Grantee Database
Bridge Live Arts
Grant Year
2017-18
Grant Program
Artists in Communities
Award Amount
$17,100.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, HOPE MOHR DANCE’s Bridge Project will support artist-activist Gerald Casel in Dancing Around Race, a year-long Community Engagement Residency. Casel and a team of five artists, all identifying as queer or as artists of color, will engage activists, critics, curators, funders, and scholars in creative practices and discussions to interrogate how race, class and sexual orientation function in performance and Bay Area cultural institutions.
Organization Summary
Bridge Live Arts (B.L.A.) creates and supports equity-driven live art that centers artists as agents of change. We are based on the unceded, ancestral lands of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples who have stewarded this land for generations and are still here.
Our arts and culture programming features an array of live performances, public dialogues, workshops, classes, and residencies that reflect the organization’s deep commitments to cultural equity, racial equity, and artist power. This programming includes a Community Engagement Residency offering year-long funding and capacity building support to movement artist-activists working in community.
In 2020, B.L.A. transitioned from a founder-led, hierarchical nonprofit to a model of distributed leadership. In alignment with B.L.A.’s core values, our way of working currently embraces shared leadership across all aspects of the organization, pay equality across artistic & administrative staff, and a re-imagined Board comprised of 100% working artists.
Organization
Bridge Live Arts
Address
1446 Market St
San Francisco
94102-6004
County
San Francisco
Region
Bay Area – San Francisco
Phone
(920) 851-6661
Congressional District
California's 12th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 17
State Senate District
District 11
