Annual Report 2010 / 2011
Table of Contents
Grants for the Arts Progress Report...... 4
Grants for the Arts FY 2010/2011 Budget ...... 5
Proposed 2010-11 Hotel Tax Revenue Allocation (in millions)...... 6
Grants for the Arts Programs ...... 7
Annual Grants to San Francisco Arts Organizations...... 8
Arts and Tourism—A Partnership with the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau...... 30
San Francisco Arts Monthly...... 30
SFArts .org...... 30
Nonrecurring Events Fund ...... 31
Handbook for Arts Organizations...... 31
Special Initiatives...... 31
Nonprofit Performing Arts Loan Program...... 32
Cultural Data Project Statistics...... 33
Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report 3 Grants for the Arts
Progress Report By Kary Schulman, Director
n times of plenty, plan for scarcity; in times $250,000 grant, received by the Arts Commission of scarcity, plan for plenty . That old adage with matching funds from Grants for the Arts and The I has never been more apropos as now, when Mayor’s Office of Economic Development, will catalyze the arts continue to struggle through the current an artistic revitalization of the Mid-Market/Tenderloin period of scarcity which, unfortunately, few neighborhood . foresaw . However, we are encouraged by the undiminished creative energy of many groups And in terms of service to the field: actively engaged in artistic renewal to coincide with the time when plenty will return . • The Dynamic Adaptability Conference was held on January 28, 2010 . This conference brought Although the City of San Francisco’s finances showed a together over 700 arts workers and supporters deficit of over $400M, the Mayor’s budget kept funding in the Herbst Theatre for a free all-day event to all of the arts agencies at the previous year’s level in featuring a keynote speech by Jonah Lehrer recognition that we had already pared to the bone and (Proust was a Neuroscientist), and panels and that further decreases would threaten the integrity of presentations by a number of local and regional our programs . The Mayor’s proposed level budget for arts leaders . This conference was supported by a the arts was passed intact by the Board of Supervisors . grant to The San Francisco Foundation and Grants for the Arts from The Wallace Foundation . With this commitment on the part of San Francisco’s policy makers, I’m pleased to report that we were able • The Fall Community Meeting was held on October to add three new organizations to the Grants for the 28, 2010 . This gathering brought together local, Arts docket: state and national leaders experienced in using the Cultural Data Project (CDP) as a resource for • Cuba Caribe: produces an annual festival individual arts organizations . celebrating the cultural heritage of Cuba, the Caribbean and African diaspora . • We continued to sustain our partnerships with • Presidio Performing Arts Foundation: a multi- the Creative Capacity Fund (professional and generational performance company specializing in organizational development scholarships), and dance from around the world . regranting programs including CA$H for theater • Genryu Arts: promotes Japanese and Japanese and dance, The Musical Grant Program for music American culture through Taiko and other music and Alternative Exposure for the visual arts . and dance forms . As always, San Francisco’s artists and arts organizations Other notable activities undertaken by this agency this inspire all of our residents and provide an extraordinary year were audience development and promotional return on the City’s investment of funds in their projects including the development of the San success .* We are pleased to be able to continue Francisco Arts Guide iPhone app . This popular free supporting their work, even in these challenging application, launched in the summer of 2010, brings economic times . the entire SFArts .org calendar database of arts activities to iPhones . Additionally, this office formed a partnership with The Bay Citizen, a local news and culture website . *For further insight into this point, please refer On the economic development/neighborhood to pages 36 - 38 of this report for a selection of revitalization front, there was the National Endowment interesting aggregated data gleaned from the CDP for the Arts’ Mayor’s Institute of Design grant . This statistics.
4 Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report Grants for the Arts FY 2010/2011 Budget
Item % of Whole Rounded
Support Services $ 317,100 2 .68% 3% Arts and Tourism $ 511,900 4 .33% 4% Administration $ 700,832 5 .93% 6% Special Grants $ 950,000 8 .03% 8% General Operating Support $ 9,348,129 79 .03% 79% Expenditure Total $ 11,827,961 100.00% 100%
Source: San Francisco Controller’s Office
Hotel Tax Allocation for FY 10/11 Hotel Tax Allocation for FY 10/11
Moscone / Convention Facilities, Convention & Visitors Bureau, 34,147,000 , 16% 7,580,000 , 4% War Memorial & Performing Arts, Low-Income Housing Rental 8,808,200 , 4% Subsidy, 500,000 , 0%
Administration (Tax Collector), Yerba Buena Gardens (SFRA), 114,000 , 0% 4,244,867 , 2%
Cultural Centers (Facilities), 1,516,000 , 1% Cultural Equity Endowment, 1,716,000 , 1%
Steinhart Aquarium, 1,208,000 , 1%
Asian Art Museum, 2,229,000 , 1%
General Fund Unallocated Fine Arts Museum, 5,620,000 , 3% (discretionary), 133,450,934 , 62%
Grants for the Arts- Non-Recurring, 191,000 , 0%
Grants for the Arts- Recurring, 11,177,000 , 5%
Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report 5 Proposed 2010-11 Hotel Tax Revenue Allocation (in millions)
Item Amount
General Fund Unallocated (discretionary) 133,450,934 Grants for the Arts- Recurring 11,177,000 Grants for the Arts- Non-Recurring 191,000 Fine Arts Museum 5,620,000 Asian Art Museum 2,229,000 Steinhart Aquarium 1,208,000 Administration (Tax Collector) 114,000 Cultural Centers (Facilities) 1,516,000 Cultural Equity Endowment 1,716,000 War Memorial & Performing Arts 8,808,200 Moscone / Convention Facilities 34,147,000 Convention & Visitors Bureau 7,580,000 Low-Income Housing Rental Subsidy 500,000 Yerba Buena Gardens (SFRA) 4,244,867 Total 212,502,000
These figures represent the amounts proposed in the City and County of San Francisco budget for the 2010-11 fiscal year . Changes may occur throughout the year .
Source: San Francisco Controller’s Office, October 2010
6 Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report 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 2010–2011 Fiscal Year .
Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report 7 Bay Area National Dance Week Bay Chinese Cultural Productions Chinese Area Celebrates National Dance Week, Cultural Productions features the Lily Cai Dance a group effort by dance administrators, Chinese Dance Company, which presents artists, choreographers, dance critics classical, folk and modern dances based $1,470,300 and funders to attract audiences, offers on the traditions of China’s various ethnic a series of events that bring attention to groups . ABADA Capoeira San Francisco the contributions of the Bay Area dance $33,000.00 Teaches, promotes and preserves the community . Fort Mason Center, Landmark Bldg. Brazilian dance form capoeira . $9,550.00 C-353 $17,100.00 1360 Mission St., #200 San Francisco, CA 94123 3221 22nd Street San Francisco, CA 94103 415.474.4829 San Francisco, CA 94110 415.920-9181 www.lilycaidance.org 415.206.0650 www.bayareandw.org www.abada.org Dance Brigade A contemporary dance Capacitor A dance company whose work theater company that also produces and Alonzo King LINES Ballet Dedicated to is inspired by technology and science, presents a variety of programs at Dance developing new work blending classical incorporating multi-media, martial arts Mission Theater, a venue in the Mission ballet, ethnic and modern dance; tours and acrobatics . District . regionally, nationally and internationally . $7,900.00 $50,950.00 $86,900.00 645 Haight Street, #11 3140 21st St., #107 26 Seventh Street, 5th Floor San Francisco, CA 94117 San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.308.1952 415.826.4401 415.863.3040 www.capacitor.org http://www.dancemission.com/dance_ www.linesballet.org brigade.html Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers A woman Company The Chitresh Das Dance DanceArt, Inc. Produces and presents centered dance ensemble dedicated to Company, one of the world’s leading the finest in contemporary choreography fostering cross cultural collaboration, Kathak dance companies, tours from in and beyond the Bay Area in a movement language that breaks the internationally, presents new and shared program format . ordinary paradigm of western dance, and traditional works and international $22,600.00 choreographies that face difficult issues festivals . The Chhandam School is c/o Mariposa Studio, 499 Alabama St. with eloquence and passion . the largest Kathak institution in North #120 $9,450.00 America with sister schools in India . San Francisco, CA 94110 4027 Cesar Chavez $31,200.00 415.891.8885 San Francisco, CA 94131 2325 Third St., Suite 320 www.danceartsf.org 415.643.4630 San Francisco, CA 94107 www.abdproductions.org 415-333-9000 www.kathak.org 8 Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report Dancers’ Group A multi-service dance Jess Curtis/Gravity Inc. GPE was Mark Foehringer Dance Project A organization featuring local dancers’ founded in 2000 by Jess Curtis as a classical ballet company that creates works; serves as fiscal sponsor for local research and development vehicle both dynamic and lyrical dances that artists, publishes a dance newsletter and for live performance focusing on often contain comedic elements . administers an emergency assistance creating engaging and highly physical $7,300.00 fund . entertainment that addresses ideas of 1388 Haight Street, #28 $48,750.00 substance and relevance to a broad San Francisco, CA 94117 1360 Mission St., #200 public . 