Grants for the Arts
Annual Report 2018 / 2019
1 Grants for the Arts 2018 / 2019 Annual Report Contents Grants for the Arts: A Continuing Legacy of Support 3 for San Francisco Arts and Culture Grants for the Arts FY 2018-2019 Budget 5 Grants for the Arts Programs 6 Annual Grants to San Francisco Arts Organizations 7 Cultural Centers, Civic Events, Regranting Programs 46 San Francisco Arts Media 47 Arts and Tourism — A Partnership with the San Francisco 48 Convention and Visitors Bureau Other Programs 48
Grants for the Arts 401 Van Ness Avenue, 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 Valerie Tookes, Senior Finance and Operations Manager Khan Wong, Senior Program Manager Kara Owens, Operations and Program Associate
Annual Report: San Francisco Study Center Edits: Mike Ortiz, Repromail
© 2018-2019, Grants for the Arts
Cover, clockwise, from top: Abigail Munn of Circus Bella performs on the Static Trapeze in Civic Center Commons as part of “Ring Out Loud!” PHOTO: Chris Stoll • NAKA Dance Theater performing Buscarte at the Joe Good Annex. PHOTO: Scott Tsuchitani • Non-Stop Bhangra performing at the USA Premiere of “The Harvest” at theSan Francisco Green Film Festival. PHOTO: Tommy Lau • Ross Travis performing Happy Ending as part of Circus Center Cabaret. PHOTO: Fernando Gambaroni • Mariachi Femenil Orgullo Mexicano performers Jennie Renn and Nydia Gonzalez performing as part of Local Sirens at Women’s Audio Mission. PHOTO: Margot Duane
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Photo: Jack Hutch Dear Friends, The history of Grants for the Arts is rooted in the belief that art and culture are integral to keeping San Francisco a vibrant place to live, work, and visit. This last year, we added a special chapter to that history when voters overwhelming approved Proposition E, reallocating a portion of San Francisco’s existing hotel tax to arts and cultural services.
I am extremely gratified by the arts community’s many contributions to this great city and am pleased to share details of our grantmaking for Fiscal Year 2019. In this latest annual report, we share how we have invested in our city’s diverse and dynamic arts scene.
Because of Proposition E, there are greater opportunities in Fiscal Year 2020 to support and connect with more worthwhile non-profit presenters of arts and culture activities. Our Grants for the Arts Advisory Panel and staff are working together with Mayor London N. Breed, the San Francisco Arts Commission and myself to seize these opportunities and fulfill our shared vision for increased equity, vibrancy, and transparency.
Thank you for joining us as we work to ensure San Francisco remains both a top tourist destination and the best place to live.
Sincerely, Naomi M. Kelly City Administrator
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Dear Friends, I am extremely proud of what Grants for the Arts has accomplished over the past twelve months. Fiscal 2019 was a magnificent year for Grants for the Arts thanks to the trust the voters gave us when they passed Proposition E, restoring the historic link between the hotel tax and City funding for arts and cultural programs.
Proposition E sets us on a path to be an even more stable, dependable resource for arts organizations who successfully meet our criteria. I could not be more confident in our position to provide increasing levels of funding to further support the unmatched talents of our grantees while paying particular attention to enhancing our grantmaking programs to benefit even more arts organizations.
This last year, our agency’s Director, Kary Schulman, and Associate Director, Renee Hayes, both retired following long-time, estimable careers of public service. We thank Kary and Renee for their incredible dedication and talents which, along with the committed work of our other staff and outgoing Citizens Advisory Committee, made the accomplishments outlined in this report possible.
My single greatest goal as I have transitioned into the position of director of Grants for the Arts is that we be even more successful than we have in the past. This last year has been a fantastic journey and a period of profound change; the next chapter promises to be even more exciting.
Best regards, L. Matthew Goudeau Director, Grants for the Arts
Grants for the Arts 2018 / 2019 Annual Report 4 FY 2018-2019 Budget
Support Services $335,410, 2% Arts and Tourism $648,990, 5%
EXPENDITURE TOTAL $14,445,393 Administration $903,979, 6%
Special Grants $606,420, 4%
General operating support $11,950,594, 83%
SUPPORT SERVICES line item includes: Community Vision for support services to nonprofit organizations seeking office, rehearsal and performance or exhibition space in the city; Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center Festival Grants Program to support artists for technical and production assistance, in addition to an artist stipend; Center for Cultural Innovation for the Creative Capacity Fund; Dancers’ Group to support the CA$H Program; Theater Bay Area to support the CA$H Program; InterMusic SF to support the Musical Grants Program; Southern Exposure to support the Alternative Exposures grant program; Queer Cultural Center to support Creating Queer Community; and insurance for civic events including the Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration, Memorial Day, Veterans Day and the New Year’s Fireworks.
SPECIAL GRANTS includes support to the San Francisco Film Commission, Fleet Week, City Guides and the Arts Commission Gallery.
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Annual Grants to San Francisco Arts Organizations rants for the Arts (GFTA) provides a stable, dependable base of support for the G city’s arts and cultural organizations that meet its funding criteria. In fulfilling its mission of “promoting the city through support of the arts,” GFTA annually funds nonprofit arts and cultural organizations that help promote San Francisco as a destination for regional, national and international visitors. Grants for the Arts is committed to supporting the broadest spectrum of the San Francisco arts community.
GFTA’s relationship with the city’s nonprofit groups is unique in terms of national municipal support of the arts because funding is not linked to specific projects or productions. Instead, the annual grant program is designed to provide a consistent source of funds for general operating expenses.
Grants for the Arts funding levels are determined on a progressive basis, with smaller budget organizations receiving a larger percentage of their budgets and larger groups a smaller percentage from the Fund. San Francisco’s largest cultural institutions are given important sustaining funds in recognition of their world- renowned artistic contributions and economic importance to the city. The majority of the funds (nearly 70%) goes to the small and midsize organizations of all disciplines and cultures.
On the following pages are the nonprofit arts and cultural organizations that received Grants for the Arts annual support for the 2018-2019 fiscal year. New groups are demarcated in red.
