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The People's Palace
A new site-specific installation performance conceived and directed by Joanna Haigood
Thu-Fri, May 9-10 and Sun, May 12, 2024
Free Performance repeats every 30 minutes. Select a date and time to attend.
Bay Area Dance Week
April 26 to May 5 – All Dance, All Free, All Week
Visit the Bay Area Dance Week Hub to explore 10 days of free classes, performances, and more, all over the Bay Area. Whether hip hop, salsa, aerial, folk, modern, Bollywood, ballet, pole, West African, or many more – There is something for everyone.
Community
Foundation Awards 2024 Rainin Arts Fellowship To Four Bay Area Anchor Artists
This year’s Fellows draw upon rich artistic and activist legacies in the Bay Area, bringing forth dynamic histories while also forging new networks of artistic production. While anchored in their respective disciplines, their work unfolds across multiple forms of artistry, encompassing various geographies and ranging cultural and generational perspectives. Read more…
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In Dance: Spring issue
Guest Editor Rowena Richie writes:
“Welcome, spring.
The articles and conversations in this issue — there are budding connections among them — explore the tension between what something is and what it means.”
Upcoming Deadlines
For more opportunities, visit our Grants, Residencies & Opportunities Calendar
Constellations Culture Change Fund & Initiative: Folk Arts & Cultural Stewardship Grants
One-year, flexible, general operating support regrants for California-based organizations who work at the intersection of arts, culture and social justice, and whose work on cultural and narrative power building is rooted and in alignment with ancestral, Indigenous and traditional knowledge, values and practices with an intersectional lens and deep community roots. Due Wed, May 1. Read more…
Center for Cultural Innovation: CALI Catalyst
Provides unrestricted grants of up to $7,500 to California changemakers who are creating tangible impact within the arts and culture sector, shifting power and influence to historically underrepresented voices. Due Mon, May 6 by 11:59am. Read more…
National Performance Network: Creation Fund
Phase I of a three-part program that advances racial and cultural justice and results in an exchange between artists and communities. The Creation Fund supports artists creating a new work in its earliest stages, centering relationship-building between artists, presenters, and communities. Creation Fund projects receive a minimum of $15,000 of unrestricted funding that supports the process and labor that goes into creating a new artistic work. Each project must have a minimum of two commissioning organizations, known as Co-commissioners. One Co-commissioner must be an NPN National Partner, who will serve as the Lead Commissioner. Due Mon, May 20. Read more…
UPCOMING EVENTS
Come join in music and dance lessons, be dazzled by performances by Oakland-based circus & dance companies, learn body percussion, take flight in BANDALOOP’s new studio & scale the rock climbing wall. Walk ups welcome!
MOREBased on a 13th century Persian folktale, brings a timeless tale of kindness, generosity, and magic to the historic Sebastiani Theatre. Love and family can weather all odds, greed destroys and kindness is rewarded even if it's not immediate. Caring for others and our environment makes everything better, for us now and for future generations.
MOREWhat do a gay cowboy, a slam poetry genius, a revolutionary poet, a naturalist, a couple of starry-eyed lovers, and a doomsayer have in common? They all want to experiment with the theatrical form as members of the Wednesday Club, a group of LGBTQ+ drama nerds (and their allies) who get together to test out their theatrical innovations every Wednesday evening in a church basement. Based on songs from the repertoire of the Joe Goode Performance Group, this piece looks at the sometimes painful process of collaboration and the wisdom that can be gleaned from listening and slogging through the rough stuff to arrive at a place of trust and belonging.
MOREJoin us for a lively conversation that celebrates the artistic process: the achievements and challenges of women in the arts, looking at the past, present, and future, as well as a premiere screening of a film featuring Yuan Yuan Tan. This program is co-presented by the Art Center and Danse Lumiere and supported in part by John and Susan Diekman and the Friends of Danse Lumiere
MOREKathy Mata Ballet is celebrating Bay Area Dance Week 2024 and will present classical and contemporary ballet pieces, performed with live accompaniment. Company members and guests will be performing many different dance styles, including musical theater, modern, lyrical, contemporary, character and much more. Come and enjoy what promises to be a fun afternoon of dance. Kathy Mata Ballet believes that dance is for everyone and provides community service work with performances. Please register with kathy.mata@yahoo.com. A link will be sent out a few days before the event with a pdf program.
MOREAbhinaya's Junior Dance company will be presenting unique pieces from their repertoire followed by a thematic student presentation' Gems from the Ramayana- part 1' Contact abdanceco@gmail.com for more details
MOREWHAT IS FISCAL SPONSORSHIP?
Dancers’ Group’s fiscal sponsorship program provides administrative guidance that can help you raise money to support your dance.
