Grantee Database
SHAKESPEARE-SAN FRANCISCO
Grant Year
2023-24
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$25,000.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, SHAKESPEARE –SAN FRANCISCO will provide responsive arts enrichment to housing insecure community members in San Francisco’s Tenderloin Neighborhood through Shakespeare for All Neighbors programming. This work will be supported by ongoing partnerships with Tenderloin community center The Healing Well and other supportive housing partners including Delivering Innovations in Supportive Housing (DISH), a nonprofit property management organization providing housing and on site support to under-served communities that fall within the lowest quartile of the HPI in our region. Now entering its fifth year, this vital program engages participants in artistic explorations of their own stories and the issues facing their community, illuminating each of our stories to be as important as Shakespeare.
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
