SMALL GRANTS IN THE ARTS

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   SMALL GRANTS IN THE ARTS
   2008 Grants

A Village Called Versailles – S. Leo Chiang - $5,500
[Bay Area Video Coalition]
For completion of a 1-hour documentary about a Vietnamese-American community in East New Orleans and its re-building effort after Hurricane Katrina, and a subsequent fight against having a toxic dump nearby.

Arts Benecia - $2,000
To support a show about the historic Yuba Factory in Benecia, called Structure and Light: Memories of the Yuba.

Arts Loan Fund - $1,000
[Northern California Grantmakers]
To support the 2009 activities of this collaborative loan fund which helps arts organizations experiencing cash flow problems.

Beard Club – Laura Lukitsch - $5,000
[Film Arts Foundation]
For animation segments to complete a 75-min. documentary about the social politics of facial hair.

California Exhibition Resources Alliance, San Francisco - $4,500
To support creation of a new traveling exhibition called Hobos to Street People: Artists’ Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present.

Company C Contemporary Ballet, Walnut Creek - $3,000
To support the 2008 Oakland Dance Festival.

Dance USA, Washington D.C. - $5,000
To provide subsidies for local dance artists to attend a national convening in Denver combining the DUSA national roundtable and the National Performing Arts Convention.

Danse Lumiere, Richmond - $7,500
[Poetry Flash]
To develop a dance theatre production based on Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Fifth Book of Peace, a book developed with war veteran writers.

Everyday Sunshine – Chris Metzler & Lev Anderson - $2,000
[Bay Area Video Coalition]
To support a 1-hour documentary about an early black rock group called Fishbone.

Dan Hoyle’s Right? - $5,000
[The Marsh]
To support development of a solo theatre work about the contrasts between urban and rural culture, and why our country’s politics have become so polarized.

Ives Quartet, Palo Alto - $1,000
To support the 10th home season with concerts in San Francisco, San Jose and San Francisco.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center, San Pablo - $3,500
To support a multi-year project to create and disseminate new Mexican-American musical works, called Living Traditions: Next Steps.

Martinez Opera - $5,000
To support one major and three smaller productions in the coming year at the Alhambra Performing Arts Center as well as non-traditional venues.

MINE – Geralyn Pezanoski - $3,000
[Independent Feature Project]
To support post production of a 90-min. documentary about the custody battles between those who adopted Katrina-related abandoned pets and their original owners.

Mothersbane – Jason Jakaitis - $1,900
[San Francisco Film Society]
To support a short personal film about the director’s relationship to his mother and her long term, debilitating medical needs.

Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco - $6,400
To support a catalogue of the exhibition Il Ghetto: Forging Italian Jewish Identities.

Playground, San Francisco - $2,000
To support a new play commissioning program.

Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco - $5,000
To support three new programs for playwrights within The Wellspring Project.

Queen of the Sun – Taggart Siegel - $1,400
[Collective Eye, Inc.]
To support a feature-length documentary about the recent collapse of the honey bee colonies, and the international implications.

Root Division, San Francisco - $5,000
To support the Second Saturday Exhibition Series.

San Francisco Lyric Opera - $3,000
To support the coming season of three fully staged, short operas.

SEEDS - Michael Peled - $2,000
[Teddy Bear Films]
To support a 90-min. documentary about the farming crisis in India’s cotton belt, due to international pressure to use genetically-altered seeds which have caused environmental and financial damage.

San Francisco Theater Festival - $2,500
To support the 5th annual free summer festival held during one day in Yerba Buena Gardens, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Zeum and Metreon.

Shotgun Players, Berkeley - $4,500
For artistic fees involved in creating a new work called Ubu for President, adapted from Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Rio by Josh Costello.

The Judge and the General – Elizabeth Farnsworth - $3,500
[West Wind Productions]
For music composition and audio mix for an 82-min. documentary about the pro-Pinochet Chilean judge who was selected to investigate his crimes, and how the Judge’s perspective evolved during the course of the investigation.

The Judy Finelli Project – Lisa Denker - $7,000
[Bay Area Video Coalition]
For post production of a 1-hour documentary about Pickle Family Circus co-founder Judy Finelli, and her return to the circus arts center as a teacher and mentor who is now almost completely immobilized by multiple sclerosis.

The Wolf Situation – Martin O’Brien & Robbie Proctor - $1,000
[Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs]
To support a documentary about the controversy around the hunting of western wolves, and their treatment as an endangered species.

West Wave Dance Festival, San Francisco - $2,500
[DanceArt, Inc.]
To support the 2008 Festival at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

TOTAL: $100,700