Grantee Database
SHAKESPEARE-SAN FRANCISCO
Grant Year
2025-26
Grant Program
Arts and Youth
Award Amount
$17,750.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, SHAKESPEARE – SAN FRANCISCO’S professional teaching artists will partner with four San Francisco Unified School District public middle schools, Francisco, Everett, Aptos and Marina, to implement the Shakespeare’s Heartbeat curriculum, bringing performing arts enrichment and teaching social emotional skills to neuro diverse students in under-served communities. These weekly classes at each school site will run the equivalent of an entire school year through the span of the grant period employing a diverse group of professional teaching artists in providing sustained quality arts instruction for vulnerable youth.
Organization Summary
Free Shakespeare in the Park each year presents a professional production of Shakespeare in five public park venues, reaching up to 30,000 Bay Area citizens. The Festival also engages communities through five arts education programs: -Shakespeare on Tour performs an abridged Shakespeare play at 150 schools, libraries and community centers in the Bay Area and all over the state. -Over 300 youth ages 4-18 attend Bay Area Shakespeare Camps to explore Shakespeare’s plays and also learn the skills needed to perform them. -Tailor-Made Residencies connect Festival teaching artists with classroom teachers for in-school theater enrichment tailored to their students. -Midnight Shakespeare provides a challenging theater residency program for over 100 under-served youth in school settings in Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose.
Organization
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival
Address
PO BOX 460937
SAN FRANCISCO
94146-0937
County
San Francisco
Region
Bay Area – San Francisco
Phone
(415) 558-0888
Congressional District
California's 12th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 17
State Senate District
District 11
