Grants Archive - Kenneth Rainin Foundation

A world premiere play by local playwright Christopher Chen that includes local artists and audiences in an immersive play exploring what it means to be human.

A radically participatory and collaborative world-premiere play set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s disappearing artist spaces. In this timely struggle, a diverse ensemble of creators fights to save a beloved cultural haven from impending closure.

A dance-theatre collaboration by choreographer Babatunji Johnson, poet Maddy Clifford and photographer Bethanie Hines that reimagines the Phoenix myth to explore resilience as a collective, relational act.

A genre-warping, sci-fi Wild Western physical theatre work built for the streets, theaters and abandoned lots of the Bay Area. Loud, unfiltered and unrelenting, this Afro-Indigenous reclamation twists saloons, stand-offs and open ranges into something raw, mythic and untamed.

A multimedia intergenerational performance engaging formative environments of childhood in connection to layers of memory, weight and possibility presented by interdisciplinary dance artists Isak Immanuel and Marina Fukushima alongside community participants. 

A new dance and music work investigating the influence of Black American protest dance and music on contemporary dance forms like House and Hip Hop through intersecting lenses of Dance Cyphers and Afrofuturism.

A new multidisciplinary performance blending Turf Dance and spoken word to explore the emotional landscape of potent emotions, offering a powerful expression of loss, joy, memory and healing.