Life Enrichment Committee
April 25, 2023
AGENDA REPORT
TO: Steven Falk FROM: Sofia Navarro
Interim City Administrator Interim Director, Economic
and Workforce
Development Department
SUBJECT: Fiscal Year 2022-23 Cultural Funding
Grants - Round Two
DATE: March 27, 2023
City Administrator Approval Date:
RECOMMENDATION
Staff Recommends That The City Council Adopt A Resolution Awarding Grants To Forty (40) Oakland-based Nonprofit Organizations And Individual Artists Providing Arts And Cultural Services In Oakland For Fiscal Year 2022-2023 (Round Two), In A Total Amount Not To Exceed Six Hundred Thousand Dollars ($600,000).
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The proposed resolution would adopt the recommended Fiscal Year (FY) 2022-23 allocation to award FY 2022-23 Round Two Cultural Funding awards in the total amount of $600,000 to the grantees as described in Attachment A.
Specifically, adoption of the proposed resolution will authorize the City Administrator to enter into forty (40) Cultural Services Grant Agreements with forty (40) Oakland-based artists and nonprofit organizations to provide cultural services that reach all seven of the City of Oakland (City) Council Districts. These organizations support artistic excellence and cultural diversity through the provision of services and programming in dance, music, theater, media, digital, visual, literary, and community arts, while leveraging other government, corporate, and private spending on the arts in Oakland. The grant funds will support over 800 individual arts events and activities, most of them offering free or low-cost to the public and will expose nearly 150,000 participants (80 percent Oakland-based) to cultural arts services and programming. This attendance figure includes active participants, on-site audiences, in-person and virtual programming, and estimated internet site visitors. Round Two application activity locations are included in Attachment B.
BACKGROUND / LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
Program Overview
The Cultural Funding Program (CFP) was established by the City Council in 1985 as the City’s mechanism to support Oakland-based nonprofit arts and cultural organizations through an Apr 11, 2023
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annual competitive application process. These grants infuse Oakland’s neighborhoods with arts and cultural activities that increase exposure to, understanding of, and respect for diverse cultural heritages, support arts activities that engage the community, and support hands-on arts instruction in Oakland’s public schools. For FY 2022-23, CFP awards two rounds of funding, as provided below:
Round One approved at the November 7, 2023 City Council Meeting:
• Organizational Assistance
• Neighborhood Voices for Festivals
Round Two:
• Neighborhood Voices for Individual Artist Projects
• Neighborhood Voices for Organization Programs
Grant program descriptions for all each of these categories can be found in Attachment C.
The program is managed by the Cultural Affairs staff within the Economic & Workforce Development Department (EWDD). To ensure transparency and public trust in the distribution of public funds for the arts in Oakland, the program has established policies, review procedures, and a panel system for evaluating applications, including review by the Funding Advisory Committee (FAC).
The FAC is a volunteer community organization that supports and provides input on matters relating to CFP policies, procedures, and the award of grants to Oakland-based artists and cultural organizations to support arts and cultural activities that reflect the diversity of the city for citizens of and visitors to Oakland. The FAC reviews scores established by the community peer reviewed panels, reviews staff allocation recommendations based on panel ranking, and hears applicant appeals, if any. The members of the FAC are recruited from the arts community and are elected by current FAC members. Oakland’s CFP is one of the only local grant-making agencies in the State that allows applicants to address the community peer reviewed panel during a three-minute discussion. The applicant’s three-minute address is used to clarify any questions or misinterpretations that the applicant may have heard during the panel discussion.
With City Council support, the CFP grants have historically been funded from the General Purpose Fund. In FY 2009-2010, Oakland voters approved Measure C, implementing a Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) surcharge that supplements the CFP funding.
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ANALYSIS AND POLICY ALTERNATIVES
Grant Review Panel Process
During the FY 2022-23 Individual Artist Projects grant application period, the CFP received a total of 44 applications from Oakland-based artists. Staff reviewed the applications and passed along those that met eligibility requirements per the program guidelines to the grant review panelists. On March 8, 2023, the CFP review panel consisted of a total of 5 community/peer panelists, and they evaluated eligible applications from 36 artists.
During the FY 2022-23 Organization Program grant application period, the CFP received a total of 34 applications from Oakland-based nonprofit organization conducting arts and culture programming. Staff reviewed the applications and passed along those that met eligibility requirements per the program guidelines to the grant review panelists. On March 9, 2023, the CFP review panel consisted of a total of 4 community/peer panelists, and they evaluated eligible applications from 30 organizations.
Panelists thoroughly discussed, evaluated and scored each proposal based on established criteria. In broad terms, the criteria for the panel review are: (1) soundness of applicant’s plan for artistic/cultural services and quality of the artistic product; (2) management ability of personnel and the fiscal soundness of the program or project; (3) the applicant’s ability to implement the proposed activities; identify and market services to potential audiences; and (4) the extent to which the applicant’s activities fulfill the goals of the CFP. The application criteria also included a section that addressed cultural and racial equity. Applicants were asked to address racial disparities and how their programming closes the gap for impacted communities by creating opportunities for them to engage with the cultural programming. Upon completion of the review process and ranking of the applications, staff determined a cut-off for grant awards and the allocation of funds, which was reviewed by the FAC. Applicants receiving an average score lower than 70 (from a possible 100 points) were automatically disqualified from funding.
These funding allocations consider the applicants’ score, request amount, and budget size.
Staff reviewed scores and ranking of the applicants, creating a list of recommended awards, which were then forwarded to the FAC for their review. The FAC met on March 15, 2023 to review these recommendations. Staff determined grant awards based on applicant ranking by score and funds available and the FAC unanimously supported staff’s recommendation for Council consideration to approve funding for 40 Oakland-based artists and organizations conducting arts and culture programs.
Approval of these cultural funding grants will continue to help advance the citywide priority of economic and cultural security. By supporting Oakland Creatives, this workforce will build social cohesion and foster security and belonging through civic engagement activities.
Review Panel Recommendations and Statistics
Table 1 below shows the total number of applications received, reviewed and recommended by the review panel for each of the 2 categories for this Round Two of funding.
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Table 1. Application Statistics
Round Two (FY2022-23)
Grant Categories
No. of
Applications
Received
Total
Awards
Award
Rate
Total Amount
Awarded
Average Award
Amount*
Neighborhood Voices for
Individual Artists 44 20 45% $200,000.00 $10,000.00 Neighborhood Voices for
Organization Programs 34 20 59% $400,000.00 $20,000.00 TOTALS 78 40 51% $600,000.00
*For a complete list of grantee award amounts, please see Attachment A.
