Annual Report 2013 / 2014 Table of Contents

Grants for the Arts Progress Report...... 3

Grants for the Arts FY 2013/2014 Budget ...... 4

Grants for the Arts Programs ...... 5

Annual Grants to Arts Organizations...... 6

Arts and Tourism—A Partnership with the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau...... 22

Nonrecurring Events Fund ...... 22

San Francisco Arts Monthly...... 23

SFArts .org...... 23

Special Initiatives...... 24

Other programs...... 24

2013/2014 Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund Grants...... 25

2 Grants for the Arts

Director’s Report By Kary Schulman, Director

Rocco Landesman, immediate past Chairman of the The 950 Project, a mixed use development, is planned National Endowment for the Arts said that he, “wanted to devote 75,000 sq . ft . to arts uses . Grants for the to create an entirely new conversation that was based Arts, along with city partners at the Mayor’s Office of not on what the arts needed but on what they bring to Economic and Workforce development and the San the table .” From its inception over 50 years ago, Grants Francisco Arts Commission have helped to coordinate for the Arts has encouraged beneficial relationships city resources for the major placemaking initiative in among the City’s many renowned arts organizations, Central Market . tourism and local business, making San Francisco a top international visitor destination while enhancing the Grants for the Arts’ main focus remains providing cultural life of residents . In other words, San Francisco on-going general operating support to the broadest has known for decades “what the arts bring to the possible range of arts organizations . After a number of table .” difficult years, thanks to an increased appropriation of $12,522,570 in the Mayor’s budget, approved by the The over 200 organizations supported by Grants for Board of Supervisors, Grants for the Arts was able to the Arts result in over 6,000 full-time jobs, and over give modest increases to 151 groups whose funding 11,000 part-time and contract positions resulting in fell below Grants for the Arts’ progressive benchmarks . nearly $230M in payroll . These groups served over This increased funding also enabled funding for four 9 .5M audience members: San Franciscans, residents new organizations found to be a “best fit” with funding of the greater Bay Area, and visitors from other parts criteria . These are: of , across the country, and the world . A recent survey of travelers showed that nearly 70% Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, an orchestra specializing of respondents considered arts and culture to be in the performance of works by LGBTQ composers . “important or very important” to their interest in California Institute of Integral Studies for their San Francisco . Public Programs & Performances—a presenting series showcasing traditional and contemporary artists from Landesman also initiated a “creative placemaking around the world . conversation: to be explicit about the ways the arts change the social, physical, and economic characters of Custom Made Theatre Company, producing an annual places .” San Francisco has been a critical participant season in the Gough Street Playhouse, an intimate in this conversation, particularly in the identification performing space on the edge of the Western Addition of Central Market by arts and city leaders as an arts San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, for its public corridor . Joining San Francisco Camerawork, The performances including the annual free San Francisco Center for New Music, Exit Theatre, Cutting Ball and Music Day, Chamber Music at the Legion, and Jazz+ at The Costume Shop in Central Market were a number the deYoung . of exciting arts capital initiatives in 2013 . ACT broke Other continuing GFTA projects included the popular ground on the Strand Theatre, the Community Arts monthly Rotunda Series—free monthly performances in Stabilization Trust (CAST), with lead funding from the the City Hall Rotunda, curated by Dancers Group and Rainin Foundation helped The Luggage Store secure World Arts West, the Neighborhood Arts Collaborative its longtime home, enabled CounterPULSE to acquire (see page 24), and the bi-annual Voluntary Arts property at 80 Turk, and is helping to keep other Contribution Fund distribution of money contributed properties affordable by securing long-term leases . 3 Grants for the Arts FY 2013/2014 Budget

Item % of Whole Rounded

Support Services $ 332,000 2 .65% 2 .7% Arts and Tourism $ 591,100 4 .72% 4 .7% Administration $ 781,291 6 .24% 6 .2% Special Grants $ 835,000 6 .67% 6 .7% General Operating Support $ 9,983,179 79 .72% 79 .7% Expenditure Total $ 12,522,570 100.00% 100.0%

The support services line item includes:

Northern California California Community Loan Fund -- for support services to Nonprofit organizations seeking office, rehearsal and performance or exhibition space in the City; Center for Cultural Innovation -- for the Creative Capacity Fund; Theater Bay Area – to support the CA$H Program; Friends of Chamber Music to support the Musical Grants Program; Southern Exposure to support the Alternative Exposures grant program; insurance for civic events including the Martin Luther King, Jr . celebration, Memorial Day, Veterans’ Day and the New Year’s Fireworks; platforms for celebrations . The Special Grants includes support to the San Francisco Film Commission, San Francisco Host Committee, Fleet Week and the Arts Commission Gallery .

4 Grants for the Arts Programs Annual Grants to San Francisco Arts Organizations

The foremost goal of Grants for the Arts (GFTA) is to provide a stable, dependable base of support for the 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 non-profit 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 non-profit groups is quite unique in terms of national municipal support of the arts . This is 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 is the list of non-profit arts and cultural organizations that received Grants for the Arts annual support for the 2013/2014 Fiscal Year .

