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An annual festival of experimental dance and performance in San Francisco that celebrates the abundance of embodied art, action and interaction in the Bay Area over the course of three weeks of performances, practices and exchanges.

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LavaMae_ Connect is a global community of people who are at all stages of bringing mobile showers and other care services to the street.

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To provide transitional kindergarten and preschool classrooms, and Faith-based organizations with family engagement early learning programs. These programs include: LitTab (eReaders), take home books, parent/caregiver workshops, and a new texting service designed to share ongoing and interactive early learning and school readiness content with parents/caregivers. Funding will also support a collaboration project with ideas42 to develop methods of maximizing parent and caregiver engagement in Literacy Lab’s LitTab program.

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A docu-theater production under the direction of Paul Flores that tells the story of the impact that the death of Alex Nieto (28) at the hands of the SFPD has had on Latino and African-American residents of San Francisco neighborhoods that are currently being gentrified.

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The Luggage Store, also known as The 509 Cultural Center, is a nonprofit arts organization whose mission is to foster community through multidisciplinary arts programming that promotes diversity, inclusion and dialogue among the diverse cultural communities of downtown San Francisco. They aim to reduce inter-group tensions and stereotypes through exhibitions, performances, education and public art initiatives.

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A new play by Han Ong about the late “bluesologist” Gil Scott-Heron.

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Mass Ornament Films is a transnational cinema and video art production house, born out of the collaboration of artists Zoe Sua Cho, Yoni Goldstein and Anahita Ghazvinizadeh

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The human gut is home to trillions of bacteria affecting our health. Even more abundant are viruses that specifically infect these bacteria. These viruses are called bacteriophages and have the ability to control the number and function of the bacteria that live within us. Individuals with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, have an imbalance in their gut bacteria that causes the activation of the underlying immune system, chronic inflammation, and tissue injury. We predict that changing the bacteriophages in the gut of patients with IBD could provide a new therapeutic approach to limit inflammation and disease progression. However, the specific type of bacteriophages that live in the gut and their influence on this important ecosystem are not known. Using mice in which the normal gut microbes have been replaced with bacteria and bacteriophages from healthy individuals or from patients with IBD, we will determine how each of these microbial components contribute to immune dysfunction and susceptibility to animals models of human colitis. Results generated from our work will identify how viruses can be harnessed to ameliorate intestinal inflammation and disease.

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Menstrual Health Hub is a platform for menstrual health advocacy, run by Uninhibited, whose mission is to improve gender equity, health and wellbeing of marginalised menstruators.

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An evening-length dance piece choreographed and directed by Sara Shelton Mann with music and soundscape by composer Pamela Z. ECHO is a site-specific work that will use the three studios in Dance Mission and the 24th Street BART Plaza opposite the theater to engage audiences in an experience of active viewing and listening.

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A new work which uses drag and movement to expose the performativity of gender, while challenging and confronting archetypal constructions of womanhood.

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MISSSEY is dedicated to preventing girls and gender-expansive youth from falling into sexual exploitation and violence while also aiding those currently experiencing exploitation to exit such circumstances. Additionally, they provide ongoing support and partnerships to help these individuals avoid re-entering exploitative situations and live liberated from harmful relationships.

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Movement Strategy Center is a collective ecosystem providing intermediary services and thought partnership to Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), women and LGBTQIA+ movement leaders addressing systemic racism, environmental destruction and economic exploitation. Sixteen teams from all across the country and various movements gathered in Northern California for the Practice of Place Lab, knowing that it is in the economy, ecology and decision making closest to our lives that we have the greatest possibility to generate new, community-led, participatory models of democracy that nurture wholeness, community power, mutual abundance and justice.

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The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to combating neuromuscular diseases through funding research, providing support services and advocating for improved treatments and policies. MDA’s efforts aim to enhance the lives of individuals and families affected by muscular dystrophy and related conditions, ultimately striving for a future free of these debilitating diseases.

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National Performance Network’s 32nd Annual Meeting will provide professional development opportunities, networking and performance opportunities to Bay Area artists.

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A new play by artist and community activist Jewelle Gomez about the life of Black lesbian singer/songwriter Alberta Hunter.

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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is less common in parts of the world with parasitic worm infections than in the developed world. Understanding why may lead to new types of therapy. We recently found that infection by parasitic worms increases the number of beneficial anti-inflammatory Clostridiales bacteria in the intestine, and that these bacteria can outcompete harmful disease-causing bacteria. Therefore, one reason why people living in the developed world are more likely to develop IBD may be because their intestines are no longer colonized by these beneficial bacteria. To restore a healthy “gut microbiome”, we may need to recolonize patients with these beneficial bacteria as a way to treat IBD. We propose to isolate beneficial Clostridiales bacteria from indigenous people of Malaysia who are infected by parasitic worms. These bacteria are potentially more beneficial when administered to IBD patients. We will test this by examining their ability to kill harmful disease-causing bacteria and restore a healthy gut microbiome. We will also use an animal model of IBD to determine whether this approach can reverse disease. If successful, we believe that Clostridiales from indigenous Malaysians, or products that these bacteria produce, can be used to treat IBD.