Grantee Database
KITKA INC
Grant Year
2018-19
Grant Program
Local Impact
Award Amount
$18,000.00
Project Description
With support from the CAC, Kitka will present “Lesa, Ogni, i Vody” (Forests, Fires and Waters) a program of Slavic vocal music inspired by powerful forces of nature that are universal sources of awe, destruction and renewal. To develop this project, Kitka will collaborate with Bay Area Russian immigrant vocal ensembles Kostroma and Dolina, contemporary Russian composers, and the interpretive staff at Fort Ross/Metini State Park, the Sonoma Coast site of the first Russian settlement in America.
Organization Summary
Kitka’s core organizational programs and services include a San Francisco Bay Area-based series of concerts, workshops, artist residencies, leadership of community choirs and community sings; in-school programs; regional, national, and international touring; recording, publication, and broadcast projects; commissioning; and adventuresome multicultural and multidisciplinary collaborations with some of the worlds most compelling traditional artists and contemporary performance makers.
Organization
Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble / The Kitka Institute
Address
1201 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Suite 103
Oakland
94612
County
Alameda
Region
Bay Area – Other
Phone
(510) 444-0323
Congressional District
District 12
State Assembly District
District 18
State Senate District
District 9
