Continued support for the Little Steps to College program, which offers early literacy and wraparound family services for families in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood.
Renews professional learning services for Oakland Unified School District’s Tier 2 literacy intervention model.
A new full-length theater production by Biko Eisen-Martin exploring the 1960s Hunter’s Point riots by blending historical events, documentary theater and experimental storytelling.
An improvisation-based dance performance by three local dance artists inspired by stories of local Iranian-American immigrants.
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.
“BCF: Here & Now” supports emerging and mid-career artists in residencies to cultivate innovative dance works.
