Grantee Database
Walking Cinema
Grant Year
2023-24
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$21,250.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Walking Cinema will create an immersive theater production, Bop City Immersive, that explores African American history and housing justice in San Francisco. This project is an extension of the award-winning interactive media project, Museum of the Hidden City, produced by Walking Cinema in 2019. Museum of the Hidden City explores the housing visions and controversy in the Fillmore neighborhood in the 1960’s that decimated San Francisco’s African American community. Bop City Immersive takes place a decade earlier in the same neighborhood when jazz and African American culture were at its zenith. The play is being written by prominent Bay-area playwright Cleavon Smith and will be created in collaboration with Success Centers, a non-profit that focuses on job training for formerly incarcerated adults.
Organization Summary
Walking Cinema produces audio and augmented reality walks that allow local issues to be tangible and actionable. We also specialize in other forms of immersive media on the web and in theaters that activate audiences around social and historical issues. All of our programs encourage inquiry and education.
Organization
Walking Cinema
Address
43 Conrad Street
San Francisco
94131
County
San Francisco
Region
Bay Area – San Francisco
Phone
(617) 642-1163
Congressional District
11th Congressional District
State Assembly District
District 17
State Senate District
District 11
