Fiscally Sponsored Projects
Awakening Through ArtAwakening Through Art provides workshops and events that bring art and healing together to encourage creative expression, empowerment and social change. Together, we make art in a non-judgmental way and explore creative blocks through group drumming, painting, drawing, collage, singing and other activities. |
The Bay Area Labor Heritage/Rockin’ Solidarity ChorusThe chorus, founded in January 1999, sings old and new labor songs, in a range of styles, including gospel, South African, folk (from Woody Guthrie to 21st century bards), Broadway, Norteno, and rock & roll. Members are a mix of unionists, Wobblies, unaffiliated folks, academics, activists, anarchists, and archivists. We range in age (so far) from 25 to 75. We sing about all kinds of work, as well as peace and other contemporary issues. |
buildingbloc arts collective
buildingbloc arts collective is a collective of artists and activists working in collaboration with people imprisoned in California and community organizations doing art and social justice work in the bay area. We choose to use art because we believe that it can be a powerful voice for social change and because art can hopefully make knowledge accessible across the lines of race, class, gender, age and geography. Currently buildingbloc is collaborating( via letters ) with 160 people imprisoned in California and the organization Critical Resistance. |
Zero Performance & CIRCO ZERO
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| Change of State Performance Project is a collaboration between dance and theatre artists Andrea del Moral and K. Qilo Matzen. We make performance that transcends the boundaries of theatre, dance, and grassroots social-political movements. We are equally dedicated to creating innovative, precise performance and enticing people with challenging, constructive ideas. | 
Jessica Fudim’s Dance Animals charge across the boundaries of dance, theater, music, video, and visual design with their original performance works that forage for unlikely splendor and inspire our deepening accountability to each other and to the natural world. The San Francisco-based Dance Animals frame their personally, socially, and politically provocative work with rock-n-roll, vaudeville, brazen dance spectacles and a Muppet-like sincerity. www.myspace.com/danceanimals |
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Dodeska Performance Ensemble integrates theater, sound, music and technology to create innovative performance works designed to activate the spectator. Founded by Robert Quillen Camp in 2003, Dodeska has created several full length site-specific performances in NYC, Chicago & the Bay Area including DAYS OF RAGE (2004), THE OPRICHNIKI (2004), AP & BIRDS (2005) and THE GROUP (2008). Website: www.dodeska.com |
DOUBLE VISION is an intermedia performance company unifying dance with diverse art forms and technology through collaborations between choreographer, composer, video artist, animator and technologist. We investigate the interstices between technology, society, and the human body through dance, video and sound performances for stage and interactive installations. |
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FLOOR OF SKY / Isak Immanuel
FLOOR OF SKY is a performance and exhibition series that began in 2004 by Interdisciplinary Artist and Dancer Isak Immanuel. It acts as a context to explore experimental collaborations and theme based work engaged with the specificity of site, transit, and the absences and inversions of everyday life. Since its conception, FLOOR OF SKY has created solo and ensemble works, site-specific performances, video, and mixed media photography within the context of theaters, galleries, and civic space through out the SF Bay Area and Internationally. Born in the United States, Isak Immanuel grew up in the contrasting environments of the mesas of Taos, New Mexico and the ghettoes of East Los Angeles. As an interdisciplinary artist and dancer he has taken part in extensive solo and collaborative works throughout the SF Bay Area and internationally. In 2003 he began the performance and exhibition series Floor of Sky Projects as a means to examine the state of spirit and body in a constantly shifting city/time/landscape; from the immediacies of civic identity to the distances of myth, it is an approach to an intimate and civic dialectic with a hybrid of images, movement, sound, texture and light. Work has recently been done in Taiwan, Seoul, the Czech Republic, Berlin, Paris and San Francisco.www.floorofsky.org |
 group A was established in 2003 by Choreographer and Artistic Director Alyssa Lee as a dance company committed to placing dance in close contact with other art forms. Through collaboration with multiple artists group A has presented installations and technology-based works, dances with unconventional items, and contemporary conceptual works. |
 The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal publishes fine poetry and fiction of social content and personal experience. We publish neighborhood writers, and writers who are national and international. Our writers are from diverse cultures and are often economically marginal people. Recent issues have included Al Young, Clara Hsu, and Dan O. Our web site is www.haightashbury.org/poetry.html |
HumilitySwim‘s 2007 season features a solo-for-camera work, 52 Negotiations, (March 2007), a monthly Local Access TV Show, CITV: Contact Improvisation Television, (begins Winter 2007), a commissioned sitework, Home In You, for Queer Arts Festival (June 2007), and bimonthly experimental interactive tours of SF’s Mission district art spaces with Organic Site Shake as part of the Red Poppy Art House’s MAPP program. HumilitySwim also offers drop-in classes and training intensives in Contact Improvisation; 2007 intensive dates will be announced in February.