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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 The- atre’s “Dying While Black and Brown.” Photo: Kegan Marling • Performances by Gamelan Sekar Jaya, left, and Tiruchitrambal- am at San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival/World Arts West, 2016. Photos: RJ Muna
$2,083,180 Dance
ABADA Capoeira San Francisco is Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers, a Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance tours dedicated to teaching, promoting and woman-centered dance ensemble, is nationally and internationally, presents preserving the Brazilian dance form dedicated to fostering cross-cultural new and traditional works as well as capoeira. collaboration that examines difficult international festivals, and runs the $36,380 contemporary issues. Chhandam School, the largest kathak 3221 22nd Street $22,210 institution in North America, with sister San Francisco, CA 94110 3574 22nd Street schools in Boston, Toronto, Mumbai 415.206.0650 San Francisco, CA 94114 and Kolkata. www.abada.org 415.602.3777 $58,290 www.abdproductions.org 2325 Third Street, Suite 320 Alonzo King LINES Ballet develops San Francisco, CA 94107 new work blending classical ballet, Caminos Flamencos is dedicated to 415.333.9000 ethnic and modern dance; the group producing Flamenco programs with www.kathak.org tours regionally, nationally and a fresh, contemporary approach, internationally. reflecting the contemporary Flamenco Chinese Cultural Productions features $131,520 Nuevo movement. the Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company, 26 Seventh Street, 5th Floor $25,000 which presents classical, folk and San Francisco, CA 94103 26 Seventh Street, 5th Floor modern dances based on the traditions 415.863.3040 San Francisco, CA 94103 of China’s various ethnic groups. www.linesballet.org 510.531.9986 $31,370 www.caminosflamencos.com Fort Mason Center, Amy Seiwert’s Imagery is a Landmark Bldg. C-353 contemporary ballet company founded Capacitor dance company’s work is San Francisco, CA 94123 by choreographer Amy Seiwert in 2004 inspired by technology and science, 415.474.4829 to express her belief that the language incorporating multimedia, martial arts www.lilycaidance.org of classical ballet has relevance for the and acrobatics. current time. $17,900 Circo Zero, founded in 2001 by $20,730 645 Haight Street, #11 Keith Hennessy, makes live 613 Peralta Avenue San Francisco, CA 94117 performances sparked by current and San Francisco, CA 94110 415.308.1952 historic social realities, particularly 415.305.8900 www.capacitor.org around queer identity, with www.asimagery.com interdisciplinary and experimental Carolina Lugo’s & Carole Acuna’s work rooted in contemporary dance Ballet Flamenco represents a diversity and performance, and drawn from of cultures from around the globe circus, theater, music, visual and presented in television, dinner theater, conceptual art. cabaret venues, opera and symphonic $14,120 formats. 2842 Folsom Street $11,410 San Francisco, CA 94110 925 Mission Street, Suite 109 415.842.2273 San Francisco, CA 94103 www.circozero.org 415.933.9391 www.carolinalugo.com
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Dance Brigade, a contemporary dance Duniya Dance and Drum Company Epiphany Dance Theater is an theater company, also produces and performs and teaches traditional interdisciplinary company dedicated presents a variety of programs at Dance and unique blends of dance and to the artistic vision of dance Mission Theater, a venue in the Mission percussion-based music from Punjab, experimenter Kim Epifano, who District. India, and Guinea, West Africa, in collaborates with diverse artists to $66,060 a range of program formats, from produce original works. 3316 24th Street traditional proscenium shows to $22,460 San Francisco, CA 94110 performances and dance lessons at San 1448 Market Street 415.826.4401 Francisco clubs and restaurants, and San Francisco, CA 94103 www.dancebrigade.org presentations at free public festivals 415.647.1443 and parades. The company also www.epiphanydance.org Dancers’ Group presents local tours and teaches classes at schools dancers’ work in admission-free throughout the West Coast, and travels Flyaway Productions dance company public performances; serves as a fiscal annually to West Africa. produces site-specific as well as sponsor for local artists; publishes $14,000 traditional venue dances, often using a monthly newspaper; administers 1832 Castro Street aerial apparatus. regranting programs; and supports San Francisco, CA 94131 $22,310 the exchange of information about 415.401.5948 1068 Bowdoin Street performances, arts spaces and artistic www.duniyadance.com San Francisco, CA 94134 opportunities via online and email 415.672.4111 platforms. Embodiment Project creates and www.flyawayproductions.com $62,700 stages multimedia dance theater 44 Gough Street, Suite 201 concerts comprised of hip hop and Garrett Moulton Productions San Francisco, CA 94103 other dance forms. The company’s contemporary dance company strives 415.920.9181 original works combine movement, live to be an ongoing creative force in the www.dancersgroup.org music, theater and spoken word that Bay Area, presenting annual home “serve as unifying vehicles for social seasons as well as touring. Deborah Slater Dance Theater change and promote appreciation and $32,000 presents work dealing with topical understanding of urban social dance 351 Shotwell Street issues, combining original dance, forms.” San Francisco, CA 94110 theater and music with multimedia $9,670 415.864.6716 images. 901 Mission Street, Suite 306 www.janicegarrettanddancers.org $15,000 San Francisco, CA 94103 3288 21st Street, #71 415.626.2787 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.embodimentproject.org 415.267.7687 www.artofthematter.org
Left page: Dancers Brendan Barthel and Norma Fong in Robert Moses’ Kin’s “SILT.” Photo: RJ Muna
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Hope Mohr Dance creates, presents Lenora Lee Dance gives artistic voice Mark Foehringer Dance Project is a and fosters contemporary dance at the to the experiences of Asian Americans classical ballet company that creates intersection of critical thinking and the through the creation and presentation both dynamic and lyrical dances that body through two core components: to of large scale interdisciplinary dance often contain comedic elements. engage in rigorous creative inquiry that works integrating movement, music, $29,050 manifests in artistic excellence, and to video projection and text that tell 1388 Haight Street, #28 deepen critical discourse around dance. stories of family, community and San Francisco, CA 94117 $11,410 transformation in the face of the 415.640.2784 P.O. Box 225237 challenges of building a life in America. www.mfdpsf.org San Francisco, CA 94122 $12,400 415.867.5570 44 Montgomery Street, #2310 Na¯ Lei Hulu I Ka We¯kiu, a modern www.hopemohr.org San Francisco, CA 94104 hula troupe translated as “the many 415.816.9376 feathered wreaths at the summit held Jess Curtis/Gravity Inc., a “research www.lenoraleedance.com in high esteem,” produces an annual and development vehicle” for live season and performs to audiences performance, focuses on creating LEVYdance, a modern dance company, across the country. an engaging and highly physical ignites its audience’s awareness of $47,850 entertainment that addresses ideas shared human experience through the 153 Bradford Street of substance and relevance to a art of dance. San Francisco, CA 94110 broad public. $26,000 415.647.3040 $26,350 19 Heron Street www.naleihulu.org 849 Divisadero Street, #4 San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94117 415.701.1300 Navarrete x Kajiyama Dance Theater 415.435.7549 www.levydance.org Founded in 2001, the NAKA Dance www.jesscurtisgravity.org Theater creates interdisciplinary Margaret Jenkins Dance Company is performances that explore socio- Joe Goode Performance Group is a dedicated to the making and touring of political and environmental issues using modern dance company stretching the new work, international exchange, and dance, storytelling, ritual, multimedia traditional boundaries of dance and community programs. installations and site-specific theater. $69,900 environments. $53,270 507 Polk Street, #320 $7,500 499 Alabama Street #150 San Francisco, CA 94102 44 Gough Street, Ste. 201 San Francisco, CA 94110 415.861.3940 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.561.6565 www.mjdc.org 415.920.9181 www.joegoode.org www.nkdancetheater.com
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ODC/San Francisco is a major modern dance company presenting work by its three founding choreographers in local seasons, plus national and international tours. $140,380 351 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA 94110 415.863.6606 www.odcdance.org
ODC Theater, a multipurpose venue, offers a broad range of local, national and international artists in contemporary and traditional dance, music, performance and poetry. $65,500 351 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA 94110 415.863.6606 www.odcdance.org
Presidio Performing Arts Foundation/Presidio Dance Theatre creates cultural change, global RAWdance, a company committed SAFEhouse Arts presents dialogue and human connection through the to driven, visceral movement, multidisciplinary arts performances; artistry of dance, adhering to the philosophy explores the power and vulnerability provides low-cost space and that dance can deepen human connections, of the human body; it produces technical support for emerging share the collective wisdom of worldwide its own work and the CONCEPT performers to self-produce with a cultures, and reinforce compassion among series, a works-in-progress salon focus on performance art, LGBT performers and audiences alike. that features the work of many local groups and contemporary dance; $18,220 dance artists. and produces the West Wave Dance P.O. Box 29066 $17,960 Festival. San Francisco, CA 94141 105 Sanchez Street $29,580 415.561.3958 San Francisco, CA 94114 1 Grove Street www.presidiodance.org 415.686.0728 San Francisco, CA 94107 www.rawdance.org 415.518.1517 PUSH Dance Company performs vibrant www.safehousearts.org contemporary dances that provide audiences Robert Moses’ Kin is a multiethnic with an opportunity to examine issues of dance ensemble performing identity and intersecting cultures based on a innovative modern dance works. philosophy that pure movement and intellect $29,270 can coexist. 870 Market Street, Suite 567 $8,250 San Francisco, CA 94102 P.O. Box 191974 415.252.8384 San Francisco, CA 94119 www.robertmoseskin.org 415.439.9806 www.pushdance.org Chin-chin Hsu in “Fire of Freedom” by Lenora Lee Dance. Photo: Robbie Sweeny
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San Francisco Ballet, universally Smuin Ballet carries on the legacy World Arts West presents the acknowledged as one of the world’s of Tony- and Emmy-award winner San Francisco Ethnic Dance preeminent ballet companies, brings Michael Smuin by bringing the joy of Festival, a festival of dance forms from together the finest international artists dance to new and existing audiences around the world presented annually and cutting-edge productions with in the Bay Area through innovative in June. The festival, which has a passionate and knowledgeable performances of uncompromising featured thousands of local artists, was audience, both locally and around the quality. created by Grants for the Arts in 1978. globe. $125,540 $233,400 $417,900 44 Gough Street, Suite 103 Fort Mason Center 455 Franklin Street San Francisco, CA 94103 2 Marina Boulevard, Bldg.D #230 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.556.5000 San Francisco, CA 94123 415.861.5600 www.smuinballet.org 415.474.3914 www.sfballet.org www.worldartswest.org Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco, San Francisco Hip Hop Dance one of the city’s oldest companies, is a Zaccho Dance Theatre creates and Festival is an international festival professional ensemble that performs presents performance work that featuring dance “crews” from all over dances with roots in Spain as well as investigates dance as it relates to place, the United States, Canada and parts of from Latin America, featuring both focusing on making dances that use Europe. local and international artists. natural, architectural and cultural $25,790 $15,000 environments as points of departure P.O. Box 411492 952 Carolina Street for movement exploration and San Francisco, CA 94141 San Francisco, CA 94107 narrative. 415.297.9740 415.826.1305 $44,980 www.sfhiphopdancefest.com www.theatreflamenco.org 1777 Yosemite Avenue, #330 San Francisco, CA 94124 Scott Wells & Dancers, a 415.822.6744 contemporary dance ensemble, www.zaccho.org creates highly energetic work created as a result of touch, impact or collision with other dancers. $14,550 80 Turk Street San Francisco, CA 94102 415.931.8648 www.scottwellsdance.com
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, Harvey Milk Library.
