Grantee Database
CIRCO ZERO
Grant Year
2023-24
Grant Program
General Operating Support
Award Amount
$38,499.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Circo Zero will further its mission of creating performances and programs that respond to political crises while centering queer bodies and ideas. Driven by anti-racist and decolonial practices, we will expand our solidarity services for QT/BIPOC artists and communities; advance ongoing collaborations with Black and Native artists to support projects they envision and enact; and support the operations underpinning our two current projects in development: Fabric, a two year long series of free workshops building professional creative skills for local artists, community conversations addressing critical issues in the field, and two performances integrating and compensating participants from the series to share their learnings from the project; Tell, a dance performance using anti-ractist tactics to address issues of racial harm and healing through participatory and inclusive community-based art.
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
