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The People's Palace

A new site-specific installation performance conceived and directed by Joanna Haigood

San Francisco City Hall
Thu-Fri, May 9-10 and Sun, May 12, 2024

Free Performance repeats every 30 minutes. Select a date and time to attend.

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Event registration is open for Bay Area Dance Week

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Community

 

Brenda Way to be inducted into the California Hall of Fame

An induction ceremony will be held in February, followed by the opening of the 17th class artifact exhibit, and this event will be livestreamed. Details will be posted in the coming weeks. Read more…

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Upcoming Deadlines

For more opportunities, visit our Grants, Residencies & Opportunities Calendar

 

Mannakin Theater and Dance: iMPACt Choreographers Residency

A two-month residency for artists to create new work in the physical and movement arts (including dance, theater, interdisciplinary, music) resulting in a performance at The iMPACt Center in San Francisco. Due Fri, Apr 19. Read more…

 

Constellations Culture Change Fund & Initiative: Folk Arts & Cultural Stewardship Grants

One-year, flexible, general operating support regrants for California-based organizations who work at the intersection of arts, culture and social justice, and whose work on cultural and narrative power building is rooted and in alignment with ancestral, Indigenous and traditional knowledge, values and practices with an intersectional lens and deep community roots. Due Wed, May 1. Read more…

 

Center for Cultural Innovation: CALI Catalyst

Provides unrestricted grants of up to $7,500 to California changemakers who are creating tangible impact within the arts and culture sector, shifting power and influence to historically underrepresented voices. Due Mon, May 6 by 11:59am. Read more…

 

National Performance Network: Creation Fund

Phase I of a three-part program that advances racial and cultural justice and results in an exchange between artists and communities. The Creation Fund supports artists creating a new work in its earliest stages, centering relationship-building between artists, presenters, and communities. Creation Fund projects receive a minimum of $15,000 of unrestricted funding that supports the process and labor that goes into creating a new artistic work. Each project must have a minimum of two commissioning organizations, known as Co-commissioners. One Co-commissioner must be an NPN National Partner, who will serve as the Lead Commissioner. Due Mon, May 20. Read more…

Sebastian Le and SanSan Kwan of Lenora Lee Dance
Feb 2024

Casting a Lens on Communities for 15 Years: Lenora Lee Dance

by Heather Desaulniers
Black and white photo of dancer thrusting torso/presence forward.
Feb 2024

Space to Speak

by Zackary Forcum

UPCOMING EVENTS

Apr 25

What do a gay cowboy, a slam poetry genius, a revolutionary poet, a naturalist, a couple of starry-eyed lovers, and a doomsayer have in common? They all want to experiment with the theatrical form as members of the Wednesday Club, a group of LGBTQ+ drama nerds (and their allies) who get together to test out their theatrical innovations every Wednesday evening in a church basement. Based on songs from the repertoire of the Joe Goode Performance Group, this piece looks at the sometimes painful process of collaboration and the wisdom that can be gleaned from listening and slogging through the rough stuff to arrive at a place of trust and belonging.

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Apr 26

You're invited into the studio with La Mezcla company members as part of an open studio presentation of Ghostly Labor at Brava Theater Studio. Limited capacity; RSVP required. Please fill out the form to register by Wed, Apr 24. Masks kindly requested.

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Apr 26

Experience a selection of ten short films, including documentary shorts, narratives, and experimental screendance works, that represent a dynamic range of creativity with broad audience appeal. Take a tour of diverse dance styles as smoldering jazz, flamboyant drag, athletic street dance, and world-class ballet come into conversation across the globe. From the intimacy of dance studios to the bustling streets of Lagos, Mexico City, and San Francisco’s own soaring hilltops, dancers find poetic expression in the universal language of the body in motion.

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Apr 26

What do a gay cowboy, a slam poetry genius, a revolutionary poet, a naturalist, a couple of starry-eyed lovers, and a doomsayer have in common? They all want to experiment with the theatrical form as members of the Wednesday Club, a group of LGBTQ+ drama nerds (and their allies) who get together to test out their theatrical innovations every Wednesday evening in a church basement. Based on songs from the repertoire of the Joe Goode Performance Group, this piece looks at the sometimes painful process of collaboration and the wisdom that can be gleaned from listening and slogging through the rough stuff to arrive at a place of trust and belonging.

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Apr 26

The University of San Francisco Dance Program presents its annual spring dance concert with original works by choreographers Amber Julian, Jennifer Polyocan, Megan Lowe, Eli Nelson, and special guest artist Evie Ladin and MoToR/Dance.

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Apr 27

Mark Foehringer Dance Project|SF (MFDP|SF) presents an annual, one day, admission free, outdoor event in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park under the Bandshell of the Music Concourse. Dancing in the Park SF features over 20 dance groups or dance artists including professional dance companies, pre-professional programs and community groups from around the Bay Area.

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