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Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee - July 8, 2014 - Meeting Agenda

Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee - July 8, 2014

SAN FRANCISCO ARTS COMMISSION
COMMUNITY ARTS, EDUCATION, AND GRANTS COMMITTEE
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
2:00 p.m.
25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 70


AGENDA
 

  1. Roll Call
     
  2. Community Investments Program Director’s Report
    Judy Nemzoff
    Discussion
    Current developments and announcements
    Item Time: Approximately 10 minutes
     
  3. 3rd on Third Grant Approval
    Judy Nemzoff
    Action

    Discussion and possible motion to approve a grant to the Bayview Opera House, Inc. in an amount not to exceed $75,000 to support, promote and produce 3rd on Third in Bayview
    Item Time: Approximately 10 minutes
     
  4. Cultural Centers Report
    Judy Nemzoff
    Action
    Discussion and possible motion to approve the proposed FY2014-2015 Management and Programming Plan and Budget for Queer Cultural Center (“QCC”) for an amount not to exceed $100,231. QCC will be named as a sub-grantee in the grant agreement to the African American Art and Culture Complex
    Explanatory Document: QCC MPP FY2015
    Item Time: Approximately 10 minutes

     
  5. SFAC Review Panelists
    Judy Nemzoff, Lucy Seena K. Lin
    Action
    Discussion and possible motion to approve panelists to serve, as selected by staff, on SFAC review panels for the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 Fiscal Years