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Krista DeNio (choreographer, performer, director) has produced work in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1997. The work: post-apocalyptic, narrative-driven movement theater; the visual and visceral are weighted equally with storyline/content, movement/choreography, and sound design. The viewer should feel enveloped in an experience–emotional, raw, thought-provoking and unapologetic–a call to action. |
Leslie’s history and training as an artist includes dance and visual art. During the last 10 years she has made performance work that couples visual design and movement to create environments that provide an opportunity for audiences to occupy space and time in unfamiliar ways. It is this potential for disorientation that continues to entice Leslie to make performance work. Leslie’s current biographical wish list: to participate in art that invigorates audiences by offering evocative material that is ripe for interpretation and rich with metaphor; to be involved in projects that challenge default modes of dancing, choreographing and performing; to seek ways of communicating that don’t necessarily exclude written/spoken language but do privilege gesture, physicality, and bodies in motion; and to connect performer to audience, audience to their own imaginations and experience, and this art form with our current time in history. Leslie teaches and performs nationally and internationally and is currently faculty at San Diego State University’s School of Dance. |
Marigold Project’s purpose is to preserve, promote, and share the rituals and practices of Day of the Dead in San Francisco. We do this each year by coordinating and commissioning the free outdoor altar exhibit in Garfield Park on November 2. We create a community calendar of San Francisco Day ofthe Dead events, leading up to November 2. Find us on the web at: www.dayofthedeadsf.org |
Precarious Theatre/Matthew Graham Smith Presents Our work is focused on character-driven stories. We are attracted to stories that have relevance to our communities here and now and stories that allow us to explore new physical and theatrical realms. We seek to create theater that attracts new theatergoers, not just those who already regularly attend the theater. We seek to create a theatrical experience that defies expectations of what we call theater. |
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Scott Wells has a colorful history of making dances in the San Francisco Bay Area. He started his company in 1991 with Kathleen Hermesdorf and has worked with some of the best dancers in town. Wells has choreographed dances with boxers, skateboarders, improvisers, frisbees, balls and chess pieces. He has slid across tables, slammed on the walls and broke chairs in half. He “had the audience howling with delight” in most every show. He has a fresh, accessible style that is, after 15 years, just about to grow up.
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Music For Empowerment was founded by composer Carrie Baum in 2006 with the goal of elevating music and songs to the center of performance. This ensemble integrates music, dance, theater, and video to push the boundaries of expected musical form and structure, while maintaining familiarity, accessibility, a sense of humor, and a strong connection with the audience. |
 “Directed by Maya Gurantz, Temescal Labs (formerly Ten Red Hen) creates engaging, relevant, dynamic new theater that interrogates both the form of live art-making and the world around us. Our inaugural show, {The 99-Cent} Miss Saigon, played to sold out audiences and garnered great reviews from all the major Bay Area publications. CLOWN BIBLE was recognized as the Best Show of 2007 in the East Bay Express, and the Berkeley Daily Planet hailed us as “the most original” theater company in the East Bay.” |
The Threshold Project – Terroristika
Threshold is a dynamic theater ensemble dedicated to creating bold, beautiful theater. We challenge artists and audiences to imagine the edges of the possible in a process-based environment that embraces risk, growth and change. Our work is surprising and immediate and embraces the poetry of language and physical space. |
Trash Mash-Up, is a public art project that connects community members through workshops and public performances. Using disposable materials, participants create “Maskostumes”, original pageant masks and costumes based on traditions from around the world. Trash Mash-Up culminates with a Mash-Up Bash, a public performance pageant. Visit trashmashup.googlepages.com |
 We Players presents performance events that transform public spaces into realms of participatory theater. Using the works of Shakespeare to discuss current issues in local landscapes, we invite the audience to engage physically and awaken to the spectacular world around us. |
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Influenced by studies in Middle Eastern, North African, and Modern Dance, Zooz Dance Company creates uniquely refined compositions that highlight intersections of innovative and traditional dance styles. Their movement style focuses on rhythmically complex phrases of precise, pe rcussive isolations seamlessly blended with slow, sequential articulations within the body. (Photo Credit: ©RJ Muna 2006) |
