Cultural Voucher Youth Program
Bayview Opera House and AT&T Park – Opera at the Ballpark
On Your Mark: Gallery Fundraiser Featuring Ala Ebtekar
Community Arts & Education Grants Announced
On Your Mark: A SFAC Gallery Fundraiser featuring Ala Ebtekar
Cultural Voucher Youth Program
Mayor Gavin Newsom, in his proposed 2008-2009 City budget, presented a new initiative that will help develop future audiences for the arts, provide positive activities during after-school hours when delinquent behavior is most prevalent among youth, and will help cultural organizations serve hard-to-reach populations.
The Cultural Voucher Youth Program is designed to bring young audiences to San Francisco’s visual and performing arts institutions, fostering the next generation of informed cultural consumers. This unique program targets San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) middle school students at a time when adolescents are forming new socialization patterns and seeking greater autonomy in their choice of leisure activities.
The City and County of San Francisco, through its Arts Commission (SFAC), will provide $75.00 vouchers to all SFUSD students entering 6th grade beginning with the 2008-2009 academic year. These vouchers will be used by individual students to pay for cultural services or cultural events developed and presented by participating cultural organizations. These organizations in term will redeem the vouchers with SFAC. In short, the CVYP will use market forces to encourage cultural organizations to improve their outreach to younger audiences while helping pre-teens become informed and educated cultural consumers.
For more information, please contact the San Francisco Arts Commission: Tel 415-252-2591 / E-mail luis.cancel@sfgov.org.
Awards and New Grant Programs
The San Francisco Arts Commission is pleased to announce nearly $300,000 in grants awarded to non-profit organizations having programs that hire artists to work with their respective communities. These exciting partnerships help manifest the SFAC’s mission to ensure that the arts are fully integrated into civic life and are accessible to all. These two SFAC programs are the Neighborhood Festivals Grants and Programs in the Community Grants. For a list of awards, please go to: http://www.sfartscommission.org/CAE/grants/index.htm.
PIC Grantees are: Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco ($15,000); Central City Hospitality House ($15,000); Edgewood Center for Children & Families ($15,000); Eldergivers ($15,000); Institute on Aging ($15,000); La Raza Centro Legal ($12,188); Lighthouse for the Blind & Visually Impaired ($15,000); San Francisco General Hospital Foundation for Cancer Awareness Resources and Education ($15,000); San Francisco Women Against Rape ($15,000); Shanti Project ($15,000); Urban Services YMCA ($15,000).
Neighborhood Festival Grantees are: Au Co Vietnamese Cultural Center for the Visitacion Valley Au Co Mid-Autumn Festival ($3,000); Community Development Institute for South of Market Community Action Network for the SoMAFest ($3,000); CounterPULSE for Marigold Project for the Dia de los Muertos Festival of Altars ($3,000); OMI Cultural Participation Project for the OMI International Family Festival ($3,000); Potrero Hill Neighborhood House for the Potrero Hill Festival,($3,000); Richmond District Neighborhood Center for the Richmond District Children's Art Fair ($3,000); San Francisco Parks Trust for Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema for the Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema Festival ($3,000); Sunset District Neighborhood Coalition for the Sunset Community Festival ($3,000); Uprising Community Plus, Inc for Andrew's Boarding and Boarding Care for the Bayview Hunters Point 4th of July Picnic ($3,000); YMCA/Urban Services for the Bayview Hunters Point Unity Parade and Rally ($3,000).