With CAC organizational development funds SF Shakes will improve the mobile friendliness of its website by contracting with Giant Rabbit—a website design firm. Consultants will make essential changes to our content management system to improve how our website renders on mobile devices. As 50% of the yearly traffic on SF Shakes’ website is from mobile users, these changes will help Sf Shakes connect more effectively with mobile browsers, hence broadening our audience and furthering our mission.
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.