pateldanceworks (pdw) engages with futuring queer, decolonial worlds through dance performance, community improvisational practice and dance writing mentorship in pursuit of liberation, generating spaces of care and belonging. Their commitments to equity and anti-racism are integral to their creative process, administrative work, audience experience and performance making.
Transforming philanthropy by elevating the field of grants management and empowering grants management professionals to lead the way in operationalizing equity-centered, values-driven grantmaking practices.
Described as “emotional and kinetic” (San Francisco Bay Guardian), PUSH Dance Company performs vibrant contemporary dances, providing audiences an opportunity to examine issues of identity and intersecting cultures that surround and affect us all.
Queer Cultural Center promotes social justice and the creative and finanical development of queer artists and culture makers. They steward artists whose programs nourish, connect and mobilize Trans & Queer communities in San Francisco and its diaspora.
Reyes’ works are informed by her past experiences with poverty, domestic abuse, religion and chronic pain within the context of Latin American culture. She blends athleticism, everyday gestures, humor, storytelling and abstraction to question belief systems and toxic behavioral patterns in order to heal and reimagine healthier ways of relating to ourselves and others.
Risa Jaroslow’s lush choreography and stunning visual landscapes are alive with compassion and humor. Jaroslow examines the questions at the core of human experience, threading the answers through choreography that is at once earthy and soaring, transcendent and rooted in the everyday. Communities emerge and dissolve and a simple gesture blooms into a magnificent metaphor. […]
SambaFunk! is a collective of dancers, musicians, artists and community members, bringing to life the essence of Carnaval in our work. Through African Diaspora infused artistic techniques, they provide opportunities for dancers to grow, become in touch with themselves and learn the core elements of Brazilian dance.
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company (SFBATCO) engages artists and audiences through live theatre productions, creative development and community service initiatives that resonate with San Francisco Bay Area perspectives. The organization provides a platform for People of the Global Majority and inspires both new audiences and theatre innovators.
San Francisco Recovery Theatre meets people where they are, providing a medium of communication and delivering a message of hope, consequence and solutions.