FISCAL IMPACT
The cost to support these CFP grants for Round Two will be $600,000.00, which was included in the FY 2021-23 budget and will be drawn from FY 2022-23 funds available in: $550,000.00 General Purpose Fund (1010), Cultural Arts & Marketing Org (85511), City Promotion Account (53311), Cultural Arts Grant Fund Project (1000166), Marketing & Special Events Program (SC02); and $50,000 Measure C: Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) Surcharge Fund (2419), Cultural Arts & Marketing Org (85511), TOT Surcharge: Cultural Grants Project (1000458).
Table 2 provides a breakdown of the project cost summary, and the appropriated project funding sources are included in Table 3.
Table 2: Project Cost Summary
Cost Category Description Amount
Grant
Disbursements
Grant disbursements to FY2022-23 Round
Two, Cultural Funding grantees $600,000.00
Total Project: $600,000.00
Table 3: Project Funding Sources
Funding Source Organization Account Project Program Amount General Purpose Fund
1010 85511 53311 1000166 SC02 $550,000.00
Transient Occupancy
Tax (TOT) Surcharge
Fund 2419
85511 54912 1000458 CE02 $50,000.00
Total Project: $600,000.00
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PUBLIC OUTREACH / INTEREST
The CFP currently has only one staff member, who is responsible for all duties associated with the CFP, including grant applications, public review panels, outreach, reporting, and grant contracting for 106 grantees this year alone. City staff works diligently to keep its mailing list and outreach efforts up to date.
The availability and open application period for the FY 2022-23 Neighborhood Voices for Individual Artist Projects and Neighborhood Voices for Organization Program grants were announced on December 1, 2022 via press release, social media and posted on the City’s website. Application guidelines and grant category descriptions were widely publicized for six weeks. Outreach for these grants included posting on the City’s website and social media sites, including the Cultural Affairs Division Facebook Page. Email notices were sent to interested groups including City Councilmembers and staff, past grantees, grant applicants and all parties that contacted staff for arts funding opportunities. In total, staff estimates that it was able to outreach to over 1000 artists and organizations. CFP staff conducted public workshops and one-on-one technical assistance meetings for prospective applicants from December 2022 through the application deadline. A total of 87 people attended the public workshops via Zoom, and 12 prospective applicants received one-on-on technical assistance from CFP staff.
Throughout the year, an Open Call for qualifications is posted on the City’s website inviting community members to serve on peer review panels. Grant Review Panels convened to discuss and evaluate applications in open meetings, where applicants had the opportunity to attend and address the panel with a three-minute statement via Zoom. Grant Review Panels were open to the public and accessible through a public Zoom link.
COORDINATION
The City Attorney's Office and the Budget Bureau have been consulted in the preparation of this report and resolution. The FAC has also been consulted and reviewed the award recommendations herein presented to the City Council.
SUSTAINABLE OPPORTUNITIES
Economic: Community-oriented arts activities bolster the cultural arts identity of Oakland, fortifying the City as a destination, bolstering the creative economy and creating positive publicity resulting in economic benefit. In this second round of funding for FY 2022-23, the CFP grantees will employ over 350 Oakland-based artists. Their activities generate local sales taxes and revenues for the City and local businesses. Many Oakland grantee organizations have received international notoriety and draw large crowds for their performances or artwork.
Environmental: There are no environmental opportunities or benefits resulting from any action outlined in this report.
Race & Equity: The CFP offers an open, competitive process for applicants, resulting in awards to artists and arts organizations that represent all seven City Steven Falk, Interim City Administrator
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Council Districts. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation is available for deaf and hearing impaired applicants, language translation services are provided through the City’s Equal Access Program, and staff performs outreach in communities with significant Asian- America, Pacific Islander, African-American, Latinx, and immigrant populations. Racial equity goals are advanced through outreach activities that include How-to-Apply Workshops, one-on- one technical assistance that targets under-represented communities, and the recruitment of grant review panelists that represent Oakland’s diverse community. The Cultural Funding program provides support to artists and organizations that serve low-income, culturally- specific, Lesbian/ Gay/ Bisexual/ Transgender/ Queer (LGBTQ), youth, disabled, and senior communities.
ACTION REQUESTED OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Staff Recommends That The City Council Adopt A Resolution Awarding Grants To Forty (40) Oakland-based Nonprofit Organizations And Individual Artists Providing Arts And Cultural Services In Oakland For Fiscal Year 2022-2023 (Round Two), In A Total Amount Not To Exceed Six Hundred Thousand Dollars ($600,000).
For questions regarding this report, please contact Roberto Bedoya, Cultural Affairs Manager, 520-236-2136.
Respectfully submitted,
SOFIA NAVARRO
Interim Director,
Economic & Workforce Development
Department
Reviewed by:
Roberto Bedoya, Cultural Affairs Manager
Economic & Workforce Development
Department
Prepared by:
Raquel Iglesias, Cultural Funding Coordinator
Economic & Workforce Development
Department
Attachments (3):
A: FY 2022-23 Round Two-Grant Award Recommendations and Project Descriptions B: FY 2022-23 Round Two Activity Locations
C: FY 2022-23 Description of Cultural Funding Program Grant Categories
AttachmentA_RoundTwo_Grantees_FY22-23
INDIVIDUAL
NAMES
Recommended
Total Not to
Exceed Grant
Amount
(Funding Source)
General Fund-City
Promotions 53311
(Funding Source)
Transient
Occupancy Tax
Description
Acacia WoodsChan $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual Artist applicant Acacia WoodsChan project aims to engage Oakland-based youth in their own exploration of local history, culture and other diverse forms of cultural engagement through geography-based cultural tours in different Oakland neighborhoods. This project aims to create increasingly interactive opportunities for Oakland-based youth, residents and visitors to engage with the people, places and histories that make Oakland a growing destination and cultural hub. The artist proposes 4 tours of 35-56 participants (including chaperones) to attend the tours, which will be hosted adjacent to cultural celebrations including Lunar New Year, Black History Month and Juneteenth. They will collaborate with already-existing events held by local artists/ community creators/ organizations to enhance the experience for youth.
Adrienne Oliver $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual Artist applicant Adrienne Oliver requests support for "Black Gold Storytellers: The Warmth of Oakland sun," a virtual storytelling event featuring African-American elders residing in Oakland. The goal is to feature migration stories from African-American Oakland residents who moved during The Great Migration from the American South to Oakland. The workshop facilitator will provide a series of writing prompts and exercises to help Oakland storytellers produce these stories. The aim is to provide a source of healing on two fronts: 1) healing the relationship between the literary arts and underrepresented writers and; 2) healing the trauma of potential erasure due to gentrification. Support for this project will cover administrative costs, stipends for the Oakland artists, and honorariums to the elders sharing their stories.
