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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

 

MAP Fund awarding $2.883 million to 93 grantees for their live performance projects

Grantees will use experimental music, public art installations, opera, multi-sensory media, live electronics, poetry, ritual, musical theater, puppetry, culinary arts and more to explore the politics of memory, healing collective trauma, cultural continuity despite colonization, expanding our collective understanding of disability and confronting catastrophe–from climate to pandemics to the violence of borders. Bay Area grantees include AXIS Dance Company, Alleluia Panis, Urban Jazz Dance Company, UNA Productions, Dancing Earth, and Héctor Jaime. Read 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…

 

Creative Work Fund awards $882,000 in grants to 17 Bay Area artists to create new artworks with community organizations

Grantees continue to show us how the making of art together is a necessary act and when artists and organizations are in partnership, they strengthen the Bay Area. Read more…

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Upcoming Deadlines

For more opportunities, visit our Grants & Artistic Support Calendar.

SFAC: Artistic Legacy Grant

Acknowledges the impact of an artist who has been living and practicing their craft in SF for the last 25 consecutive years or more. $75,000. Due Thu, Oct 24 at 12noon. Read more…

 

National Center for Choreography-Akron: Creative Administration Research

Supports U.S. dance artists and challenges the field to think beyond the boundaries of known, traditional models and “best practices.” Artist stipends at $8,750/yr. Due Fri, Oct 25 at 2pm. Read more…

 

SFAC: Cultural Equity Initiatives

Supports SF-based small and mid-sized arts organizations deeply rooted in SF communities with core support grants up to $100,000. Due Wed, Oct 30 at 12noon. Read more…

 

Zellerbach Family Foundation: Together in Community

Supports fairs, festivals and other public gatherings and events that celebrate and uplift historically underserved communities. $5,000 or $10,000. Due Tue, Nov 5 at 5pm. Read more…

 

SFAC: San Francisco Artist Grant

Funds artists and works of art in all genres made by artists living in SF. $30,000 Grants – Due Wed, Nov 6 at 12noon. Read more…

 

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…

 

Two women dancers in a tight embrace
Oct 2024

Sistercraft

by Randee Paufve

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.

A black and white image of a person lying on the ground. Text reads: “Kismet with Kali, Shruti Abhishek. 18th October, Joe Goode Annex, SF.”
Oct 2024

Embracing the Journey: Trust, Tradition, and Transformation in Dance

by Shruti Abhishek

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

Oct 16

International Flamenco Artist, Mariana Martinez is coming to the Bay Area all the way from Barcelona, Spain. This will be her last stop in her US tour this year, for just a couple of days. Join us and learn more about this incredible art form from and artist that is completely immerse in the culture and active professionally in the flamenco scene in Spain. Mon, Oct 14 Bulerias - 6:30pm-8:00pm Wed, Oct 16 Bulerias - 6:00pm-7:30pm Tangos Masterclass - 7:30pm-8:30pm (No previous Flamenco experience required)

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Oct 16

From moving odes to loneliness to a darkly comic romance, a touching story of family bonds, and an action-packed game of survival, these films span an dizzying range of expressive tones. What they hold in common is the undeniable power of dance to forge connections between individuals that go on to shape our worlds. Venue accessibility: The entrance to the screening room is at 600 The Embarcadero. Once you enter the gates, there is an office to your left with a front desk. The person at the front desk will escort you to the elevator to get to the screening room.

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Oct 16

In this immersive film experience of the stage adaptation of the hit BBC series, “Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby,” writer Steven Knight and choreographer and director Benoit Swan Pouffer present a thrilling fusion of dance theater and rock concert. Set to music and lyrics by Roman GiaArthur (Grammy Nominee, American R&B musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer), the elaborate performance evokes dramatic imagery to portray the social and psychological effects of World War I in postwar industrial Birmingham. A continually shifting stage space sets soldiers, gangsters, workers, lovers, and fantastic visions reeling through sensual encounters and fatal confrontations. The dynamic performers of London’s Rambert dance company and an onstage band tell the story of Tommy as he navigates violence, intrigue, and heartbreak to find peace.

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Oct 17

Bodies of Empowerment has free classes every month taught by amazing teachers offering many different styles of dance. It's a place where you can explore movement, meet new people, sweat, bust a move, and find joy and inspiration through dance. Bodies of Empowerment (BOE) is a program brought to you by Kristin Damrow & Company. Follow us on Instagram to stay up-to-date with new classes every month @boe.dance

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Oct 17

Smuin Contemporary Ballet kicks off its 31st season—its first led by Artistic Director Amy Seiwert—with a thrilling program of premieres and celebrated works. Jennifer Archibald will create a World Premiere in her first project with Smuin. Known for exploring partnering and movement styles across genres, Archibald’s premiere promises a dynamic new work that highlights the spectacular versatility of Smuin artists. Also making his company debut is BalletX co-founder Matthew Neenan with his character-driven The Last Glass, a theatrical work set to the music of indie-rock band Beirut. Rounding out the bill is Amy Seiwert’s Renaissance, inspired by one of the largest gender equity protests in history.

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Oct 17

Interpersonal tensions, intimate portraits, exclamatory bursts of energy, and transformative emotional journeys unfold up close through the uncontainable impulse to dance. Filmmakers and dancers channel the expressive range of a psychedelic rock band, a throwback pop hit, a heartfelt singer-songwriter, a flamenco star, an underwater dancer, and the evocative power of bodies moving through landscapes and cityscapes. Program Schedule: 6:30-7:30PM Reception with beverages, open to all 7:30-8:30PM Film Screening 8:30-9:00PM Filmmaker talkback

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