Grantee Database

Grant Year

2022-23

Grant Program

Impact Projects

Award Amount

$18,000.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, dNaga’s GIRL Project will offer dance, theater, and visual art workshops in celebration of our 10-year anniversary. GIRL Project exists in resistance to the variety of dangers that girls in Oakland face. We provide a safe space to foster creativity and sisterhood.

Organization Summary

dNaga dance company is a unique ensemble made up of multi-generational dancers including young artists, professionals, and elders. Through workshops, classes, choreography and productions, the dance company explores the nature of our human condition and its relationship to our greater community. The GIRL Project began in 2014 and offers free art and empowerment programming for middles school aged girls of color living in East Oakland. The PEACE Project began in 2009 and offers Dance for PD® and choreographic opportunities to people with Parkinson’s. This year, the intergenerational company danced at the World Parkinson’s Congress in Kyoto, Japan and published a companion book entitled PEACE About Life; Dancing with parkinson’s.

Organization

dNaga

Address

473 Hudson Street

Oakland

94618

County

Alameda

Region

Bay Area – Other

Phone

(510) 862-9626

Congressional District

District 13th

State Assembly District

District 14

State Senate District

District 7

Subscribe to the California ArtBeat weekly newsletter

Skip to content