Local Mendocino and Sonoma County artists founded Gualala Arts in 1961. In 1966, the Center gained 501C(3) status and took as its mission “Promoting public Interest and participation in the Arts.” In 1998 the doors were opened to a 15,000 square foot visual and performing arts center. Today, Gualala is a vibrant arts community, providing…
“Founded in 2012, at Camp Phoenix we empower youth from low-income communities through academics, outdoor discovery, and personal growth to become leaders in their communities. Our 3-week, overnight summer immersion program blends the fun of sleep-away camp with the rigor of exploratory learning to propel middle-school students into the next school year and beyond.”
“The Electric Smoothie Lab Apothecary provides living foods in the form of locally harvested fruits and greens in order to do smoothies and fresh, healing juices and mineral drinks for folks, especially elders and children, living in Oakland’s Food Deserts. We do pop-up workshops and education often on street corners, at elementary schools, in jails…
The UC Theatre’s Concert Career Pathways Program is a six-month program that is a combination of workshops and paid internships where students learn best practices in production management, event coordination, being stagehands and floor staff, live sound engineering, lighting design, event budgeting, and box office operations. CEO David Mayeri used to be with BGP, and…
The 350 + millions of moving targets is a multimedia dance theater event that addresses the ongoing refugee crisis of Black and Brown bodies in the Mediterranean and South America. It is the latest iteration of a creative process begun in 2017. The intergenerational cast is comprised of dancers and non-dancers, including those who have…
“ARTogether is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in Oakland, California that works to support refugees in the San Francisco Bay Area, providing art programs that promote healing and community-building for refugees and immigrants, while supporting local refugee artists. Through creative arts, art therapy and social gatherings, we work to help refugees develop the capacity to…
Kitka is a vocal ensemble that has taken traditional vocal styles from Eastern Europe and created a Bay Area performing history that is now the launch pad for composers from the area who are finding and bringing alive traditional songs and styles that would otherwise likely disappear. “Traveling to rural communities in Armenia and Bulgaria,…
“Our organization started in 1988, to oppose a large ski-condominium development approved for the area around Panther Meadows high on Mt. Shasta, held sacred to local native tribes. Ten years later, those plans were withdrawn. The “Bioregional” movement, defining regional physical and environmental characteristics, inspired us. It opposes a homogeneous economy and consumer culture, and…
Led by John and Alice Coltrane’s son Ravi Coltrane and Ron Stein, Friends is dedicated to restoring the Long Island home of John and Alice Coltrane. The couple lived there for the last years of the saxophonist’s life. The home is where he composed A Love Supreme. Alice moved to San Francisco in the 1970s….
“Rainforest Connection seeks to solve the problem of illegal logging and poaching in rainforests by providing near-immediate alerts and forensic evidence through a sustainable and cost-effective acoustic monitoring system, allowing for the protection of large expanses of threatened land. We are a nonprofit at the forefront of conservation technology, utilizing adapted used smartphones as listening…