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Cotuit Center For The Arts’ mission is to be a welcoming home for Cape CodÕs artists, performers, students and audiences, working together to make the creation and experience of art accessible, nurturing and thrilling to all.

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An immersive performance by OYSTERKNIFE interrogating Afro-Diasporic lineages inside the Christian church, using Igbo masquerade, church mime, experimental video and choreography.

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This project will culminate in a large-scale outdoor Drag performance event, celebrating the living oral, dance and embodied tradition of the queer community from which Drag arises. The Show will be specifically committed to examining the ways that institutional white supremacy and racism are manifested, mimicked, enacted and/or complacent within the Drag community. The project will take place adjacent to CounterPulse’s facility in San Francisco.

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Creativity Explored is a studio in San Francisco that partners with artists with developmental disabilities to celebrate and nurture the creative potential in all of us.

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For the world premiere production of Star Finch’s Shipping & Handling, which explores through the Black Feminine gaze how our humanity will be measured within a soon-to-be robotic reality.

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Support for the Bellforge Arts Center.

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A performance that centers the ancestral dance Son de los Diablos, using Afro-Peruvian rhythms and dances to bring visibility to the African Diaspora in Latinx communities. Son de los Diablos highlights the importance, history, existence and cultural contributions of people of African ancestry in Peru to reclaim and remember a history that is often invisibilized.

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NOD2 was the first and to do date the most frequent gene associated with inflammatory bowel disease. The NOD2 protein functions as a sensor of bacteria by binding molecules (peptidoglycans) shed from the bacterial cell wall. The IBD mutations in NOD2 result in its inactivation or partial loss of function. In 2019 we reported that NOD2 requires the attachment of 2 fatty acids to be functional. This modification termed palmitoylation is mediated by the protein zDHHC5 and is missing from many of the mutant forms of NOD2 associated with Crohn’s disease. Palmitoylation is a reversible modification and while zDHHC5 is the “writer” that adds the modification, the “eraser” that removes it has not been identified. We believe that by blocking the eraser that we can restore function to at least some of the NOD2 mutants. Our unpublished work has identified the relevant acyl thioesterase which removes palmitate and inactivates NOD2. Through the use of chemical inhibitors we are able to rescue the function of several NOD2 mutant proteins. This proposal represents the next logical steps in our goal to characterize the relevant acyl thioesterase and to determine if any FDA approved drugs can restore function to NOD2 by inhibiting this eraser.

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A dance project that will physicalize and synthesize the prayer, divination and offerings of the Ose Tura ritual, creating a movement odyssey spanning physical and ancestral worlds and presented in four chapters at site-specific San Francisco locations.

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This project honors the blocked and soil-filled waterways that once flowed through Mission Dolores and the 5,700 Indigenous ancestors buried in the cemetery. In collaboration and solidarity with local Ohlone culture bearers, Latinx and Indigenous dance artists, and the American Indian Cultural District, sii agua sí is symbolically re-filling the site with water (sii) to bring awareness and healing to a painful history of genocide that seeps beneath the streets of the Mission District. This collaboration will culminate in a street mural project by local muralists and students from Mission High School. Videos of water and the names of the 5,700 native ancestors will be projected onto the front of Mission Dolores.

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A dance that explores intersectional, intergenerational and diverse Latinx identities and politics as lived by the artistic team and found in the lyrics of Chicano singer El Vez’s songs._

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A multimedia dance theater project exploring the seismic changes in our lives due to the global pandemic and ongoing world and national crises. The project is a collaboration choreographer Deborah Slater and culture curator/equity consultant Tammy Johnson in conjunction with five choreographer/dancers, spoken word creators/performers from Youth Speaks and composer Marcus Shelby.

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To support work in environmental literacy education, environmental justice and green workforce development.

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A live site-responsive performance that explores sanctuary spaces and rebuilding from the wreckage caused by the displacement of queer and people of color communities from San Francisco. The project blends devised theater, contemporary dance and drag to create a fully immersive experience.

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To support the Little Steps to College program, which provides early childhood programs at the Hawthorne Family Resource Center. Knowing the importance of social interactions for caregivers and their children, East Bay Agency for Children will be moving back to an in-person model, focusing on activities to develop phonetic awareness and critical social-emotional skills.

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To support collaboration with citywide literacy partners. Gearing up for a strategic refresh, this collaboration will inform their planning.

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$2,500 for the Teacher & Health Wellness Program and $2,500 to support the EAMG Inaugural Graduation class of 2022 activities and expenses.

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A new collaboration between theater company Eye Zen Presents, writer/pastor Marvin K. White and community partner San Francisco Heritage. The project explores the hidden history of queer ancestor, Sylvester, providing an understanding of racial equity within the queer liberation movement in the Haight of the ‘60s and ‘70s against the backdrop of civil rights, anti-war, student uprising, feminism and Gay liberation.

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There is still no medical cure for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and the clinical management is challenging. In particular, differentiating between Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) and predicting the clinical course or the response to therapy is difficult.
In this study, we aim to characterize tissue samples from IBD and control patients with a new diagnostic approach using infrared (IR) light and providing a molecular fingerprint of the disease. It is our goal to identify specific diagnostic fingerprints for CD and UC, for the prediction of the clinical course and the treatment response in patients. Finally, we will use a laser-based technique to obtain areas with specific molecular fingerprints from the tissues. Such material will be analyzed for all expressed genes with so called next-generation sequencing to determine the molecular changes associated with disease-specific fingerprints. Thereby, we hope to identify new diagnostic tools and targets for future therapy.