FY22-23 NEIGHBORHOOD VOICES FOR INDIVIDUAL ARTIST PROJECTS
AttachmentA_RoundTwo_Grantees_FY22-23
Christian Martinez $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual Artist applicant Christian Martinez's project is a podcast and magazine called "Noxhegalactica - Elevate In Community." The aim is to elevate the voices of people from the Deep East Oakland community who are often left in the shadows and are portrayed in a very negative image. This project hopes to highlight their stories of success and share them via a podcast and a published magazine. The goal is to change the narrative of our city, and interview 60 people from different backgrounds and upbringings to create an interactive community.
Damon Jamal Taylor $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual Artist applicant Damon Jamal Taylor's proposed project is titled “Black Daddy: The Experience," an interactive journey that is part film, performance and community dialogue that elevates the transformative role Black families play in healing and creating local and global culture.
Surrounding “Black Daddy: The Movie” the the award-winning film by Damon Jamal Taylor aka “Dame Drummer," this interactive event amplifies true stories and contributions of Oakland-based fathers and their families.
This Father's Day event includes select film screenings and a panel from diverse Oakland artists and organizers on the topics of the role of Black families, fatherhood, masculinity, to a thriving Oakland community.
Edward Gunawan $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual Artist Applicant Edward Gunawan's proposal is for “Home Made:
A Literary Reading Series and Storytelling Workshop” which aims to nurture and empower local immigrant/refugee writers in sharing their unique stories and experiences with the wider community in Oakland and the Bay Area.
Held at the Oakland downtown location of our community partner ARTogether, “Home Made” will showcase and amplify the diverse voices and perspectives of writers from all corners of the globe, while highlighting the richness and complexity of the migration experience across generation, race, religion, country of origin, physical ability, gender expression, and sexual orientation. Each curated reading will feature 2 to 3 immigrant/refugee writers, followed by a Q&A discussion with the audience on topics relating to social justice and migration.
AttachmentA_RoundTwo_Grantees_FY22-23
Elaine Chu $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual Artist applicant Elaine Chu's proposal is for a free family friendly community mural project at the Pacific Renaissance Plaza in Oakland's Chinatown. The mural will be a part of the Lunar New Year & the Lantern Festival organized by the Cut Fruit Collective, Oakland Bloom, Civic Design Studio and AAPI Healers for Liberation. The mural will be led by Elaine Chu and Marina Perez- Wong who make up Twin Walls Mural Company. The 6'x10' portable mural will be pre- designed with paint and all materials ready for the event. We will be inviting anyone at the event to help paint and add to the mural. After the event is over, the mural will be touched up and displayed in Chinatown in a community space. The mural focused around the mission to help cultivate healing, liberation and joy in the community.
Frederick Alexander
Alvarado $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual Artist applicant Frederick Alvarado requests support for “International Space Station," a temporary space dedicated to art workshops and exhibitions located in the Fruitvale Plaza. The space will be active for 5 months from April through August 2023, and include artists creating projects with seniors citizens from the San Antonio/Fruitvale Senior center and youth from the Unity Councils Youth program. The project space will serve as an incubator of ideas and projects with the aim of sharing stories, ideas, and outlooks. This iteration of the project will be in collaboration with Fredericko Alvarado, Los Pobres Artistas, Cocina de Corazon, the San Antonio/Fruitvale Senior Center, and the Unity Council's Youth program to create art projects for an exhibition in the summer of 2023.
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Ipeleng Kgositsile $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual artist applicant Ipeleng Kgositsile has applied for support for the creation of I, Too | LOL: an eight-week long improv, sketch comedy and joke- writing program for Oakland girls ages 8 and up. The goals are aimed at 1) Transforming and Belonging using improv and comedy games; 2) Bringing Together multi-racial, multi-ethnic, intergenerational, mixed-upbringing girls with community collaborators; 3) Programming using comedy and improv to foster belong and unity within Oakland neighborhoods; 4) Promoting and Lifting up the cultural identities of the youngest residents of the city’s neighborhoods; and 5) Nurturing and leveraging creativity, humor, comedy and levity in the Oakland neighborhoods where the I, Too | LOL participants live and play.
Jacqueline Keliiaa $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual Artist applicant Jackie Keliiaa's proposed project is titled "Good Medicine Native Comedy," a night of live stand-up featuring the best and brightest comedians Indian Country has to offer all on a central stage at the beautiful Oakland Museum of California. It's more than a comedy show, it's also an opportunity to support Native businesses. Guests are encouraged to arrive early to shop the Native artisan market featuring handcrafted jewelry, beadwork, apparel and accessories, dine al fresco and listen to live music by Native musicians. At the close of the comedy show, there will be a dance party. Last years’ dance floor was a multi-generational gathering with a mix of hits from Native bands like Redbone, A Tribe Called Red, and East Bay artists like Tower of Power and Tony!Toni! Toné!
AttachmentA_RoundTwo_Grantees_FY22-23
Jasmine Stallworth $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual Artist applicant Jasmine Stallworth requests support to cover the cost of producing 5 events for BIPOC media enthusiasts of all ages to challenge society’s narratives around who can participate in fantasy, and provide educational workshops on the spectrum of topics at the intersection of art and social justice such as: cosplaying, therapeutic songwriting, history of Afrofuturism, discussions of Black people in media and more. The specific events that will be supported by this grant are: (1) An interactive workshop on the history of Afrofuturism, (2) intro to cosplay workshop (3) Shadow Werk: alter ego song and comic collab workshop, (4) The Gold Soul Show, a game show, and (5) a concert and panel on representation of BIPOC people in the media space. The artists goal is to create spaces that push the Black diaspora together and forward.
Jose Alfredo
Navarrete Perez $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual artist applicant and activist José Ome Navarrete Mazatl will be co- facilitating a new Collaborative Learning Circle focused on traditional weaving practices of Oakland’s Indigenous Maya Mam immigrant community. This ongoing popular Education-based Collaborative Learning Circle investigates how anti-Indigeneity and colonialism impacts Indigenous communities from Guatemala. Through a process of Lateral Leadership (centering the voices of those who are most impacted), and weaving – a daily practice for many Maya Mam women – emerged as a key theme of our projects and also as a way for participants to talk about their lives and express pride in their identity. Funding would support a new Círculo de Aprendizaje (Collaborative Learning Circle) focusing on traditional weaving practices of the Bay Area's Indigenous Maya Mam immigrant community.
AttachmentA_RoundTwo_Grantees_FY22-23
Joseph Warner $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual Artist applicant Joe Warner will construct a new suite of music for the 'Soul Chamber Ensemble' featuring a Black string quartet, jazz trio, and featured vocalist The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol. The new suite will feature new compositions and arrangements of material from diverse styles and time periods in the last 100+ years of Black music - including blues, jazz, R&B, classical, and chamber music. The commission will premiere on 5/20/23 at Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival, a free community festival serving the Black, Brown Asian & Indigenous communities that compose East Oakland.
