Community_Arts_and_Education_Committee
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COMMUNITY ARTS, EDUCATION, AND GRANTS COMMITTEE
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
4:30 p.m.
25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 70
- Cultural Equity Grants Program Director Report
Motion to approve recommendations to award eight grants totaling
$120,000 in the 2008-2009 cycle of Creative Space grants to the
following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural
Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
509 Cultural Center/Luggage Store, $15,000
Chinese Historical Society, $13,500
CounterPulse, $18,000
Croatian American Cultural Center, $18,000
Dance Brigade, $15,000
Joe Goode Productions, $9,000
Southern Exposure, $18,000
Women’s Audio Mission, $13,500
Supplemental Documents: Creative Space applicant ranking and
project descriptions; summary notes of the application evaluation;
and bios of the grants review panelists.
Motion to approve recommendations to award three grants totaling
$300,000 in the 2008-2009 cycle of Cultural Equity Initiative
Level Two grants to the following organizations, and to authorize
the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with
each for the amounts listed:
Fresh Meat Productions, $100,000
ABADA Capoeira San Francisco, $100,000
Dance Brigade, $100,000
Supplemental Documents: Cultural Equity Initiative Level Two applicant
ranking and project descriptions; summary notes of the application
evaluation; and bios of the grants review panelists.
Motion to approve the following individuals as grants application review
panelists for Cultural Equity Grants:
Neela Banerjee, Writer and Youth Worker
Eugenie Chan, Playwright
Sarah Crowell, Program/Artistic Director, Destiny Arts Center
Daniel Gray Kontar, Writer, Youth Worker, Ph. D. student
John Jota Leanos, Professor of Social Practice and Community Arts,
California College of the Arts
Jessica Mele, Program Director, Performing Arts Workshop
Indra Mungal, Community Program Manager, Oakland Museum of
California
Sean Nash, Painter; Professor, California College of the Arts
Dr. Margaret Paloma Pavel, Executive Director, Earth House
David Perez, Literary and Performance Art Program Coordinator,
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana
Theo Rigby, Filmmaker
Gabriela Shiroma, Dancer; Choreographer; Teacher
Judy Young, Executive Director, Vietnamese Youth Development Center
Supplemental Documents: Panelist bios.
- Community Arts and Education Program Director Report
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center: progress report
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts: review of 2007-2008 final report
- WritersCorps Report
- Arts Education Report
- Cultural Center Report
- Buildings and Grounds Superintendent Report
- New Business
- Adjournment
EM 10/9/08
Notices
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