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Center for the Art of Translation Litquake, an annual literary festival, RADAR Productions presents a promotes international literature and presents an eclectic range of Bay Area, monthly reading series featuring translation to connect readers, students national and international authors in a emerging queer writers, as well as and audiences with writing from around series of readings, performances events featuring more well-known the world, and makes great literature and “cross-media literary talent at venues throughout the city. accessible to readers and communities happenings.” $21,600 through a literary event series, $40,020 1953 McAllister Street publications and an education program. 57 Post Street, Suite 604 San Francisco, CA 94115 $16,000 San Francisco, CA 94104 415.216.9641 582 Market Street, Suite 700 415.750.1497 www.radarproductions.org San Francisco, CA 94104 www.litquake.org 415.563.2463 www.catranslation.org
City Arts and 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 S.F. International South Center for Asian American Media Roxie Theater promotes and preserves Asian Film Festival is committed to presents CAAMFEST, an annual the art of film and encourages promoting diverse images of South Asian American film festival. independent filmmaking and artistic Asians through independent film with $64,000 experimentation through daily film monthly screening events and the 145 Ninth Street, Suite 350 screenings, specialty film festivals, annual SF International South Asian San Francisco, CA 94103 self-produced series, live events, Film Festival. 415.863.0814 educational programs and visual arts $23,700 www.asianamericanmedia.org exhibitions. 992 Valencia Street $29,270 San Francisco, CA 94110 Frameline presents the annual San 3117 16th Street 415.824.3890 Francisco International LGBT Film San Francisco, CA 94103-3327 www.thirdi.org Festival, offers free screenings of socially 415.431.3611 relevant films to the local community, www.roxie.com Arab Film Festival showcases makes completion grants to LGBT independent films with Arab themes filmmakers, and distributes their work The San Francisco Cinematheque to enhance understanding of Arab nationally. presents year-round screenings of cultures and experiences. $86,230 art film classics, neglected films, and $27,120 145 Ninth Street, Suite 300 works by local and national avant-garde 3739 Balboa Street, Suite 125 San Francisco, CA 94103 filmmakers. San Francisco, CA 94121 415.703.8650 $22,060 415.564.1100 www.frameline.org 55 Taylor Street www.aff.org San Francisco, CA 94102 Gray Area Foundation for the Arts’ 415.552.1990 Artists’ Television Access supports the mission is to apply art and technology www.sfcinematheque.org production and exhibition of work by to create positive social impact through new artists in video, film, visual arts and education, civic engagement, and San Francisco Film Society presents multimedia performances. public programs. the annual San Francisco International $14,000 $9,670 Film Festival and a year-round array of 992 Valencia Street 2665 Mission Street exhibition, education and filmmaker San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94110 services programs. 415.824.3890 415.843.1423 $148,620 www.atasite.org www.grayarea.org 39 Mesa Street, Suite 110 The Presidio Berlin and Beyond, presented by Queer Women of Color Media Arts San Francisco, CA 94129 the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, is Project creates, exhibits and distributes 415.561.5000 America’s leading festival of new and new films that reflect the lives of queer www.sffs.org celebrated films from Germany, Austria women of color and presents the free, and Switzerland. annual Queer Women of Color Film $13,820 Festival. 530 Bush Street, Suite 204 $32,390 San Francisco, CA 94108 59 Cook Street 415.263.8760 San Francisco, CA 94118 www.goethe.de/sanfrancisco 415.752.0868 www.qwocmap.org
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San Francisco Green Film Festival San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, San Francisco Transgender Film uses the power of film to inspire, the world’s oldest and largest Festival builds a strong and diverse inform, and motivate audiences to find independent Jewish film festival, queer community by screening films their environmental passion and make promotes awareness and pride in the and videos that promote transgender a difference. diversity of the Jewish experience and visibility by challenging the mainstream $7,500 people. media’s negative stereotypes, and by San Francisco Green Film Festival $67,960 providing transgender media artists 145 9th Street, Ste. 220 145 Ninth Street, Suite 200 opportunities to reach their San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94103 intended audiences. 415.767.1977 415.621.0556 $9,100 www.greenfilmfest.org www.sfjff.org 375 27th Street, #A San Francisco, CA 94131 San Francisco Independent Film San Francisco Silent Film Festival 415.420.1630 Festival produces a season that presents four days of a diverse selection www.sftff.org includes “IndieFest,” a February festival of films made during the silent era with of screenings and events dedicated to live musical accompaniment at the the presentation of independent film, Castro Theatre. video and animation; “DocFest,” a May $65,450 documentary film festival; and “Another 145 Ninth Street, Suite 230 Hole in the Head,” a horror/fantasy film San Francisco, CA 94103 festival held in June. 415.777.4908 $31,980 www.silentfilm.org 2240 16th Street, Suite 107 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.820.3907 www.sfindie.com
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
$2,103,150 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 exhibits Tenderloin neighborhood with variety of theater, music, spoken art, artifacts and archives reflecting the multicultural programming featuring word and film activities by local experiences of Chinese in America. performing artists and gallery and touring artists in its renovated 370- $59,260 exhibits. seat Mission District venue. 965 Clay Street $40,800 $80,760 San Francisco, CA 94108 1007 Market Street 2781 24th Street 415.391.1188 San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.chsa.org 415.255.5971 415.641.7657 www.luggagestoregallery.org www.brava.org Circus Bella produces non-stop, 60-minute open-air, single ring circus Acción Latina promotes cultural California Historical Society, founded performances featuring thrilling arts, community media, and civic in 1871, inspires and empowers people feats of balance and strength, elegant engagement as a way of building healthy to make the state’s richly diverse past a demonstrations of grace and poise, and empowered Latino communities. meaningful part of their contemporary and hilarious slapstick antics. Circus $30,960 lives. Bella builds upon the traditions of its 2958 24th Street $56,240 predecessors the Pickle Family Circus San Francisco, CA 94110 678 Mission Street and Make*A*Circus, as well as its 415.648.1045 San Francisco, CA 94105 European roots, and is dedicated to www.accionlatina.org/encuentro 415.357.1848 creating a new circus movement with a www.californiahistoricalsociety.org contemporary vision. Asian American Women Artists $7,500 Association, dedicated to ensuring Chinese Culture Foundation sparks 231 Mullen Avenue the visibility, documentation and intercultural discovery through art, San Francisco, CA 94110 well-being of Asian American women education and engagement, presenting 415.205.8355 in the arts, presents programs, contemporary, innovative www.circusbella.org exhibitions, lectures and workshops Chinese and Chinese American that challenge societal assumptions and exhibitions and performances, and Circus Center is the oldest and largest promote dialogue across cultures and producing educational Chinatown circus training and performing arts generations. tours, lectures series and California center in the U.S. GFTA funds the $11,410 excursions. monthly series The Circus Center 1890 Bryant Street, #302 $69,700 Cabaret which distills humor, elegance, San Francisco, CA 94110 750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor and grandeur into a circus fête hosted 415.722.4296 San Francisco, CA 94108 in a uniquely intimate venue with www.aawaa.net 415.986.1822 live music performed by Cabaret www.c-c-c.org Chanteuse Madame Leanne Borghesi Asian Improv aRts supports the and the Roger Glenn Trio. creation, production, performance and $7,500 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 movement Cultural Odyssey creates, produces Footloose Dance Company produces of risk-taking art that shatters and presents original interdisciplinary and presents a mixed format of original assumptions and builds community, and multidisciplinary works rooted in theater, dance, music, improvisational providing space and resources African American music, dance and comedy and film/video. for emerging artists and cultural theatrical traditions. $13,750 innovators, and