Grantee Database
GREAT LEAP INCORPORATED
Grant Year
2019-20
Grant Program
Local Impact
Award Amount
$19,000.00
Project Description
With the support of the California Arts Council, FandangObon Project will use participatory arts of Mexican Fandango, Japanese Obon, West African drums and dance and Muslim Hadrah in creative collaboration to deepen environmental awareness and sustainability among our communities. We will conduct a series of 8 community workshops, culminating in the 8th FandangObon Arts & Ecofest, October 4, 2020, @ JACCC in LA’s Little Tokyo, a historical crossroad for Japanese, Latino and African Americans.
Organization Summary
Great Leap (GL) collaborates with professional artists of color to create NEW WORKS that give voice to stories and concerns of our communities. It forges ways of COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT in theater, music and dance, including the creation of Buddhist Obon songs, danced by thousands each Obon season. GL produces yearly the FANDANGOBON PROJECT, with community workshops and an eco-arts fest. We present PERFORMANCES, WORKSHOPS and LECTURES in schools, universities and communities. Our master artists TEACH at the National Institute For Directing & Ensemble Creation, and internationally at the Saigon Film Institute. Our PERMANENT WORKS include music albums and music videos. Most recently, Smithsonian Folkways is producing a double album with music from GL’s archives, and new songs by Nobuko, preserving our work in perpetuity. At our 40th year, we began the GL DIGITAL ARCHIVES, now with guidance by UCLA, to make our philosophy, materials and videos accessible to next generation artists, scholars, and communities.
Organization
Great Leap Incorporated
Address
3055 WILSHIRE BLVD
STE 300
LOS ANGELES
90010
County
Los Angeles
Region
South – Los Angeles & Orange
Phone
(310) 850-1287
Congressional District
District 34
State Assembly District
District 53
State Senate District
District 24