5 Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Deborah Slater Dance Theater/ Art of Company The Chitresh Das Dance the Matter Presents work dealing with Dance Company, one of the world’s leading topical issues, combining original dance, Kathak dance companies, tours theater and music with multimedia $1,512,010 internationally, presents new and images . traditional works and international $15,000 ABADA Capoeira San Francisco festivals . The Chhandam School is 3288 21st Street, #71 Teaches, promotes and preserves the the largest Kathak institution in North San Francisco, CA 94110 Brazilian dance form capoeira . America with sister schools in India . 415.267.7687 $24,400 $34,650 www.artofthematter.org 3221 22nd Street 2325 Third St., Suite 320 San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94107 Epiphany Productions/Sonic Dance 415.206.0650 415-333-9000 Theater An interdisciplinary company, www.abada.org www.kathak.org dedicated to the artistic vision of dance experimenter Kim Epifano, collaborates Alonzo King LINES Ballet Dedicated to Chinese Cultural Productions Chinese with diverse artists to produce original developing new work blending classical Cultural Productions features the Lily Cai works . ballet, ethnic and modern dance; tours Chinese Dance Company, which presents $14,900 regionally, nationally and internationally . classical, folk and modern dances based 889 DeHaro Street $84,750 on the traditions of China’s various ethnic San Francisco, CA 94107 26 Seventh Street, 5th Floor groups . 415.647.1443 San Francisco, CA 94103 $20,000 www.epiphanydance.org 415.863.3040 Center, Landmark Bldg. www.linesballet.org C-353 Flyaway Productions A highly physical San Francisco, CA 94123 dance company that produces site- Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers A woman 415.474.4829 specific as well as traditional venue centered dance ensemble dedicated to www.lilycaidance.org dances often using aerial apparatus . fostering cross cultural collaboration, $15,950 movement language that breaks the Dance Brigade A contemporary dance 1068 Bowdoin Street ordinary paradigm of western dance, and theater company that also produces and San Francisco, CA 94134 choreographies that face difficult issues presents a variety of programs at Dance 415.333.8302 with eloquence and passion . Mission Theater, a venue in the Mission www.flyawayproductions.com $13,800 District . 4027 Cesar Chavez $53,150 Garrett Moulton Productions San Francisco, CA 94131 3140 21st St., #107 A contemporary dance company that 415.643.4630 San Francisco, CA 94110 strives to be an ongoing creative force www.abdproductions.org 415.826.4401 in the Bay Area presenting annual home http://www.dancemission.com/dance_ seasons as well as touring . Capacitor A dance company whose work brigade.html $19,000 is inspired by technology and science, 351 Shotwell Street incorporating multi-media, martial arts Dancers’ Group A multi-service dance San Francisco, CA 94110 and acrobatics . organization featuring local dancers’ 415-864-6716 $10,000 works; serves as fiscal sponsor for local www.janicegarrettanddancers.org 645 Haight Street, #11 artists, publishes a dance newsletter and San Francisco, CA 94117 administers an emergency assistance Jess Curtis/Gravity Inc. GPE was 415.308.1952 fund . founded in 2000 by Jess Curtis as a www.capacitor.org $59,400 research and development vehicle 1360 Mission St., #200 for live performance focusing on San Francisco, CA 94103-2647 creating engaging and highly physical 415.920.9181 entertainment that addresses ideas of www.dancersgroup.org substance and relevance to a broad public . $23,700 849 Divisadero Street, #4 San Francisco, CA 94117 415.435.7549 www.jesscurtisgravity.org 6 Joe Goode Performance Group A Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu A modern San Francisco Ballet Recognized as modern dance company stretching the hula troupe, translated as “the world one of the premier companies in the traditional boundaries of dance and according to hula” that produces an world, and among the largest in the US, theater . annual season and performs to audiences presents an annual five-month season $39,800 across the country . offering full-length classical works, as well 499 Alabama #150 $32,700 as new commissions from contemporary San Francisco, CA 94110 1527 20th St. choreographers . 415.561.6565 San Francisco, CA 94107 $394,400 www.joegoode.org 415.647.3040 455 Franklin St. www.naleihulu.org San Francisco, CA 94102 Kunst-stoff To present a series of dance 415.861.5600 performances in San Francisco . ODC/San Francisco A major modern www.sfballet.org $8,910 dance company presenting work by the 26 Seventh Street, 5th Floor three founding choreographers in local San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival/ San Francisco, CA 94103 seasons plus national and international World Arts West A festival of dance 415.863.3040x286 tours . forms from around the world presented www.kunst-stoff.org $114,850 throughout the City and the region . The 351 Shotwell St. festival features thousands of local artists LEVYdance Founded in 2002 by artistic San Francisco, CA 94110 and is presented in cooperation with director Benjamin Levy, LEVYdance 415.863.6606 Grants for the Arts . ignites its audiences’ awareness of a www.odcdance.org $204,200 shared human experience through the art Fort Mason Center, Bldg. D, Room 273 of dance . Presidio Performing Arts Foundation San Francisco, CA 94123 $10,850 Presidio Dance Theatre is an acclaimed 415.474.3914 19 Heron Street multi-generational performance www.worldartswest.org San Francisco, CA 94103 company, ballet-based, specializing in 415.701.1300 dance from many regions of the world San Francisco Hip Hop Dance Festival www.levydance.org and with award-winning arts education An international festival featuring Hip programs . The Company tours nationally Hop dance “crews” from all over the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company and internationally . U .S ., Canada and parts of Europe . Renowned modern dance company $4,500 $16,000 dedicated to the making and touring 1158 Gorgas 1355 Third Avenue, Apt. 3 of new work, international exchange San Francisco, CA 94129 San Francisco, CA 94122 and community programs like CHIME 415 561.3958 415.297.9740 (Choreographers in Mentorship www.presidiodance.org www.sfhiphopdancefest.com Exchange) . $58,200 RAWdance Committed to driven, visceral Scott Wells & Dancers A contemporary 507 Polk Street #320 movement, the company explores the dance ensemble creating highly San Francisco, CA 94102 power and vulnerability of the human energetic work created as a result of www.mjdc.org body . Established in 2004, the group touch, impact or collision with other produces its own work and also produces dancers . Mark Foehringer Dance Project A the CONCEPT series, a works-in-progress $12,200 classical ballet company that creates salon that features the work of many 1805 Divisadero St. both dynamic and lyrical dances that local dance artists . San Francisco, CA 94115 often contain comedic elements . $6,750 415.931.8648 $11,800 105 Sanchez Street www.scottwellsdance.com 1388 Haight Street, #28 San Francisco, CA 94117 San Francisco, CA 94117 www.rawdance.org Smuin Ballet Produces Tony and Emmy 415.640.2784 Award-winner Michael Smuin’s innovative www.mfdpsf.org Robert Moses’ Kin A multi-ethnic dance choreography plus new dance works in ensemble performing innovative modern annual home seasons . dance works . $109,850 $23,100 44 Gough Street, Suite 103 870 Market Street, Suite 567 San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.556.5000 415.252.8384 www.smuinballet.org www.robertmoseskin.org 7 Stepology Stepology was founded to Zaccho Dance Theatre Zaccho creates PlayGround The Bay Area’s leading preserve and promote the American and presents performance work that playwright incubator, supporting form of tap dance . It produces an investigates dance as it relates to place . the development of new writers and annual tap festival and provides Artistic Director Joanna Haigood’s new plays through commissions, co- classes, performances, and lecture creative work focuses on making dances productions and the annual Best of demonstrations . that use natural, architectural and cultural PlayGround Festival . $10,000 environments as points of departure for $16,650 P.O. Box 420889 movement exploration and narrative . 268 Bush St., #2912 San Francisco, CA 94142 $36,400 San Francisco, CA 94104 415.294.4941 1777 Yosemite Ave., #330 415.704.3177 www.stepology.com San Francisco, CA 94124 www.playground-sf.org 415.822.6744 Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco www.zaccho.org Playwrights Foundation is a new play One of the City’s oldest companies, a development center that supports professional Spanish ensemble that also the work of contemporary American performs dances from Latin America . playwrights by producing the annual $11,700 Literary Bay Area Playwrights Festival and other 150 McAllister St. events and programs throughout the San Francisco, CA 94102 year . 415.826.1305 Arts $24,950 http://www.theatreflamenco.org 1616 16th St., Suite 350 $211,700.00 San Francisco, CA 94103 West Wave Dance Festival via 415.626.2176 Safehouse for the Performing Arts Center for the Art of Translation www.playwrightsfoundation.org Produces and presents the finest produces free, monthly afternoon in contemporary choreography by “Lit & Lunch” readings, evening Poetry Center The Poetry Center, emerging and established dance artists in programs and special events throughout based at San Francisco State University, a shared program format . the year, including panels and readings presents poets and writers drawn from $16,300 during the Litquake literary festival, the full spectrum of contemporary 715 Bryant Street, #102 book release parties, and student poetry literature . San Francisco, CA 94107 performances . $18,300 (415) 518 1517 $10,000 1600 Holloway Ave. http://www.975howard.com/ 582 Market Street, Suite 700 San Francisco, CA 94132 San Francisco, CA 94104 415.338.2227 Yaelisa & Caminos Flamencos Dedicated 415.563.2463 www.sfsu.edu/~poetry to producing Flamenco programs with a www.catranslation.org fresh, contemporary approach, reflecting Radar Productions Radar presents the contemporary Flamenco Nuevo City Arts and Lectures Presents several a monthly reading series featuring movement . series of lectures, conversations and emerging queer writers, as well as events $20,700 other literary activities with well-known featuring more well-known talent at 26 Seventh Street, 5th Floor authors and cultural figures . venues throughout the City . San Francisco, CA 94103 $54,150 $11,450 510.531.9986 1955 Sutter St. 280 San Carlos St. www.caminosflamencos.com San Francisco, CA 94115 San Francisco, CA 94110-1724 415.563.2463 415.216.9641 www.cityarts.net http://www.radarproductions.org

Litquake An annual literary festival that Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center presents an eclectic range of Bay Area, Promotes and supports experimental national, and international authors in a writers of all ages, ethnicities, series of readings, performances and socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds . “cross-media literary happenings .” $10,450 $15,000 1111 Eighth Street P.O. Box 720125 San Francisco, CA 94107 San Francisco, CA 94172-0125 415.551.9278 415.750.1497 www.sptraffic.org www.litquake.org 8

