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With support from the California Arts Council, Peacock Rebellion will use SRN funding to continue to build an organized political voice for queer and trans artists of color in the San Francisco Bay Area with a clear cultural equity framework. This will include advocacy trainings, working with queer and trans artists of color to serve on grants panels, mentoring and shifting resources.

As an Ohlone land (Bay Area) -based network of artist activists, cultural workers, and community organizers, we are better at reaching hearts and minds on stage with a microphone than a megaphone. Our next-level innovations include:
-Peacock Productions, trans centered artist development and touring performing, visual, literary, and media arts;
-Peacock Institute, an arts-activism social transformation school that trains TQBIPOC artists in arts advocacy, serving on grant panels, and advancing TQBIPOC equity.
-Nationally, we co-anchor the Trans BIPOC Arts Network, with our core partners RARE Productions and TransLash Media.
– Provide TBIPOC –affirming consulting and coaching to artists on social media content, website user experience, writing press releases, web and social media content marketing, community engagement, outreach, and event promotion.

As one of the longest-running TQBIPOC centered and led arts organizations in the nation, we have learned much over the years from mentors and colleagues. In that tradition, we continue to act as a resource for other BIPOC led organizations, artists, and cultural leaders. This includes individual meetings, calls to support leaders in troubleshooting situations, or preparing for new leadership opportunities.

Our programs use the arts to examine systemic violence and to heal TQBIPOC communities from the trauma of experiencing multiple forms of harm in our day-to-day lives. Our productions advance crip cultures where TQBIPOC hold power and agency over how our stories are told, and nudge audiences to act to interrupt violence against and within our communities.

Consistently sold-out productions, community feedback, and awards from the Transgender Day of Remembrance (Movement-Builder Award), Best of the East Bay (Most Historic Cultural Event, Best Building Transformation, and Best QTPOC Performance-Activist), YBCA 100 (“100 people, organizations and movements shaping the future of culture”) and KQED (#BayBrilliant list of “10 artists who comprise the Bay Area’s soul”) show widespread community support.

With support from the California Arts Council, Peacock Rebellion will produce a one-evening production of Magic Mirrors that will take place at Oakland’s 500-seat First Congregational Church in November 2018. Artists will employ a multi-disciplinary performing arts cabaret around the concept of mental illness being a form of magic or blessing, reflect the diverse demographics of CA’s LGBTQ communities, and examine the lives and experiences of trans and gender non-conforming people of color.

As an Ohlone land (Bay Area) -based network of artist activists, cultural workers, and community organizers, we are better at reaching hearts and minds on stage with a microphone than a megaphone. Our next-level innovations include:
-Peacock Productions, trans centered artist development and touring performing, visual, literary, and media arts;
-Peacock Institute, an arts-activism social transformation school that trains TQBIPOC artists in arts advocacy, serving on grant panels, and advancing TQBIPOC equity.
-Nationally, we co-anchor the Trans BIPOC Arts Network, with our core partners RARE Productions and TransLash Media.
– Provide TBIPOC –affirming consulting and coaching to artists on social media content, website user experience, writing press releases, web and social media content marketing, community engagement, outreach, and event promotion.

As one of the longest-running TQBIPOC centered and led arts organizations in the nation, we have learned much over the years from mentors and colleagues. In that tradition, we continue to act as a resource for other BIPOC led organizations, artists, and cultural leaders. This includes individual meetings, calls to support leaders in troubleshooting situations, or preparing for new leadership opportunities.

Our programs use the arts to examine systemic violence and to heal TQBIPOC communities from the trauma of experiencing multiple forms of harm in our day-to-day lives. Our productions advance crip cultures where TQBIPOC hold power and agency over how our stories are told, and nudge audiences to act to interrupt violence against and within our communities.

Consistently sold-out productions, community feedback, and awards from the Transgender Day of Remembrance (Movement-Builder Award), Best of the East Bay (Most Historic Cultural Event, Best Building Transformation, and Best QTPOC Performance-Activist), YBCA 100 (“100 people, organizations and movements shaping the future of culture”) and KQED (#BayBrilliant list of “10 artists who comprise the Bay Area’s soul”) show widespread community support.

