In the 2004-05 fiscal year, the Arts & Culture Working Group distributed $278,455 in funds as part of a county wide effort to increase public participation in art and culture through partnerships and collaborations.
Aja Project
Journey
$12,540
To provide hands-on arts education through photography for refugee youth and to utilize art and self-expression to reduce racism and promote equality.
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
Music Literacy Education Outreach Program
$10,050
To provide a better understanding of musical concepts for elementary school children by giving them exposure to the actual instruments through performance and hands-on experience.
Diversionary Theatre
Shared Space Project
$4,347
To utilize a theatre space more efficiently and creatively and to reach out to new market segments through collaboration between Diversionary Theatre, Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company and Moxie Theatre.
Eveoke Dance Theatre
Eveoke Young Artists
$9,205
To offer students in underserved communities a thematic and intensive curriculum using dance as a vehicle for exploring San Diego’s diverse cultural heritage.
Fern Street Community Arts
Circus Arts Outreach to Elementary Schools
$2,000
To provide schoolchildren in diverse underserved communities an opportunity to explore circus arts to express their identities and connect to cultural traditions.
Installation Gallery
Regional Audience Awareness & Education Program
$9,250
To attract and engage diverse audiences with an exhibition of more than 50 renowned contemporary artists, and raise awareness of San Diego as a international cultural center.
Jean Isaacs' San Diego Dance Theater
Trolley Dances 2005
$11,750
To generate public awareness of and participation in San Diego dance through the creation and public performances of the 7th Annual Trolley Dances in Fall 2005 along the SDSU trolley line.
La Jolla Playhouse
POP at the Playhouse
$11,750
To develop La Jolla Playhouse's current and future audience by increasing participation of young people, teachers, and families from underserved areas through theater performances for middle school students.
Lamb's Players Theatre
The American Voices Project
$10,878
Through a partnership with public libraries, to demonstrate the value of live theatre as a tool for teaching students about history and literature and engaging them as new audiences and participants.
Lyric Opera San Diego
Purchase of EMPHASIS Control System for installation in the North Park Theatre
$25,000
To preserve the historic North Park Theatre and to provide a high quality, low-cost venue for non-profit performing arts organizations and San Diego schools.
Mainly Mozart
Mainly Mozart 2006 Celebration
$14,250
To galvanize the region’s arts, education, tourism and attraction industries for a common purpose in a fully collaborative, themed arts celebration, repositioning the region as a cultural destination and building cultural participation.
Media Arts Center, San Diego
Tu Cine!
$11,750
To encourage, support, and raise awareness of and increase cultural participation in media arts activities by San Diego County's Latino and Spanish-speaking population.
Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company
A Piece of My Heart – Perspectives on Vietnam for Today’s Youth
$14,070
To develop an innovative partnership through theatre performances and school workshops, increasing Mo`olelo’s audiences, impact, and building bridges across diverse communities.
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
On & Off the Wall: Youth Programs
$7,050
To increase the engagement of young audiences from diverse backgrounds in muti-disciplinary museum programs to expand their cultural awareness through after-school programs, young museum guides and creation of a ‘zine and a youth film festival.
New Village Arts
New Village Arts' Shakespeare in the Park
$11,750
To support a free-to-the-public annual outdoor performance of a Shakespearean play in an accessible production for audiences of all ages and economic levels in an area underserved by the arts.
NTC Foundation
Creating the Collaborative Dance Community at NTC Promenade
$14,250
To develop a model collaboration between NTC Foundation and its five resident dance groups, transforming the local dance community for the organizations, audiences and the community.
Oceanside Museum of Art
Borderless Dreams (an exhibition)
$2,000
To present three emerging Southern California artists who explore national and regional social issues that Latinos in North County communities regularly face.
Old Globe Theatre
La Pastorela
$6,750
To create a contemporary annual theater production of La Pastorela that celebrates the San Diego region’s rich, multi-cultural heritage and promotes cross-cultural sharing, understanding and respect.
Playwrights Project
Lost in Words
$10,050
To foster cross-cultural competence among teens and adults through touring an innovative theatre piece that illuminates the experience of Californians with little or no English.
The San Diego Archaeological Center
The Culture Class
$10,000
To create a major humanities and culture destination in North County with State Parks to improve cultural participation and understanding in the region through workshops and exhibits.
San Diego Asian Film Foundation
6th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival
$11,750
To present a world-class film festival in San Diego with unique, quality programs that enhance cultural literacy, multiculturalism, quality of life, and encourage artistic excellence.
San Diego Museum of Art
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of an American Self
$8,500
To present an exhibition by the San Diego Museum of Art and the Museum of Photographic Art that includes contemporary and historical images depicting varying perspectives on racial and cultural identity in America.
San Diego Museum of Man
2005-2006 Tower After Hours Program
$16,750
To build innovative, multicultural partnership programs with a wide variety of ethnically diverse communities of San Diego, intended to increase respect for diversity among young adult audiences.
The San Diego Opera Association
¡VOCES UNIDAS!
$3,000
To provide access to Student Dress Rehearsals and Opera performances and to increase diversity among San Diego Opera’s young audience, specifically schoolchildren and young adults in undergraduate and graduate schools throughout the County.
Sherman Heights Community Center Corp.
Programa Adelante Culturas
$11,750
To provide access to Ballet Folklorico and Mariachi groups through performances and classes, and promote greater artist participation and cross-cultural attendance at the yearly Fiestas Patrias.
Sledgehammer Theatre
The Frankenstein Project 2005
$5,000
To create and present The Frankenstein Project, an innovative, ensemble-generated theatre piece and to engage new audiences and have a dialogue about the responsibilities of creation, both artistic and scientific.
Women's History Museum
Women Who Dare: Art & Power Traveling Exhibit
$9,870
To expand cultural partnerships with middle schools and promote multi-cultural competence and appreciation of women through a traveling exhibit showcasing 15 outstanding women.
Young Audiences of San Diego
Art Without Borders--Connecting San Diego and Tijuana through the Arts
$3,145
To develop a creative partnership of performances and workshops bridging national borders and building Young Audiences' audiences, improve understanding between San Diego and Tijuana families, and strengthen San Diego's arts and culture community.
2007-2008 Arts & Culture Grantees
2006-2007 Arts & Culture Grantees
2005-2006 Arts & Culture Grantees
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