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A multidisciplinary, collaborative series of performances, workshops and experiential sessions with queer Asian performance, textile and visual artists, experimental composers, and costume designers that generates a ritual portal—a doorway across generations and geography, a metaphorical opening of the earth returning us home.

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A new science fiction shadow theater work created by playwright Eugenie Chan, shadow puppet artist/director Larry Reed and composer/instrument inventor Paul Dresher. Inspired by Chinese science fiction writer Cixin Liu’s work, Heterotopia is a speculative fable that explores vital issues of our time including race, gender, identity and the environmental degradation of the planet.

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To preserve the only black box theater in Oakland and allow the space to continue to serve a very diverse performing arts community.

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Pine Street Inn partners with homeless individuals to help them move from the streets and shelter to a home, and assists formerly homeless individuals in retaining housing.

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To support programs, including the nursery and work with the Sogorea TeÕ Land Trust.

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An immersive, multimedia work by Flamenco dancer and choreographer Tania Leullieux, artistic collaborators Adrian Arias and Jose Luis de la Paz, and the Presidio Theatre. Solace explores displacement and cultural survival, addressing the rising sea levels resulting from climate disruption.

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Explores Black indigeneity, isolation, gendering and connection to time and place through restorative dance practices found in Black Futurism. In partnership with choreographer and Black dance scholar Dr. Halifu Osumare, EMME Ya will draw on traditional dances and feminist rituals of Mali’s Dogon people and expand upon Africanist principles of improvisation.

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Supports dancers, choreographers, teachers, and administrators whose work is based in the exploration and expression of the African diaspora in the San Francisco Bay Area. In its first round, the relief fund supported a total of 26 Black/African American/African-descended artists.

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To support their new virtual platform, Reading Partners Connect. Their student-tutor pairs work together twice a week using Reading Partners’ curriculum, a series of research-based lesson plans.

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Opportunity Build students commit to 10-12 weeks of learning and preparing for success in the construction trades. Following up to 325 hours of classroom instruction and hands-on training with retired union tradespeople, graduates receive a full year of employment and job retention supportÑentirely free.

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A two-year mentorship program for young female-identified Black playwrights including advisory meetings with established playwrights and readings leading to a finished full-length play for each mentee.

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A theatrical performance work written by A. Smiley, which will take the form of a pseudo-documentary filmed serial podcast. Taking place in Bayview Hunters Point and the Hunters Point Shipyard, DWTMMS will center on the experiences of Black, Indigenous and People of Color Native San Franciscans in the face of a devastating pandemic, gentrification and the current fight for the Black community in Bayview to retain and restore their place in San Francisco.

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A series of interactive experiences, ceremonies and performances instigated by Snowflake Calvert (Yaqui, Tzotzil Mayan) in collaboration with Yaqui elders Zamora and Pennie Opal Plant, which responds to the needs and interests of relocated and displaced Indigenous people in California who no longer live on their ancestral lands and those who wish to better understand their neighbors within a context of settler/Indigenous relations and the colonial histories of the United States.

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For program support, including cultural revitalization, education and land cultivation projects.

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Southern Exposure (SoEx) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting diverse visual artists through innovative programming, including exhibitions and educational initiatives. Founded in 1974 as an artists’ collective, SoEx has evolved into an independent nonprofit that prioritizes inclusivity, particularly for Black, Indigenous, people of color, queer, nonbinary, trans, and immigrant artists.

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To support Oakland Unified School District in providing a five-week summer literacy program for up to 1,200 kindergarten through third grade students and their families. The program includes home visits, reading instruction, family reading workshops and coaching to improve teachers’ instructional practice.

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To support PRECISE, a national platform to (1) deeply characterize people with many pain conditions, (2) use that data to inform patients and clinicians on best treatments and (3) use AI guided targeting of digital behavioral therapies.

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An experimental, multimedia dance film and performance project, which reinforces techno music as an inherently Black American invention by examining its origins and locating its syncopated, complicated and paradoxical rhythms in the Black dancing body.

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Summer Search, headquartered in Oakland, California, aims to empower youth from all backgrounds by providing access to education, mentorship and opportunities for growth, thereby breaking down systemic barriers and promoting equity. The organization supports young people in discovering their purpose from high school through to career launch, resulting in significantly higher graduation rates and bachelor’s degree attainment compared to their peers from similar socio-economic backgrounds.