Kyung Lee $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual Artist applicant Kyung Lee requests support for their documentary film project, “My Landlord” (working title), which depicts a high stakes battle over land as told from all sides - tenants, activists, landlords and developers - revealing a city on the brink of losing its soul. In a city where rents have gone sky-high, longtime Oakland residents face displacement when a notorious landlord buys their live-work artist space and threatens to make it into condos. The goal of the project is to show how the real estate boom in Oakland is impacting long-term residents - especially artists - and permanently altering the face of the city.
Latanya D. Tigner $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual artist applicant Latanya D. Tigner proposes 5th-Quarter Bantaba, a new choreographic work interweaving dance and percussion of West Africa (Sabar Drum and Dance & Djembe/Dun Dun) and the African American marching bands of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
The project will convene cultural bearers from these three traditions together here in Oakland, to learn from each other, to share our respective languages, to decode hidden histories. 5th-Quarter Bantaba will premiere at the Laney College Football stadium in a large-scale presentation illuminating the marching style in its element juxtaposed and intertwined with its African roots.
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Maria De La Rosa $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual Artist applicant María de la Rosa's proposed project is titled "La ReSONancia del Barrio 2023." This project will lift up and resound the voices of Oakland's neighborhoods using traditions and practices of son jarocho, a Mexican music and dance form from Veracruz, Mexico, practiced by many throughout the Bay Area. The calendar of activities includes new song composition, community classes, concerts and fandangos in Oakland neighborhoods. Guest artist and previous collaborator Patricio Hidalgo will join again as an artist and instructor. This project continues to expand and deepen the work initiated in La ReSONancia del Barrio projects that spanned the years 2020 through 2022 in Oakland's neighborhoods through the Neighborhood Voices grant program.
Rachel-Anne Palacios $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual Artist applicant Rachel-Anne Palacios is requesting funding to sustain the 2022/23 sessions of monthly cultural arts programming at Bella Vista and Cleveland Elementary Schools. Students are learning a variety of arts disciplines, intertwined with common core standards, mindfulness and meditation. Art lessons and cultural presentations are held during the school day,, including one professional development presentation for teachers and a 2 hour family art night session once a month. The grant funds would be used for art materials/supplies, prep and facilitation, teaching time, lesson planning and installation of art for both schools.
Reshawn Goods $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual Artist applicant Bushmama Africa proposes The Indigo Project Oakland, a workshop series which would support the people who were born, raised and migrated to Oakland by way of the South and the diaspora. This is an opportunity to celebrate cultural practices with each other to further enrich our cultural legacy here in Oakland. Composed of The Denim Camp, The Herbalist Clinic, and Love in Ceremony, this series will affirm the collective spirit of Oakland that is steadfast on supporting community, healing the community and helping those who live here to thrive in community.
AttachmentA_RoundTwo_Grantees_FY22-23
Samantha McGinnis $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual Artist applicant Sam McGinnis and the BLOOM Arts Collective propose BLOOM Futures - the newest curatorial project in the BLOOM Ecosystem, an Oakland-based artist collective that champions artists of color and queer/trans artists, especially those in the early stages of their careers.
They imagine this project as a hybrid gallery and performance space centered around complementary and competing artistic visions of the Bay’s future.
They intend for this show to be a space where artists can use their chosen mediums to explore the tension between their hopes and fears for the coming years. The show will be accompanied by an event series showcasing young local dancers, musicians, and poets and activating the gallery space anew. All of our programing will be free and open to the public.
Sheilby Macena $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual Artist Applicant Sheilby Macena's proposal is in support of two ongoing activities under the NARRATVES project, serving as a platform dedicated to preserving the authenticity of BIPOC voices through documentary-style projects. Birthed from a desire to give back to the local Oakland community, Narratves has expanded into two main projects - Neighborhood Narratves (NHN) and Pop-Up Narratves (PUN).
Neighborhood Narratves (NHN) is an archive project committed to recording the stories of BIPOC folxs in Oakland and beyond through portrait-style photographs and interviews. Pop-Up Narratves (PUN) is an in-person project designed to document BIPOC communities spontaneously. They have hosted several pop-ups with the very first being a curated photography event in response to the social unrest of Summer 2020. Both projects are ongoing and coexistence side by side.
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Stephanie Hewett $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Individual Artist Stephanie Hewett's proposed project aims to launch an inaugural artist residency program at blaQyard, a Black, Queer, DIY space based on unceded Huichin-Ohlone land. Due to the lack of affordable performance/community spaces in East Oakland, they aim to build a strong infrastructure to open the space for community use that is accessible and sustainable. They will create a paid residency/mentorship program that will invite artists to use the space to practice or learn a particular skill such as, but not limited to: lighting design, space design, sound design and live performance. Their primary mission is to provide a safe and reliable space for experimentation amongst QTBIPOC artists and activists throughout East Oakland for free or at an affordable cost.
FY22-23 IAP TOTAL $200,000.00 $200,000.00 $0.00
ORGANIZATION
NAMES
Recommended
Total Not to
Exceed Grant
Amount
(Funding Source)
General Fund-City
Promotions 53311
(Funding Source)
Transient
Occupancy Tax
Description
Sozo Impact, Inc
(for Alphabet
Rockers)
$20,000.00 $20,000.00
Alphabet Rockers is seeking grant funds to support three poignant programs of “The Movement in Action." Programming includes the production of performance-based presentations of the GRAMMY-nominated album, “The Movement,” co-created with Oakland children and families, with a free performance at Oakland Museum of California. Grant funds would also support 5 monthly community-based arts workshops for youth ages 8-11 at Destiny Arts Center, entitled “The Movement in Action.” Additionally, programming will include the youth-led co-creation of three music videos with young filmmakers from Oakland’s Youth Beat, with Oakland film screenings.
FY22-23 NEIGHBORHOOD VOICES FOR ORGANIZATION PROGRAMS
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The Bay Area Girls
Rock Camp $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Bay Area Girls Rock Camp is a nonprofit organization that empowers young people through music, promoting an environment that fosters self- confidence, creativity and teamwork. Their camp centers the experiences of girls, trans and/or gender non-conforming (TGNC) youth in their explicit commitment to gender justice and creating an inclusive environment that supports a wide range of marginalized gender identities and expressions.
BAGRC’s core programs include the 10-week Girls Rock After School Program, and three month-long sessions of Girls Rock Summer Camp. Both programs take place in downtown Oakland, and allow youth (ages 8-18) to receive instrument instruction, attend transformative skill-building workshops, collaborate with peers and write original songs, and present their work at a live concert.