With support from the California Arts Council, Peacock Rebellion will contract with Palante Technology Cooperative to provide critical technology consulting services to develop new, secured digital communication assets to defend against hate-motivated attacks. Services to be performed include website discovery and planning, work to improve website functionality and security, and centralization of content from three disparate websites into our newly merged organization website.

As an Ohlone land (Bay Area) -based network of artist activists, cultural workers, and community organizers, we are better at reaching hearts and minds on stage with a microphone than a megaphone. Our next-level innovations include:
-Peacock Productions, trans centered artist development and touring performing, visual, literary, and media arts;
-Peacock Institute, an arts-activism social transformation school that trains TQBIPOC artists in arts advocacy, serving on grant panels, and advancing TQBIPOC equity.
-Nationally, we co-anchor the Trans BIPOC Arts Network, with our core partners RARE Productions and TransLash Media.
– Provide TBIPOC –affirming consulting and coaching to artists on social media content, website user experience, writing press releases, web and social media content marketing, community engagement, outreach, and event promotion.

As one of the longest-running TQBIPOC centered and led arts organizations in the nation, we have learned much over the years from mentors and colleagues. In that tradition, we continue to act as a resource for other BIPOC led organizations, artists, and cultural leaders. This includes individual meetings, calls to support leaders in troubleshooting situations, or preparing for new leadership opportunities.

Our programs use the arts to examine systemic violence and to heal TQBIPOC communities from the trauma of experiencing multiple forms of harm in our day-to-day lives. Our productions advance crip cultures where TQBIPOC hold power and agency over how our stories are told, and nudge audiences to act to interrupt violence against and within our communities.

Consistently sold-out productions, community feedback, and awards from the Transgender Day of Remembrance (Movement-Builder Award), Best of the East Bay (Most Historic Cultural Event, Best Building Transformation, and Best QTPOC Performance-Activist), YBCA 100 (“100 people, organizations and movements shaping the future of culture”) and KQED (#BayBrilliant list of “10 artists who comprise the Bay Area’s soul”) show widespread community support.

With support from the California Arts Council, Peacock Rebellion will work with Artist in Residence Lauren Benetua, Director of the racial justice arts organization People of Coloring, who will recruit and coach a cohort of trans and gender non-conforming (gnc) people of color (poc) artists to develop a racial justice trans liberation coloring book. Benetua and Peacock will also host monthly coloring meet-ups, to gather and color with community members talk.or facilitate an activity.

As an Ohlone land (Bay Area) -based network of artist activists, cultural workers, and community organizers, we are better at reaching hearts and minds on stage with a microphone than a megaphone. Our next-level innovations include:
-Peacock Productions, trans centered artist development and touring performing, visual, literary, and media arts;
-Peacock Institute, an arts-activism social transformation school that trains TQBIPOC artists in arts advocacy, serving on grant panels, and advancing TQBIPOC equity.
-Nationally, we co-anchor the Trans BIPOC Arts Network, with our core partners RARE Productions and TransLash Media.
– Provide TBIPOC –affirming consulting and coaching to artists on social media content, website user experience, writing press releases, web and social media content marketing, community engagement, outreach, and event promotion.

As one of the longest-running TQBIPOC centered and led arts organizations in the nation, we have learned much over the years from mentors and colleagues. In that tradition, we continue to act as a resource for other BIPOC led organizations, artists, and cultural leaders. This includes individual meetings, calls to support leaders in troubleshooting situations, or preparing for new leadership opportunities.

Our programs use the arts to examine systemic violence and to heal TQBIPOC communities from the trauma of experiencing multiple forms of harm in our day-to-day lives. Our productions advance crip cultures where TQBIPOC hold power and agency over how our stories are told, and nudge audiences to act to interrupt violence against and within our communities.

Consistently sold-out productions, community feedback, and awards from the Transgender Day of Remembrance (Movement-Builder Award), Best of the East Bay (Most Historic Cultural Event, Best Building Transformation, and Best QTPOC Performance-Activist), YBCA 100 (“100 people, organizations and movements shaping the future of culture”) and KQED (#BayBrilliant list of “10 artists who comprise the Bay Area’s soul”) show widespread community support.

