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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.

Shakespeare-San Francisco believes that Shakespeare experienced in a communal setting–whether it be outdoors, in a classroom or in a theater–elates the soul, inspires the mind and unifies those who sit beside each other. For the majority of their audiences, they are the first point of contact with Shakespeare and the performing arts. Their programming represents […]

Sharp & Fine creates devised dance theater performances that use storytelling to provoke empathy and instigate transformation. Their work combines exuberant choreography, physical rigor, original text, live music and surreal imagery that ignites the imagination and frees the audience to discover their own meaning.

Shipyard Trust for the Arts’ mission revolves around the large and diverse community of visual artists, musicians and writers who have been working in studios at the historic Hunters Point Shipyard for more than 30 years. Keeping the studios affordable, facilitating arts education and exhibitions that involve people from their surrounding Bayview Hunters Point community […]