizes hope and guidance. San Francisco, CA 94110 $100,000 $10,000 415.621.2665 1333 Florida Street 1010 Mission Street www.castrostreetfair.org San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.206.0577 415.348.8042 Cesar Chavez Holiday Parade and www.carnavalsanfrancisco.org www.bayanihancc.org Festival was founded to educate, celebrate and commemorate the life Cinco de Mayo/Mission Italian Heritage Parade, sponsored and work of labor and civil rights Neighborhood Centers sponsors an by the city’s Italian American leader Cesar Chavez with the goal outdoor celebration with cultural and community, caps a month-long to educate and promote the values community groups to mark Cinco de celebration with a parade, a pageant of non-violence, unconditional Mayo, featuring Ballet Folklorico/ depicting Columbus’s landing, and the acceptance of all people, and profound mariachi performances and local artist ceremonial blessing of the fishing fleet. respect for life and the environment. performances in the Mission District. $40,000 $10,000 $25,000 678 Green Street 2929 19th Street 362 Capp Street San Francisco, CA 94133 San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94110 415.434.1492 415.621.2665 415.206.7747 www.sfcolumbusday.org www.cesarchavezday.org www.mncsf.org Jerry Day is a civic and cultural event Chinese Chamber of Commerce Comedy Day, a free event held in that pays tribute to the legacy of Jerry organizes the Chinese New Year August at Sharon Meadows in Golden Garcia, a San Francisco native son and Parade, an annual celebration in honor Gate Park, features diverse local and rock legend, held at the Jerry of the Lunar New Year, one of the national comedians. Garcia Ampitheater in McLaren Park, largest of such events in the world. $10,000 celebrating his Excelsior roots. $100,000 1036 Pacheco Street $12,500 730 Sacramento Street San Francisco, CA 94116-1318 809 France Avenue San Francisco, CA 94108 415.987.3663 San Francisco, CA 94112 415.982.3000 www.comedyday.com www.jerryday.org www.chineseparade.com

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Marigold Project organizes the Nihonmachi Street Fair, Inc., a San Francisco Juneteenth includes a Festival of Altars in the Mission celebration of the Asian/Pacific parade, live entertainment, food and District’s Garfield Park with the goal to American communities, emphasizes crafts vendors, recreation, a health fair, share the Mexican tradition of Day of the nonprofit organizations that and community information booths the Dead with the Latinx community serve them and features musical and to promote historical awareness, and new audiences, and create a cultural performances, exhibits, food, celebrate African American culture, safe public space for the community Asian artisans, Children’s World and build connections to and among to come together to honor their nonprofit information tables. community-serving organizations, ancestors and the cycle of life and $25,000 and enable African American vendors death. The group engages local artists, 1581 Webster Street, Suite 240 to market their businesses and community groups and individuals San Francisco, CA 94115 showcase their crafts. in the cultural significance of altar 415.771.9861 $20,000 making, promoting the use of public www.nihonmachistreetfair.org 762 Fulton Street, 3rd Floor space for a shared cultural experience. San Francisco, CA 94102 $7,500 Russian Center of San Francisco 510.692.2514 PO Box 14404 presents the Russian Festival, a www.sfjuneteenth.com San Francisco, CA 94114 three-day event celebrating the 510.589.0797 diversity of Russian culture through SF LGBT Pride Celebration www.dayofthedeadsf.org performances, crafts, demonstrations, Committee, Inc. celebrates the food and delicacies. full expression of LGBT culture by Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday $17, 000 producing the annual San Francisco Observance is the largest observance 2450 Sutter Street Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender on the West Coast, a Northern San Francisco, CA 94115 Pride Parade and other Pride Week California regional effort featuring a 415.921.7631 events. freedom train, march and ceremonies www.russiancentersf.com $100,000 at . 1841 Market Street, 4th Floor $21,800 Sakura Matsuri, Inc. celebrates San Francisco, CA 94103 330 Ellis Street, #407 Japanese arts and culture 415.864.0831 San Francisco, CA 94102 through exhibits, performances, www.sfpride.org 415.674.6000 demonstrations, martial arts, food and www.norcalmlk.org a street fair, culminating in a grand SOMA Merchants’ and Individuals’ parade. Lifestyle Events presents the Folsom Memorial Day Ceremony is a $50,000 Street Fair, an annual South of Market traditional program presented by the 1759 Sutter Street event, is the largest celebration of Veterans of Foreign Wars, Presidio San Francisco, CA 94115 alternative lifestyles in the United Trust and the National Cemetery 415.563.2313 States, featuring top live entertainment Administration, which includes a www.nccbf.org from alternative bands, a growing parade and formal ceremony at the artist’s area, and more. Presidio National Cemetery. $75,000 $10,000 131 10th Street, Suite 302 War Memorial Veterans Building San Francisco, CA 94103 401 Van Ness Avenue, Room 101 415.777.3247 San Francisco, CA 94102 www.folsomstreetevents.org 415.710.5293

