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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…
NEWS
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
What 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.
MOREMark Foehringer Dance Project|SF (MFDP|SF) presents an annual, one day, admission free, outdoor event in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park under the Bandshell of the Music Concourse. Dancing in the Park SF features over 20 dance groups or dance artists including professional dance companies, pre-professional programs and community groups from around the Bay Area.
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.
MORECome See the culmination of our 8 week residency outside at the Park! See original works from our residents Conni McKenzie, Jacob Walse-Dominguez , Archana Raja, Sarah Fe Harris-Juarbe and gizeh muñiz vengel for our BASE Residency Showcase! The BΛSE Residency is an 8 week program that intends to engage 5 early-career dance and performance BIPOC & QTBIPOC teaching artists in artistic and pedagogical activities that empowers them to engage with their community at large, lead performance workshops, and ultimately create a final performance. In collaboration with: Bay Area Dance Week Community Arts Stabilization Trust PUSH Dance Company The Parks At 5M
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.
MORECome See the culmination of our 8 week residency outside at the Park! See original works from our residents Conni McKenzie, Jacob Walse-Dominguez , Archana Raja, Sarah Fe Harris-Juarbe and gizeh muñiz vengel for our BASE Residency Showcase! The BΛSE Residency is an 8 week program that intends to engage 5 early-career dance and performance BIPOC & QTBIPOC teaching artists in artistic and pedagogical activities that empowers them to engage with their community at large, lead performance workshops, and ultimately create a final performance. In collaboration with: Bay Area Dance Week Community Arts Stabilization Trust PUSH Dance Company The Parks At 5M
MOREWHAT IS FISCAL SPONSORSHIP?
Dancers’ Group’s fiscal sponsorship program provides administrative guidance that can help you raise money to support your dance.