With support from the California Arts Council, Eye Zen Presents will work with Marc Vogl of Vogl Consulting to develop a business plan for the Out of Site Walking Tour program, a performance-driven, site-responsive LGBTQ history tour series. As a fiscally sponsored non-profit theater company, the business plan will give us the tools to pivot our work to a new sustainable model that would could increase our income stream and make it possible to expand audience and programming.
Since its founding in 2007, Eye Zen Presents has created multidisciplinary community-building events in San Francisco in traditional and alternative theater spaces, private homes, gardens and community centers. Our productions focus on LGBTQ+ history and experimentally blend performative and visual disciplines: physical theater, puppetry, contemporary dance, drag, circus, live music, and video. We work with community partners to devise and produce new performance, curate exhibitions and offer educational opportunities. Our walking tours create an immersive spectacle in real time and in public space, using sidewalks, plazas, parks, and privately owned public open spaces (POPOS).