Youth Speaks A literary arts, event Artists Television Access supports the Roxie Theater through daily film production and educational organization production and exhibition of work by screenings, self-produced series for teenagers, who “speak for new artists in video, film, visual arts and and special live events, educational themselves” through interdisciplinary multimedia performances . programs, and visual arts exhibitions in spoken word performances . $11,450 its façade windows, the group provides a $50,750 992 Valencia Street venue for filmmakers and filmgoers of all 1663 Mission Street, Suite 604 94103-3327 ages and backgrounds . San Francisco, CA 94103 415.824.3890 $10,000 415.255.9035 www.atasite.org 3125 16th Street www.youthspeaks.org San Francisco, CA 94103-3327 Berlin and Beyond, presented by the www.roxie.com Goethe-Institut, is the only German film festival in the . This festival San Francisco Cinematheque screens offers ticketed and free film screenings works by local and national avant-garde Media and discussions with filmmakers, actors filmmakers, film classics and neglected and producers . films . $483,650 $10,000 $9,900 530 Bush Street 145 Ninth Street, Suite 240 3rd I S.F. International South Asian Film San Francisco, CA 94108 San Francisco, CA 94103 Festival is an international film exposition 415.263.8760 415.552.1990 showcasing films and videos from www.goethe.de/sanfrancisco www.sfcinematheque.org Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, the Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet and Center for Asian American Media San Francisco Film Society presents the South Asian diaspora . presents the annual, 10-day San Francisco the oldest film festival in the U .S ., $12,400 International Asian American Film Festival . showcasing independent American, 992 Valencia Street $58,750 foreign and commercial films . San Francisco, CA 94110 145 Ninth Street, Suite 350 $116,300 415.824.3890 San Francisco, CA 94103 39 Mesa Street, Suite 110 www.thirdi.org 415.863.0814 The Presidio www.asianamericanmedia.org San Francisco, CA 94129 American Indian Film Festival is an 415.561.5000 international film exposition showcasing Frameline presents the annual, 11-day www.sffs.org films and videos by and about Native San Francisco International Lesbian Americans . & Gay Film Festival at several venues San Francisco Independent Film $30,600 throughout the City . Festival is a festival of screenings and 333 Valencia, Suite 322 $60,850 events dedicated to the presentation of San Francisco, CA 94103 145 Ninth Street, Suite 300 independent film, video and animation . 415.554.0525 San Francisco, CA 94103 $25,700 www.aifisf.com 415.703.8650 530 Divisadero Street, #183 www.frameline.org San Francisco, CA 94117 Arab Film Festival,Cinemayaat, 415.820.3907 showcases independent filmmakers Queer Women of Color Media www.sfindie.com working with Arab themes to enhance Project promotes the creation, exhibition understanding of diverse Arab cultures and distribution of films and videos that San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, a and experiences . reflect the life stories and address the six-day festival of independent films, $23,300 social justice issues of queer women of promotes awareness of the diversity of 2 Plaza Avenue color . “QWOCMAP” presents the annual the Jewish experience and the Jewish San Francisco, CA 94116 Queer Women of Color Film Festival . people . 415.564.1100 $17,200 $57,800 www.aff.org 59 Cook Street 145 Ninth Street, Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94118 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.752.0868 415.621.0556 www.qwocmap.org www.sfjff.org

9 San Francisco Silent Film Festival California Institute of Integral Studies CubaCaribe Founded in 2003, the provides public access to a broad range Offers a local showcase of global CubaCaribe’s mission is to preserve and of films made during the silent era by performing arts and educational events promote the vibrant cultural and artistic presenting an annual festival of silent that celebrate cultural diversity by heritage of Cuba, the Caribbean and films with live musical accompaniment at presenting traditional and contemporary the wider African diaspora . The group’s the Castro Theater . artists from around the world . primary activity is an annual festival held $39,400 $5,000 over three weeks each spring . 833 Market Street, Suite 812 1453 Mission Street $9,500 San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94103 3316 24th Street 415.777.4908 415.575.6176 San Francisco, CA 94110-3803 www.silentfilm.org http://www.ciis.edu/Public_Programs. 415.826.4441 html www.cubacaribe.org

CounterPULSE A community-based Cultural Odyssey Creates, produces visual and performing arts venue and presents original interdisciplinary Multi-Arts available to artists, activists and performance works that are rooted in community experimenters for meetings, African American music, dance and $975,300 public discussion, rituals, art exhibits and theatrical traditions . performances . $34,800 509 Cultural Center Dedicated $33,350 PO Box 156680 to enriching the cultural life of the 1310 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94115-6680 Tenderloin neighborhood with San Francisco, CA 94103 415.292.1850 multicultural programming featuring 415.626.2060 www.culturalodyssey.org performing artists and gallery exhibits . www.counterpulse.org $32,000 Eureka Theatre Company Co-produces 1007 Market St. Cowell Theater/Fort Mason Center work and manages an affordable and San Francisco, CA 94103 Provides a well-equipped venue for well-located 200-seat theatre for a 415.255.5971 diverse small and midsize groups from all number of Bay Area companies . www.luggagestoregallery.org performing disciplines . $20,000 $44,600 215 Jackson Street Asian Improv aRts Supports the creation, Fort Mason Center, Bldg. A San Francisco, CA 94111 production, performance and recording San Francisco, CA 94123 415.788.7469 of new Asian American work in music, 415-345-7500 www.eurekatheatre.org poetry and dance . www.fortmason.org $24,950 First Voice Produces, presents and 44 Montgomery St., Suite 2310 Croatian American Cultural Center sponsors performing arts projects that San Francisco, CA 94104 Fosters the arts and culture of the explore the Asian American experience . 415.908.3636 Slavonic community; GFTA support is for $18,800 www.asianimprov.org public events including the Marco Polo 41 Parsons, Suite A and Poklada festivals . San Francisco, CA 94118 Brava! for Women in the Arts Produces, $33,700 415.221.0601 co-presents and presents a variety 60 Onondaga Ave. www.firstvoice.org of theatre, music, spoken word, and San Francisco, CA 94112 film activities with local and touring 510-649-0941 Footloose Dance Co. Produces and artists, including international work, in www.croatianAmericanWeb.org presents a mixed format of original its renovated 370 seat Mission District theater, dance, music, improvisational venue, focusing on, but not limited to, comedy and film/video and operates a women, people of color, and the LGBT performance/rehearsl/rental/ facility . community . $13,550 $63,200 P.O. Box 885393 2781 24th St. San Francisco, CA 94188 San Francisco, CA 94110 415.920.2223 415.641.7657 www.ftloose.org www.brava.org

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Fresh Meat Productions Fresh Meat Jewish Community Center of San Red Poppy Art House a performance Productions creates, presents and Francisco The JCCSF presents high level, venue, art gallery, and community tours multidisciplinary transgender arts multi-disciplinary arts and performances resource that hosts more than 150 events programs, including performance, film including dance, theatre, comedy, new per year, including concerts, art exhibits, and the work of resident company Sean and world music, film, family events, and workshops, and artist residencies . Dorsey Dance . lectures . Through innovative arts and $6,450 $17,050 culture programs, we bring the Jewish 2698 Folsom Street 375 27th Street, Apt. A and broader community together . San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94131-2011 $36,000 www.redpoppyarthouse.org 415.355.0071 3200 California Street www.freshmeatproductions.org San Francisco, CA 94118 SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts. a 415.292.1200 multidisciplinary presenting organization Genryu Arts GA’s mission is to promote, www.jccsf.org that operates as The Garage, a 49-seat present, and participate in Japanese space on Howard Street in SOMA . It and Japanese American culture through Kearny Street Workshop Produces, provides low-cost space and technical taiko (Japanese drumming) and other presents and promotes the work of Asian support for emerging performers to self- traditional and contemporary music American artists in all disciplines . produce, with a focus on performance and dance forms . Directed by founder $16,450 art, GLBT groups and contemporary Melody Takata, a multi-faceted artist 1246 Folsom Street, #100 dance . A variety of other programs are trained in Japanese classical dance and San Francisco, CA 94103 also offered . music, the organization is deeply rooted 415.503.0520 $8,700 in San Francisco’s Japantown . www.kearnystreet.org 715 Bryant Street, #102 $8,550 San Francisco, CA 94107 2345 Bush Street, #12 Kulintang Arts Populary known as (415) 518 1517 San Francisco, CA 94115-0282 Kularts, presents contemporary and tribal http://www.975howard.com/ 415.420.3151 Pilipino arts . www.genryuarts.org $18,300 San Francisco Center for the Book 474 Faxon Ave. The only center for the creation and Humanities West Presents San Francisco, CA 94112 display of various forms of “book arts” multidisciplinary programs in the 415.239.0249 - including fine printing, book structures, humanities that complement lectures on www.kularts.org lettering, etc . - in the Western United history, economics, politics, literature and States . the arts with live performances of music, Marsh, The Annually presents hundreds $47,000 drama and dance from the specific time of diverse productions in its multi-venue 375 Rhode Island Street period . space in the Mission . San Francsico, CA 94103 $20,550 $57,850 415.565.0545 P.O. Box 546 1062 Valencia St. www.sfcb.org San Francisco, CA 94104 San Francisco, CA 94110 415.391.9700 415.282.6024 San Francisco Performances Presents www.humanitieswest.org www.themarsh.org internationally acclaimed and emerging artists in recitals, chamber music Intersection for the Arts A broad-based, ODC Theater A multipurpose venue concerts, popular entertainment and community-focused and nationally known offering a broad range of work with dance programs . group that presents theatre, performance local, national and international artists $135,000 art, literary arts, visual arts and music in in contemporary and traditional dance, 500 Sutter St., Suite 710 its exhibition/performance space in the music, performance and poetry . San Francisco, CA 94102 Mission District . $51,150 415.398.6449 $53,950 351 Shotwell Street www.performances.org 925 Mission Street, #109 San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.863.6606 415.626.2787 www.odctheatre.org www.theintersection.org

