Grantee Database
School of the Getdown
Grant Year
2025-26
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$22,000.00
Project Description
With support from California Arts Council, School of The Getdown, a small arts organization, will celebrate Black Music Month in June 2026 by presenting the fifth annual Black Music Month Festival: A Cultural Mosaic. Presented free for the community, the program be collaboratively developed with community members, featuring a multigenerational, cross-genre array of Black Oakland-based musical acts. The program is collaboratively developed with community members and addresses a community defined need to uplift under recognized Black artists and cultural traditions and foster an environment for intergenerational collaboration in the arts, centering Black Bay Area communities whose culture is threatened by gentrification.
Organization Summary
School of The Getdown offers a weekly vocal workshop series; private lessons in singing, instrumental music, performance, and music history; an annual multidisciplinary youth arts summer camp; vocal and instrumental masterclasses with resident and visiting artists; and masterclasses and lecture performances in schools, prisons, and educational programs worldwide. We produce multicultural and intergenerational concert series, free community programming, commissioned artistic works, festivals, and lecture performances, and thematic programming celebrating Black history and Black culture, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Organization
School of The Getdown
Address
1804 Russell St
Berkeley
94703
County
Alameda
Region
Bay Area – Other
Phone
(925) 658-2016
Congressional District
13th Congressional District of California
State Assembly District
District 15
State Senate District
District 9