serving as an incubator $42,000 P.O. Box 885393 for the creation of socially relevant, PO Box 156680 San Francisco, CA 94188 community-based art and culture. San Francisco, CA 94115-6680 415.920.2223 $55,370 415.292.1850 www.ftloose.org 80 Turk Street www.culturalodyssey.org San Francisco, CA 94102 Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture 415.626.2060 Exploratorium, an internationally provides several well-equipped venues www.counterpulse.org renowned museum of science, art for diverse small and midsize groups and human perception, presents from all performing arts disciplines, Croatian American Cultural Center exhibitions, performances, film subsidized by GFTA funding to the Fort fosters the arts and culture of Croatia, programs, lectures and workshops. Mason Center Presents series. Central and Eastern Europe, and the $345,000 $52,850 Balkans; GFTA supports its public Pier 17, Suite 100 Fort Mason Center events, including the Croatian San Francisco, CA 94111 2 Marina Boulevard, Bldg. A Heritage Festival, San Francisco 415.563.7337 San Francisco, CA 94123 Tamburitza Festival, Hungarian Dance www.exploratorium.edu 415.345.7500 House and the Festival of www.fortmason.org the Mandolins. First Voice produces, presents and $41,300 sponsors performing arts projects that Fresh Meat Productions creates, 60 Onondaga Avenue explore the Asian American experience presents and tours multidisciplinary San Francisco, CA 94112 through storytelling and Asian- transgender arts programs, including 510.649.0941 influenced jazz expressions that blend performance, film and the work of www.croatianAmericanWeb.org past and present. resident company Sean Dorsey Dance. $77,700 $38,840 CubaCaribe preserves and promotes *Augmented by legislation action 375 27th Street, Apt. A the vibrant cultural and artistic 41 Parsons Street, Suite A San Francisco, CA 94131-2011 heritage of Cuba, the Caribbean and San Francisco, CA 94118 415.355.0071 the wider African diaspora through 415.221.0601 www.freshmeatproductions.org classes, performances and exhibitions, www.firstvoice.org including an annual festival each Galería de la Raza presents the spring. contemporary work of Bay Area $17,400 Latino/Chicano artists, musicians and 3316 24th Street theater groups. San Francisco, CA 94110-3803 $36,000 415.826.4441 1470 Valencia Street www.cubacaribe.org San Francisco, CA 94110 415.826.8009 www.galeriadelaraza.org
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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Intersection for the Arts is a historic, La Pocha Nostra, a multidisciplinary, Historical Society fosters the recovery, artist-run organization dedicated multimedia company created preservation, presentation and to helping artists grow through by performance artist Guillermo understanding of lesbian, bisexual, offering various resources--fiscal Gomez-Peña, explores the cultural transgender and gay culture through sponsorship, workshops, affordable borders between languages, exhibits, an oral history project and coworking space, arts coaching, cultures, technology and art. public readings. public programming opportunities, $23,900 $54,550 residencies and dedicated staff support. 2857 24th Street 657 Mission Street, #300 $66,940 San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94105 1448 Market Street www.pochanostra.com 415.777.5455 San Francisco, CA 94102 www.glbthistory.org 415.626.2787 The Lab SF, an interdisciplinary www.theintersection.org organization, supports the Genryu Arts promotes, presents development and presentation of and participates in Japanese and Jewish Community Center of San new visual, performing, media and Japanese American culture through Francisco presents lectures from literary art. taiko (Japanese drumming) and other renowned authors, newsmakers $27,530 traditional and contemporary music and thought leaders along with 2948 16th Street and dance forms. multidisciplinary performances, San Francisco, CA 94103 $12,890 including dance, theater, music, film 415.864.8855 2345 Bush Street, #12 and family events. www.thelab.org San Francisco, CA 94115-0282 $55,580 415.420.3151 3200 California Street Loco Bloco brings together www.genryuarts.org San Francisco, CA 94118 traditional rhythms, movements and 415.292.1200 aesthetics of the African diaspora Humanities West presents www.jccsf.org within Latin America and fuses them multidisciplinary programs in with contemporary urban styles of the arts and humanities that Kearny Street Workshop produces, music, dance and theater. complement lectures on history, presents and promotes the work $46,050 economics, politics, literature and of Asian American artists in all 3543 18th Street, #20 the arts with live performances of disciplines. San Francisco, CA 94110 music, drama and dance. $16,830 415.864.5626 $34,700 1246 Folsom Street, #100 www.locobloco.org P.O. Box 546 San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94104 415.503.0520 415.391.9700 www.kearnystreet.org www.humanitieswest.org Kulintang Arts, popularly known as Kularts, presents contemporary and tribal Pilipino arts. $23,490 474 Faxon Avenue San Francisco, CA 94112 415.239.0249 www.kularts.org
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MEDIATE Art Group showcases OX, founded in 2008 by performance San Francisco Architectural Heritage contemporary sound, installation artist Mica Sigourney, presents arts is dedicated to preserving the city’s and performance works primarily events exploring themes of family, architectural and cultural identity; through its Soundwave Festival, lineage, history, race and class GFTA funding supports tours of the a summer-long sound and arts issues, transgender issues and the Haas-Lilienthal House and Walking festival that draws audiences to significance of drag. Tours. unconventional environments $11,400 $30,250 for site-specific multidisciplinary 1310 Mission Street 2007 Franklin Street performance experiences, and is the San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94109 culmination of a curated two-year 347.243.7439 415.441.3000 program. www.cargocollective.com/ www.sfheritage.org $11,410 micasigourney P.O. Box 170305 San Francisco Center for the Book is San Francisco, CA 94117 Queer Rebel Productions explores the only center in the Western United 415.484.6278 the histories of LGBT people of States for the creation and display of www.me-di-ate.net color, builds community, fosters various forms of “book art,” including intergenerational dialogue, and fine printing, book structures, lettering Museum of Performance presents experimental film, poetry and more. & Design presents public and music programs. $61,260 exhibitions, educational programs, $6,500 375 Rhode Island Street performances, lectures and 762 Fulton Street San Francsico, CA 94103 screenings and maintains online San Francisco, CA 94102 415.565.0545 resources, an oral history project and 415.308.9883 www.sfcb.org research facilities, all reflecting San www.queerrebels.com Francisco’s performing arts history. San Francisco Performances presents $40,000 Red Poppy Art House serves as a internationally acclaimed and emerging 893B Folsom Street performance venue, art gallery, and artists in recitals, chamber music San Francisco, CA 94107 community resource, hosting more concerts, jazz and dance programs. 415.255.4800 than 100 events per year, including $153,480 www.sfpalm.org concerts, art exhibits, workshops and 500 Sutter Street, Suite 710 artist residencies. San Francisco, CA 94102 $23,950 415.398.6449 2698 Folsom Street www.performances.org San Francisco, CA 94110 www.redpoppyarthouse.org
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 intersection Z Space, a hub for artists and presents free, high-quality of arts education, youth development audiences to revel in the creation, performances for all Bay Area practices, civic engagement strate- development and production of residents and visitors; provides paid gies and quality artistic presentation, outstanding new work, commissions, opportunities for professional artists creates safe spaces that challenge youth develops, presents and produces a full and performing groups in the summer to find, develop, publicly present and season of new works from a months; serves diverse audiences by apply their voices as creators of societal variety of disciplines including presenting a season of varied musical change. theater, dance, music, performance art and performance genres and artists; $64,760 and new media. and enhances San Francisco’s renown 1663 Mission Street, Suite 604 $70,570 as a world center of arts and culture. San Francisco, CA 94103 499 Alabama Street, #450 $79,310 415.255.9035 San Francisco, CA 94103 832 Folsom Street, Suite 1000 www.youthspeaks.org 415.626.0453 San Francisco, CA 94107 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. $67,960 1062 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110 415.282.6024 www.themarsh.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
$2,940,730 Music