Beats Rhymes and
Life, Inc. $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Beats Rhymes and Life (BRL) is requesting grant funds for community outreach activities in support of their new Hip Hop Therapy (HHT) mobile studio bus initiative. BRL is the first agency in the world to provide HHT to minority, system-involved youth - using the creation of Hip Hop music to engage underserved youth in mental health services. The mobile nature of the bus allows staff to target neighborhoods in Oakland with the greatest need for mental health support and bring services directly to them. BRL will partner with organizers of large-scale events, and organizational partners to bring the mobile studio bus to community events, school resource fairs, and health fairs, among others. During the events, prospective program participants will meet BRL staff, take a tour of the mobile studio bus, and try out the recording equipment. Youth who are BRL program alumni will perform their original songs at these events, which they created during their intervention at BRL.
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Cantare Con Vivo $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Cantare Con Vivo is seeking grant support for “Shining Through the City,” a free, annual community event amplifying the voices of 250+ underserved students from neighborhoods across Oakland from Cantare’s tuition-free after-school choir program. Over 15 weeks, 3-12 grade students from seven choirs will rehearse a culturally diverse program of choral music under the direction of Cantare’s professional Teaching Artists. Each choir will perform individually to affirm the strength and identity of their neighborhood and all students will unite to perform special selections from Asia’s Pacific Rim Countries, celebrating Oakland’s Asian-American community. Students will come together for collaborative rehearsals in February and April and the final performance on April 28, 2023. All students will participate free of charge, including transportation, meals and uniforms.
Filmmakers
Collaborative, Inc.
(for Counting
Salmon DBA Re-
Present Media)
$20,000.00 $20,000.00
Re-Present Media is presenting Oaktown Stories, a short film and community dialogue program featuring 10-15 personal stories of BIPOC Oaklanders told by Oakland-based BIPOC filmmakers. Since 2017, Re- Present Media has presented the work of documentary filmmakers of color telling personal stories of underrepresented communities. Their goal is to shift the focus of stories from narratives primarily centered on the problems in their communities to those exploring a broader range of experiences. As part of Oaktown Stories, they will include community organizations and groups related to the stories in the films. These guests, in addition to individuals featured in the films and filmmakers, will engage audiences in facilitated community dialogues. From past audience surveys, they understand this format provides an uplifting and empowering experience, covering topics such as intergenerational legacy and the role of black women in history.
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Possibility Labs (for
Cut Fruit Collective)$20,000.00 $20,000.00
Cut Fruit Collective is seeking grant support for their Creative Placekeeping Program serving Oakland Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) heritage neighborhoods. Creative placekeeping is a collaborative process that engages residents and visitors alike to reimagine and strengthen their connection to an existing place and neighborhood. Their activities range from public art, neighborhood identity projects, storytelling exhibits, arts festivals, and more. Prior to the pandemic, historically under-resourced neighborhoods like Oakland Chinatown and Eastlake Little Saigon were battling gentrification. To revitalize these neighborhoods while keeping gentrification at bay, Cut Fruit Collective turns to creative placekeeping activities that inspire and engage small businesses, community leaders, artists, creatives, and visitors to participate creatively in keeping the heritage and spirit of the neighborhood alive.
The Dr. Huey P.
Newton Foundation $20,000.00 $20,000.00
The Dr. Huey P. Newton Center for Research & Action is requesting grant funds to support the artistic design of an exhibition focused on the 50th anniversary of the Oakland Community School. Funding will be used to support two designers who will work with the team and partners to create an exhibition in celebration of the Oakland Community School, one of the Black Panther Party’s most prominent programs. The school provided youth with a culturally relevant education and challenged the public school system’s perceptions of what it meant to be Black and low-income. The exhibition will incorporate the histories of North, West, and East Oakland and will be told through archival collections, local oral histories, and innovative technology.
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East Oakland Youth
Development Center $20,000.00 $20,000.00
East Oakland Youth Development Center (EOYDC) is requesting funding for its Onyx AfroDance Ensemble program, providing youth ages 8-21 with the opportunity to learn dance based on African diasporic styles, infusing West African dance with African American influences of hip-hop, jazz, and more.
The Onyx AfroDance Ensemble is a component of the most recent iteration of EOYDC’s Kuumba Arts program which has been providing East Oakland youth with culturally affirming visual and performing arts since EOYDC’s inception over 40 years ago. Participants are able to perform for local audiences throughout the year in public performances coinciding with cultural celebrations such as Black History Month and Kwanzaa. Grant funds will be used to provide youth participants, primarily Black and Latinx youth, from low-income households in deep East Oakland with access to dance enrichment classes and the Onyx AfroDance Ensemble.
Higher Gliffs (for
Endangered Ideas) $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Working closely with original Boogaloo practitioners, school leaders, and issue experts, Endangered Ideas will develop a culturally-relevant curriculum and short documentary video to be shared as key components of interactive presentations at three OUSD sites. The goal of this program is to ensure that Black and Brown youth in Oakland inherit the rich legacy of Boogaloo street dance culture. Boogaloo is a dance form that originated in the flatlands of East Oakland in the late 1960s, a decade before Hip Hop was born. It evolved in parallel with the rise of funk music and became a highly popular form of dance and youth expression. This program will bring Boogaloo to life through multimedia resources and cross-generational exchange between youth and original practitioners, as well as bring cultural and arts-based programming to California public schools.
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Intersection (for
Gold Beams) $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Goldbeams program "Second Mondays," is an open mic made for Black people and creatives. Each month an audience of over 150 intergenerational attendees come to watch Black creatives perform spoken word, dance, sing and rap, act out monologues and even perform magic acts. The art performed at Second Mondays is the expression, recognition and understanding of Black people in Oakland. The mission of Gold Beams and Second Mondays is to support Black creatives making careers from their art, as well as to produce events that bring Black people joy. The grant will not only support the wages of an all-Black production team, a Black-owned venue, and a slew of Black behind-the-scenes artists, it would provide Gold Beams with funding to award 4 open mic winners with $2,000 in prizes. In addition, grant support would allow Second Mondays to contunue being an affordable event for the community.
Dancers' Group (for
Grown Women
Dance Collective)
$20,000.00 $20,000.00
Grown Women Dance Collective's 14th annual "Fallen Heroes, Rising Stars:
A Juneteenth Celebration Through Dance" features an all-star cast giving powerhouse performances to honor musical greats and civic leaders whose legacies impact and inspire. Former members of renowned dance companies such as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company, and Dance Theatre of Harlem and Broadway, weave history, social justice, and empowerment to bring a celebration of community to the stage. This educational, intergenerational, family-friendly celebration of African American pride, struggle, and triumph creates a neutral healing ground for people of different ages, races, and economic “classes” to "see themselves," "see each other" and initiate conversation about how we can all participate in making social change. A minimum of 60 free arts and wellness classes will be offered including dance, Pilates for Back & Joint Pain, and Fall Prevention for Seniors, leading up to and after our 14th annual Juneteenth dance concert.
