Grantee Database
KITKA INC
Grant Year
2019-20
Grant Program
Local Impact
Award Amount
$19,000.00
Project Description
With support from the CAC, Kitka, in collaboration with CA-based Russian and Ukrainian immigrant folk singers and Fort Ross Conservancy staff will create KRYL’JA/WINGS a Vocal Ecologies program of traditional Slavic music inspired by winged creatures. Birds, butterflies, and bees figure prominently in Slavic folklore, not only as vital parts of ecosystems, but also as symbols of a wide range of human and natural world experiences including emigration, birth, love, fertility, death, and renewal.
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