American Bach Soloists presents and Center for New Music fosters Earplay, a contemporary music records historically informed, virtuoso contemporary music’s growth by giving ensemble, performs American music instrumental and vocal performances of practicing artists access to professional with an emphasis on works by Bay Area Baroque and early classical music. resources and expertise, and by and lesser-known composers. $59,720 providing them with opportunities to $14,070 44 Page Street, Suite 403 share knowledge and explore new ideas. 560 29th Street San Francisco, CA 94102 $19,500 San Francisco, CA 94131 415.621.7900 55 Taylor Street 415.585.9776 www.americanbach.org San Francisco, CA 94102 www.earplay.org 415.275.2466 Bay Area Omni Foundation for www.centerfornewmusic.com Golden Gate Men’s Chorus, a 40-plus the Performing Arts presents voice ensemble, performs a repertoire concerts featuring a variety of world- Chamber Music San Francisco that ranges from classical programs to renowned and emerging acoustic produces a concert series at Herbst fully staged cabaret productions. guitarists who explore the stylistic range Theatre that features high-profile local $22,310 of the instrument. and touring artists. 116 Eureka Street $29,000 $42,940 San Francisco, CA 94114 PMB 1, 236 West Portal Avenue 1314 34th Avenue 415.668.4462 San Francisco, CA 94127 San Francisco, CA 94122 www.ggmc.org 415.242.4500 415.759.1756 www.omniconcerts.com www.chambermusicSF.org Golden Gate Performing Arts presents the San Francisco Gay Bay Area Rainbow Symphony provides Del Sol Performing Arts Men’s Chorus in a home season of a safe, supportive environment for Organization presents concerts, various productions and more than 30 musicians of all sexual orientations, engages in educational outreach, community events with classical, pop gender identities and gender and commissions new works and and holiday repertoires. expressions, and performs works by recordings, heightening awareness of $72,720 LGBTQ composers; produces concerts contemporary chamber music and 398 Eleventh Street, 3rd Floor in the spring, summer and fall; and making the art form more accessible. San Francisco, CA 94103 is one of seven LGBTQ orchestras in $28,190 415.865.3650 the United States and one of only 12 754 46th Avenue www.sfgmc.org worldwide. San Francisco, CA 94121-3202 $10,500 415.374.0074 2261 Market Street, #178A www.delsolquartet.com San Francisco, CA 94114 415.578.4852 www.bars-sf.org
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InterMusic SF offers a year-round Melody of China, Inc. is an Noe Valley Chamber Music Series variety of concerts featuring small instrumental ensemble performing presents monthly Sunday afternoon ensembles performing baroque, Chinese music that reflects the synergy concerts that feature well-known and classical, new, jazz, and creative music, between ancient cultural tradition and emerging chamber music ensembles. including its signature annual event, the modern American experience. $14,430 SFMusic Day Live + Free. $17,450 1021 Sanchez Street $15,850 2720 41st Avenue San Francisco, CA 94114 135 Main Street, Suite 1140 San Francisco, CA 94116 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 at Kronos Quartet commissions, summer concerts by local musicians Old Saint Mary’s Cathedral. performs and records contemporary in various San Francisco outdoor $24,200 string works, tours internationally for locations. 660 California Street five months each year, and collaborates $19,900 San Francisco, CA 94108 with artists from all over the world. 1346 Stevenson Street, B202 415.777.3211 $100,000 San Francisco, CA 94103 www.noontimeconcerts.org 1242 Ninth Avenue 415.350.7071 San Francisco, CA 94122 www.peopleinplazas.org Old First Concerts presents affordable, 415.731.3533 year-round performances of classical www.kronosquartet.org Musical Traditions, home of the Paul and cutting-edge chamber and recital Dresher Ensemble, creates, produces repertoire by emerging and mid-career Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Inc. and tours works of new opera/music Bay Area professional musicians, as produces a concert series featuring theater; commissions and performs well as visiting professionals from a repertoire of masterpieces by new chamber music; collaborates with around the world. traditional composers and modern other artists; and supports their creative $24,300 classical works. work with technical, financial and 1751 Sacramento Street $24,050 advisory assistance. San Francisco, CA 94109 1 Topaz Way $51,710 415.474.1608 San Francisco, CA 94131 55 Taylor Street www.oldfirstconcerts.org 415.617.5223 San Francisco, CA 94102 www.leftcoastensemble.org 415.558.9540 www.dresherensemble.org Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco celebrates all sexual orientations and New Century Chamber Orchestra, a gender identities, providing an open Grammy Award-nominated ensemble and artistic environment for singers of string musicians, brings a fresh committed to musical excellence. approach to classical music. $8,700 $60,000 584 Castro Street, #486 665 Third Street, Suite 345 San Francisco, CA 94114 San Francisco, CA 94107 415.861.7067 415.357.1111 www.lgcsf.org www.ncco.org
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Other Minds presents an avant-garde San Francisco Bach Choir is an San Francisco Chanticleer is an all- music festival featuring composers auditioned volunteer choir providing male chorus acclaimed for its artistry and artists from around the globe Bay Area concerts focused particularly and versatility that performs locally, in concerts, workshops and panel on the music of J.S. Bach, his nationally and internationally. discussions; operates an extensive contemporaries and predecessors, $133,000 online new music archive; presents and on rarely heard music of the 44 Page Street, Suite 604 various special new music events; and Renaissance and baroque periods. San Francisco, CA 94102 releases albums on its CD label. $38,070 415.252.8589 $45,000 2443 Filmore Street, #195 www.chanticleer.org 55 Taylor Street San Francisco, CA 94115 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.922.6562 San Francisco Choral Artists is a 415.934.8134 www.sfbach.org chamber ensemble dedicated to the www.otherminds.org performance of choral masterpieces of San Francisco Boys Chorus musically all eras, styles and regions. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra trains boys, 5 to 13, who regularly $12,300 recreates 17th and 18th century music perform in concerts throughout the PMB 344, 601 Van Ness Avenue, #E on original instruments in local, Bay Area, sing with the San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94102 national and international concerts. Opera and Symphony, and tour 415.979.5779 $127,940 internationally. www.sfca.org 414 Mason Street, Suite 606 $66,500 San Francisco, CA 94102 333 Hayes Street, Suite 116 San Francisco Choral Society, a 415.252.1288 San Francisco, CA 94102 200-member community choir, www.philharmonia.org 415.861.7464 specializes in large compositions for www.sfbc.org chorus and orchestra. Rova:Arts is a saxophone quartet that $32,000 explores musical possibilities through San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, 236 West Portal Avenue, Suite 775 commissioned works with other artists Northern California’s oldest San Francisco, CA 94127 presented at annual concerts. professional chamber orchestra, 415.566.8425 $14,870 presents classical, contemporary and www.sfchoral.org 333 12th Street commissioned works that reflect the San Francisco, CA 94103 diverse music and cultural traditions of 415.487.1701 America’s past and present. www.rova.org $41,600 P.O. Box 191564 San Francisco, CA 94119-1564 415.692.5297 www.sfchamberorchestra.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 Seas on and the free, outdoor SFJAZZ international artists, and offers young service performances. Summerfest Series. artist professional training programs, $50,000 $165,000 free community concerts, and 50 Oak Street 201 Franklin Street educational activities. San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94102 $677,000 415.503.6230 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 new $20,980 season, numerous free educational to them — and to use these experiences 584 Castro Street, #841 and community activities, and tours as ways to better understand, interact San Francisco, CA 94114-2594 nationally and internationally. with, and enjoy their lives and our 510.823.3931 $649,600 world. www.sflgfb.org Davies Symphony Hall $41,100 San Francisco, CA 94102 55 Taylor Street San Francisco Live Arts presents a 415.552.8000 San Francisco, CA 94102 series of performances, primarily at www.sfsymphony.org 415.278.9566 St. Cyprian’s Church, that ranges from www.sfcmp.org music to theater to performance art. $7,560 San Francisco Girls Chorus provides 2097 Turk Street an intensive, international-caliber San Francisco, CA 94115 choral music performance and 415.454.4665 education program for more than www.noevalleymusicseries.com 400 girls and young women from all cultural and economic backgrounds. $108,900 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 up to Volti is a professional vocal ensemble Women’s Audio Mission (WAM) 30 multi-instrumentalists and vocalists dedicated to commissioning and is dedicated to the advancement who perform renaissance and baroque performing new music, primarily by of women in music performance chamber and orchestral music, American composers. and the recording arts by providing introduces new audiences of all ages $29,270 performance opportunities and free to early music, combining historically P.O. Box 15576 music, recording arts training and informed performance, unique San Francisco, CA 94115-0576 mentorship in the only professional collaborations and consummate 415.771.3352 recording studio in the world built artistry. www.voltisf.org and run by women. Local Sirens, $13,000 WAM’s performance series, promotes 127 Downey Street the performance of new work by San Francisco, CA 94117 exceptional Bay Area women artists, 415.260.4687 supporting genres as diverse as hip www.voicesofmusic.org hop, Latin folk and jazz, traditional world genres, experimental electronic and more. $7,500 542-544 Natoma Street, #C-1 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.558.9200 www.womensaudiomission.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