11 Society for Art Publications of the Chamber Music Partnership, Inc. Americas Presents cross-cultural and Performs a chamber music repertoire multi-disciplinary visual arts exhibits, Music that includes masterpieces by traditional musical performances and public composers as well as modern classical forums to expand the audience for $2,781,150 works; produces the Left Coast Chamber contemporary art of the Americas, Ensemble concert series in the Green particularly work by Central, South and Accion Latina An annual fall concert Room . Native American artists in the Bay Area . series that presents music from $13,050 $27,000 throughout Latin America and the 196 Ripley St. 535 Powell St. United States . San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94108 $7,600 415.642.8054 415.398.7229 2958 24th Street www.chambermusicpartn.org www.meridiangallery.org San Francisco, CA 94110 415.648.1045 Chamber Music San Francisco Produces Stern Grove Festival Association www.accionlatina.org/encuentro a concert series at Herbst Theatre that Presents a summer series of admission- features high-profile local and touring free, world-class performing arts in a American Bach Soloists Presents and artists . beautiful outdoor amphitheater in records historically informed, virtuoso $22,000 San Francisco . instrumental and vocal performances 1314 34th Avenue $65,800 of Baroque and early classical music . San Francisco, CA 94122 44 Page St., Suite 600 Summer Academy for emerging 415.759.1756 San Francisco, CA 94102 professionals at the SF Conservatory, www.chambermusicSF.org 415.252.6253 workshops and masterclasses provide www.sterngrove.org unique educational opportunities in Composers, Inc. Provides a forum for historically informed performance performance of works by living American Z Space Studio Founded in 1993, Z practice . composers in its annual concert season . Space has become one of the nation’s $42,300 $6,000 leading laboratories for the development 44 Page Street, Suite 504 PO Box 194552 of new voices, new works, and new San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94119-4552 opportunities in American theater . 415.621.7900 415.512.0641 $53,550 www.americanbach.org www.composersinc.org 499 Alabama Street #450 San Francisco, CA 94103 Bay Area Rainbow Symphony Performs Cypress String Quartet A string 415.626.0453 works by LGBTQ composers, played ensemble dedicated to championing www.zspace.org by LGBTQ musicians in three concert works by living American composers, seasons per year . exploring the classic string quartet $5,000 repertoire, and uncovering unjustly 2261 Market Street #178A overlooked works . San Francisco, CA 94114 $29,700 415.578.4852 912 Cole Street #137 http://bars-sf.org/ San Francisco, CA 94117 (415) 585-9045 Bay Area Omni Foundation for the www.cypressquartet.com Performing Arts Presents concerts featuring a variety of world-renown and Del Sol Performing Arts Organization emerging acoustic guitarists who explore The Del Sol String Quartet’s concerts, the stylistic range of the instrument . educational outreach, commissioning $22,000 of new works and recordings heighten PMB 1, 236 West Portal Ave. awareness of contemporary chamber San Francisco, CA 94127 music and make this art form more 415.242.4500 accessible . www.omniconcerts.com $16,500 754 46th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94121-3202 415.374.0074 www.delsolquartet.com

12 Door Dog Music Productions Supports Lamplighters Music Theatre Considered Midsummer Mozart Festival The only and promotes music from various ethnic one of the top Gilbert and Sullivan major series in the United States devoted traditions and produced the annual companies in the world; performs an to Mozart’s works; performs an annual World Music Festival . annual season of light opera classics . season of concerts and has released a $29,600 $56,750 number of recordings . 1007 General Kennedy Avenue, P.O. Box 77367 $29,250 Suite 215 San Francisco, CA 94107 760 Market Street, Suite 749 San Francisco, CA 94129 415.227.4797 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.561.6571 www.lamplighters.org 415.627.9141 www.doordog.org www.midsummermozart.org Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco Earplay A contemporary music ensemble The oldest American mixed gay/ MSA/People in Plazas Presents free dedicated to performing American music lesbian chorus; annually produces three summer concerts by local musicians with emphasis on works by Bay Area and full-length choral concerts of varied in a variety of San Francisco outdoor lesser-known composers . repertoire . locations . $14,550 $9,700 $17,550 P.O. Box 192125 584 Castro Street, #486 1346 Stevenson St., B202 San Francisco, CA 94119-2125 San Francisco, CA 94114 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.585.9776 415.861.7067 415.350.7071 www.earplay.org www.lgcsf.org www.marketstreet.citysearch.com

Golden Gate Men’s Chorus A 40+ Loco Bloco Develops and presents New Century Chamber Orchestra A voice ensemble performing a variety of intergenerational art rooted in the Grammy Award-nominated ensemble concerts in various venues; repertoire music, dance and theater traditions of of string musicians bringing a fresh ranges from classical programs to fully the Americas; sustains three performing approach to classical music . staged cabaret productions . ensembles that perform in annual $45,900 $16,800 productions . 665 Third Street, Suite 200 116 Eureka St. $27,950 San Francisco, CA 94107 San Francisco, CA 94114 3543 18th St. #20 415.357.1111 415.668.4462 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.ncco.org www.ggmc.org 415.864.5626 www.locobloco.org Noe Valley Chamber Music Series Golden Gate Performing Arts Presents Presents monthly Sunday afternoon the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus Magnificat An ensemble of voices and concerts that feature well-known and in a home season of five productions instruments that produces an annual emerging chamber music ensembles; this and over thirty community events with concert series of 17th century works and season all performances take place at repertoire from classical, to pop, holiday, provides instrumental support to Bay Holy Innocents Episcopal Church . and classical . Area professional and community choirs . $7,700 $50,000 $22,600 1021 Sanchez St. 1800 Market Street, PMB 100 4175 23rd Street San Francisco, CA 94114 San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94114 415.648.5236 415.865.3650 415.979.4500 www.nvcm.org www.sfgmc.org http://magnificatbaroque.com Noontime Concerts A free weekly Kronos Quartet Kronos Quartet: A Melody of China, Inc. An instrumental lunchtime classical music series held at string quartet that commissions, ensemble; promotes Chinese music with Old Saint Mary’s Cathedral . performs and records contemporary classical roots that reflects the synergy $16,150 works, tours internationally for five between ancient cultural tradition and 660 California Street months each year, and collaborates with the modern American experience . San Francisco, CA 94108 artists from all over the world . $16,400 415.777.3211 $77,300 2720 41st Avenue www.noontimeconcerts.org 1242 Ninth Avenue San Francisco, CA 94116 San Francisco, CA 94122 415.640.9825 415.731.3533 www.melodyofchina.org www.kronosquartet.org

