Grantee Database
BAY AREA CREATIVE BAC
Grant Year
2024-25
Grant Program
Arts Education – Exposure
Award Amount
$18,517.00
Project Description
“With support from the California Arts Council, BAY AREA CREATIVE BAC will provide 18 visits through our SPARC program to elementary and middle schools to support underserved youth in four Bay Area cities through the School Year Kick Off assembly project. Professional spoken word poets and hip hop dancers provide high energy and engaging performances in late August and early September of 2025. Assemblies take place at schools where students are not being exposed to spoken word poetry and hip hop dance. Requests have been made by these schools to receive services from Bay Area Creative though they lack the funding for these kick off performances. Each of the 18 school sites receive multiple 45 minute long assemblies accompanied by follow up workshops. This school assembly project provides work for 17 underserved BIPOC teaching artists.”
Organization Summary
SPARC Creativity offers spoken word poetry, dance, filmmaking workshops and performances tailored for underserved youth aged 5-18. Our comprehensive services encompass weekly arts workshops conducted during the school day, after school, and throughout the summer. Additionally, SPARC teaching artists lead impactful school day performances that showcase the creative expressions of our participants.
Revisions stands as a beacon of therapeutic arts for youth and families, providing essential services such as facilitating writing groups in Juvenile Hall, facilitating creative support groups for social workers, leading conferences focused on substance abuse prevention, and performing at mental health symposiums.
Educators for Empathy is dedicated to professional development for both classroom teachers and teaching artists. Our impactful sessions take the form of in-service school district-wide half and full-day training sessions. We extend our reach by collaborating with other nonprofits, offering monthly one-on-one coaching sessions to empower educators with transformative teaching practices.
Spoken works delivers local creative professionals to provide team building sessions that
connect members of the workforce to a culturally diverse panel of published authors and
nationally ranked spoken word artists. Activities are insightful, productive and high energy
designed to leverage lateral thinking towards new solutions and bonding.
Organization
Bay Area Creative
Address
1389 Jefferson St Apt C505
Oakland
94612
County
Alameda
Region
Bay Area – Other
Phone
(949) 285-9086
Congressional District
California Assembly district 20
State Assembly District
District 20
State Senate District
District 10