$1,447,810 Theater
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 $26,200 amplification. contemporary premieres. 925 Mission Street, Suite 109 $64,680 $354,500 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, innovative African-American Shakespeare BATS Improv presents a variety in structure, that is created by new and Company produces classical works of improvisational theater from contemporary artists who address the with a strong cultural perspective, “Theatresports” to improvised diverse political and social concerns of providing minority artists and their Shakespeare and Broadway musicals. its audiences. communities opportunities to view $51,790 $30,500 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 $36,950 415.474.6776 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 mainly emerged as a home for Filipino artists, of works by established playwrights Afro Solo Theatre Company promotes reflecting and celebrating the diverse with a small but consistent level of and presents the experiences of African values, traditions and histories of output from emerging writers and Americans and people from the African Filipino and Filipino American cultures regional premieres at its permanent Diaspora in solo performances and the through artistic expression and home in Union Square. visual and literary arts. community engagement. $30,500 $8,490 $10,000 533 Sutter Street 762 Fulton Street, Suite 307 P.O. Box 190205 San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94119 www.custommade.org 415.771.2376 415.255.0440 www.afrosolo.org www.bindlestiffstudio.org
Following page: Eddie Lopez as Koko in American Conservatory Theater’s “The Unfortunates.” Photo: Kevin Berne
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The Cutting Ball Theater is dedicated Lamplighters Music Theatre, one New Conservatory Theatre Center, to developing experimental new plays of the top Gilbert and Sullivan a performing arts complex and and re-envisioning classics with an companies in the world, performs an professional theater arts school, emphasis on language and images. annual season of light opera classics. presents the year-long LGBT & $36,080 $67,000 Allied Pride Season, YouthAware 141 Taylor Street 469 Bryant Street Educational Touring Program, New San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94107 Play Development and Emerging Artist 415.572.7834 415.227.4797 Residencies, and a Family Matinee www.cuttingball.com www.lamplighters.org Children’s Theatre series. $70,450 EXIT Theatre produces experimental The Lobster Theater Project produces 25 Van Ness Avenue, Lower Lobby plays, absurdist classics and sketch-comedy shows, full-length San Francisco, CA 94102 performance art in four venues in plays, an annual film festival, monthly 415.861.4914 the Tenderloin, as well as the annual cabarets, short films and musical www.nctcsf.org Fringe Festival. recordings. $50,500 $21,440 Phoenix Arts Association Theatre/ 156 Eddy Street 2101 Folsom Street Gallery encourages the development San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94110 of new plays by providing performance, 415.931.1094 415.558.7721 workshop and rehearsal space in its www.sffringe.org www.killingmylobster.com downtown venues at a reasonable cost for theater companies with a wide foolsFURY Theater Company Lorraine Hansberry Theatre/SEW range of work. produces and presents new works and Productions presents plays by leading $10,790 performance styles that include music, African American playwrights, as well 138 Carl Street dance, circus, audience interaction and as a play-reading series featuring new San Francisco, CA 94117 three-dimensional visual art. works. 415.336.1020 $18,420 $55,000 www.phoenixtheatresf.org 499 Alabama Street, #450 762 Fulton Street, Suite 204 San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94102 PlayGround, a leading Bay Area play- 415.377.5277 415.345.3980 wright incubator, supports the develop- www.foolsfury.org www.lhtsf.org ment of new writers and new plays through commissions, Golden Thread Productions explores Magic Theatre is the Bay Area’s co-productions, a Young Playwrights Middle Eastern cultures and identities original home for visionary new theater Project and the annual Best of as expressed around the globe, dedicated to the cultivation of bold PlayGround Festival. presenting alternative perspectives by new plays, playwrights and audiences, $39,660 developing and producing aesthetically which reflect the rich history of the 268 Bush Street, #2912 varied and politically and viscerally world in which we live. San Francisco, CA 94104 engaging theatrical work. $89,660 415.992.6677 $41,250 Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina www.playground-sf.org 499 Alabama Street, #450 Boulevard, Bldg. D San Francisco, CA 94110-2064 San Francisco, CA 94123 415.626.4061 415.441.8001 www.goldenthread.org www.magictheatre.org
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The Playwrights Foundation supports San Francisco Shakespeare Festival Theatre Rhinoceros develops and the work of contemporary American presents “Free Shakespeare in the produces original works that examine playwrights by producing the Park” in the Presidio each summer, the personal lives and social concerns annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival, as well as school tours, camps and of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and as well as other events and programs educational programs throughout the transgender communities. throughout the year. Bay Area. $31,780 $43,750 $70,700 1 Sansome Street, #3500 1616 16th Street, Suite 350 P.O. Box 460937 San Francisco, CA 94104 San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94146 415.552.4100 415.626.2176 415.558.0888 www.therhino.org www.playwrightsfoundation.org www.sfshakes.org We Players presents site-integrated San Francisco Mime Troupe, the city’s Shadowlight Productions creates performance events that transform oldest professional theater company, is one-of-a-kind interdisciplinary works public spaces into realms of recognized internationally for creating that blend ancient shadow theater participatory theater, bringing political theater in parks and other techniques, modern theater, cinematic communities together and reclaiming outdoor locations. effects, live music and other media. local spaces for public discourse and $48,100 $35,000 civic celebration through art. 855 Treat Avenue 22 Chattanooga Street $17,350 San Francisco, CA 94110-2723 San Francisco, CA 94114 1462 14th Avenue 415.285.1717 415.648.4461 San Francisco, CA 94122 www.sfmt.org www.shadowlight.org 415.547.0189 www.weplayers.org San Francisco Playhouse produces Theatre of Yugen is the only U.S. an Off-Broadway-style mainstage company producing new works based season of six full productions annually, on the Japanese Noh and Kyogen including world and West Coast theater forms. premieres, the Sandbox New Play $30,000 Program and the Rising Stars 2840 Mariposa Street Program, a high school theater San Francisco, CA 94110 attendance initiative. 415.621.0507 $57,270 www.theatreofyugen.org 588 Sutter Street, #318 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.677.9596 www.sfplayhouse.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
$1,136,080 Visual Arts