13 Old First Concerts Presents quality, Pocket Opera Performs witty original San Francisco Chanticleer An all-male affordable chamber music concerts English translations of chamber operas . chorus acclaimed for its artistry and and vocal recitals of contemporary and $35,250 versatility that performs locally, nationally classical music performed by emerging 469 Bryant Street and internationally . professionals from the Bay Area and San Francisco, CA 94107 $118,250 around the world . 415.972.8930 44 Page Street, Suite 604 $21,000 www.pocketopera.org San Francisco, CA 94102 1751 Sacramento Street 415.252.8589 San Francisco, CA 94109 Rova: Arts A saxophone quartet which www.chanticleer.org 415.474.1608 explores musical possibilities through www.oldfirstconcerts.org commissioned works with other artists San Francisco Choral Artists A chamber presented at annual concerts . ensemble dedicated to the performance Opera Parallele Founded in 1993, $17,400 of choral masterpieces of all eras, styles incorporated in 2005, EP is the only 333 12th St. and regions . Bay Area organization dedicated to San Francisco, CA 94103 $11,100 the professional development and 415.487.1701 PMB 344, 601 Van Ness Ave., #E performance of contemporary chamber www.rova.org San Francisco, CA 94102 opera . 415.979.5779 $7,000 San Francisco Bach Choir A 60+ www.sfca.org 50 Oak Street member choir that performs the choral San Francisco, CA 94102 literature of Bach and other classical San Francisco Choral Society A 415.503.6279 composers . 200-member community choir www.ensembleparallele.com $32,150 specializing in large compositions for 3145 Geary, #210 chorus and orchestra . Other Minds Presents one of the San Francisco, CA 94118 $22,400 country’s leading avant-garde music 415.922.6562 236 West Portal Ave., Suite 775 festivals, featuring composers and artists www.sfbach.org San Francisco, CA 94127 from around the globe in concerts, 415.566.8425 workshops and panel discussions . San Francisco Boys Chorus Musically www.sfchoral.org $33,800 trains boys, 5 to 13 years old, who 333 Valencia St., Suite 303 regularly perform in concerts throughout San Francisco Conservatory of Music San Francisco, CA 94103 the Bay Area, sing with the San A fully accredited music college, 415.934.8134 Francisco Opera and Symphony and tour produces numerous public events www.otherminds.org internationally . including year-round student and $54,050 faculty concerts and community service Paul Dresher Ensemble Creates, 333 Hayes Street, Suite 116 performances . produces and tours works of new opera/ San Francisco, CA 94102 $55,900 music theater; commissions and performs 415.861.7464 50 Oak Street new chamber music; collaborates with www.sfbc.org San Francisco, CA 94102 other artists; and supports their creative 415.503.6230 work with technical, financial, and San Francisco Chamber Orchestra www.sfcm.edu advisory assistance . Northern California’s oldest professional $43,650 chamber orchestra, presenting classical, San Francisco Contemporary Music 333 Valencia St., Suite 301 contemporary and commissioned works Players One of the oldest ensembles San Francisco, CA 94103 that reflect the diverse music and cultural performing contemporary music; 415.558.9540 traditions of America’s past and present . presents a concert season at the Herbst www.dresherensemble.org $26,800 Theatre . PO Box 191564 $30,600 Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra San Francisco, CA 94119-1564 55 New Montgomery, Suite 708 Recreates 17th and 18th century music 415.692.5297 San Francisco, CA 94105 on original instruments in local, national www.sfchamberorchestra.org 415.278.9566 and international concerts . www.sfcmp.org $110,700 180 Redwood St., Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.252.1288 www.philharmonia.org 14 San Francisco Friends of Chamber San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Volti A professional vocal ensemble Music Offers a variety of programs Band The first openly gay music dedicated to commissioning and including Chamber Music Day, its organization in the U .S ,. performing both performing new music, primarily by signature public offering . This annual marching and concert band repertoire American composers . fall event offers audiences an extensive throughout the Bay Area and on tour . $15,700 menu of musical styles free-of-charge, $11,600 P.O. Box 15576 while giving exposure to the Bay Area’s 584 Castro Street, #841 San Francisco, CA 94115-0576 numerous small music ensembles . San Francisco, CA 94114-2594 415.771.3352 $5,000 510.823.3931 www.voltisf.org 135 Main Street, Suite 1140 www.sflgfb.org San Francisco, CA 94105 415.710.0551 San Francisco Live Arts Presents a series www.sffcm.org of performances, primarily at the Noe Valley Ministry, that ranges from music to Theater San Francisco Girls Chorus theater to performance art . The five-time Grammy Award-winning $9,700 San Francisco Girls Chorus provides an 1021 Sanchez St. $1,107,650 intensive, international-caliber choral San Francisco, CA 94114 42nd Street Moon music education and performance 415.454.4665 A theatre company that celebrates program for more than 400 girls and www.noevalleymusicseries.com the scripts and scores of uncommon young women from all cultural and mid-20th Century Broadway musicals economic backgrounds . San Francisco Opera A world-renowned presented in an intimate theatre, $89,950 company presenting annual seasons of tastefully understated and without 44 Page Street, Suite 200 classic and contemporary works featuring the amplification . San Francisco, CA 94102-5986 finest international artists and productions $46,550 415.863.1752 along with young artist professional training 601 Van Ness Ave, #E3-621 www.sfgirlschorus.org programs, free community concerts, and San Francisco, CA 94102 educational activities . 415.255.8205 San Francisco Gu-Zheng Music Society $653,500 www.42ndstmoon.org Presents concerts featuring the gu- 301 Van Ness Ave. zheng, a type of flat harp, and other San Francisco, CA 94102 Actors Theatre of San Francisco An ancient Chinese instruments . 415.861.4008 ensemble company presenting a mix of $4,500 www.sfopera.com off-Broadway, classic and new plays in a 450 2nd Ave. small downtown venue . San Francisco, CA 94118 San Francisco Symphony Award winning $24,000 415.668.8111 organization acknowledged as one of 855 Bush Street www.guzheng.org the best orchestras in the U .S ,. programs San Francisco, CA 94108 a nine-month season and numerous 415.345.9582 San Francisco Jazz Organization/ educational activities, tours nationally www.actorstheatresf.org SFJAZZ Presents world-class live jazz and internationally . concerts year-round, including the annual $626,100 African American Shakespeare San Francisco Jazz Festival; SFJAZZ Davies Symphony Hall Company African American Shakespeare Spring Season and the free, outdoor San Francisco, CA 94102 Company produces classical works SFJAZZ Summerfest Series . 415.552.8000 with a strong cultural perspective and $137,500 www.sfsymphony.org provides opportunities and accessibility 3 Embarcadeo Center, Lobby Level for minority artists and their community San Francisco, CA 94111 sfSound Dedicated to the creation, to view these works in a manner that is 415.398.5655 promotion and support of live inclusive of their cultural heritage . www.sfjazz.org contemporary music performances . $14,000 $5,000 762 Fulton Street, Suite 306 1168 Noriega Street San Francisco, CA 94102-4119 San Francisco, CA 94122 415.762.2071 x8 415.759.9041 www.african-americanshakes.org www.sfsound.org

15 Afro Solo Theatre Company Promotes Custom Made Theater Company Golden Thread Productions Golden and presents the experiences of African Performs a repertoire consisting mainly of Thread Productions stages works focusing Americans and people from the African works by established playwrights with a on historic and contemporary issues Diaspora in solo performances and the small but consistent level of output from of the disparate cultures of the Middle visual and literary arts . emerging writers and regional premieres East in order to present a balanced and $7,400 at its permanent home, the Gough Street nuanced view of this complex region . 762 Fulton Street, Suite 307 Playhouse . $17,100 San Francisco, CA 94102 $5,000 499 Alabama St. #450 415.771.2376 1620 Gough Street San Francisco, CA 94110-2064 www.afrosolo.org San Francisco, CA 94109 415.626.4061 www.custommade.org www.goldenthread.org American Conservatory Theater Considered one of the top regional Cutting Ball Theater, The A theater La Pocha Nostra A multidisciplinary, theatres and actor-training conservatories company dedicated to the development multimedia company created by in the U .S ., produces a ten-month season of experimental new plays and re- performance artist Guillermo Gomez- of plays ranging from world classics to envisioned classics with an emphasis on Peña, explores the cultural borders contemporary premieres . language and images . between languages, cultures, technology $331,000 $16,050 and art . 30 Grant Ave., 6th Floor 141 Taylor Street $16,800 San Francisco, CA 94108-5800 San Francisco, CA 94102 2857 24th Street 415.834.3200 415.572.7834 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.act-sf.org www.cuttingball.com www.pochanostra.com

BATS Improv Presents a variety Encore Theatre Company Offers Lobster Theater Project, The produces of improvisational theater from innovative stage presentations of new sketch-comedy shows, full-length plays, “Theatresports” to improvised and rarely produced drama fostering an annual film festival, monthly cabarets, Shakespeare and Broadway musicals . social awareness . short films and musical recordings . $30,200 $7,000 $18,350 Fort Mason Center, B350 2612 25th Street 2101 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA 94123 San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94110 415.474.6776 x.4 415-336-7027 415.558.7721 www.improv.org www.encoretheatreco.org www.killingmylobster.com

