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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.

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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.

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Bay Area Cultural Funders for Equity (BACFE) is a collaborative fund for aligned Bay Area arts funders aiming to advance equitable grantmaking and community well-being through coordinated funding that maximizes collective impact.

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Bay Area Cultural Funders for Equity (BACFE) aims to amplify the voices and cultures of marginalized communities in the Bay Area through collaborative funding efforts.

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San Francisco Recovery Theatre meets people where they are, providing a medium of communication and delivering a message of hope, consequence and solutions.

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To support trainee travel for conferences and professional development in IBD research associated with Dr. Dale Lee’s project.

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An improvisation-based dance performance by three local dance artists inspired by stories of local Iranian-American immigrants.

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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 the plays in their finest light, demonstrates their relevance to today’s society and inspires their students and audiences to seek out additional theatrical experiences. By lowering practical and perceptual barriers, the Festival encourages broad participation in the arts and makes these artistic activities an active part of community life.

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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.

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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 and promoting programs and activities inspired by the intimate setting of artists’ individual studios comprise the focus of their work. Their goal is to promote this vibrant San Francisco cultural institution to the local and regional community.

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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.

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Shruti Abhishek is an Indian dancer, choreographer and teacher practicing Bharatanatyam. Through her continued practice and study, Shruti continues learning the multiple layers that inhabit Bharatanatyam. A dance form from the south of India, Bharatanatyam is an appropriated art form that was traditionally practiced by the courtesan/hereditary community.

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Sins Invalid is a disability justice-based movement building and performance project that celebrates disabled people, centering and led by disabled Black, Indigenous and people of the global majority, and queer, trans and nonbinary disabled people.

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Sins Invalid is a disability justice-based movement building and performance project that celebrates disabled people, centering and led by disabled Black, Indigenous and people of the global majority, and queer, Trans and nonbinary disabled people.

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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.

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Snowflake Arizmendi-Calvert (she/her) is a Two-Spirit performance artist of Tzotzil of Simojovel, Yaqui of Sonora, and of Raramuri of Chihuahua heritage. In her career she’s a professional dancer, drag performer/event host, entrepreneur and filmmaker. She produces LGBTQ+ events as platforms for political, social and cultural activism.

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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.

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To support the Oakland based impact producing organization in strengthening and scaling its sustainability and entrepreneurship coaching model for artists through the SOZO Fellowship. The grant will also support expanded staffing, including a new Chief of Impact, who will design and launch a narrative and systems change initiative.

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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.