Grantee Database
DEL SOL PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATION
Grant Year
2024-25
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$21,989.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, the Del Sol Performing Arts Organization will produce “Songs of the Diaspora,” a multi-disciplinary poetry and music performance that explores the Chinese diaspora experience through the female voices. New poetry by Genny Lim will interweave with music by Theresa Wong, Vivian Fung, and Meilina Tsui, performed by the Del Sol Quartet, against a background of visual and laser projections by Mark Hellar and Olivia Ting. DSPAO will mount 1 large-scale performance in San Francisco, with 3 community events in San Francisco and Oakland Chinatowns.
Organization Summary
Each season Del Sol performs 50-70 concerts, including its own local productions, concerts sponsored by other Bay Area presenters, and national and international engagements. Del Sol has commissioned and premiered hundreds of works from a diverse range of contemporary composers. It has released thirteen full-length albums of new works, including recents albums of North Indian, experimental pop, and Iranian collaborations. Their brand-new post “Sounds Current” is an official selection the 2024 Tribeca Festival.
Del Sol has a long history of presenting concerts and collaborative productions in the Bay Area, including both large scale, multi-day music festivals and smaller explorative programs such as “Pacific Pythagorean Music Festival” (bringing together musicians using non-Western tuning systems) and the first-ever Angel Island Immigration Station concert series uplifting immigrant communities.
Recent productions include internationally-acclaimed “Angel Island Project” with Chinese-American composer Huang Ruo uses the poems of detainees held on the island during the Chinese Exclusion Act to explore the history of discrimination and immigration. “The Resonance Between” collaboration with world-renowned North Indian musicians Alam Khan, Arjun Verma, and Nilan Chaudhuri. Our “Joy Project” brings newly composed music onto the streets and into the parks in short, outdoor concerts. “The Jingwei Bird” is an collaboration exploring climate change through bilingual poetry with “The Last Hoisan Poets.”
Deeply committed to education and community outreach for nearly thirty years, Del Sol has reached thousands of students through inventive school performances, workshops, coaching programs and residencies, locally and nationally. Recent programs include our “Composer Incubator” for promoting equity in early-career composers, an ongoing collaboration with the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music in Boonville, California, a multi-disciplinary arts and music program in a SF elementary school focusing on Angel Island, and our community outreach program, “Angel Island Insight,” in collaboration with various Chinese community organizations and artists.
Organization
Del Sol Performing Arts Organization
Address
751 47TH AVE
SAN FRANCISCO
94121-3205
County
San Francisco
Region
Bay Area – San Francisco
Phone
(415) 374-0074
Congressional District
California's 12th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 19
State Senate District
District 11