415.640.2784 San Francisco, CA 94103-2647 $17,400.00 www.mfdpsf.org 415.920.9181 849 Divisadero Street, #4 www.dancersgroup.org San Francisco, CA 94117 Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu A modern 415.435.7549 hula troupe, translated as “the world Deborah Slater Dance Theater/ Art of www.jesscurtisgravity.org according to hula” that produces an the Matter Presents work dealing with annual season and performs to audiences topical issues, combining original dance, Joe Goode Performance Group A across the country . theater and music with multimedia modern dance company stretching the $32,000.00 images . traditional boundaries of dance and 1527 20th St. $11,150.00 theater . San Francisco, CA 94107 3288 21st Street, #71 $36,500.00 415.647.3040 San Francisco, CA 94110 1007 General Kennedy Ave, #209 www.naleihulu.org 415.267.7687 San Francisco, CA 94129 www.artofthematter.org 415.561.6565 ODC/San Francisco A major modern www.joegoode.org dance company presenting work by the Epiphany Productions/Sonic Dance three founding choreographers in local Theater An interdisciplinary company, Kunst-stoff To present a series of dance seasons plus national and international dedicated to the artistic vision of dance performances in San Francisco . tours . experimenter Kim Epifano, collaborates $4,850.00 $107,550.00 with diverse artists to produce original 26 Seventh Street, 5th Floor 351 Shotwell St. works . San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94110 $10,400.00 415.863.3040x286 415.863.6606 889 DeHaro Street www.kunst-stoff.org www.odcdance.org San Francisco, CA 94107 415.647.1443 LEVYdance Founded in 2002 by artistic Presidio Performing Arts Foundation www.epiphanydance.org director Benjamin Levy, LEVYdance Presidio Dance Theatre is an acclaimed ignites its audiences’ awareness of a multi-generational performance Flyaway Productions A highly physical shared human experience through the art company, ballet-based, specializing in dance company that produces site- of dance . dance from many regions of the world specific as well as traditional venue $4,850.00 and with award-winning arts education dances often using aerial apparatus . 19 Heron Street programs . The Company tours nationally $11,450.00 San Francisco, CA 94103 and internationally . 1068 Bowdoin Street 415.701.1300 $5,000.00 San Francisco, CA 94134 www.levydance.org 1158 Gorgas 415.333.8302 San Francisco, CA 94129 www.flyawayproductions.com Margaret Jenkins Dance Company 415 561.3958 Renowned modern dance company www.presidiodance.org Janice Garrett & Dancers A dedicated to the making and touring contemporary dance company that of new work, international exchange Purple Moon Dance Project A strives to be an ongoing creative force and community programs like CHIME contemporary dance company in the Bay Area presenting annual home (Choreographers in Mentorship incorporating modern and Asian dance seasons as well as touring . Exchange) . forms to present work by lesbians and $14,650.00 $56,000.00 women of color . 351 Shotwell Street 149 Ninth St., Suite 300 $15,900.00 San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94103 26 Seventh Street, 6th Fl. 415-864-6716 415.861.3940 San Francisco, CA 94103 www.janicegarrettanddancers.org www.mjdc.org 415.552.1105 www.purplemoondance.org
Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report 9 Robert Moses’ Kin A multi-ethnic dance Smuin Ballet Produces Tony and Emmy Zaccho Dance Theatre Zaccho creates ensemble performing innovative modern Award-winner Michael Smuin’s innovative and presents performance work that dance works . choreography plus new dance works in investigates dance as it relates to place . $21,150.00 annual home seasons . Artistic Director Joanna Haigood’s 870 Market Street, Suite 567 $102,550.00 creative work focuses on making dances San Francisco, CA 94102 44 Gough Street, Suite 103 that use natural, architectural and cultural 415.252.8384 San Francisco, CA 94103 environments as points of departure for www.robertmoseskin.org 415.556.5000 movement exploration and narrative . www.smuinballet.org $32,050.00 San Francisco Ballet Recognized as 1777 Yosemite Ave., #330 one of the premier companies in the Stephen Pelton Dance Theater A San Francisco, CA 94124 world, and among the largest in the US, modern dance company, that creates 415.822.6744 presents an annual five-month season lyrical, abstract and athletic work built www.zaccho.org offering full-length classical works, as well around an emotional core . as new commissions from contemporary $8,300.00 choreographers . 50 Laguna St., #601 $394,400.00 San Francisco, CA 94102 455 Franklin St. 415.241.0111 San Francisco, CA 94102 www.stephenpeltondance.org 415.861.5600 www.sfballet.org Stepology Stepology was founded to preserve and promote the American San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival/ form of tap dance . It produces an World Arts West A festival of dance annual tap festival and provides forms from around the world presented classes, performances, and lecture throughout the City and the region . The demonstrations . festival features thousands of local artists $5,500.00 and is presented in cooperation with P.O. Box 420889 Grants for the Arts . San Francisco, CA 94142 $202,000.00 415.294.4941 Fort Mason Center, Bldg. D, Room 273 www.stepology.com San Francisco, CA 94123 415.474.3914 Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco www.worldartswest.org One of the City’s oldest companies, a professional Spanish ensemble that also San Francisco Hip Hop Dance Festival performs dances from Latin America . An international festival featuring Hip $10,500.00 Hop dance “crews” from all over the 150 McAllister St. u .S ,. Canada and parts of Europe . San Francisco, CA 94102 $13,700.00 415.826.1305 1355 Third Avenue, Apt. 3 http://www.theatreflamenco.org San Francisco, CA 94122 415.297.9740 Yaelisa & Caminos Flamencos Dedicated www.sfhiphopdancefest.com to producing Flamenco programs with a fresh, contemporary approach, reflecting Scott Wells & Dancers A contemporary the contemporary Flamenco Nuevo dance ensemble creating highly movement . energetic work created as a result of $19,600.00 touch, impact or collision with other 26 Seventh Street, 5th Floor dancers . San Francisco, CA 94103 $8,150.00 510.531.9986 1805 Divisadero St. www.caminosflamencos.com San Francisco, CA 94115 415.931.8648 www.scottwellsdance.com
10 Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report PlayGround The Bay Area’s leading Radar Productions Radar presents playwright incubator, supporting a monthly reading series featuring Literary the development of new writers and emerging queer writers, as well as events new plays through commissions, co- featuring more well-known talent at productions and the annual Best of venues throughout the City . Arts PlayGround Festival . $6,700.00 $12,150.00 280 San Carlos St. $157,850 268 Bush St., #2912 San Francisco, CA 94110-1724 San Francisco, CA 94104 415.216.9641 City Arts and Lectures Presents several 415.704.3177 http://www.radarproductions.org/ series of lectures, conversations and www.playground-sf.org other literary activities with well-known Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center authors and cultural figures . Playwrights Foundation is a new play Promotes and supports experimental $46,850.00 development center that supports writers of all ages, ethnicities, 1955 Sutter St. the work of contemporary American socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds . San Francisco, CA 94115 playwrights by producing the annual $6,450.00 415.563.2463 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and other 1111 Eighth Street www.cityarts.net events and programs throughout the San Francisco, CA 94107 year . 415.551.9278 Litquake An annual literary festival that $23,250.00 www.sptraffic.org presents an eclectic range of Bay Area, 1616 16th St., Suite 350 national, and international authors in a San Francisco, CA 94103 Youth Speaks A literary arts, event series of readings, performances and 415.626.2176 production and educational organization “cross-media literary happenings .” www.playwrightsfoundation.org for teenagers, who “speak for $7,100.00 themselves” through interdisciplinary P.O. Box 720125 Poetry Center The Poetry Center, spoken word performances . San Francisco, CA 94172-0125 based at San Francisco State University, $40,050.00 415.750.1497 presents poets and writers drawn from 1663 Mission Street, Suite 604 www.litquake.org the full spectrum of contemporary San Francisco, CA 94103 literature . 415.255.9035 $15,300.00 www.youthspeaks.org 1600 Holloway Ave. San Francisco, CA 94132 415.338.2227 www.sfsu.edu/~poetry
Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report 11 Artists Television Access Supports the Center for Asian American Media production and exhibition of work by Presents the San Francisco Asian Media new artists in video, film, visual arts and American Film Festival . multimedia performances . $57,700.00 $455,000 $8,850.00 145 Ninth Street, Suite 350 992 Valencia St. San Francisco, CA 94103 3rd I S.F. International South Asian Film San Francisco, CA 94110 415.863.0814 Festival 3rd i is committed to promoting 415.824.3890 www.asianamericanmedia.org diverse images of South Asians through www.atasite.org independent film with monthly screening Frameline Presents the annual San events and the annual SF International Bay Area Video Coalition BAVC Francisco International LGBT Film South Asian Film Festival . promotes social change through art, Festival, offer free screenings of socially $7,900.00 education, and technology, providing relevant films to the local community, 992 Valencia Street training and education programs in the makes completion grants to LGBT San Francisco, CA 94110 latest video, digital audio, web design filmmakers, and distributes their work 415.824.3890 and multimedia technologies as well as nationally . www.thirdi.org an exhibition program which features $65,350.00 exhibits of visual art, photography, 145 Ninth Street, Suite 300 American Indian Film Institute The multimedia pieces and screenings . San Francisco, CA 94103 oldest international festival showcasing $5,000.00 415.703.8650 films and videos by and about Native 2727 Mariposa Street, 2nd Floor www.frameline.org Americans . San Francisco, CA 94110 $31,800.00 415.558.2144 Queer Women of Color Media Arts 333 Valencia, Suite 322 www.bavc.org Project Queer Women of Color Media San Francisco, CA 94103 Arts Project (QWOCMAP) creates, 415.554.0525 Berlin and Beyond Film Festival exhibits and distributes new films that www.aifisf.com Presented by the Goethe-Institut San authentically reflect the lives of queer Francisco, Berlin & Beyond is America’s women of color and address the vital Arab Film Festival Showcases leading festival of new and celebrated social justice issues that concern multiple independent films with Arab themes to films from Germany, Austria and American communities . QWOCMAP also enhance understanding of Arab cultures Switzerland . presents the free, annual, Queer Women and experiences . $11,550.00 of Color Film Festival . $18,800.00 530 Bush St. $9,500.00 300 Brannan Street, Suite 508 San Francisco, CA 94108 59 Cook Street San Francisco, CA 94107 415.263.8760 San Francisco, CA 94118 415.564.1100 www.goethe.de/sanfrancisco 415.752.0868 www.aff.org www.qwocmap.org
12 Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report San Francisco Black Film Festival San Francisco Jewish Film Festival The Showcases a diverse selection of local, world’s oldest and largest independent national and international films that Jewish film festival, promoting awareness “highlight the beauty and complexity of and pride the the diversity of the Jewish the Black experience .” experience and people . $5,000.00 $53,450.00 P.O. Box 15490 145 Ninth Street, Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94115 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.400.4602 415.621.0556 www.sfbff.org www.sfjff.org
San Francisco Cinematheque Presents Silent Film Festival Three day festival year-round screenings of art film classics, providing access to a broad range of neglected films and works by local and films made during the silent movie national avant-garde filmmakers . era; presenting films with live musical $16,600.00 accompaniment at the Castro Theater, an 145 Ninth Street, Suite 240 authentic silent movie era theater . San Francisco, CA 94103 $33,300.00 415.552.1990 833 Market Street, Suite 812 www.sfcinematheque.org San Francisco, CA 94103 415.777.4908 San Francisco Film Society Presents www.silentfilm.org the annual San Francisco International Film Festival and a year-round array of exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs . $109,000.00 39 Mesa St., Suite 110, The Presidio San Francisco, CA 94129 415.561.5000 www.sffs.org
San Francisco Independent Film Festival Produces a three festival season; “IndieFest” - a festival of screenings and events dedicated to the presentation of independent film, video and animation held each February; “DocFest”- a documentary film festival held each May; “Another Hole in the Head” - a horror/ fantasy film festival held each June . $21,200.00 530 Divisidero Street, #183 San Francisco, CA 94117 415.820.3907 www.sfindie.com
Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report 13 Brava! for Women in the Arts Produces, Cowell Theater/Fort Mason Center co-presents and presents a variety Provides a well-equipped venue for Multi-Arts of theatre, music, spoken word, and diverse small and midsize groups from all film activities with local and touring performing disciplines . $901,100 artists, including international work, in $43,550.00 its renovated 370 seat Mission District Fort Mason Center, Bldg. A 509 Cultural Center Dedicated venue, focusing on, but not limited to, San Francisco, CA 94123 to enriching the cultural life of the women, people of color, and the LGBT 415-345-7500 Tenderloin neighborhood with community . www.fortmason.org multicultural programming featuring $56,850.00 performing artists and gallery exhibits . 2781 24th St. CubaCaribe Founded in 2003, the $27,650.00 San Francisco, CA 94110 CubaCaribe’s mission is to preserve and 1007 Market St. 415.641.7657 promote the vibrant cultural and artistic San Francisco, CA 94103 www.brava.org heritage of Cuba, the Caribbean and 415.255.5971 the wider African diaspora . The group’s www.luggagestoregallery.org CELLSpace A multidisciplinary arts primary activity is an annual festival held center dedicated to building community over three weeks each spring . Asian Improv aRts Supports the creation, through the arts by enabling emerging $5,000.00 production, performance and recording local and international artists to create, 3316 24th Street of new Asian American work in music, develop, exhibit or perform works in an San Francisco, CA 94110-3803 poetry and dance . affordable, nurturing atmosphere . 415.826.4441 $26,650.00 $30,000.00 www.cubacaribe.org 44 Montgomery St., Suite 2310 2050 Bryant Street San Francisco, CA 94104 San Francisco, CA 94110 Cultural Odyssey Creates, produces 415.908.3636 415.648.7562 and presents original interdisciplinary www.asianimprov.org www.cellspace.org performance works that are rooted in African American music, dance and CounterPULSE A community-based theatrical traditions . visual and performing arts venue $34,800.00 available to artists, activists and PO Box 156680 community experimenters for meetings, San Francisco, CA 94115-6680 public discussion, rituals, art exhibits and 415.292.1850 performances . www.culturalodyssey.org $28,850.00 1310 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103 415.626.2060 www.counterpulse.org 14 Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report Eureka Theatre Company Co-produces Humanities West Presents Marsh, The Annually presents hundreds work and manages an affordable and multidisciplinary programs in the of diverse productions in its multi-venue well-located 200-seat theatre for a humanities that complement lectures on space in the Mission . number of Bay Area companies . history, economics, politics, literature and $50,700.00 $20,450.00 the arts with live performances of music, 1062 Valencia St. 215 Jackson Street drama and dance from the specific time San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94111 period . 415.282.6024 415.788.7469 $16,050.00 www.themarsh.org www.eurekatheatre.org P.O. Box 546 San Francisco, CA 94104 ODC Theater A multipurpose venue First Voice Produces, presents and 415.391.9700 offering a broad range of work with sponsors performing arts projects that www.humanitieswest.org local, national and international artists explore the Asian American experience . in contemporary and traditional dance, $16,600.00 Intersection for the Arts A broad-based, music, performance and poetry . 41 Parsons, Suite A community-focused and nationally known $44,900.00 San Francisco, CA 94118 group that presents theatre, performance 351 Shotwell Street 415.221.0601 art, literary arts, visual arts and music in San Francisco, CA 94110 www.firstvoice.org its exhibition/performance space in the 415.863.6606 Mission District . www.odctheatre.org Footloose Dance Co. Produces and $52,650.00 presents a mixed format of original 446 Valencia St. San Francisco Center for the Book theater, dance, music, improvisational San Francisco, CA 94103 The only center for the creation and comedy and film/video and operates a 415.626.2787 display of various forms of “book arts” performance/rehearsl/rental/ facility . www.theintersection.org - including fine printing, book structures, $17,650.00 lettering, etc . - in the Western United P.O. Box 885393 Jewish Community Center of San States . San Francisco, CA 94188 Francisco The JCCSF presents high level, $42,650.00 415.920.2223 multi-disciplinary arts and performances 300 De Haro, #334 www.ftloose.org including dance, theatre, comedy, new San Francsico, CA 94103 and world music, film, family events, and 415.565.0545 Fresh Meat Productions Fresh Meat lectures . Through innovative arts and www.sfcb.org Productions creates, presents and culture programs, we bring the Jewish tours multidisciplinary transgender arts and broader community together . San Francisco Performances Presents programs, including performance, film $24,750.00 internationally acclaimed and emerging and the work of resident company Sean 3200 California Street artists in recitals, chamber music Dorsey Dance . San Francisco, CA 94118 concerts, popular entertainment and $8,000.00 415.292.1200 dance programs . 375 27th Street, Apt. A www.jccsf.org $128,900.00 San Francisco, CA 94131-2011 500 Sutter St., Suite 710 415.355.0071 Kearny Street Workshop Produces, San Francisco, CA 94102 www.freshmeatproductions.org presents and promotes the work of Asian 415.398.6449 American artists in all disciplines . www.performances.org Genryu Arts GA’s mission is to promote, $18,300.00 present, and participate in Japanese 1246 Folsom Street, #100 Slavonic Cultural Center Fosters the arts and Japanese American culture through San Francisco, CA 94103 and culture of the Slavonic community; taiko (Japanese drumming) and other 415.503.0520 GFTA support is for public events traditional and contemporary music www.kearnystreet.org including the Marco Polo and Poklada and dance forms . Directed by founder festivals . Melody Takata, a multi-faceted artist Kulintang Arts Populary known as $29,350.00 trained in Japanese classical dance and Kularts, presents contemporary and tribal 60 Onondaga Ave. music, the organization is deeply rooted Pilipino arts . San Francisco, CA 94112 in San Francisco’s Japantown . $14,900.00 510-649-0941 $5,000.00 474 Faxon Ave. www.croatianAmericanWeb.org 2345 Bush Street, #12 San Francisco, CA 94112 San Francisco, CA 94115-0282 415.239.0249 415.420.3151 www.kularts.org www.genryuarts.org Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report 15 Society for Art Publications of the Z Space Studio Founded in 1993, Z Americas Presents cross-cultural and Space has become one of the nation’s multi-disciplinary visual arts exhibits, leading laboratories for the development musical performances and public of new voices, new works, and new forums to expand the audience for opportunities in American theater . contemporary art of the Americas, $50,250.00 particularly work by Central, South and 499 Alabama Street #450 Native American artists in the Bay Area . $25,450.00 San Francisco, CA 94103 535 Powell St. 415.626.0453 San Francisco, CA 94108 www.zspace.org 415.398.7229 www.meridiangallery.org
