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Van-Anh Vo & Blood Moon Orchestra

Grant Year

2020-21

Grant Program

Impact Projects

Award Amount

$17,100.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, Van-Anh Vo & Blood Moon Orchestra will present “Roots and Resilience: the Kindness Through Lullabies”, a series of community workshops in partnership with the Vietnamese Educational & Cultural Association in Hayward, emphasizing the values of family and kindness through music and movement.

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

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