This year, the goal of the Arts & Culture Working Group's grantmaking is to expand and deepen the involvement of the San Diego region in arts and culture activities and promote the sharing of diverse creative expression. These are key elements of the Arts & Culture Working Group’s initiative participate San Diego, which seeks to build cultural patronage, or participation in arts and culture at all levels.

The Aja Project
BE+COMING
$24,231/$1,500
Provide training in photography and through a partnership with TranscenDANCE, provide training in dance to underserved youth that culminates in innovative performances. Project will facilitate cross cultural exchanges among participants that reduce racism and connect diverse sectors of the larger San Diego Community

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
Music in Education Series
$1,000
This project continues a partnership with the San Diego Unified School District and YMCA of San Diego County to provide students (K-6), teachers, family members and senior adults throughout the City of San Diego with arts and culture programming that will stimulate their interest in music, art, history and science.

Cygnet Theatre Company
August Wilson Cycle Plays Part II
$18,321
Support the San Diego Black Ensemble Theatre, a small community-based African American theatre company, in the production of a series of readings and one mainstage production of works by playwright August Wilson.

Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theatre
Trolley Dances 2007
$17,730
Provide opportunity for African American dancers to participate in a high-profile, well publicized dance performance with work choreographed by local African American choreographers and performed within underserved neighborhoods.

Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego Stories
$14,598
Working in collaboration with the San Diego Public Library, to use digital media technology to capture the experience and memories of the region’s multi-generational community so that stories can be shared and archived for future generations.

Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company
Mo’olelo Business
$23,640
To develop partnerships with business owners to diversify Mo’olelo revenue streams by developing innovative programs that are marketable to new audiences.

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Creative Technologies
$23,049
To use new media and technologies to broaden audiences and enhance visitors’ creativity and art appreciation through the use of film, video, the internet and telecommunications.

San Diego Museum of Art
Rhythms of India: Paintings of Nandalal Bose
$28,073
To organize touring exhibition of Nandalal Bose paintings through partnership with the government of India and the Balboa Park Conservation Center.

San Diego Museum of Man
Journey to the Copper Age
$9,456/$32,500
Create a high quality, high interest exhibit that will engage new audiences and patrons.

Sushi Performance and Visual Art
Pay-What-You-Can ticket Program
$14,775/$3,000
To support an audience development strategy that will eliminate set ticket prices for admission and offer every Sushi event at a Pay-What-You-Can price to increase participation and access.

2005-2006 Arts & Culture Grantees

2004-2005 Arts & Culture Grantees

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