ArtSpan/Open Studios of San Cartoon Art Museum is the only Creativity Explored advances Francisco builds community by museum west of the Mississippi the value and diversity of artistic connecting the public to visual arts dedicated to preserving and exhibiting expression, providing artists with in San Francisco through SF Open cartoon art in all its forms. developmental disabilities the means Studios, and youth and adult education $49,000 to create, exhibit and sell their art in the and art-centric events, creating a 655 Mission Street organization’s studio and gallery and platform for artists to thrive and San Francisco, CA 94105 around the world. fostering a Bay Area that values 415.227.8666 $56,650 the arts. www.cartoonart.org 3245 16th Street $43,800 San Francisco, CA 94103 934 Brannan Street Contemporary Jewish Museum makes 415.863.2108 San Francisco, CA 94103 the diversity of the Jewish experience www.creativityexplored.org 415.861.9838 relevant for a 21st century audience www.artspan.org and offers them new perspectives on Museo Italo Americano researches Jewish culture, history, art and ideas and displays artworks of all media by Burning Man Project creates and sites through innovative exhibitions and Italian and Italian American artists. temporary interactive, contemporary programs that educate, challenge, $46,400 art installations in collaboration with inspire and engage. Fort Mason Center San Francisco communities and $127,120 2 Marina Boulevard, Bldg. C neighborhoods. 736 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94123 $34,700 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.673.2200 660 Alabama Street 415-655-7808 www.museoitaloamericano.org San Francisco, CA 94110 www.thecjm.org 415.626.1248 Museum of Craft and Design presents www.burningman.org exhibits and programs that actively explore the role of craft and design in California College of the Arts, a everyday life. leading arts education institution, $44,070 presents exhibitions, lectures and 2569 Third Street symposia that feature local, national San Francisco, CA 94107 and international artists, architects, 415.773.0303 designers, writers, and multimedia www.sfmcd.org experts. $50,000 1111 8th Street San Francisco, CA 94107 415.703.9555 www.cca.edu
Following page: “Ferry Building,” ink and watercolor on paper by Andrew Li, 2009, for Creativity Explored.
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National Japanese American Precita Eyes Muralists Association Root Division, a multiuse space of Historical Society is a multi-arts offers daily mural walks throughout the studios, gallery, and classroom, serves organization that uses exhibition and Mission District, gallery exhibitions, the community in the production, performing arts to present the diversity classes and workshops, produces the education, and presentation of of the Japanese American experience. Urban Youth Art Festival, and sponsors contemporary visual art. $50,000 Mural Awareness Month. $34,700 1684 Post Street $44,470 P.O. Box 411605 San Francisco, CA 94115 2981 24th Street San Francisco, CA 94141 415.921.5007 San Francisco, CA 94110 415.863.7668 www.njahs.org 415.285.2287 www.rootdivision.org 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
Grants for the Arts 2018 / 2019 Annual Report 41 Visual Arts (continued)
San Francisco Art Institute’s public San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Southern Exposure supports visual programming, supported by GFTA, is dedicated to making the art of our artists through extensive, innovative features exhibitions and presentations time a vital, meaningful part of public programming, experimentation, by emerging and internationally life through its unparalleled collections, collaboration and education, providing recognized artists and scholars. exhilarating exhibitions and engaging a resource center and forum for Bay $45,000 public programs. Area and national artists and youth in 800 Chestnut Street $412,200 their Mission District space, and off-site San Francisco, CA 94133-2299 151 Third Street in the public realm. 415.749.4549 San Francisco, CA 94103 $52,970 www.sfai.edu 415.357.4000 3030 20th Street www.sfmoma.org San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco Camerawork presents 415.863.2141 exhibitions, lectures and workshops on www.soex.org contemporary fine art photography. $45,000 1011 Market Street, 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94103 415.512.2020 www.sfcamerawork.org “Revolving Doors” was an interactive, site-specific installation atSan Francisco Camerawork which invited viewers to enter and manipulate a maze-like configuration mimicking the internal mechanisms of the camera. Photo: Chris Fraser
Grants for the Arts 2018 / 2019 Annual Report 42 Annual Celebrations & Parades
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
$502,930 Annual Celebrations and Parades
Au Co Vietnamese Cultural Center’s Cinco de Mayo/Mission Dyke March is the largest annual signature outdoor event, the Mid- Neighborhood Centers sponsors the lesbian event in the world, held on the Autumn Harvest Festival, celebrates outdoor celebration with cultural and evening before the LGBT Pride Parade the arts and culture of the Southeast community groups to mark Cinco de in June. GFTA supports the cultural Asian American communities in San Mayo, featuring Ballet Folklorico/ event at Dolores Park that features Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. mariachi performances and local artists women poets, comediennes, singers $7,670 performances in the Mission District. and local all-female bands. P.O. Box 347042 $20,360 $6,500 San Francisco, CA 94134-7042 362 Capp Street 3543 18th Street, #2 415.298.3705 San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.aucocenter.org 415.206.7747 415.252.9230 www.mncsf.org thedykemarch.org Castro Street Fair, one of the city’s larger and longest-running street fairs, Carnaval San Francisco is a two-day Filipino-American Development celebrates cultural and sexual diversity Mission District festival of cultural Foundation organizes an annual each October. and community groups culminating festival featuring the Parol, a lantern $15,000 in a parade, considered the largest shaped like a five-pointed star, that 2929 19th Street multicultural outdoor parade/festival symbolizes hope and guidance. San Francisco, CA 94110 on the West Coast. $7,110 415.621.2665 $86,940 1010 Mission Street www.castrostreetfair.org 1333 Florida Street San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94110 415.348.8042 Chinatown Merchants Association 415.206.0577 www.bayanihancc.org is a two-day festival celebrated in www.carnavalsanfrancisco.org Chinatown every September, featuring Jerry Day is a civic and cultural event crafts, performances, exhibitions and Columbus Day Celebration, that pays tribute to the legacy of Jerry traditional foods. sponsored by the city’s Italian American Garcia, a San Francisco native son and $20,740 community, caps a month-long rock legend, held at the Jerry 667 Grant Avenue celebration with a parade, a pageant Garcia Ampitheater in McLaren Park, San Francisco, CA 94108 depicting Columbus’s landing, and the celebrating his Excelsior roots. 415.982.6306 ceremonial blessing of the fishing fleet. $7,110 [email protected] $34,170 809 France Avenue 678 Green Street San Francisco, CA 94112 Chinese Chamber of Commerce San Francisco, CA 94133 www.jerryday.org organizes the Chinese New Year 415.434.1492 Parade, an annual celebration in honor www.sfcolumbusday.org of the Lunar New Year, one of the largest of such events in the world. Comedy Day, Inc., a free event held in $79,270 August at Sharon Meadows in Golden 730 Sacramento Street Gate Park, features diverse local and San Francisco, CA 94108 national comedians. 415.982.3000 $7,420 www.chineseparade.com 1036 Pacheco Street San Francisco, CA 94116-1318 415.987.3663 www.comedyday.com
Grants for the Arts 2018 / 2019 Annual Report 44 Annual Celebrations and Parades (continued)
Nihonmachi Street Fair, Inc., a San Francisco Juneteenth includes a United Irish Societies of celebration of the Asian/Pacific parade, live entertainment, food and San Francisco sponsors the Saint American communities, emphasizes crafts vendors, recreation, a health fair, Patrick’s Day Parade, one of the city’s the nonprofit organizations that and community information booths oldest and largest parades, featuring serve them and features musical and to promote historical awareness, Bay Area bands, drill teams and floats. cultural performances, exhibits, food, celebrate African American culture, $18,110 Asian artisans, Children’s World and build connections to and among P.O. Box 16026 nonprofit information tables. community-serving organizations, and San Francisco, CA 94116 $13,450 enable African American vendors to 415.665.4595 1581 Webster Street, Suite 240 market their businesses and showcase www.uissf.org San Francisco, CA 94115 their craft. 415.771.9861 $9,200 The Village Project was founded www.nihonmachistreetfair.org 762 Fulton Street, 3rd Floor in 2006 and employs art to build San Francisco, CA 94102 community and enhance the cultural, Russian Center of San Francisco 510.692.2514 social and educational well-being of presents the Russian Festival, a three- www.sfjuneteenth.com the Bay Area’s African American and day event celebrating the diversity of other underserved residents via annual Russian culture through performances, SF LGBT Pride Celebration events such as Kwanzaa, Mardi Gras crafts, demonstrations, food and Committee, Inc. celebrates the San Francisco Style, Grillin in the Mo’, delicacies. full expression of LGBT culture by and A Senior Moment. $14,890 producing the annual San Francisco $7,820 2450 Sutter Street Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender 2097 Turk Street San Francisco, CA 94115 Pride Parade and other Pride Week San Francisco, CA 94115 415.921.7631 events. 415.424.2980 www.russiancentersf.com $76,760 www.thevillageprojectsf.org 1841 Market Street, 4th Floor Sakura Matsuri, Inc. celebrates San Francisco, CA 94103 Japanese arts and culture 415.864.0831 through exhibits, performances, www.sfpride.org demonstrations, martial arts, food and a street fair, culminating in a grand SOMA Merchants’ and Individuals’ parade. Lifestyle Events Folsom Street Fair, $36,990 an annual South of Market event, is 1759 Sutter Street the largest celebration of alternative San Francisco, CA 94115 lifestyles in the United States, featuring 415.563.2313 top live entertainment from alternative www.nccbf.org bands, a growing artist’s area, and more. $32,390 131 10th Street, Suite 302 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.777.3247 www.folsomstreetevents.org