Stern Grove Festival Association Presents a summer series of admission- free, world-class performing arts in a beautiful outdoor amphitheater in San Francisco . $58,500.00 44 Page St., Suite 600 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.252.6253 www.sterngrove.org
The.art.re.grup, Inc./The Lab An interdisciplinary organization that supports the development and presentation of new visual, performing, media and literary art . $22,700.00 2948 16th St. San Francisco, CA 94103 415.864.8855 www.thelab.org
16 Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report Chamber Music Partnership, Inc. Cypress String Quartet A string Performs a chamber music repertoire ensemble dedicated to championing Music that includes masterpieces by traditional works by living American composers, composers as well as modern classical exploring the classic string quartet $2,652,550 works; produces the Left Coast Chamber repertoire, and uncovering unjustly Ensemble concert series in the Green overlooked works . American Bach Soloists Presents and Room . $25,700.00 records historically informed, virtuoso $9,750.00 912 Cole Street #137 instrumental and vocal performances 196 Ripley St. San Francisco, CA 94117 of Baroque and early classical music . San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 585-9045 Summer Academy for emerging 415.642.8054 www.cypressquartet.com professionals at the SF Conservatory, www.chambermusicpartn.org workshops and masterclasses provide Del Sol Performing Arts Organization unique educational opportunities in Chamber Music San Francisco Produces The Del Sol String Quartet’s concerts, historically informed performance a concert series at Herbst Theatre that educational outreach, commissioning practice . features high-profile local and touring of new works and recordings heighten $35,000.00 artists . awareness of contemporary chamber 44 Page Street, Suite 504 $17,200.00 music and make this art form more San Francisco, CA 94102 1314 34th Avenue accessible . 415.621.7900 San Francisco, CA 94122 $12,000.00 www.americanbach.org 415.759.1756 754 46th Avenue www.chambermusicSF.org San Francisco, CA 94121-3202 Bay Area Omni Foundation for the 415.374.0074 Performing Arts Presents concerts Composers, Inc. Provides a forum for www.delsolquartet.com featuring a variety of world-renown and performance of works by living American emerging acoustic guitarists who explore composers in its annual concert season . Door Dog Music Productions Supports the stylistic range of the instrument . $7,950.00 and promotes music from various ethnic $17,650.00 PO Box 194552 traditions and produced the annual PMB 1, 236 West Portal Ave. San Francisco, CA 94119-4552 World Music Festival . San Francisco, CA 94127 415.512.0641 $31,800.00 415.242.4500 www.composersinc.org 1007 General Kennedy Avenue, Suite www.omniconcerts.com 215 San Francisco, CA 94129 415.561.6571 www.doordog.org
Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report 17 Earplay A contemporary music ensemble Kronos Quartet Kronos Quartet: A Melody of China, Inc. An instrumental dedicated to performing American music string quartet that commissions, ensemble; promotes Chinese music with with emphasis on works by Bay Area and performs and records contemporary classical roots that reflects the synergy lesser-known composers . works, tours internationally for five between ancient cultural tradition and $14,550.00 months each year, and collaborates with the modern American experience . P.O. Box 192125 artists from all over the world . $25,850.00 San Francisco, CA 94119-2125 $72,300.00 2720 41st Avenue 415.585.9776 1242 Ninth Avenue San Francisco, CA 94116 www.earplay.org San Francisco, CA 94122 415.640.9825 415.731.3533 www.melodyofchina.org Encuentro del Canto Popular/Accion www.kronosquartet.org Latina An annual fall concert series that Midsummer Mozart Festival The only presents music from throughout Latin Lamplighters Music Theatre Considered major series in the United States devoted America and the United States . one of the top Gilbert and Sullivan to Mozart’s works; performs an annual $9,600.00 companies in the world; performs an season of concerts and has released a 2958 24th Street annual season of light opera classics . number of recordings . San Francisco, CA 94110 $47,150.00 $30,300.00 415.648.1045 P.O. Box 77367 760 Market Street, Suite 749 www.accionlatina.org/encuentro San Francisco, CA 94107 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.227.4797 415.627.9141 Golden Gate Men’s Chorus A 40+ www.lamplighters.org www.midsummermozart.org voice ensemble performing a variety of concerts in various venues; repertoire Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco MSA/People in Plazas Presents free ranges from classical programs to fully The oldest American mixed gay/ summer concerts by local musicians staged cabaret productions . lesbian chorus; annually produces three in a variety of San Francisco outdoor $12,950.00 full-length choral concerts of varied locations . 116 Eureka St. repertoire . $14,850.00 San Francisco, CA 94114 $8,600.00 1346 Stevenson St., B202 415.668.4462 584 Castro Street, #486 San Francisco, CA 94103 www.ggmc.org San Francisco, CA 94114 415.350.7071 415.861.7067 www.marketstreet.citysearch.com Golden Gate Performing Arts Presents www.lgcsf.org the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus Music at Meyer Concert Series/ in a home season of five productions Loco Bloco Develops and presents Congregation Emanu-El Music at Meyer and over thirty community events with intergenerational art rooted in the (MAM) is an annual concert series that repertoire from classical, to pop, holiday, music, dance and theater traditions of presents established artists as well as and classical . the Americas; sustains three performing new talent from the Bay Area and around $46,700.00 ensembles that perform in annual the world . The series is a free-standing 1800 Market Street, PMB 100 productions . program of Temple Emanu-El, and takes San Francisco, CA 94102 $24,500.00 place at the Martin Meyer Sanctuary . 415.865.3650 3543 18th St. #20 $5,000.00 www.sfgmc.org San Francisco, CA 94110 2 Lake Street 415.864.5626 San Francisco, CA 94118 Instituto Pro Musica de California www.locobloco.org 415.751.2535 Supports Coro Hispano de San www.emanuelsf.org/events_concerts_ Francisco, an ensemble of singers and Magnificat An ensemble of voices and meyer.htm instrumentalists dedicated to the public instruments that produces an annual performance of music repertories from concert series of 17th century works and New Century Chamber Orchestra A Latin America, Spain and Portugal . provides instrumental support to Bay Grammy Award-nominated ensemble $9,500.00 Area professional and community choirs . of string musicians bringing a fresh 1403 28th Ave. $20,400.00 approach to classical music . San Francisco, CA 94122 4175 23rd Street $40,900.00 415.864.4681 San Francisco, CA 94114 665 Third Street, Suite 200 www.corohispano.org 415.979.4500 San Francisco, CA 94107 http://magnificatbaroque.com 415.357.1111 www.ncco.org