With support from the California Arts Council, Peacock Rebellion’s program, Liberating Ourselves Locally, will produce and host sixteen weekly Maker Nights for Queer and Trans People of Color (QTPOC) in our Peacock Rebellion/Liberating Ourselves Locally space from January-April, 2020. The 16 weekly Maker Nights will culminate in a free May 2020 exhibition of the participating artists’ work held at our Peacock Rebellion/Liberating Ourselves Locally space at Liberated 23rd Ave in Oakland.

As an Ohlone land (Bay Area) -based network of artist activists, cultural workers, and community organizers, we are better at reaching hearts and minds on stage with a microphone than a megaphone. Our next-level innovations include:
-Peacock Productions, trans centered artist development and touring performing, visual, literary, and media arts;
-Peacock Institute, an arts-activism social transformation school that trains TQBIPOC artists in arts advocacy, serving on grant panels, and advancing TQBIPOC equity.
-Nationally, we co-anchor the Trans BIPOC Arts Network, with our core partners RARE Productions and TransLash Media.
– Provide TBIPOC –affirming consulting and coaching to artists on social media content, website user experience, writing press releases, web and social media content marketing, community engagement, outreach, and event promotion.

As one of the longest-running TQBIPOC centered and led arts organizations in the nation, we have learned much over the years from mentors and colleagues. In that tradition, we continue to act as a resource for other BIPOC led organizations, artists, and cultural leaders. This includes individual meetings, calls to support leaders in troubleshooting situations, or preparing for new leadership opportunities.

Our programs use the arts to examine systemic violence and to heal TQBIPOC communities from the trauma of experiencing multiple forms of harm in our day-to-day lives. Our productions advance crip cultures where TQBIPOC hold power and agency over how our stories are told, and nudge audiences to act to interrupt violence against and within our communities.

Consistently sold-out productions, community feedback, and awards from the Transgender Day of Remembrance (Movement-Builder Award), Best of the East Bay (Most Historic Cultural Event, Best Building Transformation, and Best QTPOC Performance-Activist), YBCA 100 (“100 people, organizations and movements shaping the future of culture”) and KQED (#BayBrilliant list of “10 artists who comprise the Bay Area’s soul”) show widespread community support.

With support from the California Arts Council, Peacock Rebellion will use SRN funding to continue to build an organized political voice for queer and trans artists of color in the San Francisco Bay Area with a clear cultural equity framework. This will include advocacy trainings, working with queer and trans artists of color to serve on grants panels, mentoring and shifting resources.

As an Ohlone land (Bay Area) -based network of artist activists, cultural workers, and community organizers, we are better at reaching hearts and minds on stage with a microphone than a megaphone. Our next-level innovations include:
-Peacock Productions, trans centered artist development and touring performing, visual, literary, and media arts;
-Peacock Institute, an arts-activism social transformation school that trains TQBIPOC artists in arts advocacy, serving on grant panels, and advancing TQBIPOC equity.
-Nationally, we co-anchor the Trans BIPOC Arts Network, with our core partners RARE Productions and TransLash Media.
– Provide TBIPOC –affirming consulting and coaching to artists on social media content, website user experience, writing press releases, web and social media content marketing, community engagement, outreach, and event promotion.

As one of the longest-running TQBIPOC centered and led arts organizations in the nation, we have learned much over the years from mentors and colleagues. In that tradition, we continue to act as a resource for other BIPOC led organizations, artists, and cultural leaders. This includes individual meetings, calls to support leaders in troubleshooting situations, or preparing for new leadership opportunities.

Our programs use the arts to examine systemic violence and to heal TQBIPOC communities from the trauma of experiencing multiple forms of harm in our day-to-day lives. Our productions advance crip cultures where TQBIPOC hold power and agency over how our stories are told, and nudge audiences to act to interrupt violence against and within our communities.

Consistently sold-out productions, community feedback, and awards from the Transgender Day of Remembrance (Movement-Builder Award), Best of the East Bay (Most Historic Cultural Event, Best Building Transformation, and Best QTPOC Performance-Activist), YBCA 100 (“100 people, organizations and movements shaping the future of culture”) and KQED (#BayBrilliant list of “10 artists who comprise the Bay Area’s soul”) show widespread community support.

