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SMALL GRANTS IN THE ARTS
2006 Grants
SMALL GRANTS IN THE ARTS
2006 Grants
Anima Mundi Dance Company, Richmond - $4,000
[Poetry Flash]
To support development of a dance-theatre piece based on Maxine Hong Kingston’s poem, The Fifth Book of Peace.APOP Hawaiian Cultural Center/Halau O Keikili’I, San Francisco - $2,750
[World Arts West]
To support production of a one-hour performance of traditional Pahu drumming and dance.Bay Area Celebrates National Dance Week - $3,000
[Dancers’ Group]
To support printing Dance Week guides, the opening performance event, and the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards.Berkeley Opera - $4,000
To support a new adaptation of Puccini’s Girl of the Golden West by David Scott Marley.California Revels, Oakland - $1,750
To support The Christmas Revels: An Annual Celebration of the Winter Solstice, a participatory performance event.Chitresh Das Dance Company, San Francisco - $5,000
To support an international festival and symposium called Kathak at the Crossroads.Cinnabar Theater, Petaluma - $3,000
To support the North Bay premiere of Enchanted April.
Creative Music Collective, Oakland - $5,000
[Oaktown Jazz Workshop]
To support Khalil Shaheed’s Mo’Rockin Project with Moroccan and American jazz musicians.Dancers’ Group, San Francisco - $2,000
To support expansion of the publication IN DANCE.Down in a Hole – Nathan Friedman - $3,000
[Film Arts Foundation]
For post production of a 90-minute documentary about an individual’s struggles with bipolar disorder.Emile Norman: By His Own Design – Will Parrinello - $3,750
[Health, Education and Videotape, Inc.]
For post production of a 1-hour documentary about local artist, octogenarian Emile Norman.El Campanil Theatre Preservation Foundation, Antioch - $3,000
To purchase a dance floor and theatre draping for this recently-renovated performing arts venue.Elder Arts Celebration, San Francisco - $6,000
[Eldergivers]
To support an exhibition of work by artists over age 65 at the Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica.Epiphany Productions, San Francisco - $4,000
[Dancers’ Group]
To support the third annual site-specific dance festival called Trolley Dances.Faithful Fools, San Francisco - $2,500
To support the arts program at this Tenderloin neighborhood center.Joe Goode Performance Group, San Francisco - $5,000
To support development of a new dance-theatre installation, Humansville, to be designed for the Forum Space at Yerba Buena Gardens.Life is Real – Scott Ray Becker - $2,000
[Collective Eye, Inc.]
For post production of a personal narrative film about dealing with severe depression through long distance running, and an unusual friendship.Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center, San Pablo - $3,000
To support artists’ fees for live performances by the Los Cenzontles Touring Group of the Cultures of Mexico in California program.
Martinez Opera Contra Costa - $2,000
To support the annual home season performances of La Traviata for multi-aged audiences.New Langton Arts, San Francisco - $4,000
To support commissioning of a new work by Julio Cesar Morales for the exhibition titled Making History.Oakland Dance Festival - $4,000
[Company C Contemporary Ballet]
To support artists’ fees for the fourth year of this festival showcasing modern and ballet
dance.
Oakland Opera Theater - $5,000
To support a new production, X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, by Anthony Davis.Out of the Poison Tree – Beth Pielert - $1,000
[Bay Area Video Coalition]
To support post production of a documentary about a family’s journey back to Cambodia to find out their father’s fate after his disappearance during the country’s genocide.Public Glass, San Francisco - $3,000
To support a series of master classes at this glass arts center.San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music - $5,000
To support the Affiliates Program, offering emerging ensembles a range of administrative and career development services and performance opportunities.San Francisco Hip Hop Dance Festival, San Francisco - $4,500
[Dancers’ Group]
To support the 8th annual dance festival at the Palace of Fine Arts.San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum - $6,500
To support a dance documentation and preservation project with Tandy Beal, Chitresh Das, Anna Halprin, and Michael Smuin.San Francisco Theater Festival - $1,000
[Magic Theatre]
To support a free, one-day theater marathon at Yerba Buena Gardens.San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles - $5,000
To support the 2006-07 year of exhibitions in the new site.San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art - $3,000
To support a site-specific work in conjunction with the Next New 2006: Art and Technology exhibition.The Free China – Michele Turnure-Salleo & Robin Greenberg - $5,000
[Film Arts Foundation]
For post production of a feature-length documentary about the voyage of five men who in 1955 sailed a Chinese junk from Taiwan to San Francisco.Tell Me A Story – Marjorie Leet Ford - $4,500
[Pacifica Performances]
To support a new radio series featuring fiction authors reading their work.Third World Majority, Oakland - $4,500
[Agape Foundation]
To support the Digital Arts Initiative to develop new media with grassroots community arts and civic organizations.
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara - $4,750
To support an exhibition of representational and 3-dimensional drawings by twenty regional artists.War Within – Christopher Upham - $6,000
[Collective Eye, Inc.]
For post production of a documentary film about five Viet Nam War veterans who travel back to their battle sites in search of some healing and understanding of their war experiences.What’s Up in the Universe – Susan Friedman - $5,500
[Film Arts Foundation]
To support post production of a 1-hour film about the solar system and innovative ways of learning from it.Yerba Buena Arts & Events, San Francisco - $3,000
To support the 2006 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.
TOTAL: $ 140,000