Campo Santo An award-winning EXIT Theatre Produces experimental Lorraine Hansberry Theatre/SEW theatre ensemble performing culturally plays, absurdist classics and performance Productions Presents plays by leading diverse work . art in four different venues in the African American playwrights and a play $25,000 Tenderloin, as well as the annual Fringe reading series featuring new works . 446 Valencia St. Festival . $43,350 San Francisco, CA 94103 $43,900 777 Jones St. 415-626-2787 156 Eddy St. San Francisco, CA 94109 www.theintersection.org San Francisco, CA 94102 415.345.3980 415.931.1094 www.lhtsf.org Crowded Fire Theater Company www.sffringe.org Produces poetic, bold work created by Magic Theatre new and contemporary artists, innovative foolsFURY Theater Company Produces One of the City’s oldest theatres, in structure, which addresses the diverse and presents new works and performance recognized internationally for the political and social concerns of our styles that include music, dance, development and production of new audiences . circus, audience interaction and three- works by American writers . $12,600 dimensional visual art . $77,450 PO Box 7775 #33990 $16,800 Fort Mason Center, Bldg. D San Francisco, CA 94120-7775 499 Alabama St., #450 San Francisco, CA 94123 415.255.7846 San Francisco, CA 94110 415.441.8001 www.crowdedfire.org 415.377.5277 www.magictheatre.org www.foolsfury.org

16 New Conservatory Theatre Center San Francisco Shakespeare Festival San A performing arts complex and Francisco Shakespeare Festival presents professional theater arts school . ‘Free Shakespeare in the Park’ in the Visual Arts Production is centered around its year Presidio each summer as well as school long LGBT Pride Season, Summer tours, camps, and educational programs $1,585,100 Cabarets, YouthAware Educational throughout the Bay Area . Touring Program, New Play Development $62,600 Artists Guild of San Francisco Artists and Emerging Artist Residencies, and a P.O. Box 460937 Guild of San Francisco (The Guild) was Family Matinee Children’s Theatre series . San Francisco, CA 94146 founded to give artists control over the GFTA funds support the organization’s 415.558.0888 marketing of work through regular free public programming . www.sfshakes.org public outdoor exhibits in highly visible $63,200 locations . 25 Van Ness Ave., Lower Lobby Shadowlight Productions A trailblazer in $5,000 San Francisco, CA 94102 the contemporary shadow theatre field, 3801 Third St. #1098 415.861.4914 creating one-of-a-kind interdisciplinary San Francisco, CA 94124 www.nctcsf.org works that blend ancient shadow theatre 415.835.0610 techniques, modern theatre, cinematic www.artistsguildsf.com Phoenix Arts Association Theatre/ effects, live music and other media . Gallery Encourages the development $24,750 ArtSpan/Open Studios of San Francisco of new plays by providing performance, 22 Chattanooga St. Features non-juried works of almost 1000 workshop and rehearsal space in their San Francisco, CA 94114 local artists exhibited at artists’ studios downtown venues at a reasonable cost 415.648.4461 throughout the City for four weekends in for theatre companies with a wide range www.shadowlight.org October . of work . $31,500 $11,000 Theatre Bay Area The largest regional 934 Brannan 138 Carl St. theater service organization in North San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94117 America; GFTA supports the advertising 415.861.9838 415.336.1020 and marketing of the TIX booth at Union www.artspan.org www.phoenixtheatresf.org Square . $56,300 Black Rock Arts Foundation Creates and San Francisco Mime Troupe San 1663 Mission St. #525 sites temporary interactive contemporary Francisco’s oldest professional theatre San Francisco, CA 94103 art installations in collaboration with company, recognized internationally for 415.430.1140 San Francisco communities and creating political theatre in parks and www.theatrebayarea.org neighborhoods . other outdoor locations . $22,100 $47,000 Theatre of Yugen The only theatre 660 Alabama Street 855 Treat Ave. company in the U S. . producing new Noh San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94110-2723 and Kyogen works based on traditional 415.626.1248 415.285.1717 Japanese styles . www.blackrockarts.org www.sfmt.org $24,200 2840 Mariposa St. California College of the Arts A leading San Francisco Playhouse Off-Broadway San Francisco, CA 94110 arts education institution presenting style theater producing six full 415.621.0507 exhibitions, lectures and symposia that productions annually . www.theatreofyugen.org feature local, national and international $33,750 artists, architects, designers, writers, and 588 Sutter Street, #318 Theatre Rhinoceros Develops and multimedia experts . San Francisco, CA 94102 produces original works that examine the $56,750 415.677.9596 personal lives and social concerns of the 1111 8th Street www.sfplayhouse.org Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender San Francisco, CA 94107 communities . 415-703-9555 $32,300 www.cca.edu 1 Sansome Street, #3500 San Francisco, CA 94104 415.552.4100 www.therhino.org

17 California Historical Society Founded in Contemporary Jewish Museum Explores Gray Area Foundation for the Arts 1871, the California Historical Society’s the ideas, values and artistic expression hosts seminars, convenings, classes, (CHS) mission is “to preserve, exhibit and of Jewish culture through exhibits and exhibitions and events both large and interpret all facets of California’s colorful educational programs . small which bring together artists, tech history .” $95,150 industry experts and researchers to build $32,500 736 Mission Street community in that “gray area between 678 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103 art and innovation ”. San Francisco, CA 94105 415-655-7808 $9,000 415.357.1848 www.thecjm.org 923 Market St., 2nd floor www.californiahistoricalsociety.org San Francisco, CA 94103 Creativity Explored Exhibits and markets 415.777.5455 The only museum the visual art of artists with disabilities . www.gaffta.org west of the Mississippi dedicated to the $34,100 preservation and exhibition of cartoon art 3245 Sixteenth Street Museo ItaloAmericano Researches and in all its forms . San Francisco, CA 94103 displays artworks of all media by Italian $37,450 415.863.2108 and Italian American artists . 655 Mission Street www.creativityexplored.org $36,400 San Francisco, CA 94105 Fort Mason Center, Bldg. C 415.227.8666 Exploratorium An internationally San Francisco, CA 94123 www.cartoonart.org renowned museum of science, art 415.673.2200 and human perception, presenting www.museoitaloamericano.org Chinese Culture Foundation Presents exhibitions, performances, film programs, traditional and contemporary Chinese lectures and workshops . Museum of Craft+Design San Francisco and Chinese American exhibitions and $321,500 Museum of Craft +Design (SFMC+D) produces the annual spring festival . 3601 Lyon St. presents exhibits highlighting the $54,750 San Francisco, CA 94123 influence of craft and design in today’s 750 Kearny St., 3rd Floor 415.563.7337 world . San Francisco, CA 94108 www.exploratorium.edu $26,500 415.986.1822 130 Bush Street, Floor 5 www.c-c-c.org Galeria de la Raza Presents the San Francisco, CA 94104 contemporary work of Bay Area Latino/ 415.773.0303 Chinese Historical Society of America Chicano artists, musicians and theater www.sfmcd.org Collects, preserves and exhibits art, groups . artifacts and archives reflecting the $35,050 Museum of Performance & Design The experiences of Chinese in America . 2857 24th St. only international arts institution devoted $44,000 San Francisco, CA 94110 to the celebration of the performing 965 Clay Street 415.826.8009 arts and theatrical design, the MPD San Francisco, CA 94108 www.galeriadelaraza.org presents a public exhibitions, educational 415.391.1188 programs, performances, lectures, www.chsa.org Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender screenings, online resources, an oral Historical Society Fosters the recovery, history project and research facilities . In City Guides conducts free, year-round preservation, presentation and addition, the Museum collects, preserves, walking tours of the City’s culturally understanding of lesbian, bisexual, and makes accessible performance and diverse neighborhoods . transgender and gay culture through design materials - over 3 .5 million items $9,100 exhibits, an oral history project and -- that reflect our diverse culture . GFTA Main Library, 100 Larkin Street public readings . funds support MPD’s public exhibitions San Francisco, CA 94102 $41,000 and programs . 415.557.4266 657 Mission Street, #300 $30,650 www.sfcityguides.org San Francisco, CA 94105 401 Van Ness Ave. #402 415.777.5455 San Francisco, CA 94102 www.glbthistory.org 415.255.4800 www.sfpalm.org