With support from the California Arts Council, Peacock Rebellion will contract with communications consultant Mia Nakano to provide consulting on public relations and on how to link communications with fundraising and program work. Services to be performed include consulting on culturally competent public relations and community engagement practices and work to improve accessibility protocols of print and digital materials for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses.

As an Ohlone land (Bay Area) -based network of artist activists, cultural workers, and community organizers, we are better at reaching hearts and minds on stage with a microphone than a megaphone. Our next-level innovations include:
-Peacock Productions, trans centered artist development and touring performing, visual, literary, and media arts;
-Peacock Institute, an arts-activism social transformation school that trains TQBIPOC artists in arts advocacy, serving on grant panels, and advancing TQBIPOC equity.
-Nationally, we co-anchor the Trans BIPOC Arts Network, with our core partners RARE Productions and TransLash Media.
– Provide TBIPOC –affirming consulting and coaching to artists on social media content, website user experience, writing press releases, web and social media content marketing, community engagement, outreach, and event promotion.

As one of the longest-running TQBIPOC centered and led arts organizations in the nation, we have learned much over the years from mentors and colleagues. In that tradition, we continue to act as a resource for other BIPOC led organizations, artists, and cultural leaders. This includes individual meetings, calls to support leaders in troubleshooting situations, or preparing for new leadership opportunities.

Our programs use the arts to examine systemic violence and to heal TQBIPOC communities from the trauma of experiencing multiple forms of harm in our day-to-day lives. Our productions advance crip cultures where TQBIPOC hold power and agency over how our stories are told, and nudge audiences to act to interrupt violence against and within our communities.

Consistently sold-out productions, community feedback, and awards from the Transgender Day of Remembrance (Movement-Builder Award), Best of the East Bay (Most Historic Cultural Event, Best Building Transformation, and Best QTPOC Performance-Activist), YBCA 100 (“100 people, organizations and movements shaping the future of culture”) and KQED (#BayBrilliant list of “10 artists who comprise the Bay Area’s soul”) show widespread community support.

With support from the California Arts Council, Peacock Rebellion will use SRN funding to continue to build an organized political voice for queer and trans artists of color in the San Francisco Bay Area with a clear cultural equity framework. This will include advocacy trainings, working with queer and trans artists of color to serve on grants panels, mentoring, and shifting resources.

As an Ohlone land (Bay Area) -based network of artist activists, cultural workers, and community organizers, we are better at reaching hearts and minds on stage with a microphone than a megaphone. Our next-level innovations include:
-Peacock Productions, trans centered artist development and touring performing, visual, literary, and media arts;
-Peacock Institute, an arts-activism social transformation school that trains TQBIPOC artists in arts advocacy, serving on grant panels, and advancing TQBIPOC equity.
-Nationally, we co-anchor the Trans BIPOC Arts Network, with our core partners RARE Productions and TransLash Media.
– Provide TBIPOC –affirming consulting and coaching to artists on social media content, website user experience, writing press releases, web and social media content marketing, community engagement, outreach, and event promotion.

As one of the longest-running TQBIPOC centered and led arts organizations in the nation, we have learned much over the years from mentors and colleagues. In that tradition, we continue to act as a resource for other BIPOC led organizations, artists, and cultural leaders. This includes individual meetings, calls to support leaders in troubleshooting situations, or preparing for new leadership opportunities.

Our programs use the arts to examine systemic violence and to heal TQBIPOC communities from the trauma of experiencing multiple forms of harm in our day-to-day lives. Our productions advance crip cultures where TQBIPOC hold power and agency over how our stories are told, and nudge audiences to act to interrupt violence against and within our communities.

Consistently sold-out productions, community feedback, and awards from the Transgender Day of Remembrance (Movement-Builder Award), Best of the East Bay (Most Historic Cultural Event, Best Building Transformation, and Best QTPOC Performance-Activist), YBCA 100 (“100 people, organizations and movements shaping the future of culture”) and KQED (#BayBrilliant list of “10 artists who comprise the Bay Area’s soul”) show widespread community support.

