A three-year grant to support the Artist Residency and Commissioning (ARC) program, which identifies local emerging and innovative choreographers and provides them with five-month residencies. Two artists per residency will rehearse, collaborate, and perform new works, and build a sustainable commissioning program supporting three fully commissioned world premieres each year.
A three-year grant to support the Artist in Residence (AIR) Program, which provides four to ten week long residencies for six to eight artists annually.
A three-year grant to support the Resident Playwrights Initiative and Production Fund, which provides an array of support and resources for ten Bay Area playwrights over a four-year term and includes a Production Fund for one project each year in partnership with a Bay Area theater.
A three-year grant to support twelve month-long residencies for Bay Area performance artists, choreographers, playwrights, and/or filmmakers.
A three-year grant to support The Rainin Opportunity Fund at ODC Theater, an artistic merit-based rental subsidy program that allows self-producing dance artists to present on ODC’s main stage.
A three-year grant to support the Resident Playwrights Program, a comprehensive suite of year-round, integrated services and activities for distinguished early-career Bay Area playwrights.
Oakland Futures Project sims to harness the ideas and influence of Oakland’s high-profile arts leaders such as W. Kamau Bell, Chinaka Hodge and Ryan Coogler to design a path forward for Oakland to remain a thriving, inclusive and safe arts community that can grow its influence and respond to next generation creatives.
A research project supporting the stabilization of Ragged Wing Ensemble (RWE). RWE produces theater and operates The Flight Deck, an accessible venue open to community arts organizations, and collaborative development of the Oakland Cultural Space Collaborative.
A program which will build cross-sector relationships, invest in changemakers, deploy capital in field-informing ways, and disseminate learning and knowledge at the intersection of building alternative economies and developing support systems for artists’ financial self-determination.
The Director for Arts Spaces is charged with implementing specific initiatives and interventions to help stem the displacement of artists and arts organizations from Oakland.