18 National Japanese American Historical San Francisco Art Institute Encourages Society A multi arts organization which interdisciplinary practices across visual uses exhibition and performing arts to arts media . GFTA supports SFAI’s present the diversity of the Japanese comprehensive public programming American experience . featuring exhibitions and presentations $30,500 by emerging and internationally 1684 Post Street recognized artists and scholars . San Francisco, CA 94115 $65,100 415.921.5007 800 Chestnut www.njahs.org San Francisco, CA 94133-2299 415.749.4549 Muralists Association, Inc. www.sfai.edu Offers daily mural walks throughout the Mission District, sponsors annual Gala San Francisco Camerawork Presents Benefit & Art Auction, Urban Youth Art exhibitions, lectures and workshops on Festival, Mural Awareness Month (MAM), contemporary fine art photography . and hosts gallery exhibitions, and classes $41,800 and workshops for all ages . 657 Mission Street, 2nd Floor $36,200 San Francisco, CA 94105 2981 24th St. 415.512.2020 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.sfcamerawork.org 415.285.2287 www.precitaeyes.org San Francisco Museum and Historical Society Preserves and exhibits artifacts Root Division A multi-use space of of San Francisco history from the Gold studios, gallery, & classroom that serves Rush to the present and promotes the the community in the production, Barbary Coast Trail walking tours . education, and presentation of $34,250 contemporary visual art . P.O. Box 420470 $15,000 San Francisco, CA 94142-0470 3175 17th Street 415.537.1105 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.sfhistory.org 415.863.7668 www.rootdivision.org San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The most important modern art museum San Francisco Architectural Heritage in the western US, maintains a large An organization dedicated to preserving permanent collection, and presents a full San Francisco’s architectural and cultural schedule of exhibitions and educational identity; GFTA funds support tours of activities . the Haas-Lilienthal House and Heritage $388,700 Walks . 151 Third St. $29,500 San Francisco, CA 94103 2007 Franklin St. 415.357.4000 San Francisco, CA 94109 www.sfmoma.org 415.441.3000 www.sfheritage.org Southern Exposure A visual arts organization that supports artists and youth in the development and presentation of new work and ideas . $30,650 3030 20th Street San Francisco, CA 94110 415.863.2141 www.soex.org

19 Chinatown Merchants Association A Dyke March San Francisco Dyke March Annual two-day festival celebrated in Chinatown is the largest annual lesbian event in every September, featuring crafts, the world, held on the evening before performances, exhibitions and traditional the LGBT Pride Parade in June . GFTA Celebrations foods . supports the cultural event at Dolores $18,500 Park that features women poets, and Parades 667 Grant Ave. comediennes, singers and local all-female San Francisco, CA 94108 bands . $439,900 415.982.6306 $4,500 [email protected] 3543 18th Street, #2 Asian Week Foundation San Francisco, CA 94110 An annual outdoor celebration of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce The 415.252.9230 many cultures of the Asian Pacific . Chinese New Year Parade is an annual $10,000 celebration in honor of the Lunar New Filipino American Development 809 Sacramento Street Year, one of the largest of such events in Foundation An annual festival featuring San Francisco, CA 94108 the world . the Parol, a lantern shaped like a five- 415.321.5865 $59,000 pointed star that symbolizes hope and www.asianfairsf.com 730 Sacramento Street guidance . San Francisco, CA 94108 $5,000 California Dragon Boat Association 415.982.3000 1010 Mission Street Organizers of the San Francisco www.chineseparade.com San Francisco, CA 94103 International Dragon Boat Festival, a two 415.348.8042 day event in September that features Cinco de Mayo/ Mission Neighborhood www.bayanihancc.org over 100 dragon boat teams from across Centers An outdoor celebration with the US, Canada, Europe and Asia . The cultural and community groups to Folsom Street Events Folsom Street Fair, event is the largest competitive dragon mark Cinco de Mayo, featuring Ballet an annual South of Market event, is the boat event in the United States and Folklorico/mariachi performances and largest celebration of alternative lifestyles includes a cultural festival . local artists performances in the Mission in the United States which features $12,600 District . top live entertainment from alternative 268 Bush Street, #888 $18,900 bands, a growing artists area, and more . San Francisco, CA 94104 362 Capp Street $21,600 415-956-8152 San Francisco, CA 94110 965 Mission St., Suite 200 www.sfdragonboat.com 415.206.7747 San Francisco, CA 94103 www.mncsf.org 415.777.3247 Carnaval/Brava! For Women in the www.folsomstreetevents.org Arts Carnaval is two-day Mission District Columbus Day Celebration Sponsored festival of cultural and community by the City’s Italian American community, Hellenic Federation of Northern groups culminating in a parade, which caps a month-long celebration with a California An annual parade celebrating is considered the largest multicultural parade, a pageant depicting Columbus’ Hellenic/Greek culture and heritage . outdoor parade/festival on the West landing and the ceremonial blessing of $6,300 Coast . the fishing fleet . 999 Brotherhood Way $70,700 $32,900 San Francisco, CA 94132 2781 24th St. 678 Green St. 650.941.1890 San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94133 www.hellenicfederation.org 415.641.7657 415.434.1492 www.brava.org www.sfcolumbusday.org Jerry Day is a civic and cultural event that celebrates Jerry Garcia, a San Castro Street Fair One of the larger and Comedy Day, Inc. A free event held in Francisco native son and rock legend . longest-running street fairs in the City, August at Sharon Meadows in Golden The event pays tribute to his legacy at the event celebrates cultural and sexual Gate Park, featuring diverse local and the Jerry Garcia Ampitheater in McLaren diversity each October . national comedians . Park, celebrating his Excelsior roots . $12,600 $5,300 $5,000 P.O. Box 14405 1036 Pacheco Street 809 France Avenue San Francisco, CA 94114 San Francisco, CA 94116-1318 San Francisco, CA 94112 415.948.8913 415.987.3663 www.jerryday.org www.castrostreetfair.org www.comedyday.com 20 Korean American Community Center SF LGBT Pride Celebration Committee, San Francisco An annual celebration of Inc. The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Korean culture that takes place in Union Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade & Square . Celebration celebrates the full expression $6,800 of LGBT culture by producing the annual 745 Buchanan Street Pride Parade and other Pride Week San Francisco, CA 94102 events . 415.252.1346 $58,400 www.kacsf.org 1841 Market Street, 4th Floor San Francisco, CA 94103 Nihonmachi Street Fair, Inc. A 415.864.0831 celebration of the Asian/Pacific American www.sfpride.org communities with an emphasis on the nonprofit organizations that serve United Irish Societies of SF, Inc. St . them . Featuring musical and cultural Patrick’s Day Parade is one of the City’s performances, Exhibits, food, Asian oldest and largest parades, features Bay artisans, Children’s World, and Non Profit Area bands, drill teams and floats . Information Tables . $12,050 $10,850 P.O. Box 16026 1840 Sutter Street San Francisco, CA 94116 San Francisco, CA 94115 415.665.4595 415.771.9861 www.uissf.org www.nihonmachistreetfair.org Vietnamese Community Center of San Russian Center of SF, Inc. The Russian Francisco Vietnamese Lunar New Year, Festival is presented by the Russian also known as Tet, is an annual event held Center of San Francisco; a three-day in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District to event celebrating the diversity of Russian mark the arrival of the lunar new year culture through performances, crafts and to celebrate the Vietnamese and demonstrations, food and delicacies . Southeast Asian communities . $12,000 $14,000 2450 Sutter St. 766 Geary St. San Francisco, CA 94115 San Francisco, CA 94109 415.921.7631 415.351.1038 www.russiancentersf.com www.vietccsf.org

Sakura Matsuri, Inc. A celebration of Japanese arts and culture, including exhibits, performances, demonstrations, martial arts, food and street fair culminating in a grand parade . $30,000 1759 Sutter Street San Francisco, CA 94115 415.563.2313 www.nccbf.org

21 Cultural Regranting Nonrecurring Centers Programs Events Fund $441,229 $95,000 Due to budget restrictions,

Supports operations, programming and GFTA makes grants to other, smaller this program is temporarily maintenance of the four City owned granting programs to serve constituencies suspended. This information is cultural centers: Bayview Opera House we may otherwise not reach . Ruth Williams Memorial Theater, African provided for reference only. American Art and Culture Complex, Theatre Bay Area CA$H Program South of Market Cultural Center and makes awards to small theater and dance We hope to re-launch the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. companies, as well as individual artists . $50,000 program in the near future.