With support from the CAC, Peacock Rebellion will award a four-month multidisciplinary artist residency to Oakland-grown culture-weaver Katherin Canton, who will instruct queer and trans people of color in the community and allied neighbors in the crafts of altar-making, papel picado, and weaving; cultural lineages of these crafts; and how to use art-making to advance movements for social justice in a series of free workshops at our wheelchair-accessible maker space Liberating Ourselves Locally.

As an Ohlone land (Bay Area) -based network of artist activists, cultural workers, and community organizers, we are better at reaching hearts and minds on stage with a microphone than a megaphone. Our next-level innovations include:
-Peacock Productions, trans centered artist development and touring performing, visual, literary, and media arts;
-Peacock Institute, an arts-activism social transformation school that trains TQBIPOC artists in arts advocacy, serving on grant panels, and advancing TQBIPOC equity.
-Nationally, we co-anchor the Trans BIPOC Arts Network, with our core partners RARE Productions and TransLash Media.
– Provide TBIPOC –affirming consulting and coaching to artists on social media content, website user experience, writing press releases, web and social media content marketing, community engagement, outreach, and event promotion.

As one of the longest-running TQBIPOC centered and led arts organizations in the nation, we have learned much over the years from mentors and colleagues. In that tradition, we continue to act as a resource for other BIPOC led organizations, artists, and cultural leaders. This includes individual meetings, calls to support leaders in troubleshooting situations, or preparing for new leadership opportunities.

Our programs use the arts to examine systemic violence and to heal TQBIPOC communities from the trauma of experiencing multiple forms of harm in our day-to-day lives. Our productions advance crip cultures where TQBIPOC hold power and agency over how our stories are told, and nudge audiences to act to interrupt violence against and within our communities.

Consistently sold-out productions, community feedback, and awards from the Transgender Day of Remembrance (Movement-Builder Award), Best of the East Bay (Most Historic Cultural Event, Best Building Transformation, and Best QTPOC Performance-Activist), YBCA 100 (“100 people, organizations and movements shaping the future of culture”) and KQED (#BayBrilliant list of “10 artists who comprise the Bay Area’s soul”) show widespread community support.

With support from the CAC, Peacock Rebellion will nurture an organized political voice for Trans Black, Indigenous, and artists of color (TBIPOC) in the SF Bay Area with a cultural equity framework through arts advocacy training, preparing TBIPOC artists to serve on grants panels, coaching, and sharing resources.

As an Ohlone land (Bay Area) -based network of artist activists, cultural workers, and community organizers, we are better at reaching hearts and minds on stage with a microphone than a megaphone. Our next-level innovations include:
-Peacock Productions, trans centered artist development and touring performing, visual, literary, and media arts;
-Peacock Institute, an arts-activism social transformation school that trains TQBIPOC artists in arts advocacy, serving on grant panels, and advancing TQBIPOC equity.
-Nationally, we co-anchor the Trans BIPOC Arts Network, with our core partners RARE Productions and TransLash Media.
– Provide TBIPOC –affirming consulting and coaching to artists on social media content, website user experience, writing press releases, web and social media content marketing, community engagement, outreach, and event promotion.

As one of the longest-running TQBIPOC centered and led arts organizations in the nation, we have learned much over the years from mentors and colleagues. In that tradition, we continue to act as a resource for other BIPOC led organizations, artists, and cultural leaders. This includes individual meetings, calls to support leaders in troubleshooting situations, or preparing for new leadership opportunities.

Our programs use the arts to examine systemic violence and to heal TQBIPOC communities from the trauma of experiencing multiple forms of harm in our day-to-day lives. Our productions advance crip cultures where TQBIPOC hold power and agency over how our stories are told, and nudge audiences to act to interrupt violence against and within our communities.

Consistently sold-out productions, community feedback, and awards from the Transgender Day of Remembrance (Movement-Builder Award), Best of the East Bay (Most Historic Cultural Event, Best Building Transformation, and Best QTPOC Performance-Activist), YBCA 100 (“100 people, organizations and movements shaping the future of culture”) and KQED (#BayBrilliant list of “10 artists who comprise the Bay Area’s soul”) show widespread community support.

