Grantee Database
CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER
Grant Year
2023-24
Grant Program
Statewide and Regional Networks
Award Amount
$40,375.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Cal Shakes will launch its emergent workforce development program, involving scene shop development; artistic production and education; and arts administration. Building on and adding to Cal Shakes’s established Artistic Learning Program, as well as its dynamic Scene Shop, this workforce development program will target Cal Shakes’s wider regional networks of Contra Costa and Alameda Counties—offering compensated skills-based learning and employment opportunities for at-promise, BIPOC youth. All grant funds will be used to pay the Assistant Technical Director and Workforce Development Manager, to purchase equipment for workforce development training, and to develop a comprehensive training module and educational initiative.
Organization Summary
Cal Shakes brings together people from all walks of life to connect with our shared humanity through its work onstage, in schools, and in community. Our Main Stage season runs May – October at the outdoor, solar-powered Bruns Amphitheater. Artistic Learning programs engage young people through Student Discovery matinees at our Theater, our summer Conservatories, and theater-based artist-led residencies in classrooms. Artistic Engagement programs are developed in partnership with people from a wide range of communities to expand opportunity for the artist in everyone, claim and tell our own narratives through theater-based activities, and spark intersectional conversation around the plays on our stage.
Organization
Cal Shakes
Address
100 California Shakespeare Theater Way
Orinda
94563
County
Contra Costa
Region
Bay Area – Other
Phone
(510) 548-3422
Congressional District
California's 11th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 16
State Senate District
District 16