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Joyce Gordon
Foundation (of the
Arts for Lamumba,
Inc. DBA Geoffrey's
Inner Circle)
$20,000.00 $20,000.00
Geoffrey's Inner Circle will present the four-week concert series, "Faye & The Folks," hosted by legendary vocalist The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol and featuring a multicultural and cross-genre array of guest artists. Held at Oakland's landmark Black establishment Geoffrey's Inner Circle on four consecutive Sundays in August 2023, this series will celebrate renowned Black Oakland artists and will foster collaborations between Oakland artists from the genres of jazz, latin, R&B, brass band, hip-hop, blues, and spoken word including Lenny Williams, Bobi Cespedes, Chester Thompson, MJ's Brass Boppers, Mistah F.A.B., & Rico Pabon. 200 Oakland youth (50/show) will be invited to attend the shows free of charge. The series will be produced by experienced Oakland event producer Joe Warner.
Museum of
Children's Art $20,000.00 $20,000.00
The Museum of Children's Art is seeking grant funds to support the MOCHA Art & Literacy Community placemaking workshops. This Community Arts Programming consists of forty-five (45) MOCHA Community Art workshops which include free poetry workshops, book & art kit distributions, and art- making events. Workshops take place at ten branches of the Oakland Public Library, at Liberation Park in deep East Oakland in collaboration with The Black Cultural Zone, and in partnering with the Center for Urban Excellence.
Intergenerational in its design, each 1.5-hr hosted workshop includes reading from chosen texts, opportunities for poetry writing, community discussion, and art-making utilizing pre-packaged MOCHA Art Kits.
Community members of all ages have been invited to these events, which include child, teen and adult book giveaways and art experiences.
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Mycelium Youth
Network $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Mycelium Youth Network (MYN)’s program Gaming for Justice (G4J) envisions a world where BIPOC Oakland youth create themselves as freedom dreamers, visionaries, and activists through a culturally-responsive and artistically rich gaming experience. In each 6-8 week session, youth engage with five different adventures narrated, illustrated and soundtracked by local Oakland artists, that address Oakland-centered racial, environmental, and social topics like the deforestation of oak trees, electrification, pollution and water quality, gentrification and redlining, homelessness, and others. Participating youth envision and bring to life a radical, just, and regenerative Oakland, where the solutions they uncover through the game are brought to life through community build days with Oakland community members.
Native American
Health Center, Inc. $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Native American Health Center (NAHC) launched the Indigenous Red Market (IRM) in 2018 as a unique approach to providing stronger, more culturally informed healthcare and Indigenous wellness services. This event is a safe gathering space where community members can celebrate their culture, share their art and work as a vendor, and build community. NAHC's holistic model of care strongly promotes the social determinants of health, and through the IRM, its able to address several social determinants simultaneously, such as access to education, financial literacy, access to culture, and access to food, and other community resources. In 2023, the IRM will be expanded to include a Healthy Communities element so NAHC can offer services and provide information to the local community in a family friendly setting. It is envisioned that NAHC would operate the Healthy Indigenous Community Village area to offer health and wellness services and activities.
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Oaklash $20,000.00 $20,000.00
With support from the Neighborhood Voices for Organizations Grant, Oaklash will produce their fourth annual Nightlife Accelerator series featuring panels, workshops, and one-on-one mentorship support designed specifically for queer and trans artists and performers in Oakland. The goal of this free series is to provide a supportive, accessible, and inclusive space for these individuals to learn, grow, network, and become community leaders in the Bay Area. The Oaklash Nightlife Accelerator combines panels and workshops which feature nightlife industry professionals including club owners, event producers, and seasoned performers who will share their insights and advice on how to navigate this often underground world.
Workshops will provide hands-on training and skill-building sessions on financial management, best practices for building safe and accessible spaces for queer artists and audiences, and developing collaborative new performance pieces.
St. Mary's Center $20,000.00 $10,000.00 $10,000.00
St. Mary's Center is seeking grant funds to support their multidisciplinary Arts & Culture Program. St. Mary's Center is a community of hope, healing and justice dedicated to improving the well-being of Seniors and Preschool Families in West Oakland by meeting basic needs for food, housing, and social connection. Their multidisciplinary Arts & Culture Program has been integral to the health and healing of St. Mary’s Center (SMC) clients for well over a decade. The program encompasses a range of cultural, artistic, and advocacy events that address the holistic needs of SMC Senior Members.
Events are a means for social interaction, creative expression, multi-cultural appreciation, education, advocacy, and spiritual renewal. The programs augment SMC’s mission to provide seniors opportunity for self-healing, recovery, and community building. Community partners in the Arts & Cultures program have included the Attitudinal Healing Connection in Oakland as well as the Berkeley Media Center.
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Peoples
Conservatory $20,000.00 $20,000.00
With the help of the Neighborhood Voices for Organizations Grant, The People's Conservatory (TPC) is seeking support to facilitate a Community Arts Summer Intensive program- offering 3 weeks of high-quality cultural- based professional arts classes to Youth ages 10-16. Programming will be hosted in District 5's Jingletown area, during June 5-23, 2023. This will be TPC's second Summer Intensive, but the first focused specifically on the neighborhood in district 5, where they have made a new headquarters inside the Agency Oakland building. This program will be focused on enhancing neighborhood vibrancy and community cohesion, offering a variety of multidisciplinary arts classes taught by a staff of locally based Master Teaching-Artists.
The Oakland Public
Education Fund (for
Youth Beat)
$20,000.00 $20,000.00
Youth Beat’s “Neighborhood Voices” program has been running since the organization was founded in 2009. Every year, students make short films about the people and places that make their neighborhoods unique. They learn about untold stories and connect with culture keepers and community leaders. The resulting films not only lift up these uniquely Oakland stories but also help young filmmakers see their value in the community. Students will conduct on-camera interviews, collect neighborhood b-roll footage, develop storyboards and produce their own 1-3 minute documentary films about local artists, changemakers and culture keepers in Oakland. They will also work in teams to produce more in-depth, more professional quality, 5- 10 minute pieces that further explore these and/or other Oakland stories.
The youth films will also be shown via both in person and virtual screenings in neighborhoods throughout Oakland, and local artists and business owners will use the films to help promote their uniquely Oakland products.
