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Job Opening—We’re Hiring an Artist Resource Manager
Join the Dancers’ Group team as full-time staff person. Learn more
Grants for the Arts Awards $14 Million to 266 San Francisco Arts and Culture Nonprofits for 2025-2026
This year, in response to grantee feedback, Grants for the Arts for the first time implemented a two-year grant cycle to support organizations’ ability to plan ahead and reduce the amount of time organizations spend working on applications, thus freeing up resources to focus on their mission. GFTA hopes this new grant cycle will allow awarded organizations the ability to cultivate resilience, amplify impact, and maximize the capacity of their grants. The full list of FY25 & FY26 awardees are on Grants for the Arts website. Read more…
California Arts Council Resource: Promote and Seek Opportunities
Collective is a central hub for connecting California’s arts and culture communities with both the public and one another, by sharing the vast and varied creative assets available within our state. Peruse, publish, and set notifications for new opportunities such as jobs, internships, artist calls, grants, conferences, workshops, and more. Learn More
San Francisco Arts Commission Awards $15 Million In Grants To 166 Local Artists, Arts Nonprofits, and Cultural Organizations For 2024-2025
All SFAC grants support San Francisco-based artists and arts organizations and prioritize funding to artists and arts organizations that engage communities identified in the Cultural Equity Endowment Legislation. Approximately 45% of San Francisco Artist Grant recipients for this grant cycle are first-time grantees. Read more…
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Upcoming Deadlines
For more opportunities, visit our Grants & Artistic Support Calendar.
SFAC: Arts Impact Endowment
Provides SF-based artists up to $50,000 and SF-based arts organizations up to $100,000. Due Wed, Nov 13 at 12noon. Read more…
Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency
Provides early to mid-career artists free studio space and up-to-date equipment to create new work. Due Fri, Nov 15. Read more…
Fleishhacker Foundation: Special Arts Grants
Awarded to anchoring arts and culture nonprofits that have annual budgets between $750,000 and $2 million; produce and present new work; operate performance venues or exhibition spaces in San Francisco, Alameda, or Contra Costa counties. General support grants will be at least $10,000 and will generally not exceed $15,000 annually. Letters of Inquiry due Mon, Dec 2. Read more…
Sistercraft
I invite dancers from a variety of backgrounds to explore a different or fresh relationship to our respective formative genres, and to more deeply inhabit the forms we have in common. In this way, I think of craft as empowerment, as our work together is fundamentally co-creative, supporting dancer agency, placing the burden of communication on movement, and imagining an audience that craves the sort of expression only dance can provide.
Embracing the Journey: Trust, Tradition, and Transformation in Dance
From the beginning, Sisters was all about trust for me—trust in Randee’s years of experience as a choreographer, trust that I could find synergy with Eli, whom I’d never worked with before, trust that our stories held meaning for both of us, and trust in my body to move through a space it wasn’t yet familiar with. I trusted the process to reveal its truest intentions in its own time. Nothing else mattered. Nothing else got in the way.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Intersection's Arts Finance Empowerment Camp (AFEC) is an interactive cohort learning program for individual arts workers, administrators, managers, and board members. In Series 1, create a solid foundation of financial literacy. Explore the arts finance ecosystem and begin to develop your financial reporting skills in a safe and supportive environment. This series is led by Yesenia Sanchez, Intersection’s Executive Co-Director who has over 20 years of experience working with artists and arts orgs in many capacities.
MOREBodies of Empowerment (BOE) is a free class program brought to you by Kristin Damrow & Company. BOE has free classes every month taught by amazing teachers offering many different styles of dance. Follow us on instagram to stay up-to-date with new classes every month @boe.dance
MOREDr. Tria Blu Wakpa shares research on decolonial possibilities of student theatrical productions at a Jesuit former Indian boarding School, 1930s-1950s, at Rosebud Reservation, S.Dakota. She'll guide attendees in mindfulness practices that relate to tactics Native people used to reinterpret performances & support their holistic health. Dr. Blu Wakpa is a Prof. of World Arts & Cultures/Dance, UCLA. If attendee is able, a donation of $10 or other amount would support the program.
MOREThe Wellness Dance Class is designed for all ages, all fitness levels; no prior dance training is required. In this supportive environment, you can feel free to be yourself, connect with others, improve your overall well-being and have fun. We’ll start with breathing and wellness exercises, such as tapping, level-arm swinging, and light stretching to warm and loosen up your body. We’ll work on balance and strengthening. Then we learn rhythmic movements which are later integrated into an easy-to-follow choreographed routine. Come experience the wonderful sensation of moving to music.
MORENoguchi Taiso is practiced by a great number of Butoh practitioners today and has been incorporated by many well known Japanese Butoh teachers and pioneers. Noguchi Taiso is an approach to movement research and exploration which begins with a heightened awareness of gravity’s influence on the body and the body’s connection with the center of the earth. Exercises in the workshop train the body to embrace its weight and heighten its sensitivity to move from its most relaxed and receptive state.
MOREA salsa love story about growing up in San Francisco. Self directed, written and choreographed by Andrea Rodriguez, journey through memories of 24th Street, where a melding of family secrets, cultura, music and dance are explored through the themes of love, loss, and addiction. With original music composed by Asdru Sierra (Ozomatli), live music by Elena de Troya, rap artist UvaUvv, Poppin legend Prince Ali, and friends from Salsa/Mambo dance community.
MOREWHAT IS FISCAL SPONSORSHIP?
Dancers’ Group’s fiscal sponsorship program provides administrative guidance that can help you raise money to support your dance.