Genres Music
Youth Jazz Legends Tribute
SONGBIRD MULTIMEDIA AND PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
Thanks to the charitable efforts of the Puffin Foundation, Songbird Multimedia, and Performing Arts Foundation hosted a tribute to jazz legends to provide performing arts and educational opportunities for youth ages 6-11. Read More
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- Website: www.songbirdmultimedia.com
Generación Perdida
Sosa, Jorge
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Generación Perdida, based on the book by the Mexican poet, and journalist Javier Moro Hernandez, is a monodrama for mezzo-soprano about the more than 100,000 people who have been forcibly disappeared as a direct result of the futile war on drugs. Read More
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- Website: www.jorgesosa.com
Musical Access: Music Week (2014)
SOUNDS Academy
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Musical Access exposes students to different professions in the field of music through interactions with musicians. Performers share stories, answer questions, and speak about the importance of perseverance, teamwork, education, and music. Read More
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- Website: http://www.soundsacademy.org
Shmuel Polonski CD of 1931 Soviet Yiddish Songbook Far yugnt/For Youth
The Polonski Project/Eric A. Gordon & Yale Strom
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A CD produced by historian Eric A Gordon & musician Yale Strom, featuring vocalists Michael Alpert, Judy Bressler, Jack Yankl Falk, Daniel Kahn, Vira Lozinsky, Anthony Russell, Elizabeth Schwartz, and Sholem Singers Read More
East Bay: Redline Redefined
Thingamajigs
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Thingamajigs commissioned eight East Bay artists to create a range of audio and visual pieces for the project, Redline Redefined, a new multi-year project that investigates, narrates and celebrates our diverse and creative formerly redlined neighborhoods. Read More
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- Website: http://www.thingamajigs.org/east-bay-redline-redefined-map
PerspectiveS: ROBESON, PAPA DOC, THE MASK IN THE MIRROR (2014)
TRILOGY: AN OPERA COMPANY
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
THREE DISTINCT OPERATIC PRODUCTIONS - PAUL ROBESON (ARTIST/ACTIVIST), THE HAITIAN DICTATOR FRANCOIS DUVALIER (PAPA DOC), AND POET PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR AND HIS WIFE ALICE RUTH MOORE, IN THE OPERA "THE MASK IN THE MIRROR". DONE WITH ORCHESTRA OR PIANO. Read More
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- Website: Robeson: The Opera on Vimeo........http://vimeo.com
Just AART
TWP-The Youth Movement
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Just AART (Artist, Activist, Relying on Technology) gives young people a chance to facilitate a unique community based program using music, spoken work and drama to make Public Service Announcements. Read More
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- Website: www.TWPTheMovement.org
Community Arts
ZUMIX
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
ZUMIX takes a leadership role in making arts and culture a more accessible and vital part of local life while providing our youth with opportunities to apply their skills and talents in real-life settings through community arts events. Read More
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- Website: http://www.zumix.org