To support the engagement of Russell Consulting to launch and lead the Grassroots Artists Advocacy Program (GAAP) designed to train and empower individual artists to effectively advocate for policies benefitting artists and arts organizations and participate in coalition building with other sectors across the stateÕs creative economy.
To support the MediaMaker Fellowship Program for emerging social issue documentary filmmakers. Bay Area Video Coalition inspires social change by empowering media makers to develop and share diverse stories through art, education and technology.
An immersive dance theater experience that uplifts marginalized communities by addressing the impact of climate change on Black and BIPOC neighborhoods, thereby offering a unique opportunity for self-discovery through nature and the arts that ultimately aims to transform the relationship between the community and the environment.
A new project that takes an experimental and innovative approach to sustaining Pilipinx indigenous ritual and arts through the platform/lens of contemporary performance. “Tubong for Living Ancestors” features and reclaims the tubong, a Philipino Indigenous pre-colonial practice.
Choreographer Deborah Slater and playwright Eugenie Chan unite with a multigenerational collective of diverse women storytellers/artists to create a series of devised dance/theater vignettes around loss, grief and hope using movement, film and acting based on intergenerational legacy in both a western Chinese-American family and the gathered collaborators.
A site-specific devised dance theater re-imagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Nightingale” that deconstructs the fairytale in the context of the daunting questions that come with generative AI seeping into our everyday experience.
A duet of choreographed and contemporary dance, drag artistry and live full body tracking in Virtual Reality (VR) featuring Cy Berspace that explores how mixed reality can serve as an integration tool for people inhabiting a trans/queer body and how we can build socially diverse digital worlds.
A new play and modular community performance by poet and activist Yosimar Reyes created through a participatory storytelling process with Teatro Visión’s community in East San José. The piece blends local history and music to elevate community voices and inspire neighborhood civic engagement.
A four-part theatrical series offering four unique and intimate Black experiences, inspired by four visionary African American artworks – Jacob Lawrence’s “The Great Migration”; Romare Bearden’s “Sunday After Sermon”; Kehinde Wiley’s “We Want Peace” and Jean Michel-Basquiat’s “Hollywood Africans.”
“Dance House” transforms CounterPulse into an immersive world blending vertical dance, drag, modern dance, and queer nightlife, inviting audiences to participate in joyful, norm-defying movement and interdisciplinary connections. Creator Saharla Vetsch builds on her bridging of these disparate forms and communities to forge new interdisciplinary work and connections.