18 Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report Noe Valley Chamber Music Series Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra San Francisco Chamber Orchestra Presents monthly Sunday afternoon Recreates 17th and 18th century music Northern California’s oldest professional concerts that feature well-known and on original instruments in local, national chamber orchestra, presenting classical, emerging chamber music ensembles; this and international concerts . contemporary and commissioned works season all performances take place at $105,700.00 that reflect the diverse music and cultural Holy Innocents Episcopal Church . 180 Redwood St., Suite 200 traditions of America’s past and present . $5,000.00 San Francisco, CA 94102 $19,500.00 1021 Sanchez St. 415.252.1288 PO Box 191564 San Francisco, CA 94114 www.philharmonia.org San Francisco, CA 94119-1564 415.648.5236 415.692.5297 www.nvcm.org Pocket Opera Performs witty original www.sfchamberorchestra.org English translations of chamber operas . Noontime Concerts A free weekly $32,000.00 San Francisco Chanticleer An all-male lunchtime classical music series held at 469 Bryant Street chorus acclaimed for its artistry and Old Saint Mary’s Cathedral . San Francisco, CA 94107 versatility that performs locally, nationally $16,150.00 415.972.8930 and internationally . 660 California Street www.pocketopera.org $110,950.00 San Francisco, CA 94108 44 Page Street, Suite 604 415.777.3211 Rova: Arts A saxophone quartet which San Francisco, CA 94102 www.noontimeconcerts.org explores musical possibilities through 415.252.8589 commissioned works with other artists www.chanticleer.org Old First Concerts Presents quality, presented at annual concerts . affordable chamber music concerts $17,400.00 San Francisco Choral Artists A chamber and vocal recitals of contemporary and 333 12th St. ensemble dedicated to the performance classical music performed by emerging San Francisco, CA 94103 of choral masterpieces of all eras, styles professionals from the Bay Area and 415.487.1701 and regions . around the world . www.rova.org $8,900.00 $16,850.00 PMB 344, 601 Van Ness Ave., #E 1751 Sacramento Street San Francisco Bach Choir A 60+ San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94109 member choir that performs the choral 415.979.5779 415.474.1608 literature of Bach and other classical www.sfca.org www.oldfirstconcerts.org composers . $27,650.00 San Francisco Choral Society A 200- Other Minds Presents one of the 3145 Geary, #210 member community choir specializing country’s leading avant-garde music San Francisco, CA 94118 in large compositions for chorus and festivals, featuring composers and artists 415.922.6562 orchestra . from around the globe in concerts, www.sfbach.org $21,900.00 workshops and panel discussions . 236 West Portal Ave., Suite 775 $31,600.00 San Francisco Boys Chorus Musically San Francisco, CA 94127 333 Valencia St., Suite 303 trains boys, 5 to 13 years old, who 415.566.8425 San Francisco, CA 94103 regularly perform in concerts throughout www.sfchoral.org 415.934.8134 the Bay Area, sing with the San www.otherminds.org Francisco Opera and Symphony and tour internationally . Paul Dresher Ensemble Creates, $44,550.00 produces and tours works of new opera/ 333 Hayes Street, Suite 116 music theater; commissions and performs San Francisco, CA 94102 new chamber music; collaborates with 415.861.7464 other artists; and supports their creative www.sfbc.org work with technical, financial, and advisory assistance . $39,300.00 333 Valencia St., Suite 301 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.558.9540 www.dresherensemble.org
Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report 19 San Francisco Conservatory of Music A San Francisco Jazz Organization/ San Francisco Symphony Award winning fully accredited music college, produces SFJAZZ Presents world-class live jazz organization acknowledged as one of numerous public events including year- concerts year-round, including the annual the best orchestras in the u .S ., programs round student and faculty concerts and San Francisco Jazz Festival; SFJAZZ a nine-month season and numerous community service performances . Spring Season and the free, outdoor educational activities, tours nationally $48,300.00 SFJAZZ Summerfest Series . and internationally . 50 Oak Street $130,200.00 $626,100.00 San Francisco, CA 94102 3 Embarcadeo Center, Lobby Level Davies Symphony Hall 415.503.6230 San Francisco, CA 94111 San Francisco, CA 94102 www.sfcm.edu 415.398.5655 415.552.8000 www.sfjazz.org www.sfsymphony.org San Francisco Contemporary Music Players One of the oldest ensembles San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom sfSound Dedicated to the creation, performing contemporary music; Band The first openly gay music promotion and support of live presents a concert season at the Herbst organization in the u .S ., performing both contemporary music performances . Theatre . marching and concert band repertoire $5,000.00 $31,800.00 throughout the Bay Area and on tour . 1168 Noriega Street 55 New Montgomery, Suite 708 $8,450.00 San Francisco, CA 94122 San Francisco, CA 94105 584 Castro Street, #841 415.759.9041 415.278.9566 San Francisco, CA 94114-2594 www.sfsound.org www.sfcmp.org 510.823.3931 www.sflgfb.org Volti A professional vocal ensemble San Francisco Girls Chorus dedicated to commissioning and The five-time Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Live Arts Presents a series performing new music, primarily by San Francisco Girls Chorus provides an of performances, primarily at the Noe American composers . intensive, international-caliber choral Valley Ministry, that ranges from music to $13,500.00 music education and performance theater to performance art . P.O. Box 15576 program for more than 400 girls and $10,400.00 San Francisco, CA 94115-0576 young women from all cultural and 1021 Sanchez St. 415.771.3352 economic backgrounds . San Francisco, CA 94114 www.voltisf.org $82,650.00 415.454.4665 44 Page Street, Suite 200 www.noevalleymusicseries.com San Francisco, CA 94102-5986 415.863.1752 San Francisco Opera A world-renowned www.sfgirlschorus.org company presenting annual seasons of classic and contemporary works San Francisco Gu-Zheng Music Society featuring the finest international artists Presents concerts featuring the gu- and productions along with young artist zheng, a type of flat harp, and other professional training programs, free ancient Chinese instruments . community concerts, and educational $5,000.00 activities . 450 2nd Ave. $653,500.00 San Francisco, CA 94118 301 Van Ness Ave. 415.668.8111 San Francisco, CA 94102 www.guzheng.org 415.861.4008 www.sfopera.com
20 Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report Carnaval/San Francisco Cultural Arts Chinese Chamber of Commerce The Traditions Carnaval is two-day Mission Chinese New Year Parade is an annual Parade District festival of cultural and community celebration in honor of the Lunar New groups culminating in a parade, which Year, one of the largest of such events in $424,700 is considered the largest multicultural the world . outdoor parade/festival on the West $59,000.00 Asian Week Foundation Coast . 730 Sacramento Street An annual outdoor celebration of the $78,600.00 San Francisco, CA 94108 many cultures of the Asian Pacific . 2868 Mission Street 415.982.3000 $4,500.00 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.chineseparade.com 809 Sacramento Street 415.642.1748 San Francisco, CA 94108 www.sfcatcarnaval.com Cinco de Mayo/ Mission Neighborhood 415.321.5865 Centers An outdoor celebration with www.asianfairsf.com Castro Street Fair One of the larger and cultural and community groups to longest-running street fairs in the City, mark Cinco de Mayo, featuring Ballet California Dragon Boat Association the event celebrates cultural and sexual Folklorico/mariachi performances and Organizers of the San Francisco diversity each October . local artists performances in the Mission International Dragon Boat Festival, a two $7,600.00 District . day event in September that features P.O. Box 14405 $18,900.00 over 100 dragon boat teams from across San Francisco, CA 94114 362 Capp Street the US, Canada, Europe and Asia . The 415.948.8913 San Francisco, CA 94110 event is the largest competitive dragon www.castrostreetfair.org 415.206.7747 boat event in the United States and www.mncsf.org includes a cultural festival . Chinatown Merchants Association A $6,800.00 two-day festival celebrated in Chinatown Columbus Day Celebration Sponsored 268 Bush Street, #888 every September, featuring crafts, by the City’s Italian American community, San Francisco, CA 94104 performances, exhibitions and traditional caps a month-long celebration with a 415-956-8152 foods . parade, a pageant depicting Columbus’ www.sfdragonboat.com $16,650.00 landing and the ceremonial blessing of 667 Grant Ave. the fishing fleet . San Francisco, CA 94108 $29,600.00 415.982.6306 678 Green St. [email protected] San Francisco, CA 94133 415.434.1492 www.sfcolumbusday.org
Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report 21 Comedy Day, Inc. A free event held in Korean American Community Center Sakura Matsuri, Inc. A celebration of August at Sharon Meadows in Golden San Francisco An annual celebration of Japanese arts and culture, including Gate Park, featuring diverse local and Korean culture that takes place in Union exhibits, performances, demonstrations, national comedians . Square . martial arts, food and street fair $5,300.00 $6,800.00 culminating in a grand parade . 1036 Pacheco Street 745 Buchanan Street $30,000.00 San Francisco, CA 94116-1318 San Francisco, CA 94102 1759 Sutter Street 415.987.3663 415.252.1346 San Francisco, CA 94115 www.comedyday.com www.kacsf.org 415.563.2313 www.nccbf.org Dyke March San Francisco Dyke March National Samoan Chiefs Council is the largest annual lesbian event in Celebrates American Samoa’s annexation San Francisco Juneteenth An annual the world, held on the evening before to the u .S . with traditional arts, sports event that celebrates emancipation and the LGBT Pride Parade in June . GFTA contests and ethnic food . African American culture . supports the cultural event at Dolores $8,400.00 $15,300.00 Park that features women poets, P.O. Box 12549 762 Fulton Street, 3rd Floor comediennes, singers and local all-female San Francisco, CA 94112 San Francisco, CA 94102 bands . 