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Youth UpRising $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Youth UpRising’s Multimedia Arts program series centers around trauma- informed after school and summer art programs to enhance young adult interaction around Photography, Videography, Music Production, Digital Expression and Live Performance. Youth UpRising’s mission is to transform East Oakland into a healthy and economically robust community by developing the leadership of youth and young adults and improving the systems that impact them. By offering creative outlets for youth, many of who live in poverty, have been exposed to violence or trauma, or have been systems-involved, they are establishing a culture of care. Youth Uprising's arts curricula are designed to offer youth a healthy alternative to drug use, gang involvement and the countless barriers they confront every day. Their campus is a regional venue, hosting events such as live youth performances and events that regularly attract attendees from all over the Bay Area.
FY22-23
Neighborhood Voices
for Organization
Programs $400,000.00 $350,000.00 $50,000.00
FY22-23 Round One
TOTAL $600,000.00 $550,000.00 $50,000.00
Attachment B: Cultural Funding Grants Activity Locations FY22-23 Individual Artist Organization Program Grants
Recommended Grantee NameActivity Location Name Address Dates of ActivitiesDistrict Served Adrienne Oliver
"Black Gold Storytellers: The Warmth of
Oakland sun," a virtual storytelling event Zoom April 2023 All Districts Jasmine Stallworth History of Afrofuturism workshop Zoom June 17, 2023 All Districts Jasmine Stallworth Intro to cosplay workshop Zoom July 1, 2023 All Districts Dancers' Group for Grown Women
Dance Collective
Free Community Arts & Wellness
Classes Zoom January - Aug 31, 2023All Districts
Acacia WoodsChan North Oakland Tour
Various neighborhoods in
Oakland- Black Culture Zone
to West and North OaklandApril - May 2023 District 1
Ipeleng Kgositsile The Wolf 3853 Piedmont Ave June-July 2023 District 1 Counting Salmon DBA Re-Present East Bay Community Space507 55th Street July 2023 District 1 Oaklash
Taxes for Queer and Trans Performers
Panel
Oaklash HQ - 4229 Martin
Luther King Way, Oakland,
CA 94609 March 1, 2023
District 1
Oaklash
Deaf and Disabled Performers in
Nightlife Panel
Oaklash HQ - 4229 Martin
Luther King Way, Oakland,
CA 94609 May 3, 2023
District 1
Oaklash
Black and Brown King Workshop &
Showcase
White Horse - 6551 Telegraph
Ave, Oakland, CA 94609May 17, 2023
District 1
Sozo Impact, Inc for Alphabet
Rockers
Destiny Arts Center, Movement in
Action Workshops 970 Grace Ave, OaklandJanuary - May 2023District 1 Sozo Impact, Inc for Alphabet
Rockers
Destiny Arts Center, Rehearsals with
Alphabet Rockers youth performers
Destiny Arts Center, 970 Grace
Ave, Oakland April-June 2023 District 1
The People's Conservatory Emerson Elementary 4803 Lawton Ave January - May 2023District 1 Beats Rhymes and Life Oakland Tech 4351 Broadway 3/17/2023 District 1 Acacia WoodsChan Chinatown
Oakland Asian American
Culture Center, various eateries
in Chinatown April - May 2023 District 2
Edward Gunawan ARTogether Center
1200 Harrison St, Oakland, CA
94612 January - July 2023 District 2
Elaine Chu Pacific Renaissance Plaza 388 9th Street February and May 2023District 2
Attachment B: Cultural Funding Grants Activity Locations FY22-23 Individual Artist Organization Program Grants
Recommended Grantee NameActivity Location Name Address Dates of ActivitiesDistrict Served Ipeleng Kgositsile ARTogether 1200 Harrison St June-July 2023 District 2 Ipeleng Kgositsile Charles Blades Barber Spa 180 2nd St Julu 29, 2023 District 2 Jackie Keliiaa Oakland Museum of California1000 Oak St Summer 2023 District 2 Joe Warner San Antonio Park 1701 E 19th St May 20, 2023 District 2 Latanya d. Tigner Laney College 900 Fallon Street June 25, 2023 District 2 Maria De La Rosa Oakland Museum of California1000 Oak St April 13, 2023 District 2 Maria De La Rosa Tacos Sinaloa 2138 International Blvd April 18, 2023 District 2 Rachel-Anne Palacios Bella Vista Elementary 1025 E.28th St January - June 2023District 2 Rachel-Anne Palacios Cleveland Elementary 745 Cleveland St January - June 2023District 2 Cantare Con Vivo Cleveland Elementary School745 Cleveland St January - May 2023District 2 Cantare Con Vivo Franklin Elementary School 915 Foothill Blvd January - May 2023District 2 Cantare Con Vivo La Escuelita Elementary School 1050 2nd Ave January - May 2023District 2 Cantare Con Vivo Lincoln Elementary School 225 11th St January - May 2023District 2 Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc. for
Counting Salmon DBA Re-Present
Media Eastside Cultural Center 2277 International Blvd August 2023 District 2 Museum of Children's Art OPL - Main Branch 125 14th Street January - June 2023District 2 Museum of Children's Art OPL - Asian Branch 388 9th Street #190 January - June 2023District 2 Possibility Labs for Cut Fruit
Collective Lantern Festival 388 9th St #190 Feb 1, 2023 District 2 Possibility Labs for Cut Fruit
Collective Asian Branch Library Mural 388 9th St #190 April 2023 District 2 Possibility Labs for Cut Fruit
Collective Night Market 261 11th St July 2023 District 2 Possibility Labs for Cut Fruit
Collective Chinatown Mural 7th St and Webster August 2023 District 2 Sozo Impact, Inc for Alphabet
Rockers Oakland Museum 1000 Oak St, Oakland June 9, 2023 District 2 Sozo Impact, Inc for Alphabet
Rockers Youth Beat 286 E 10th St, Oakland March - June 2023 District 2 The Oakland Public Education
Fund for Youth Beat KDOL-TV 314 East 10th Street January - July 2023 District 2 The People's Conservatory Oakland School of the Arts 530 18th St January - May 2023District 2 Beats Rhymes and Life Youth Creative Expo 461 9th St 4/15/2023 District 2
Attachment B: Cultural Funding Grants Activity Locations FY22-23 Individual Artist Organization Program Grants
Recommended Grantee NameActivity Location Name Address Dates of ActivitiesDistrict Served Acacia WoodsChan Downtown, West Oakland
Women of the BPP Mural,
