Grantee Database
SHAKESPEARE-SAN FRANCISCO
Grant Year
2022-23
Grant Program
Arts Education – Exposure
Award Amount
$57,000.00
Project Description
With support from the CAC, SHAKESPEARE – FRANCISCO will bring professional productions of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” & “Merry Wives of Windsor” to school communities through Shakespeare on Tour, resuming and rebuilding popular in school programming that has historically served 100 schools annually including 25 under-served schools, providing standards based arts education.
Organization Summary
Free Shakespeare in the Park each year presents a professional production of Shakespeare in five public park venues, reaching up to 30,000 Bay Area citizens. The Festival also engages communities through five arts education programs: -Shakespeare on Tour performs an abridged Shakespeare play at 150 schools, libraries and community centers in the Bay Area and all over the state. -Over 300 youth ages 4-18 attend Bay Area Shakespeare Camps to explore Shakespeare’s plays and also learn the skills needed to perform them. -Tailor-Made Residencies connect Festival teaching artists with classroom teachers for in-school theater enrichment tailored to their students. -Midnight Shakespeare provides a challenging theater residency program for over 100 under-served youth in school settings in Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose.
Organization
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival
Address
PO BOX 460937
SAN FRANCISCO
94146-0937
County
San Francisco
Region
Bay Area – San Francisco
Phone
(415) 558-0888
Congressional District
California's 12th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 17
State Senate District
District 11
