Grantee Database

EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Grant Year

2017-18

Grant Program

Artists in Communities

Award Amount

$15,300.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS will commission a dance work, Kekeli, drawing on CK Ladzekpo’s deep tradition of Anlo-Ewe (Ghanaian) dance/drumming and, through a dance theater style development, will explore the struggles of one of his students, and will involve young adult Center students as well as other community dancers. One of the performances will be at Richmond’s 2019 Juneteenth Festival, free and open to the public.

Organization Summary

1) Training/Instruction: Year-round comprehensive courses, private instruction, recitals & student support services at the Center’s state-of-the-art facility nurture 350 students ages 3-18, including 110 Young Artist Diploma Program students, who represent the most committed 7th-12th graders in our program. The Center provides them with an intensive year-round, 6-year, tuition-free, cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary (music, theater, dance) performing arts program. 2) School Partnerships: Provides foundational music, dance and theater instruction for 3,700 students at 17 Title I TK-12 public schools & 4 community centers, along with professional development for 50 public school classroom. 3) Artistic Productions: The Center’s “Call & Response” program involves our 7 youth/young adult performing resident companies (90+ students) reaching local audiences of 20,000+ annually through more than 75 community gatherings, recitals and the creation of new work.

Organization

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts

Address

339 11TH ST

RICHMOND

94801-3105

County

Contra Costa

Region

Bay Area – Other

Phone

(510) 234-5624

Congressional District

California's 8th Congressional District

State Assembly District

District 14

State Senate District

District 7

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