415.338.7239 415.931.2729 $4,500.00 www.sfjuneteenth.org 3543 18th Street, #2 Nihonmachi Street Fair, Inc. A San Francisco, CA 94110 celebration of the Asian/Pacific American SF LGBT Pride Celebration Committee, 415.252.9230 communities with an emphasis on Inc. The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, the nonprofit organizations that serve Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade & Filipino American Development them . Featuring musical and cultural Celebration celebrates the full expression Foundation An annual festival featuring performances, Exhibits, food, Asian of LGBT culture by producing the annual the Parol, a lantern shaped like a five- artisans, Children’s World, and Non Profit Pride Parade and other Pride Week pointed star that symbolizes hope and Information Tables . events . guidance . $12,100.00 $58,400.00 $5,000.00 1840 Sutter Street 1841 Market Street, 4th Floor 1010 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94115 San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.771.9861 415.864.0831 415.348.8042 www.nihonmachistreetfair.org www.sfpride.org www.bayanihancc.org Pacific Islanders’ Cultural Association United Irish Societies of SF, Inc. St . Folsom Street Events Folsom Street Fair, The San Francisco Aloha Festival is an Patrick’s Day Parade is one of the City’s an annual South of Market event, is the annual two-day celebration, features oldest and largest parades, features Bay largest celebration of alternative lifestyles the traditional and contemporary folk Area bands, drill teams and floats . in the United States which features arts of Polynesians, Micronesians and $12,050.00 top live entertainment from alternative Melanesians . P.O. Box 16026 bands, a growing artists area, and more . $7,600.00 San Francisco, CA 94116 $16,600.00 152 10th Avenue 415.665.4595 965 Mission St., Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94118 www.uissf.org San Francisco, CA 94103 415.281.0221 415.777.3247 www.pica-org.org Vietnamese Community Center of San www.folsomstreetevents.org Francisco Vietnamese Lunar New Year, Russian Center of SF, Inc. The Russian also known as Tet, is an annual event Hellenic Federation of Northern Festival is presented by the Russian held in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District California An annual parade celebrating Center of San Francisco; a three-day to mark the arrival of the lunar new year Hellenic/Greek culture and heritage . event celebrating the diversity of Russian and to celebrate the Vietnamese and $5,000.00 culture through performances, crafts Southeast Asian communities . 999 Brotherhood Way demonstrations, food and delicacies . $9,000.00 San Francisco, CA 94132 $7,000.00 766 Geary St. 650.941.1890 2450 Sutter St. San Francisco, CA 94109 www.hellenicfederation.org San Francisco, CA 94115 415.351.1038 415.921.7631 www.vietccsf.org www.russiancentersf.com
22 Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report African American Shakespeare Asian American Theater Company Company African American Shakespeare Presentation of work by Asian American Theater Company produces classical works playwrights . with a strong cultural perspective and $14,400.00 $1,117,400 provides opportunities and accessibility 55 Teresita Blvd. for minority artists and their community San Francisco, CA 94127 42nd Street Moon to view these works in a manner that is 415.543.5738 A theatre company that celebrates inclusive of their cultural heritage . www.asianamericantheater.org the scripts and scores of uncommon $9,500.00 mid-20th Century Broadway musicals 762 Fulton Street, Suite 306 BATS Improv Presents a variety presented in an intimate theatre, San Francisco, CA 94102-4119 of improvisational theater from tastefully understated and without 415.762.2071 x8 “Theatresports” to improvised amplification . www.african-americanshakes.org Shakespeare and Broadway musicals . $39,250.00 $22,500.00 601 Van Ness Ave, #E3-621 Afro Solo Theatre Company Promotes Fort Mason Center, B350 San Francisco, CA 94102 and presents the experiences of African San Francisco, CA 94123 415.255.8205 Americans and people from the African 415.474.6776 x.4 www.42ndstmoon.org Diaspora in solo performances and the www.improv.org visual and literary arts . Actors Theatre of San Francisco An $9,500.00 Campo Santo An award-winning theatre ensemble company presenting a mix of 762 Fulton Street, Suite 307 ensemble performing culturally diverse off-Broadway, classic and new plays in a San Francisco, CA 94102 work . small downtown venue . 415.771.2376 $23,300.00 $21,800.00 www.afrosolo.org 446 Valencia St. 855 Bush Street San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94108 American Conservatory Theater 415-626-2787 415.345.9582 Considered one of the top regional www.theintersection.org www.actorstheatresf.org theatres and actor-training conservatories in the u .S ., produces a ten-month season of plays ranging from world classics to contemporary premieres . $331,000.00 30 Grant Ave., 6th Floor San Francisco, CA 94108-5800 415.834.3200 www.act-sf.org
Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report 23 Crowded Fire Theater Company Golden Thread Productions Golden Magic Theatre Produces poetic, bold work created by Thread Productions stages works One of the City’s oldest theatres, new and contemporary artists, innovative focusing on historic and contemporary recognized internationally for the in structure, which addresses the diverse issues of the disparate cultures of development and production of new political and social concerns of our the Middle East in order to present works by American writers . audiences . a balanced and nuanced view of this $66,700.00 $9,300.00 complex region . Fort Mason Center, Bldg. D PO Box 7775 #33990 $12,600.00 San Francisco, CA 94123 San Francisco, CA 94120-7775 499 Alabama St. #450 415.441.8001 415.255.7846 San Francisco, CA 94110-2064 www.magictheatre.org www.crowdedfire.org 415.626.4061 www.goldenthread.org New Conservatory Theatre Center Cutting Ball Theater, The A theater A performing arts complex and company dedicated to the development Jewish Theatre, The Creates original professional theater arts school . of experimental new plays and re- theatre works based on Jewish culture Production is centered around its year envisioned classics with an emphasis on and tradition . long LGBT Pride Season, Summer language and images . $43,100.00 Cabarets, YouthAware Educational $10,600.00 499 Alabama Street, Suite 127 Touring Program, New Play Development 141 Taylor Street San Francisco, CA 94110 and Emerging Artist Residencies, and a San Francisco, CA 94102 415.522.0786 Family Matinee Children’s Theatre series . 415.572.7834 www.atjt.com GFTA funds support the organization’s www.cuttingball.com public programming . La Pocha Nostra A multidisciplinary, $59,900.00 Encore Theatre Company Offers multimedia company created by 25 Van Ness Ave., Lower Lobby innovative stage presentations of new performance artist Guillermo Gomez- San Francisco, CA 94102 and rarely produced drama fostering Peña, explores the cultural borders 415.861.4914 social awareness . between languages, cultures, technology www.nctcsf.org $12,750.00 and art . 2612 25th Street $15,750.00 Phoenix Arts Association Theatre/ San Francisco, CA 94110 c/o SF Camerawork Gallery Encourages the development 415-336-7027 657 Mission St., 2nd Floor of new plays by providing performance, www.encoretheatreco.org San Francisco, CA 94104 workshop and rehearsal space in their www.pochanostra.com downtown venues at a reasonable cost EXIT Theatre Produces experimental for theatre companies with a wide range plays, absurdist classics and performance Lobster Theater Project, The produces of work . art in four different venues in the sketch-comedy shows, full-length plays, $8,900.00 Tenderloin, as well as the annual Fringe an annual film festival, monthly cabarets, 138 Carl St. Festival . short films and musical recordings . San Francisco, CA 94117 $42,800.00 $18,200.00 415.336.1020 156 Eddy St. 2101 Folsom Street www.phoenixtheatresf.org San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94110 415.931.1094 415.558.7721 San Francisco Mime Troupe San www.sffringe.org www.killingmylobster.com Francisco’s oldest professional theatre company, recognized internationally for foolsFURY Theater Company Lorraine Hansberry Theatre/SEW creating political theatre in parks and Produces and presents new works and Productions Presents plays by leading other outdoor locations . performance styles that include music, African American playwrights and a play $49,500.00 dance, circus, audience interaction and reading series featuring new works . 855 Treat Ave. three-dimensional visual art . $46,950.00 San Francisco, CA 94110-2723 $16,550.00 777 Jones St. 415.285.1717 499 Alabama St., #450 San Francisco, CA 94109 www.sfmt.org San Francisco, CA 94110 415.345.3980 415.377.5277 www.lhtsf.org www.foolsfury.org
24 Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report San Francisco Playhouse Off-Broadway Theatre Bay Area The largest regional style theater producing six full productions theater service organization in North annually . America; GFTA supports the advertising $26,200.00 and marketing of the TIX booth at Union 588 Sutter Street, #318 Square . San Francisco, CA 94102 $54,000.00 415.677.9596 1663 Mission St. #525 www.sfplayhouse.org San Francisco, CA 94103 415.430.1140 San Francisco Shakespeare Festival San www.theatrebayarea.org Francisco Shakespeare Festival presents ‘Free Shakespeare in the Park’ in the Theatre of Yugen The only theatre Presidio each summer as well as school company in the u .S . producing new Noh tours, camps, and educational programs and Kyogen works based on traditional throughout the Bay Area . Japanese styles . $60,400.00 $22,000.00 P.O. Box 460937 2840 Mariposa St. San Francisco, CA 94146 San Francisco, CA 94110 415.558.0888 415.621.0507 www.sfshakes.org www.theatreofyugen.org
San Francisco Theater Festival San Theatre Rhinoceros Develops and Francisco Theater Festival is a free, produces original works that examine the day-long festival produced each July, personal lives and social concerns of the showcasing dozens of theatre groups and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender solo artists performing throughout the communities . day in Yerba Buena Gardens, Yerba Buena $44,300.00 Center, the Metreon and Zeum Theater . 1360 Mission St., Suite 200 $5,250.00 San Francisco, CA 94103 21 Columbus Ave, Suite 233 415.552.4100 San Francisco, CA 94111 www.therhino.org 415.291.8655 www.sftheaterfestival.org
