Grantee Database
Van-Anh Vo & Blood Moon Orchestra
Grant Year
2018-19
Grant Program
Local Impact
Award Amount
$16,200.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, the VA’V Ensemble will partner with VECA to provide a music workshop series to teach cultural and artistic traditions of Vietnam to children and young adults of Vietnamese heritage (e.g. K-12) and it is open to the general public free of charge. Workshops educate on Vietnamese traditional music and bridge the generational and cultural divides between Vietnamese parents and their children and the Vietnamese community and the general public.
Organization Summary
Blood Moon Orchestra’s members have the innate ability to blend different sounds and musical genres together, creating surprisingly new and fresh musical dialogue. Throughout the years, BMO has performed concerts at major venues such as Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, Yerba Buena Center for Performing Arts, Houston Miller Outdoor theatre. BMO has done residencies and performances at universities, in local libraries and community centers.
At its recent international tour at BridgeFest Vietnam, a festival that was hosted by the U.S. Embassy and Oxfam International to foster dialogue surrounding diversity and equality, BMO performed for 10,000+ audience members at the main concert and conducted 6 workshops for another 3,300 students at universities. In the past 5 years, BMO has developed two different workshop series to work with K-12 students and seniors. These workshop series have been successfully implemented at schools and community centers in the Bay Area.
Organization
Blood Moon Orchestra
Address
1455 Vista Road
El Cerrito
94530-2508
County
Contra Costa
Region
Bay Area – Other
Phone
(510) 996-8457
Congressional District
California Assembly district 14
State Assembly District
District 16
State Senate District
District 9
