NEWS
Dance with Pride Wins Outstanding Musical Entry
Rhythm & Motion, Dancers’ Group, ODC, and Bopsidy teamed up to form the Dance with Pride contingent in the 2024 SF Pride Parade. Over 130 dancers performed through the center of the city, celebrating the LGBTQ+ community. Dance with Pride was awarded “Outstanding Musical Entry.” Congratulations to all who participated! Thank you, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, for recognizing our passion and love for dance, Pride, and our community. Read more…
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.”
Community
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…
NEWS
Upcoming Deadlines
For more opportunities, visit our Grants & Artistic Support Calendar.
Zellerbach Family Foundation: Together in Community grants
Supports fairs, festivals and other public gatherings and events that celebrate and uplift historically underserved communities, create opportunities to connect and share space, and articulate a meaningful cultural component and/or purposeful community engagement. There are multiple cycles per year. $5,000 or $10,000. Due Tue, Jul 30. Read more…
Alliance for California Traditional Arts: Living Cultures Grant
Seeks to sustain and strengthen traditional arts in the state of California with $7,500 grants to individual artists/culture bearers and $10,000 grants to California-based nonprofits and Tribal Nations, as well as other organizations and community groups with a fiscal sponsor. Projects involving any genre of traditional arts—including but not limited to dance, music, foodways, material arts, and oral traditions—are welcome. Due Wed, Jul 31. Read more…
Bothin Foundation
Makes capital grants to social service, academic enrichment, youth development, arts, and environmental nonprofit organizations providing direct services to disadvantaged children, youth, families, and people with disabilities. Examples of eligible capital grant uses include building improvements, vehicle requests, program equipment, and technology needs. Grants are only made to organizations serving significant numbers of the residents of San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, and/or San Mateo Counties. Applications are accepted three times a year. Due Fri, Aug 2 at 5pm. Read more…
First Peoples Fund: Artist in Business Leadership Fellowship
A yearlong program that helps independent Native artists pursue art as a way to build a business to support themselves and their families. Native practitioners of all creative mediums are welcome to apply. The ABL Fellowship offers $10,000 in grant funding towards a proposed project that supports the artist or culture bearer’s work in their community. Due Mon, Aug 5. Read more…
Walter & Elise Haas Fund: Possibility Grants
Possibility Grants are general operating grants of $100,000 per organization, awarded with flexible grant terms of either one or two years. Grants will be made to organizations that are essential to building a more just and equitable society, are actively working to challenge systems of oppression through cultural education, Black liberation values, community-based care, healing, or art in response to current domestic and global political climate, and have an intergenerational lens that uplifts youth. Due Mon, Aug 19. Read more…
UPCOMING EVENTS
Inklings Coffee will throw open the doors for an all- ages and all-abilities, swing and lindy hop dance. Doors open at 6:00pm. At 6:30pm there will be a swing dance lesson and shortly after, the Death and Taxes Swing band takes the stage with live, danceable music until 8:00pm. The Death and Taxes Swing Band is a unique group made up of seasoned professionals and talented local college students playing the greatest swing hits of the 40’s, with a few 90’s swing revival songs - all at a danceable tempo and a comfortable volume level.
MOREFeaturing work by Residents Kat Lin and Nico Maimon. The evening of performances will be followed by a discussion with the artists and Residency Mentor Deborah Slater. Livestream will be hosted on YouTube. Kat will develop "the point," a new contemporary dance theater piece that contemplates one simple question—what is the point? The piece is all about the point of art—how we miss it, how we don't, and why we try to find it. Nico (in collaboration with Kim Ip,) will begin to develop dance-theatre work, THIRTEEN, inspired by the 2013 film of the same name.
MOREPower Plays is a series of new experimental dances that use contemporary, aerial dance, and drag performance to explore themes of pleasure, power, and play. Project AeriALL, an emerging partnership between Alex Locust/Glamputee and Helen Wicks that reimagines accessibility in aerial dance. “Run-On,” an interactive solo dance by Erin Yen which honors her late grandmother Honey, explores diverse perspectives within storytelling, and questions the cyclical ways in which people communicate. Radio Vision, a new solo choreographed and performed by Helen Wicks exploring the first visual broadcast (1925) - coined as Radiovision. The piece will be accompanied by an original score that follows influential and under-recognized music composition teacher Nadia Boulanger’s influence on students like Igor Stravinksy, Quincy Jones, Phillip Glass and many others.
MOREiMPACt Center for Art & Dance presents the culmination and inaugural performance of iMPACt's dance residency program. Presenting new work by Nol Simonse, Alyssa Mitchel, Maxine Düzgüneş, Marina Elana and Erik Wagner! The performances will explore flamenco and the expectations of being a woman, femininity and ballet, athleticism and endurance, queer history and the tension between our inner and outer selves and the complexities of mental health.
MOREProduced by Carla Service of Dance-A-Vision Entertainment, this showcase will warm your heart & Soul. Dancers from age 5-55 will bless the stage with style and grace. Great for the whole family. Stay and dance with us after the performances.
MOREFeaturing work by Residents Kat Lin and Nico Maimon. The evening of performances will be followed by a discussion with the artists and Residency Mentor Deborah Slater. Livestream will be hosted on YouTube. Kat will develop "the point," a new contemporary dance theater piece that contemplates one simple question—what is the point? The piece is all about the point of art—how we miss it, how we don't, and why we try to find it. Nico (in collaboration with Kim Ip,) will begin to develop dance-theatre work, THIRTEEN, inspired by the 2013 film of the same name.
MOREWHAT IS FISCAL SPONSORSHIP?
Dancers’ Group’s fiscal sponsorship program provides administrative guidance that can help you raise money to support your dance.