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United Irish Societies of San Francisco sponsors the Saint The Village Project was founded Patrick’s Day Parade, one of the city’s in 2006 and employs art to build oldest and largest parades, featuring community and enhance the cultural, Bay Area bands, drill teams and social and educational well-being floats. of the Bay Area’s African American $20,000 and other underserved residents P.O. Box 16026 via annual events such as Kwanzaa, San Francisco, CA 94116 Mardi Gras San Francisco Style, 415.665.4595 Grillin in the Mo’, and A Senior www.uissf.org Moment. $20,000 Veterans Day Parade is a traditional 2097 Turk Street event to honor those who served in the San Francisco, CA 94115 Armed Forces of the United States and 415.424.2980 is presented by Veterans of Foreign www.thevillageprojectsf.org Wars. $20,000 War Memorial Veterans Building The traditionalMemorial Day parade and 401 Van Ness Avenue, Room 101 formal ceremony is held at the Presidio San Francisco, CA 94102 National Cemetery. Photo: Eric Poelzl, 2004 415.710.5293

Cultural Centers $509,665

GFTA supports operations, programming and maintenance of the four city-owned and two virtual cultural centers: African American Art and Culture Complex, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, Bayview Opera House Ruth Williams Memorial Theater, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Queer Cultural Center, South of Market Cultural Center.

Grants for the Arts 2019 / 2020 Annual Report 46 Re-Granting Programs

Re-Granting Programs Dancers’ Group Queer Cultural Center $235,000 Dancers’ Group serves artists, the Queer Cultural Center promotes dance community and audiences social justice and the artistic and Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center via programs and services that are as financial development of queer art The Asian Pacific Islander Cultural collaborative and innovative as the and culture. Their programs include Center (APICC) supports and presents creative process itself. Their CA$H grants for LGBTQ+ individual artists multidisciplinary art reflective of the Dance is a granting program for and organizations, free workshops to unique experiences of Asian Pacific individual artists and organizations support the development of successful Islanders living in the United States. in the San Francisco Bay Area. The artistic practices, lectures and panels in APICC proudly presents the annual program seeks to support artistic partnership with regional universities United States of Asian America Festival projects that represent the many and colleges, and sponsorship of (USAAF), showcasing diverse artistic diversities of the Bay Area dance numerous arts events throughout the works in music, dance, film, visual art community. Bay Area. and more from API artists throughout $35,000 $35,000 San Francisco. 44 Gough Street, Suite 201 762 Fulton Street $35,000 San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94102 934 Brannan Street 415.920.9181 415.993.8722 San Francisco, CA 94103 www.dancersgroup.org www.queerculturalcenter.org 415.829.9467 www.apiculturalcenter.org InterMusic SF Southern Exposure InterMusic SF is a San Francisco Bay Southern Exposure (SoEx) is an Center of Cultural Innovation Area nonprofit organization that artist-centered nonprofit organization The Center for Cultural Innovation advocates for those who create, share, committed to supporting visual (CCI) promotes knowledge and love the art of small ensemble artists. Southern Exposure’s sharing, networking, and financial music. InterMusic SF acts as a catalyst Alternative Exposure (AltEx) grant independence for individuals in the to help local artists thrive via career program supports the independent, arts by providing business training, development, creative collaboration, self-organized work of artists and grants, and incubating innovative and their Musical Grant Program. small groups that play a critical projects that create new program $35,000 and significant role within the San knowledge, tools and practices for 1446 Market Street Francisco Bay Area arts community. artists in the field, and conditions San Francisco, CA 94102 AltEx provides monetary awards that contribute to realizing financial 415.818.2825 to foster the development and self-determination. Their Quick Grant www.intermusicsf.org presentation of artist-led projects and Program provides reimbursement programs that are direct, accessible, funds to San Francisco Bay Area and open to the public. nonprofit organizations and individual $35,000 artists for professional development 3030 20th Street activities. San Francisco, CA 94110 $60,000 www.soex.org 1446 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 415.288.0530 www.cciarts.org

Grants for the Arts 2019 / 2020 Annual Report 47 Grantee Services

Grantee Services San Francisco Travel SF/ARTS $918,000 San Francisco Travel (SF Travel) SF/Arts Media promotes the arts promotes the City of San Francisco to in San Francisco by offering timely Community Vision all visitors and potential visitors to the information—in print, on the web, Community Vision provides nonprofits, City. Grants for the Arts supports the and on mobile devices—that informs small businesses, and social enterprises Arts Pillar of SF Travel, which highlights the general public of the many arts with strategic investment and guidance large and small arts and cultural and entertainment options available to deepen work, scale impact, and institutions in San Francisco. Parades to them. They publish San Francisco strengthen communities. Their team and festivals, such as the Chinese New Arts Monthly 11 months a year and of consultants use wisdom, industry Year Parade, Pride, and Folsom Street distribute it locally, and their website expertise and passion to improve Fair, are also promoted and advertised features over 1,000 active arts events programs and services. They provide to attract visitors. in its database along with curated arts financial management guidance, space $228,000 highlights and feature articles. SF/Arts. planning, and capacity building. San One Front Street, Suite 2900 org is accessible on iPads, iPhones and Francisco Nonprofit Sustainability San Francisco, CA 94111 other mobile devices as well as iOS and Initiative is one of Community Vision’s 415.974.6900 Android apps. highlighted programs. www.sftravel.com $580,000 $100,000 912 Cole Street, #352 870 Market Street, Suite 677 San Francisco, CA 94117 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.305.0427 415.392.8215 www.sfarts.org www.communityvisionca.org

