Grantee Database

WOMENS AUDIO MISSION

Grant Year

2018-19

Grant Program

Local Impact

Award Amount

$16,200.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, WOMEN’S AUDIO MISSION will present Local Sirens: Women in Music Concert Series, a free, quarterly performance series featuring emerging Bay Area women musicians/artists from marginalized communities. Artists will create, perform and record new and innovative musical works that are presented at free, all-ages concerts at venues in the SF Bay Area, providing access to arts participation, engagement and representation for marginalized communities.

Organization Summary

WAM has consistently engaged thousands of women, girls, and gender-expansive individuals every year from historically marginalized communities over the last 22 years:

● Girls on the Mic (GotM) annually provides 2,000+ girls/gender-expansive youth from the most under-resourced communities in Northern California (96% low-income/93% BIPOC/ages 11-18) with free music production and media arts training that inspires them to amplify their voices and creativity.

● Local Sirens Concert Series serves 30-40+ under-represented women artists every year (majority low-income; 100% BIPOC) with performance opportunities at premier venues like Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF Jazz, Brava, Dolby, The Independent, Rickshaw Stop, etc to audiences of 2,000+

● WAM’s Artist Residency programs provide free recording studio services and artist mentorship/development in WAM’s professional recording studios to 4-5 local female/gender-expansive artists each year, as well as digital distribution and promotion to expand their audience.

● WAM Core Training/ Adult Education provides music production and industry certification training to 500+ women/gender-expansive students every year

● Paid Internship program: WAM’s paid internship program serves 90 college-age women/gender-expansive young adults (94% low-income; 84% BIPOC)/year with education, career counseling, mentorship and job placement in creative careers at companies like Dolby, Pixar, Pandora, NPR, Sony, Disney, ESPN, etc.

● WAMCon is a national recording arts conference series for women/gender-expansive aspiring recording engineers and music producers. WAM has hosted dozens of conferences in Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, Boston, and virtually reaching 2,000+ women/gender-expansive people from 30+ countries and featuring music producers, songwriters and recording engineers who have worked with everyone from Selena Gomez to Cardi B to P!nk and Rihanna.

Organization

Women's Audio Mission

Address

542-544 NATOMA ST

#C-1

SAN FRANCISCO

94103-2817

County

San Francisco

Region

Bay Area – San Francisco

Phone

(800) 926-1338

Congressional District

California's 12th congressional district

State Assembly District

District 17

State Senate District

District 11

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