Friends of Chamber Music Musical This program supports San Francisco Civic Events Grant Program makes awards to support nonprofit arts organizations that have outstanding projects of San Francisco extraordinary, one-time only promotional Bay Area professional chamber music costs for events such as first-time festivals $40,000 ensembles, presenters, and individuals or celebrations, significant anniversaries, with chamber music projects . Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday new venues, or programs that provide $25,000 Observance, the largest such observance groups with a critical boost . Preference on the West Coast, is a Northern Southern Exposure Alternative is given to groups not currently receiving California regional effort featuring a Exposure grants program supports GFTA support through the regular funding freedom train, march and ceremonies at “locally grown, artist-centered projects ”. cycle though current grantees with major . $20,000 $15,000 anniversaries or collaborations benefiting 330 Ellis Street #407 several groups are eligible to apply . Funds San Francisco, CA 94102 partially subsidize promotional costs 415.674.6000 related to publicity, consultants, materials, www.norcalmlk.org and advertisements . Grants are based on available funds and eligibility is limited Memorial Day Ceremony is a traditional to once . program presented by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Presidio Trust and the National Cemetary Administration, which includes a parade and formal ceremony at the Presidio National Cemetary . $10,000 War Memorial Veterans Building 401 Van Ness Avenue, Room 101 San Francisco, CA 94102 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 . $15,000 War Memorial Veterans Building 401 Van Ness Avenue, Room 101 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.710.5293

22 Arts and Tourism San Francisco A Partnership with the Arts Monthly San Francisco Convention A project of Grants for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Monthly is and Visitors Bureau an outreach publication to San Francisco visitors . It is provided free to hotel guests and concierges and is distributed in theater Grants for the Arts established the first Arts and Tourism lobbies, , restaurants and cafes, bookstores Program (A&T) in the United States in 1989 with the goal of and other targeted locations in San Francisco . According to a promoting San Francisco as a cultural destination to travel study by Dance USA, commissioned by the Bay Area foundation industry professionals, including tour wholesalers, travel agents, community . convention planners and others . In 1991 the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau (SFCVB) became the first agency “Arts Monthly has been a huge success in building audiences . to incorporate an Arts and Tourism office as a crucial part of This publication, started by Grants for the Arts as a tool for its marketing to visitors and business travelers . Since then, concierges, lists arts events for each month . When editors the Arts and Tourism program has worked to increase visitor arranged to insert the publication in the New York Times in the attendance at arts events by designing programs that highlight first Sunday of each month artists started advertising in it, the all the facets of San Francisco’s thriving cultural community . perception was that the artists were in the New York Times . The Arts and Tourism also works closely with local arts and cultural cost of producing it is relatively low . And it raised the visibility organizations informing them how to best use the services and credibility of dance .” offered by the SFCVB . One of the services offered has been a series of free education PR seminars created especially for the arts community . Also helping visitors experience and appreciate San Francisco’s famous diversity is “Diverse Destinations” (www .destinationsf .com), a series of self-guided tour itineraries SFArts.org that immerse the visitor in the best of San Francisco’s culture, How do artists and audiences take advantage of Web ethnic heritage and arts . technology and the Internet 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 and indispensable tool for anyone, anywhere who is 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 that visitors can go directly to an arts group’s Web site and get more details about program offerings . Thousands of promotional cards that feature the Web address are distributed through 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 are also 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 .

23 Special Initiatives Other Programs

From time to time Grants for the Arts is able to respond to Neighborhood Arts Collaborative . This program is a joint project of the community through the use of Special Initiatives . The Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, the San Francisco initiative recognizes one-time only events, or is developed Arts Commission, the Mayor’s Community Challenge Grant Program, to address specific needs during a particular time . There are the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services, the Mayor’s Office no current initiatives underway . Here are some examples of of Economic and Work Force Development, the Neighborhood initiatives that have been created by GFTA to assist the arts Empowerment Network and the Arts & Tourism Program of the community . San Francisco Travel Association .

• Capital Expenditures Initiative was designed to help This program was developed to provide funding for collaborative community-based arts organizations acquire permanent, arts activities that take place in proximity to each other within a technical and movable equipment for shared use . specific geographic boundary . This multi-agency effort will support community arts activities within some of San Francisco’s diverse • Collaboration Initiative was developed to foster and neighborhoods to promote the arts, businesses, schools, social encourage organic, effective collaborations and resource service and other nonprofits located in close proximity and to sharing among arts organizations . encourage the development of mutually beneficial relationships among community stakeholders . For fiscal year 2013/2014, the • Facilities Initiative responded to the rental space crisis target neighborhoods were: of the past few years . It supported efforts to maximize the usefulness and accessibility of the City’s existing arts • Central Market facilities . Further, it worked to strengthen the internal • Tenderloin capacity of organizations that manage multi-use spaces and provided assistance in securing an adequate supply of • Bayview new arts space that is protected from market sources . In addition, projects in Chinatown, and Central Market were continued from the previous year . Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund $157,797

Sometimes described as “the little grants that make a big difference,” the Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund was established in 1984 . An innovative program that allows San Francisco property taxpayers and others to add a tax-deductible contribution to their biannual tax payments, it makes small grants to arts organizations for capital improvements, facilities maintenance and equipment acquisition .

The next round of VACF grants will be in Fiscal Year 2015/2016 . San Francisco arts nonprofits that received 2013/2014 VACF funding are as follows:

24 2013/2014 Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund Awardees

Organization Award Funded Project

509 Cultural Center $5,000 .00 to purchase a commerical roll-up entrance door at 509 Ellis Artists Television Access $4,750 .00 to upgrade digital projection equipment Brava! for Women in the Arts $5,000 .00 to replace the cyclorama and curtains on the main stage Capacitor $4,250 .00 to purchase and install a marley dance floor, lighting instruments and replace damaged costumes City Arts and Lectures $4,500 .00 to complete acoustical scaling of the Nourse Theater CounterPULSE $5,000 .00 safety and security upgrades to the 80 Turk facility Dance Brigade $4,700 .00 to purchase sound equipment and chairs for theater EXIT Theatre $4,650 .00 to purchase a programmable digital lighting control console foolsFURY Theater Company $4,500 .00 to purchase a video projector Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Historical $3,950 .00 to create storage for large artworks Society Golden Thread Productions $4,500 .00 to purchase high resolution projector and laptop Intersection for the Arts $4,500 .00 to purchase permanent chairs for their mixed use space LEVYdance $4,700 .00 to purchase lighted exit signs and theatrical lighting equipment Lobster Theater Project, The $3,100 .00 to purchase video equipment Magic Theatre $5,000 .00 to purchase lighting equipment Marines’ Memorial Theatre $5,000 .00 to purchase and install fire resistant theatre curtains Marsh, The $4,250 .00 to soundproof the Main Stage Theater at 1062 Valencia Street Museum of Performance & Design $5,000 .00 to purchase and install interior ramp to provide ADA compliant access btw foyer and library New Conservatory Theatre Center $3,500 .00 to repaint lobby, replace Theater Three’s stage floor and overhauling Studio C New Musical Theater of San Francisco $3,400 .00 to purchase a travel pack of lights and sound equipment Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra $4,250 .00 to purchase risers, music stand lights, conductor’s podium, network server, computer equipment Phoenix Arts Association Theatre/Gallery $4,500 .00 to upgrade light board and lobby carpeting Root Division $4,500 .00 to install exterior royal door Roxie Theater $3,600 .00 to upgrade the main theater’s PA system and the smaller theater’s projection screen SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts $4,500 .00 to support improvements including storage loft, additional audience risers and tech booth San Francisco Architectural Heritage $3,285 .00 to repair balustrade over exterior stairs to basement and ballroom San Francisco Center for the Book $4,037 .00 to install security panic bars on front and rear entrance doors San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival/World Arts $4,500 .00 to purchase a wireless microphone system West San Francisco Mime Troupe $4,500 .00 to repair costume shop entrace and install commercial doors with panic handles and fire exit signs San Francisco Museum and Historical Society $4,525 .00 to upgrade an electrical configuration impacting the Main Floor of the Old Mint San Francisco Shakespeare Festival $3,500 .00 to purchase wireless microphones and receivers Southern Exposure $4,500 .00 to purchase and install window and skylight covers

Stern Grove Festival Association $3,850 .00 to purchase a portable sound system Theatre of Yugen $5,000 .00 to replace seats in NOHspace Women’s Audio Mission $4,500 .00 to purchase video projection, production and live stream broadcast system

Z Space Studio $5,000 .00 to replace the back stage exit door from the Z Below space 25