Adrian Torres, Assistant Project Manager; City & County of San Francisco, Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Adriana Marcial, Development and Communications Manager
Aimee LeDuc, Executive Director of the Berkeley Art Center
Alka Joshi, Communications Director; BRITE Group
Allan Manalo, Development Manager; Central City Hospitality House
Allison Sparks, Program Officer, Child Welfare, Stuart Foundation
Amy Mueller, Artistic Director; Playwrights Foundation
Andre Torrey, Public Service Aide; San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Angelique Tompkins, Chef, Bayview Underground Food Scene
Anietie Akenem, Founder; Third Thursday
Anne Huang, Independent Strategy Consultant, Community Engagement Specialist, and Artist
Archana Horsting, Executive Director and co-founder; Kala Art Institute
Arielle Julia Brown, Playwright, Teaching artist and Arts Administrator
Beth Rubenstein, Nonprofit and Arts Consultant
Bianca Starr, TV personality and radio hostBrad Erickson, Executive Director; Theatre Bay Area
Brian Karl, Program Director; Headlands Center for the Arts
Brigette R. LeBlanc, Commissioner; Southeast Community Facility Commission
Carrie Leilam Love, Program Manager, Bay Area Video Arts Coalition 
Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Visual Artist and Educator
Charles “Chuck” Collins, San Francisco Arts Commissioner; President and CEO, YMCA of San Francisco
Chike C. Nwoffiah, Actor, Theater Director, Fimmaker, and Educator
Christine Lim, Director of Education and Artistic Administration, San Francisco Performances 
Courtney Fink, Executive Director; Southern Exposure
Cynthia Taylor, Assistant Director of Public Programs, Oakland Museum of California; Vocalist
Dave Archuletta, Executive Director; Joe Goode Performance Group
DJ Brookter, Deputy Director; Young Community Developers, Inc. (YCD)
Earl Shaddix, Owner, Earl Bread & Brittle
Ed Donaldson, Certified Economic Development Professional
Ed Hammonds, Director of Commercial Real Estate; East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation
Eddy Zheng, Commissioner, Southeast Community Facility Commission; Project Director, Community Youth Center of San Francisco
Elizabeth Brodersen, Director of Education, American Conservatory Theater
Ellen Oh, Program Administrator, Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University
Emiko Ono, Program Officer, Hewlett Foundation
Emily Ford Dirks Garvie, Development Manager; Young Audiences of Northern California
Ernesto Sopprani, Interim Director, SF/Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals; and Director, AIRspace; Artist
Evan Bissell, Artist
Genny Lim, Poet, Playwright, Performer, and Educator
Gwendolyn Westbrook, Chief Executive Officer, United Council of Human Services
Isabel Yrigoyen, Performing Arts Manager; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Ivan Jaigirdar, Artistic Director; 3rd I South Asian Film Festival
Jack Carpenter, Lighting Designer
Jaime Cortez, Artist and Educator
Janine Greer, Commissioner, Southeast Facility Community Commission
Jason Brock, Performing Artist
Jason Wallach, Program Coordinator, Center for Political Education
Jeremy Liu, Community Development Strategist
Joan Pinkvoss, Executive Director, Aunt Lute Book Company
Joe Goode, Founder and Artistic Director; Joe Goode Performance Group
John Carlos Parea, Musician and Educator
Jordan Bass, Managing Editor, McSweeney's Publishing
José María Francos, Lighting Designer and Production Manager, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Joseph Landini, Executive Director; SAFEhouse for the Perfoming Arts
Josh Healey, Writer, Performer, and Creative activist
Joshua Simon, Executive Director; East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation
Juan Fuentes, Visual Artist
Julie Fry, Program Office; Hewlett Foundation
Karen Seneferu, Artist/Professor
Katie Fahey, Associate Program Officer; Arts at Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Kawika Keikiali'ihiwahiwa Alfiche, Kumu Hula (teacher),Halau o Keikiali'I
Kevin Seaman, Artist
Khan Wong, Senior Program Manager, City of San Francisco, Grants for the Arts
Kim Anno, Artist and Educator
Kristine Mays, Visual Artist
Kriztina Palone, Director; Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services
Laura Elaine Ellis, Co-founder and Executive Director; African & African American Performing Arts Coalition
Laura Page, Arts & Educational Initiatives Analyst; San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
LaVaughn Kellum-King, Commissioner; Southeast Community Facility Commission
Lena Miller, Founder; Hunters Point Family
Leticia Hernández-Linares, Writer
Lily Kharrazi, Living Cultures Grants Manager; Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Lisa Hasenbalg, Director of Arts & Culture Marketing; San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau
Lori Laqua, Executive Director, Z Space
Mabel S. Teng, Executive Director; Chinese Culture Foundation
Madeleine Lim, Executive Director; Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
Madeleine Oldham; Literary Manager and Resident Dramaturg; Berkeley Reperatory Theater
Mahealani Uchiyama, Dancer, Musician, Composer and Educator
Malcolm Margolin, Founder and Executive Director; Heyday Books
Malik Seneferu, Visual and Teaching Artist
Marc Mayer, Educator for Public Programs; Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
Marsha Murrington, Senior Program Officer; Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Masashi Niwano, Festival & Exhibition Director; Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)
Maysoun Wazwaz, Program Manager; Mills College Art Museum
Meaghan Mitchell, SF Beautiful,  MoAD Vanguard
Mel Waters, Visual Artist
Melanie Cervantes, Race and Place (RAP) Fund Program Officer; Akonadi Foundatio
Melonie Green, Co-Owner; Infin8Sync
Melorra Green, Curator, African American Art and Culture Complex
Mica Sigourney, Artistic Director; OX
Michele Carlson, Artist, Writer, Educator, and Curator
Michelle Tea, Executive Director; RADAR Productions
Mimi Lok, Executive Director/Editor; McSweeney’s Voice of Witness Series
Moy Eng, Executive Director; Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST)
Nancy Hom, Artist
Nathan Marken, Performing Artist
Neal Hatten, Associate Executive Director; Bayview Hunters Point YMCA
Olivia Malabuyo Tablante, Grants Manager; Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
Patricia Maloney, Director; Art Practical
Patrick Dooley, Artistic Director and Founder; Shotgun Players
Pireeni Sundaralingam, Writer
PJ Hirabayashi, Artistic Director and Founding Member; San Jose Taiko
Ramekon O’Arwisters, Curator of Exhibitions; SFO Museum, San Francisco International Airport
Rhodessa Jones, Co-Artistic Director; Cultural Odyssey
Rhonel Roberts, Visual Artist, Hunter’s Point Shipyard Artist
Roberto Varea, Founding Artistic Director; Soapstone Theatre Company
Roko Kawai, Performing Arts Manager of Contextual Programming; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Ron Rowell, Past Chief Executive Officer, Common Counsel Foundation
Rudy Lemcke, Artist
Shamann Walton, Executive Director; Young Community Developers
Shawn Bullen, Visual and Teaching Artist
Shelley Trott, Director of Arts Strategy and Ventures; Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Sheron Fitzgerald, Converse School of International Language/MoAD Vanguard
Sherri Young, Executive Director; African American Shakespeare Company
Sidney Chen, Artistic Administrator; Kronos Quartet / Kronos Performing Arts Association
Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Artist and Educator
Steve Seid, Video Curator; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Steven Anthony Jones, Artistic Director; Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
Sylvia Sherman, Program Director; San Francisco Community Music Center
T. Lulani Arquette, President/CEO; Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
Targol Mesbah, Adjunct Associate Professor; Interdisciplinary Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies
Ted Russell, Senior Program Officer for the Arts; James Irvine Foundation
Tere Romo, Program Officer for Arts & Culture, San Francisco Foundation
Theo Ellington, Commissioner, Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure; Project Coordinator, Urban Ed Academy
Theresa Harlan, Curator and Writer
Thor Kaslofsky, Project Manager, Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure
Tony Robles, Author of children’s books
Torange Yeghiazarian, Artistic Director; Golden Thread Productions
Vanessa Camarena-Arredondo, Vocalist; Las Bomberas de La Bahia and Arts Consultant

