Grantee Database
CIRCO ZERO
Grant Year
2023-24
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$25,000.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Circo Zero will create and produce Fabric, a series of intergenerational and interracial LGBTQ community-impact events featuring free trainings, community talks, and performances in the Bay Area. Fabric will offer intensive professional creative workshops on subjects not often taught in the Bay Area, participatory dialogues on critical and under-addressed subjects in the field, and performances that incorporate workshop participants and panelists from community talks to creatively share their learnings from the process through paid performance opportunities. This project will build skills, generate conversation, and create community gatherings, all of which will be free and centering both BIPOC and LGBTQ local artists as presenters and participants.
Organization Summary
In addition to creating and producing works of politically-engaged performances, Circo Zero provides the following programs and services:
• Fabric: A series of intergenerational and interracial LGBTQ community impact events featuring free trainings, community talks, gatherings, and performances in the Bay Area. This eighteen month-long project offers audience engagement, professional development for artists, and serves the broader field of the arts with necessary public conversations and accessible education.
• Teaching: Classes and workshops the intersections of experimental art practices, political healing, and expanding capacity for civic engagement, collective care, and creating community-responsive art
• Artistic Solidarity Services for QT/BIPOC artists, including:
* free grant writing, production support, marketing, and consulting
* fiscal sponsorship with fees ~50% less than other fiscal sponsors (5% fee compared to the 10%-12% norm)
* free mentorship, professional development, and career counseling to elevate local artists creatively, administratively, and financially
* free equipment library including sound, lights, costumes, and set
* activism and community organizing to advocate for QT/BIPOC artists and against structural inequities in the field
* to be like the river, a Black led and produced annual free retreat program for QTBIPOC, led by jose abad and Steph Hewett (2021-2024, served over 100 artists)
* Connecting Yaqui California, a project envisioned and led by Snowflake Calvert, which provided multiple events serving Native and Two-Spirit communities (2021-2023 served over 250 audiences and 32 artists)
Organization
Circo Zero
Address
2842 FOLSOM ST
SAN FRANCISCO
94110-4014
County
San Francisco
Region
Bay Area – San Francisco
Phone
(415) 846-2273
Congressional District
House District 12
State Assembly District
California Assembly District 17
State Senate District
California Senate District 11
