March 8, 2011
COMMUNITY ARTS, EDUCATION, AND GRANTS COMMITTEE
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
3:00 p.m.
25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 70
- Cultural Equity Grants Program Director Report
Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements.
Action
1. Motion to approve recommendations to award fifty-five grants totaling $557,448 in the Organization Project Grants to the following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
African & African American Performing Arts Coalition, $11,250
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, $11,250
Aunt Lute Books, $10,125
Bay Area National Dance Week, $7,500
Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema, $3,414
borderOUT, $3,750
Campo Santo, $11,250
Center for the Art of Translation, $9,000
Central Market Arts, $9,000
Chrysalis Studio, $9,225
Circo Zero / Zero Performances, $8,378
Circuit Network, $11,250
CounterPulse, $11,250
Croatian American Cultural Center, $11,250
Crowded Fire Theatre Company, $6,000
Cutting Ball Theatre Company, $11,250
DanceArt, Inc., $11,250
Dancers’ Group, $11,250
Del Sol Performing Arts Organization, $11,250
Eldergivers, $10,688
Epiphany Productions, $11,250
EXIT Theater, $11,250
foolsFury Theater Company, $11,250
Golden Thread Productions, $$11,250
Instant City: A Literary Exploration of San Francisco, $1,080
Instituto Pro Musica de California, $11,250
Kulintang Arts Inc., $11,250
Litquake, $11,250
Manilatown Heritage Foundation, $8,044
Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, $11,250
Other Minds, $11,250
Photo Alliance, $11,250
Playwrights Foundation, $11,250
Project Bandaloop, $11,250
Queer Cultural Center, $11,250
Queer Rebel Productions, $7,125
SAFEhouse, $8,550
San Francisco Cinematheque, $11,250
San Francisco Friends of Chamber of Music, $11,250
San Francisco Hip Hop Dance Festival, $11,250
San Francisco Independent Film Festival, $9,975
San Francisco Live Arts, $11,250
San Francisco Mime Troupe, $11,250
San Francisco Silent Film Festival, $11,250
San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, $3,206
Scott Wells and Dancers, $11,250
Sixth Street Photography Workshop, $10,125
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center, $11,250
Southern Exposure, $10,688
Stepology, $11,250
Switchboard Music Festival, $6,450
Voice of Witness, $11,250
Volti, $11,250
Yerba Buena Arts and Events, $11,250
Z Space Studio, $11,250
Zambaleta, $10,125
Supplemental Documents: Organization Project Grants ranking and project descriptions; summary notes of the application evaluation; and bios of the grant review panelists.
- Community Arts and Education Program Director Report
Discussion
Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements.
Action
1. Motion to enter into a grant agreement with Black Rock Foundation for a grant not to exceed $35,000 for the installation of two sculptures along the central Market corridor as part of The ARTery Project, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Mayors Institute of Civic Design award.
- Cultural Center Report
Discussion
1. Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements.
2. Mid-Year presentations by Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, African American Art & Culture Complex, and Bayview Opera House.
- WritersCorps Report
Discussion
Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements.
- Arts Education Report
Discussion
Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements.
- New Business
Discussion
- Adjournment
Action
CF 3/4/11
Notices
Explanatory documents are available for public inspection and copying at the Arts Commission office, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 240, San Francisco, CA 94102, during regular business hours. Info: Sharon Page Ritchie, 415-252-2591.
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