Explanatory Document: FY2014-2016 Panelist Bios
Item Time: Approximately 10 minutes

  1. Public Comment
    Discussion

    (This item is to allow members of the public to comment generally on matters within the Committee’s purview as well as to suggest new agenda items for the Committee’s consideration.)
  1. New Business and Announcements
    Discussion

    (This item is to allow Commissioners to introduce new agenda items for consideration.)
  1. Adjournment
    Action

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Notices

Explanatory documents listed above, as well as documents created or distributed after the posting of this agenda to the Arts Commission will be available for public inspection and copying at the Arts Commission office, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 345, San Francisco, CA 94102, during regular business hours. Info: Tyese Wortham, 415-252-2558. PLEASE NOTE: The Arts Commission often receives documents created or submitted by other City officials, agencies or departments after the posting of the Arts Commission agenda. For such documents or presentations, members of the public may wish to contact the originating agency if they seek documents not yet provided to the Arts Commission.

Public comment in regard to specific items will be taken before or during consideration of the item.

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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE SUNSHINE ORDINANCE

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Citizens interested in obtaining a free copy of the Sunshine Ordinance can request a copy from Mr. Darby or by printing Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code on the Internet, http://www.sfgov.org/sunshine/

ACCESSIBLE MEETING POLICY

Per the American Disabilities Act and the Language Access Ordinance, Chinese, Spanish, and/or American Sign Language interpreters will be available upon request. Additionally, every effort will be made to provide a sound enhancement system, meeting materials in alternative formats, and/or a reader. Minutes may be translated after they have been adopted by the Commission. For all these requests, please contact Tyese Wortham, program associate, at least 48 hours before the meeting at 415-252-2558. Late requests will be honored if possible. The hearing room is wheelchair accessible.

利便参與會議的相關規定

根據美國殘疾人士法案和語言服務條例,中文、西班牙語、和/或美國手語翻譯人員在收到要求後將會提供翻譯服務。另外,我們將盡力提供擴音設備。同時也將會提供不同格式的會議資料, 和/或者提供閱讀器。此外,翻譯版本的會議記錄可在委員會通過後提供。上述的要求,請於會議前最少48小時致電415-252-2558向Tyese Wortham, program associate 提出。逾期提出的請求,若可能的話,亦會被考慮接納。聽證室設有輪椅通道。

POLITICA DE ACCESO A LA REUNIÓN

De acuerdo con la Ley sobre Estadounidenses con Discapacidades (American Disabilities Act) y la Ordenanza de Acceso a Idiomas (Language Access Ordinance) intérpretes de chino, español, y lenguaje de señas estarán disponibles de ser requeridos. En adición, se hará todo el esfuerzo posible para proveer un sistema mejoramiento de sonido, materiales de la reunión en formatos alternativos, y/o proveer un leedor. Las minutas podrán ser traducidas luego de ser aprobadas por la Comisión. Para solicitar estos servicios, favor contactar a Tyese Wortham, program associate, por lo menos 48 horas antes de la reunión al 415-252-2558. Las solicitudes tardías serán consideradas de ser posible. La sala de audiencia es accesible a silla de ruedas.

Patakaran para sa pag-access ng mga Miting

Ayon sa batas ng American Disabilities Act at ng Language Access Ordinance, maaring mag-request ng  mga tagapagsalin wika sa salitang Tsino, Espanyol at/o sa may kapansanan pandinig  sa American Sign Language. Bukod pa dito, sisikapin gawan ng paraan na makapaglaan ng gamit upang lalong pabutihin ang inyong pakikinig,  maibahagi ang mga kaganapan ng miting sa iba't ibang anyo, at/o isang tagapagbasa. Ang mga kaganapan ng miting ay maaring isalin sa ibang wika matapos ito ay aprobahan ng komisyon. Sa mga ganitong uri ng kahilingan, mangyari po lamang makipag ugnayan kay Tyese Wortham, program associate sa 415-513-9691. Magbigay po lamang ng hindi bababa sa 48 oras na abiso bago ng  miting. Kung maari, ang mga late na hiling ay posibleng tanggapin. Ang silid ng pagpupulungan ay accessible sa mga naka wheelchair.