Grantee Database
Juneteenth
Grant Year
2018-19
Grant Program
Local Impact
Award Amount
$16,200.00
Project Description
With CAC support, San Francisco’s 2019 Juneteenth Celebration event will perpetuate a 68-year community tradition that started on Fillmore St. in 1951. Juneteenth 2019 will employ the arts to build community, to enhance the cultural, social and educational well-being of the Bay Area’s Black residents and to promote cultural awareness and engagement. It will attract an estimated 7500 people. Awarded funds will exclusively support the fees of the artists participating in Juneteenth 2019.
Organization Summary
In addition to Kwanzaa, the Village Project produces three annual arts programs:
1) Mardi Gras-San Francisco Style features a free blues concert, a New Orleans-style processional parade down Fillmore Street followed by a Masquerade Ball;
2) In October, close to 400 seniors attend A Senior Moment, a prom for those 50 and older that includes performances, dinner and awards for seniors making significant contributions to their community;
3) Each June, the Village Project stages Grillin In the`Mo,’ a free outdoors blues concert and community Barbeque in the Fillmore neighborhood.
The Village Project also conducts after-school and summertime education programs serving African American youth; these programs have a strong but not exclusive emphasis on arts education.
Organization
SF Juneteenth
Address
762 Fulton St
San Francisco
94102
County
San Francisco
Region
Bay Area – San Francisco
Phone
(650) 270-5046
Congressional District
California's 12th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 17
State Senate District
District 11
