Grantee Database
Eye Zen Presents
Grant Year
2023-24
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$21,250.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Eye Zen Presents will produce the Summer 2024 tour of OUT of Site: Sylvester, The Mighty Real, a new history walking tour collaboration between theater company, Eye Zen Presents; Marvin K. White, Lead Writer; community partner, SF Heritage; and humanities advisor, Joshua Gamson. Through an intensive research process our cohort explores the hidden history of queer ancestor, Sylvester. The project provides an accessible historical understanding of racial equity within the queer liberation movement in San Francisco’s Haight neighborhood of the 60’s and 70’s against the backdrop of civil rights, anti-war, student uprising, feminism, and Gay liberation.
Organization Summary
Since its founding in 2007, Eye Zen Presents has created multidisciplinary community-building events in San Francisco in traditional and alternative theater spaces, private homes, gardens and community centers. Our productions focus on LGBTQ+ history and experimentally blend performative and visual disciplines: physical theater, puppetry, contemporary dance, drag, circus, live music, and video. We work with community partners to devise and produce new performance, curate exhibitions and offer educational opportunities. Our walking tours create an immersive spectacle in real time and in public space, using sidewalks, plazas, parks, and privately owned public open spaces (POPOS).
Organization
Eye Zen Presents
Address
1446 Market Street
San Francisco
94102-6004
County
San Francisco
Region
Bay Area – San Francisco
Phone
(415) 786-9325
Congressional District
California's 12th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 19
State Senate District
District 11
