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Uses multimedia video, soundscape and scenic magic to tell the stories of three young black men as they journey across the unknown. Co-Produced by Custom Made Theatre and the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Esai’s Table addresses the crucial need for representation and identity in the era of #blacklivesmatter.

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Set in a climate-ravaged San Francisco and challenges the patriarchy and classism present in Strindberg’s original Miss Julie. This is the inaugural play in Cutting Ball Theater’s new commissioning program, which is committed to ethical, progressive alternatives to antiquated masterworks in the field of theater.

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Individuals with mutations in the receptor for IL-10 suffer from very early onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease. These patients are typically unresponsive to conventional therapies and have a poor long-term prognosis. The only available curative therapy is bone marrow transplantation from a suitable donor, which carries significant risks and often is not available. We propose to use gene transfer into the patient’s own stem cells to restore IL-10 signaling and provide an alternative treatment option for these patients. Our preliminary studies indicate that this gene therapy approach can prevent the development of the disease in a mouse model which mimics the disease symptoms observed in human patients. The team of investigators has deep expertise covering the diverse aspects of this project, with expertise in gene therapy preclinical development, clinical translation and in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and IL-10 biology.

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A new choreography by Leyya Mona Tawil in collaboration with local dancers, visual artist Dena Al Adeeb, and composer Sholeh Asgary. Noise & Nation will be featured as part of the Arab.AMP festival, which focuses on experimental live art from the Arab diaspora, celebrates the plurality of Arab voices, and challenges identity legibility.

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Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization. They wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect peopleÕs health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy and to combat climate change.

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To support East Bay Agency for Children’s (EBAC) early childhood education program at the Hawthorne Family Resource Center. This program will include Parent-Child Education Support Program and EBAC’s early childhood education program, La Academia.

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East Bay Center for the Performing Arts engages youth and young adults in imagining and creating new worlds for themselves and new visions for their communities through the inspiration and discipline of rigorous training in world performance traditions.

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A program that fosters risk-taking, rigor and radical critique on the role of political activism, cultural work and art in society. LAIR focuses on supporting primarily artists of color to look beyond traditional art practices to expand their vision, creating a space for artists and audiences to engage in meaningful dialog on some of the most pressing issues of our time including xenophobia, policing, racism, sexism and classism.

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For five Education for Change elementary schools to support improving core instruction and literacy supports for 900 transitional kindergartners to first grade students and their teachers. Funding includes: transitional kindergarten to first grade focused literacy coaches, tutor resources and a facilitated monthly professional learning community for site leaders and teachers to support data analysis and application of evidence-based literacy practices that help children secure the skills they need to be on track for reading success.

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A new site-responsive, immersive LGBTQ+ walking tour. OUT of Site: SOMA will focus on San Francisco’s South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood, celebrating its new status as the first LGBTQ+ and Leather Cultural District. It will combine contemporary dance, live music, and spoken word with virtual reality, oral history and sound collage to recover stories of the “lost generation,” taken by the AIDS pandemic, those displaced by ongoing gentrification, and SOMA’s long history of contested land.

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Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) can be a devastating illness. For reasons that are not clear, the cells that line the intestine in patients with IBD mount inappropriate immune responses toward the harmless bacteria that normally inhabit our gastrointestinal tracts. Treatments for IBD therefore involve suppressing immune responses to limit the damage caused by this immune hyperactivation. These medications have many complications, particularly in children who may be more susceptible to the infectious complications associated with their long-term use. The goal of our research is to facilitate the development of new therapies for IBD that specifically limit the hyperactivation of intestinal immune responses. We have identified a novel regulator of inflammatory responses in the cells that line the intestine and in this proposal we explore the mechanism by which this receptor acts to suppress deleterious immune responses. We hypothesize that these discoveries will offer important insights into the pathophysiology of IBD and will suggest a new therapeutic strategy for this disease.

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A multidisciplinary, multimedia, full-length work written by Brenda Wong Aoki and scored by Mark Izu. Drawing on the artist’s family’s 122-year history in San Francisco, OurTown will incorporate stories about real people and events, using text, film, alternative media, dance and live music. The work will premiere as part of The Center for Asian American Media’s CAAMFest 2021.

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The second piece in a trilogy of performances exploring the effects of prison on American citizens. MERCY seeks to highlight the historic intersections between the Black and Jewish experience with issues of race and capture.

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Investigates what is possible when trans, gender non-conforming, and queer communities are encouraged to think expansively and optimistically about their futures, at a time when threats to these communities have escalated.

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To support Oakland Public Library’s Literacy Programming Fund. Oakland Public Library will purchase 14,000 giveaway books for distribution through multiple programs, including but not limited to: Día (Diversity in Action) events, Books for Wider Horizons  preschool graduation giveaways, Summer Reading, Winter Bingo, and Share the Love outreach (distribution at the Oakland Housing Authority picnics, hospital waiting rooms, laundromats).

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Friends of the Lobkowicz Collections is a non profit organization that supports the mission of preserving, studying, and sharing the Lobkowicz Collections in the United States and abroad.

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A new site-specific dance creation rooted in a dialogue in dance between traditional Congolese movement, Afro Urban dance styles, and Hip Hop. The project is a collaboration between Oakland-based Fua Dia Congo and Paris-based Ambiance Facil and seeks to tell a story about the resilience of African movement across space and time by bridging the worlds of traditional and contemporary African dance and hip hop.

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Genesis Community Development Corporation provides educational, vocational and cultural enrichment programs for children, youths and adults, resulting in personal improvement and life transformation.

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Goodwill breaks the cycle of poverty through the power of work. Their training and career pathways provide a bridge to employment for thousands of people struggling to build workforce skills, confidence and self-sufficiency.