Grants for the Arts 2018 / 2019 Annual Report 45 Cultural Centers, Civic Events and Regranting Programs
Cultural Centers Regranting Programs Southern Exposure/Alternative $441,229 $153,840 Exposure grants program supports GFTA supports operations, GFTA makes grants to other, “locally grown, artist-centered programming and maintenance of smaller granting programs to serve projects.” the four city-owned cultural centers: constituencies we may otherwise not $26,810 Bayview Opera House Ruth Williams reach. Memorial Theater, African American Theatre Bay Area CA$H Program Art and Culture Complex, South of Asian Pacific Islander Cultural makes awards to small theater Market Cultural Center and Mission Center Festival Grants Program companies, as well as to individual Cultural Center for Latino Arts. awards funds to API artists for technical artists. and production assistance, in addition $25,000 Civic Events to an artist stipend. $51,800 $21,490 Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Observance is the largest observance Dancers’ Group CA$H Program makes on the West Coast, a Northern awards to small dance companies, as California regional effort featuring a well as to individual artists. freedom train, march and ceremonies $26,810 at Yerba Buena Gardens. $21,800 InterMusic SF Musical Grant 330 Ellis Street, #407 Program makes awards to support San Francisco, CA 94102 outstanding projects of San Francisco 415.674.6000 Bay Area professional chamber music www.norcalmlk.org ensembles, presenters, and individuals with chamber music projects. Memorial Day Ceremony is a $32,240 traditional program presented by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Presidio Queer Cultural Center Creating Trust and the National Cemetery Queer Community is a capacity- Administration, which includes a building, commissioning and parade and formal ceremony at the presenting program that annually Presidio National Cemetery. enables culturally diverse LGBTQ The traditionalMemorial Day parade and $8,000 artists to produce and promote art formal ceremony is held at the Presidio War Memorial Veterans Building projects that explore social justice National Cemetery. Photo: Eric Poelzl, 2004 401 Van Ness Avenue, Room 101 issues. San Francisco, CA 94102 $21,490 415.710.5293
Veterans Day Parade is a traditional event to honor those who served in the Armed Forces of the United States and is presented by Veterans of Foreign Wars. $22,000 War Memorial Veterans Building 401 Van Ness Avenue, Room 101 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.710.5293
Grants for the Arts 2018 / 2019 Annual Report 46 San Francisco Arts Media
project of Grants for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Monthly is an A outreach publication to San Francisco visitors. It is provided free to hotel guests and concierges and is distributed in theater lobbies, Moscone Center, restaurants and cafes, bookstores and other targeted locations in San Francisco.
“Arts Monthly has been a huge success in building audiences,” according to a study by Dance USA, commissioned by the Bay Area foundation community. “This publication, started by Grants for the Arts as a tool for concierges, lists arts events for each month. When editors arranged to insert the publication in the New York Times in the first Sunday of each month, artists started advertising in it, and the perception was that the artists were in the New York Times. The cost of producing it is relatively low. And it raised the visibility and credibility of dance.”
ow do artists and audiences take advantage of Web technology and the HInternet to promote the arts in San Francisco? This has been the topic of discussion by Grants for the Arts and its constituent groups for a number of years. As part of GFTA’s mandate, linking its activities to attract visitors to San Francisco, GFTA led the way in creating a searchable, clutter-free database of San Francisco arts offerings on the Web with the 2001 launch of SFArts.org. This online calendar is a widespread, indispensable tool for anyone interested in the arts in San Francisco.
Organizations that receive GFTA support are listed on the site. Each group is invited to create a reciprocal link to SFArts.org so visitors can go directly to an art group’s Website and get more details about program offerings. Thousands GFTA has been listing monthly San Francisco arts offerings in print for 29 years of promotional cards that feature the Web addresses are distributed through and virtually at SFArts.org for 18 years. the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau, on-site at various locations in San Francisco, as well as online to individuals and groups interested in visiting the city.
SFArts.org bookmarks also are placed at the California State Fair, in theater lobbies, bookshops and cafes, or stuffed into programs and newsletters. Radio and print ads, BART signs and more have promoted the site, which is now ranked No. 1 on most of the country’s top search engines. $466,500
Grants for the Arts 2018 / 2019 Annual Report 47 Arts and Tourism Other Programs A Partnership with the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau
rants for the Arts established the Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund The Neighborhood Arts G first Arts and Tourism Program Sometimes described as “the little Collaborative is a joint project in the United States in 1989 with the grants that make a big difference,” of Grants for the Arts, the San Francisco goal of promoting San Francisco as a the Voluntary Arts Contribution Arts Commission, the Mayor’s cultural destination to travel industry Fund was established in 1984. Community Challenge Grant Program, professionals, including tour wholesalers, An innovative program that allows the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood travel agents, convention planners and San Francisco property taxpayers and Services, the Mayor’s Office of Economic others. others to add a tax-deductible and Work Force Development, and contribution to their biannual tax the Arts &Tourism Program of the San In 1991, the San Francisco Convention payments, it makes small grants Francisco Travel Association. and Visitors Bureau became the first to arts organizations for capital agency to incorporate an Arts and Tourism improvements, facilities maintenance The program was developed to provide office as a crucial part of its marketing and equipment acquisition. The funding for collaborative arts activities to visitors and business travelers. Since Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund is that take place in proximity to each other then, the Arts and Tourism program has one of the most cost-effective ways for within a specific geographic boundary. worked to increase visitor attendance at property owners and other individuals This multiagency effort supports arts events by designing programs that to support the arts, and is unique ommunity arts activities within some of highlight all the facets of San Francisco’s because 100% of all donated funds are San Francisco’s diverse neighborhoods thriving cultural community. passed directly to the City’s arts and to promote the arts, businesses, schools, cultural groups. social service and other nonprofits located Arts and Tourism also works closely with in close proximity, and to encourage local arts and cultural organizations, For more information, visit our the development of mutually beneficial informing them how to best use the Website at www.sfgfta.org. relationships among community services offered by the Convention stakeholders. and Visitors Bureau. One of the services offered has been a series of free, educational PR seminars created especially for the arts community. $182,490
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