With support from the California Arts Council, Peacock Rebellion will work with our community of Trans and Queer BIPOC (TQBIPOC) artists to create and premiere The Sock World, a reality-style sock puppet comedy web series about TQBIPOC activists with disabilities and their drama-filled housing cooperative.

As an Ohlone land (Bay Area) -based network of artist activists, cultural workers, and community organizers, we are better at reaching hearts and minds on stage with a microphone than a megaphone. Our next-level innovations include:
-Peacock Productions, trans centered artist development and touring performing, visual, literary, and media arts;
-Peacock Institute, an arts-activism social transformation school that trains TQBIPOC artists in arts advocacy, serving on grant panels, and advancing TQBIPOC equity.
-Nationally, we co-anchor the Trans BIPOC Arts Network, with our core partners RARE Productions and TransLash Media.
– Provide TBIPOC –affirming consulting and coaching to artists on social media content, website user experience, writing press releases, web and social media content marketing, community engagement, outreach, and event promotion.

As one of the longest-running TQBIPOC centered and led arts organizations in the nation, we have learned much over the years from mentors and colleagues. In that tradition, we continue to act as a resource for other BIPOC led organizations, artists, and cultural leaders. This includes individual meetings, calls to support leaders in troubleshooting situations, or preparing for new leadership opportunities.

Our programs use the arts to examine systemic violence and to heal TQBIPOC communities from the trauma of experiencing multiple forms of harm in our day-to-day lives. Our productions advance crip cultures where TQBIPOC hold power and agency over how our stories are told, and nudge audiences to act to interrupt violence against and within our communities.

Consistently sold-out productions, community feedback, and awards from the Transgender Day of Remembrance (Movement-Builder Award), Best of the East Bay (Most Historic Cultural Event, Best Building Transformation, and Best QTPOC Performance-Activist), YBCA 100 (“100 people, organizations and movements shaping the future of culture”) and KQED (#BayBrilliant list of “10 artists who comprise the Bay Area’s soul”) show widespread community support.

With support from the CAC, Peacock Rebellion will nurture an organized political voice for trans Black, Indigenous, and artists of color (TBIPOC) in the SF Bay Area with a cultural equity framework through arts advocacy training, preparing TBIPOC artists to serve on grants panels, coaching, and sharing resources.

As an Ohlone land (Bay Area) -based network of artist activists, cultural workers, and community organizers, we are better at reaching hearts and minds on stage with a microphone than a megaphone. Our next-level innovations include:
-Peacock Productions, trans centered artist development and touring performing, visual, literary, and media arts;
-Peacock Institute, an arts-activism social transformation school that trains TQBIPOC artists in arts advocacy, serving on grant panels, and advancing TQBIPOC equity.
-Nationally, we co-anchor the Trans BIPOC Arts Network, with our core partners RARE Productions and TransLash Media.
– Provide TBIPOC –affirming consulting and coaching to artists on social media content, website user experience, writing press releases, web and social media content marketing, community engagement, outreach, and event promotion.

As one of the longest-running TQBIPOC centered and led arts organizations in the nation, we have learned much over the years from mentors and colleagues. In that tradition, we continue to act as a resource for other BIPOC led organizations, artists, and cultural leaders. This includes individual meetings, calls to support leaders in troubleshooting situations, or preparing for new leadership opportunities.

Our programs use the arts to examine systemic violence and to heal TQBIPOC communities from the trauma of experiencing multiple forms of harm in our day-to-day lives. Our productions advance crip cultures where TQBIPOC hold power and agency over how our stories are told, and nudge audiences to act to interrupt violence against and within our communities.

Consistently sold-out productions, community feedback, and awards from the Transgender Day of Remembrance (Movement-Builder Award), Best of the East Bay (Most Historic Cultural Event, Best Building Transformation, and Best QTPOC Performance-Activist), YBCA 100 (“100 people, organizations and movements shaping the future of culture”) and KQED (#BayBrilliant list of “10 artists who comprise the Bay Area’s soul”) show widespread community support.