Shadowlight Productions A trailblazer in the contemporary shadow theatre field, creating one-of-a-kind interdisciplinary works that blend ancient shadow theatre techniques, modern theatre, cinematic effects, live music and other media . $20,400.00 22 Chattanooga St. San Francisco, CA 94114 415.648.4461 www.shadowlight.org
Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report 25 ArtSpan/Open Studios of San Francisco California Historical Society Founded in Features non-juried works of almost 1000 1871, the California Historical Society’s Visual Arts local artists exhibited at artists’ studios (CHS) mission is “to preserve, exhibit and throughout the City for four weekends in interpret all facets of California’s colorful $1,576,100 October . history .” $29,300.00 $22,300.00 African American Historical and Cultural 934 Brannan 678 Mission St. Society Exhibits historical memorabilia, San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94105 primarily of African American culture in 415.861.9838 415.357.1848 San Francisco and Northern California; www.artspan.org www.californiahistoricalsociety.org maintains a library and sponsors cultural activities in the City . Black Rock Arts Foundation Creates and Cartoon Art Museum The only museum $9,900.00 sites temporary interactive contemporary west of the Mississippi dedicated to the 762 Fulton Street, 2nd Floor art installations in collaboration with preservation and exhibition of cartoon art San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco communities and in all its forms . 415.441.0640 neighborhoods . $30,150.00 www.sfblackhistory.org $14,400.00 655 Mission Street 3450 3rd Street, Suite 2A San Francisco, CA 94105 Artists Guild of San Francisco Artists San Francisco, CA 94124 415.227.8666 Guild of San Francisco (The Guild) was 415.626.1248 www.cartoonart.org founded to give artists control over the www.blackrockarts.org marketing of work through regular free Chinese Culture Foundation Presents public outdoor exhibits in highly visible California College of the Arts A leading traditional and contemporary Chinese locations . arts education institution presenting and Chinese American exhibitions and $5,000.00 exhibitions, lectures and symposia that produces the annual spring festival . 3801 Third St. #1098 feature local, national and international $50,400.00 San Francisco, CA 94124 artists, architects, designers, writers, and 750 Kearny St., 3rd Floor 415.835.0610 multimedia experts . San Francisco, CA 94108 www.artistsguildsf.com $53,300.00 415.986.1822 1111 8th Street www.c-c-c.org San Francisco, CA 94107 415-703-9555 www.cca.edu
26 Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report Chinese Historical Society of America Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender National Japanese American Historical Collects, preserves and exhibits art, Historical Society Fosters the recovery, Society A multi arts organization which artifacts and archives reflecting the preservation, presentation and uses exhibition and performing arts to experiences of Chinese in America . understanding of lesbian, bisexual, present the diversity of the Japanese $40,750.00 transgender and gay culture through American experience . 965 Clay Street exhibits, an oral history project and public $26,000.00 San Francisco, CA 94108 readings . 1684 Post Street 415.391.1188 $38,800.00 San Francisco, CA 94115 www.chsa.org 657 Mission Street, #300 415.921.5007 San Francisco, CA 94105 www.njahs.org Contemporary Jewish Museum Explores 415.777.5455 the ideas, values and artistic expression www.glbthistory.org Precita Eyes Muralists Association, Inc. of Jewish culture through exhibits and Offers daily mural walks throughout the educational programs . Museo ItaloAmericano Researches and Mission District, sponsors annual Gala $86,900.00 displays artworks of all media by Italian Benefit & Art Auction, Urban Youth Art 736 Mission Street and Italian American artists . Festival, Mural Awareness Month (MAM), San Francisco, CA 94103 $34,200.00 and hosts gallery exhibitions, and classes 415-655-7808 Fort Mason Center, Bldg. C and workshops for all ages . www.thecjm.org San Francisco, CA 94123 $34,000.00 415.673.2200 2981 24th St. Creativity Explored Exhibits and markets www.museoitaloamericano.org San Francisco, CA 94110 the visual art of artists with disabilities . 415.285.2287 $29,750.00 Museum of Craft & Folk Art Presents www.precitaeyes.org 3245 Sixteenth Street exhibitions and educational programs San Francisco, CA 94103 demonstrating how folk art, contemporary Root Division A multi-use space of 415.863.2108 craft, and fine art are all part of the same studios, gallery, & classroom that serves www.creativityexplored.org continuum . the community in the production, $44,100.00 education, and presentation of Exploratorium An internationally 51 Yerba Buena Lane contemporary visual art . renowned museum of science, art and San Francisco, CA 94103 $10,100.00 human perception, presenting exhibitions, 415.227.4888 3175 17th Street performances, film programs, lectures and www.mocfa.org San Francisco, CA 94110 workshops . 415.863.7668 $321,500.00 Museum of Performance & Design The www.rootdivision.org 3601 Lyon St. only international arts institution devoted San Francisco, CA 94123 to the celebration of the performing arts San Francisco Architectural Heritage 415.563.7337 and theatrical design, the MPD presents a An organization dedicated to preserving www.exploratorium.edu public exhibitions, educational programs, San Francisco’s architectural and cultural performances, lectures, screenings, identity; GFTA funds support tours of the Galeria de la Raza Presents the online resources, an oral history project Haas-Lilienthal House and Heritage Walks . contemporary work of Bay Area Latino/ and research facilities . In addition, the $25,250.00 Chicano artists, musicians and theater Museum collects, preserves, and makes 2007 Franklin St. groups . accessible performance and design San Francisco, CA 94109 $33,100.00 materials - over 3 .5 million items -- that 415.441.3000 2857 24th St. reflect our diverse culture . GFTA funds www.sfheritage.org San Francisco, CA 94110 support MPD’s public exhibitions and 415.826.8009 programs . www.galeriadelaraza.org $45,150.00 401 Van Ness Ave. #402 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.255.4800 www.sfpalm.org
Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report 27 San Francisco Art Institute Encourages San Francisco Museum of Modern Art interdisciplinary practices across visual The most important modern art museum arts media . GFTA supports SFAI’s in the western US, maintains a large comprehensive public programming permanent collection, and presents a full featuring exhibitions and presentations by schedule of exhibitions and educational emerging and internationally recognized activities . artists and scholars . $388,700.00 $65,100.00 151 Third St. 800 Chestnut San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94133-2299 415.357.4000 415.749.4549 www.sfmoma.org www.sfai.edu Southern Exposure A visual arts San Francisco Camerawork Presents organization that supports artists exhibitions, lectures and workshops on and youth in the development and contemporary fine art photography . presentation of new work and ideas . $40,750.00 $28,050.00 657 Mission Street, 2nd Floor 3030 20th Street San Francisco, CA 94105 San Francisco, CA 94110 415.512.2020 415.863.2141 www.sfcamerawork.org www.soex.org
San Francisco Museum and Historical Visual Aid: Artists for AIDS Relief Society Preserves and exhibits artifacts of Supports the work of professional artists San Francisco history from the Gold Rush living with AIDS and other life threatening to the present and promotes the Barbary illnesses through exhibitions, a regranting Coast Trail walking tours . program and technical services . $25,200.00 $25,150.00 P.O. Box 420470 57 Post St., Suite 905 San Francisco, CA 94142-0470 San Francisco, CA 94104 415.537.1105 415.777.8242 www.sfhistory.org visualaid.org
San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design San Francisco Museum of Craft +Design (SFMC+D) presents exhibits highlighting the influence of craft and design in today’s world . $18,800.00 130 Bush Street, Floor 5 San Francisco, CA 94104 415.773.0303 www.sfmcd.org
28 Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report Cultural Civic Events Regranting Centers $33,300 Programs Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday $441,229 Observance, the largest such observance $95,000 on the West Coast, is a Northern Supports operations, programming and GFTA makes grants to other, smaller California regional effort featuring a maintenance of the four City owned granting programs to serve constituencies freedom train, march and ceremonies at cultural centers: Bayview Opera House we may otherwise not reach . Bill Graham Civic Auditorium . Ruth Williams Memorial Theater, African $10,000 American Art and Culture Complex, Theatre Bay Area CA$H Program South of Market Cultural Center and makes awards to small theater and dance Memorial Day Ceremony includes parade Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. companies, as well as individual artists . and formal ceremony at the National $50,000 Cemetery at the Presidio . $7,600 Friends of Chamber Music Musical War Memorial Veterans Building Grant Program makes awards to support 401 Van Ness Avenue, Room 101 outstanding projects of San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94102 Bay Area professional chamber music 415.748.0613 ensembles, presenters, and individuals with chamber music projects . Veterans Day Parade is a traditional event $25,000 presented by the Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Southern Exposure Alternative American Legion, and The Veterans Affairs Exposure grants program supports Commission . “locally grown, artist-centered projects .” $10,600 $20,000 War Memorial Veterans Building 401 Van Ness Avenue, Room 101 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.748.0613
Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report 29 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 and Visitors Bureau is an outreach publication to San Francisco visitors . It is provided free to hotel guests and concierges and is distributed Grants for the Arts established the first Arts and Tourism in theater lobbies, Moscone Center, restaurants and cafes, Program (A&T) in the United States in 1989 with the goal of bookstores and other targeted locations in San Francisco . promoting San Francisco as a cultural destination to travel According to a study by Dance USA, commissioned by the industry professionals, including tour wholesalers, travel Bay Area foundation community . “Arts Monthly has been a agents, convention planners and others . In 1991 the San huge success in building audiences . This publication, started Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau (SFCVB) became by Grants for the Arts as a tool for concierges, lists arts the first agency to incorporate an Arts and Tourism office as a events for each month . When editors arranged to insert the crucial part of its marketing to visitors and business travelers . publication in the New York Times in the first Sunday of each Since then, the Arts and Tourism program has worked to month artists started advertising in it, the perception was that increase visitor attendance at arts events by designing the artists were in the New York Times . The cost of producing programs that highlight all the facets of San Francisco’s thriving it is relatively low . And it raised the visibility and credibility of cultural community . Arts and Tourism also works closely with dance .” local arts and cultural organizations informing them how to best use the services 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 SFArts.org experience and appreciate San Francisco’s famous diversity is “Diverse Destinations” (www .destinationsf .com), a series of As part of GFTA’s mandate, linking its activities to attract self-guided tour itineraries that immerse the visitor in the best visitors to San Francisco, GFTA led the way in creating a of San Francisco’s culture, ethnic heritage and arts . searchable clutterfree 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 . Any individual artist, arts organization or cultural group presenting an arts activity in the City can be 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 . Experts in different disciplines, such as Dance, Theater and Music, highlight their top picks each month . There is also a free iPhone app so that users can access a mobile version of this service .
30 Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report Nonrecurring Special Initiatives Events Fund From time to time Grants for the Arts is able to respond to the community through the use of Special Initiatives . The initiative Due to budget restrictions, this program is temporarily recognizes one-time only events, or is developed to address suspended. This information is provided for reference only. specific needs during a particular time . There are no current We hope to re-launch the program in the near future. initiatives underway . Here are some examples of initiatives that This program supports San Francisco nonprofit arts have been created by GFTA to assist the arts community . organizations that have extraordinary, one-time only promotional costs for events such as first-time festivals or • Capital Expenditures Initiative was designed to help celebrations, significant anniversaries, new venues, or programs community-based arts organizations acquire permanent, that provide groups with a critical boost . Preference is given technical and movable equipment for shared use . to groups not currently receiving GFTA support through the regular funding cycle though current grantees with major • Collaboration Initiative was developed to foster and anniversaries or collaborations benefiting several groups are encourage organic, effective collaborations and resource eligible to apply . Funds partially subsidize promotional costs sharing among arts organizations . related to publicity, consultants, materials, and advertisements . Grants are based on available funds and eligibility is limited to • Facilities Initiative responded to the rental space crisis once in any two consecutive fiscal years . In general, an award of the past few years . It supported efforts to maximize from this fund precludes general operating support in the the usefulness and accessibility of the City’s existing arts following fiscal year . Examples include the Sesquicentennial facilities . Further, it worked to strengthen the internal of the California Gold Rush, the first Afro-Solo Festival, a 25th capacity of organizations that manage multi-use spaces anniversary public event and the launching of the half-price and provided assistance in securing an adequate supply of ticket booth at Union Square . new arts space that is protected from market sources . Handbook for Arts Organizations Non Profit Know How – A Handbook for Successful Arts and Other Community Organizations Grants for the Arts has produced and distributes a free 50-page resource book that can serve as a basic primer or tool for any nonprofit organization . Editorial includes checklists that help in the planning of a performance or special event (with accounting and financial management forms) and information about how to develop an audience, apply for grants, find a consultant and do marketing and promotion . There is also information about how to get permits from the City, obtain short-term loan assistance, prepare for a financial audit, acquire legal information and more . Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report 31 Nonprofit Performing Arts Loan Program
Nonprofit Performing Arts Loan Program was revised to allow the making of grants in addition to loans . The program is designed to stabilize and support arts organizations and assist in the development of new arts venues in the City . Over the years, the program has provided more than 20 short and long-term low-interest loans, totaling more than $2 million to support facilities acquisition and renovations .
The following grants were awarded at the end of calendar year 2009 for implementation in 2010:
Organization Award Amount Purpose
Intersection for the Arts $95,000 To acquire a permanent performance, exhibition, rehearsal and office space . Lorraine Hansberry Theater $95,000 To acquire a long-term lease on a theater facility . ODC Theater $95,000 To support the expansion of the theater facility . The Marsh $95,000 To renovate and upgrade the upstairs Studio space and other improvements . The Z Space Studio $95,000 To renovate the Project Artaud Theater .
32 Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report Cultural Data Project Statistics
The California Cultural Data Project is a collaborative, statewide effort amongst government arts agencies and private foundations to standardize the reporting of financial and program data for arts nonprofits . In addition to providing a streamlined method for arts groups to prepare multiple grant applications and make some business reporting functions more accessible, the funders can glean information on the economic impact and work of the organizations they fund . Following are some statistics on those organizations in Grants for the Arts’ funding pool .
GFTA grants in FY 10/11: $8,882,300
This investment helps to: • Employ 6,012 people at a total payroll (including benefits) of $226,521,020 • Another 9,803 people get contract work from a wide range of professions including artists . Total payment to artists: $24,073,402
Additionally, the work of GFTA grantees: • Serves 9,010,868 audience members • Is supported by 16,445 volunteers and 1,883 board members • Results in $460,292,756 in economic activity
Total Groups supported: 207
In the recent round of Federal Stimulus funding via the NEA, San Francisco represents 5 .9% of all u .S . organizations receiving funds, and 4 .7% of all awarded funds . More arts organizations in San Francisco received this funding than any other city outside New York . The 37 San Francisco groups represent 37% of all California groups that received stimulus funds . This demonstrates the regard with which the San Francisco arts community is held nationally as well as how far GFTA support is leveraged .
Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report 33 AAudienceudience SServederved
Total GFTA Support: $8,882,300 Total Audience: 9,010,868 Cost per Person: $1.01
Total ticketed audience, 3,662,143, 41%
Total free audience, 5,348,725, 59%
Who Does the Work? Who Does the Work?
Board Members Full Time Part Time 6% Employees 5% Employees 12%
Volunteers Independent 48% Contractors 29%
34 Grants for the Arts 2010/11 Annual Report Total Expenditures by Arts Groups FY 09/10: $460,292,756 Total Expenditures by Arts Groups FY 09/10 $460,292,756
General Operating, $81,183,470, 18%
Fundraising, $38,135,224, 8%
Program, $340,974,062, 74%
Of this amount, $250,594,422 is spent on salaries fringe benefits and payments to independent contractors. These costs are distributed amongst these three areas of expenditures.
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