Intersection for the Arts Intersection for the Arts provides people in arts and culture with resources to grow. Through fiscal sponsorship, low-cost co-working and event space, and professional development programs, the organization empowers people to continue creating, think big, and take weird and wonderful risks. Intersection for the Arts provides vital workshops and labs that walk potential grantees through GFTA’s General Operating Support – Arts application. $10,000 1446 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 415.626.2787 www.theintersection.org

Grants for the Arts 2019 / 2020 Annual Report 48 Arts and Tourism Other Programs A partnership with San Francisco Travel (formerly SF Convention and Visitors Bureau) $213,688 rants for the Arts established the Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund Special Projects and Unexpected Needs G first Arts and Tourism Program Sometimes described as “the little (SPUN) In recognition of the great need in the United States in 1989 with the grants that make a big difference,” for more resources for special activities goal of promoting San Francisco as a the Voluntary Arts Contribution and unexpected challenges within the cultural destination to travel industry Fund was established in 1984. arts and culture communities, GFTA professionals, including tour wholesalers, An innovative program that allows created a new, pilot grant in Fiscal Year travel agents, convention planners and San Francisco property taxpayers and 2020: Special Projects and Unexpected others. others to add a tax-deductible Needs (SPUN). The SPUN pilot grant was contribution to their biannual tax created to explore ways in which GFTA In 1991, San Francisco Travel became payments, it makes small grants might help organizations manage an the first agency to incorporate an Arts to arts organizations for capital unforeseen emergency or take advantage and Tourism office as a crucial part of improvements, facilities maintenance of an unanticipated opportunity that will its marketing to visitors and business and equipment acquisition. The enhance their work. travelers. Since then, the Arts and Tourism Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund is program has worked to increase visitor one of the most cost-effective ways for Through budget enhancements or attendance at arts events by designing property owners and other individuals amendments made by the Mayor and programs that highlight all the facets to support the arts, and is unique Board of Supervisors, GFTA may be of San Francisco’s thriving cultural because 100% of all donated funds are allocated one-time resources to make community. passed directly to the City’s arts and grants in special program areas or for cultural groups. special projects. From time to time, SPUN Arts and Tourism also works closely with may include special grants created with local arts and cultural organizations, For more information, visit our these available one-time funds. informing them how to best use the Website at www.sfgfta.org. mong community stakeholders. services offered by San Francisco Travel. One of the services offered has been a For Fiscal Year 20 grantees, please see series of free, educational PR seminars next page. created especially for the arts community.

Grants for the Arts 2019 / 2020 Annual Report 49 SPUN Grantees

Acción Latina Illuminate the Arts PlayGround $37,000 $30,000 $50,000 50th Anniversary of El Tecolote ’s 150th Anniversary 25th Anniversary Block Party Music Concourse Bandshell African-American Shakespeare Performances Queer Women of Color Media Arts Company Imprint City Project $37,500 $35,000 $35,000 25th Anniversary Production Avenue Theater Revitalization Project Special Project “SafeSpace/NoPlace: LBTQ People of Color” AfroSolo Theatre Company La Pocha Nostra $10,900 $25,000 San Francisco Architectural Heritage 25th Anniversary Production Special Project Celebrating 25 Years of $22,500 Interdisciplinary Art and Activism Special Project Haight-Ashbury American Conservatory Theater Visual Artist Residency $50,000 Magic Theatre Strategic Plan Implementation $50,000 San Francisco Parks Alliance Leadership Transition and $50,000 American Indian Film Institute Organizational Capacity Development Special Project Golden Gate Park 150th $36,000 Anniversary Community Performances Strategic Plan Implementation Mixed Bag Productions $15,000 Stern Grove Festival Association Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center Special Project “Releasing Time” $20,000 $10,000 Special Project Golden Gate Park Special Project “From Chinatown to Museum of Craft and Design 150th Anniversary Music Concourse SOMA and Back!” $40,000 Bandshell Performances $60,000 Special Project Launch of New Mobile Cultural Equity Accelerator Craft and Design Studio, MCD Mobile Theatre Rhinoceros Grantwriting Support MakeArt $48,000 Unexpected Need Season Relocation Berlin and Beyond National AIDS Memorial $25,000 $10,000 World Arts West 25th Anniversary Season Kickoff Event Special Project AIDS Memorial Quilt $50,000 “Coming Home” Display in Financial Literacy and Organizational Brava! for Women in the Arts Golden Gate Park Capacity Building $36,000 Strategic Plan Implementation Pink Triangle of Twin Peaks Youth Speaks $10,000 $30,000 Golden Thread Productions Special Project Presentation of the Organizational Capacity and Racial $10,500 25th Annual Pink Triangle Equity Initiative 25th Anniversary Celebration

Grants for the Arts 2019 / 2020 Annual Report 50 401 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 321 San Francisco, CA 94102 sfgfta.org