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.

Asian Story Theatre
SHAVE ICE
$12,000
To create a new play based on stories from Asia and the Pacific Islands, incorporating performing, visual, and martial arts native to those cultures.

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
$1,000
To give students and adult participants a detailed and comprehensive understanding of the inherent interconnection of music, history, art, and science from a Western History perspective.

California Ballet
California Heritage Project: The Legend of Josefa
$15,000
To promote San Diego’s cultural history, build audiences, create unique venue, provide student opportunities, and collaborate with South Bay organizations; and to involve underserved audiences and encourage Hispanic community participation.

Centro Cultural de la Raza
PalabraDas
$12,500
To produce 12 “PalabraDas” Talent Showcases at the Centro during fiscal year 2007 and to provide this family oriented event to an inter-generational, multi-cultural audience.

Cygnet Theatre Company
The Cycle Plays
$10,000
To build participation by San Diego’s African-American community through a series of staged readings of August Wilson’s plays, in collaboration with the Black Ensemble Theatre.

Eveoke Dance Theatre
RISE
$15,000
To create a dance theatre documentary on exemplary women whose efforts generate positive statewide impact on environmental abuse.

Installation Gallery
Collaborations: Teachers and Artists (COTA)
$20,000
To make the arts a lively and ongoing aspect of elementary school education and equip teachers to be effective in incorporating the arts into their teaching strategies.

Malashock Dance
Malashock Dance Center at DANCE PLACE/San Diego
$7,000
To open a comprehensive dance school offering workshops and ongoing dance classes to the public at DANCE PLACE/San Diego.

Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company
Since Africa/My Home
$20,000
To produce a theatre piece that will address the crucial lack of diversity in mainstream American theater, improve literacy skills for refugee and immigrant youth, engage underserved populations, and foster cross-cultural understanding.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
A Year of Latin American Artists in San Diego
$12,000
To bring artists to San Diego from Latin America to expand the community’s cultural awareness and art appreciation, and expand the museum’s Latino membership base.

San Diego Guild of Puppetry
Giant Puppet Pageantry
$12,500
To develop local, site specific, giant puppet parades for individual communities and present the first, multi-partner, pilot community parade at SDSU’s Theatre Festival.

San Diego Natural History Museum
Dead Sea Scrolls
$20,000
To prepare to exhibit the Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the 20th century’s most important discoveries, for a 6-month period from July through December, 2007.

San Diego Opera
Operation Opera 7 (“007”)
$20,000
To launch a new initiative, Operation Opera: 7 (“007”), in order to bring opera education to every 7th grade student in the City of San Diego.

San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory
School Based Arts Participation Project
$15,255
To provide underserved students from Oak Park and Preuss Schools increased access to training and performances and determine whether musical participation or concert promotion draws more families to concerts.

Sun & Moon Vision Productions
Cine Luna
$5,000
To increase public audience participation at film screenings in areas of North County San Diego that are normally underserved by the media arts.

2007-2008 Arts & Culture Grantees

2006-2007 Arts & Culture Grantees

2004-2005 Arts & Culture Grantees

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