Smokin Woods BBQ, West April - May 2023 Districts 2, 3
Acacia WoodsChan West Oakland Tour
Various neighborhoods in
Oakland- Black Culture Zone
to West and North OaklandApril - May 2023 District 3
Damon Jamal Taylor Mama Dog Studios
700 26th St, Oakland, CA
94612 June 2023 District 3
Ipeleng Kgositsile All Out Comedy Theatre
1714 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA, 94612 June-July 2023 District 3
Jasmine Stallworth Oakstop 2323 Broadway Oakland 5/26/2023 & 8/27/2023District 3 Joe Warner Geoffrey's Inner Circle
410 14th St Oakland, CA
94612 April - May 2023 District 3
Latanya d. Tigner
Malonga Casquelord Center for the
Arts
1428 Alice Street, Oakland,
CA 94612 January - May 2023District 3
Reshawn Goods (Bushmama
Africa) Defermery Park 1651 Adeline May 20, 2023 District 3 Reshawn Goods (Bushmama
Africa) Black Panther Women Mini Museum 831 Center St June 4, 2023 District 3 Reshawn Goods (Bushmama
Africa) Joyce Gordon Gallery 406 14th August 6, 2023 District 3 Reshawn Goods (Bushmama
Africa) B Loves Guest House 1131 Center St. August 20, 2023 District 3 Samantha McGinnis
Moments Cooperative & Community
Space 410 13th St June 1, 2023 District 3
Cantare Con Vivo First Presbyterian Church of Oakland 2619 Broadway January - May 2023District 3 Dancers' Group for Grown Women
Dance Collective
14th Annual "Fallen Heroes, Rising
Stars: A Juneteenth Celebration
Through Dance"
Intersection of 9th &
Washington, Old Oakland -
Hybrid Live PerformanceJune 24, 2023 District 3
Attachment B: Cultural Funding Grants Activity Locations FY22-23 Individual Artist Organization Program Grants
Recommended Grantee NameActivity Location Name Address Dates of ActivitiesDistrict Served Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc. for
Counting Salmon DBA Re-Present
Media Preservation Park
1233 Preservation Park Way,
Oakland, CA 94612 June 2023 District 3
Higher Gliffs for Endangered Ideas
Media McClymond's High School
2607 Myrtle St, Oakland, CA
94607 May 15th, 2023 District 3
Intersection for Gold Beams 2323 Oakstop 2323 Broadway May - July 2023 District 3 Arts for Lamumba, Inc. DBA Geoffrey's Inner Circle 410 14th St August 2023 District 3 Museum of Children's Art OPL-West Oakland Branch 1801 Adeline St. January - June 2023District 3 Oaklash
Black Femmes in Music PanelWolfe Pack Studios - 306 13th St. Oakland, CA 94607 May 8, 2023
District 3
Oaklash Asian American and Pacific Islander
Voices in Nightlife Panel
Understory - 528 8th St,
Oakland, CA 94607 May 10, 2023
District 3
St. Mary's Center St. Mary’s Center Community Center 925 Brockhurst St. Oakland January - August 2023District 3 The Bay Area Girls Rock Camp
Malonga Casquelord Center for the
Arts
1428 Alice Street, Oakland,
CA 94612 June - July 2023 District 3
Foundation Research & Action 1427 Broadway June - July 2023 District 3The Oakland Public Education Fund for Youth Beat DeFremery Park 1651 Adeline St February 2023 District 3 The People's Conservatory Envision Academy 1515 Webster St. January - May 2023District 3 Dancers' Group for Grown Women
Dance Collective
Free Community Arts & Wellness
Classes 494 9th St January - Aug 31, 2023District 3
Beats Rhymes and Life Black Joy Parade Franklin Street (Downtown)2/26/2023 District 3 Beats Rhymes and Life OSA 530 18th St 5/12/2023 District 3 East Oakland Youth Development
Center Chabot Space & Science Center 10000 Skyline Blvd July - Aug 2023 District 4 The People's Conservatory Pear Tree Community School 2162 Mountain Blvd January - May 2023District 4 Beats Rhymes and Life Skyline High School 12250 Skyline Blvd 5/17/2023 District 4 Acacia WoodsChan Fruitvale
Fruitvale Public
Market/Fruitvale VillageApril - May 2023 District 5
Frederick Alvarado San Antonio/Fruitvale 3301 E.12th Street April - August 2023District 5 Jasmine Stallworth FAME Studios 2744 E 11th Street July 15, 2023 District 5
Attachment B: Cultural Funding Grants Activity Locations FY22-23 Individual Artist Organization Program Grants
Recommended Grantee NameActivity Location Name Address Dates of ActivitiesDistrict Served Jose Alfredo Navarrete Perez Mujeres Unidas y Activas 2640 International Blvd January - August 2023District 5 Kyung Lee The Gray Loft Gallery 2889 Ford Street August 30, 2023 District 5 Maria De La Rosa Hasta Muerte Café 2701 Fruitvale Ave April - May 2023 District 5 Maria De La Rosa International Friendship House523 International Blvd 4/5/2023 District 5 Maria De La Rosa Peralta Hacienda 2465 34th Ave April - June 2023 District 5 Maria De La Rosa Fruitvale Plaza/BART Station3401 E 12th St May 6, 2023 District 5 Maria De La Rosa Wahpephah's Kitchen 3301 E 12th St May 6, 2023 District 5 Stephanie Hewett BlaQyard 3249 Brookdale Ave March - June 2023 District 5 Museum of Children's Art OPL - Cesar E. Chavez Branch3301 E. 12th Street #271January - June 2023District 5 Native American Health Center
Native American Health Center, 3050
Lot 3050 International Blvd 5/21/2023 and 7/23/2023District 5 Oaklash
Safety & Self Defense Workshop for
Queer and Trans Folx
3249 Brookdale Ave
May 13, 2023
District 5
The People's Conservatory Ascend Elementary 3709 E 12th St January - May 2023District 5 The People's Conservatory Redwood Day School 3245 Sheffield Ave January - May 2023District 5 Beats Rhymes and Life Oakland High 1023 MacArthur Blvd 4/19/2023 District 5 Mycelium Youth Network Mycelium Youth Network 1633 54th Ave & ZOOMJanuary - August 2023District 5, All Cantare Con Vivo Melrose Leadership Academy4730 Fleming Ave January - May 2023District 6 East Oakland Youth Development
Center
East Oakland Youth Development
Center 8200 International Blvd Feb - August 2023 District 6 East Oakland Youth Development
Center Liberation Park 7101 Foothill Blvd July - Aug 2023 District 6 Museum of Children's Art Black Cultural Zone 7101 Foothill Blvd January - August 2023District 6 Museum of Children's Art OPL - Eastmont Branch 7209 Bancroft Ave., #211January - June 2023District 6 Museum of Children's Art OPL - Martin Luther King Branch6833 International Blvd January - June 2023District 6 Sozo Impact, Inc for Alphabet
Rockers
Coliseum BART Station, The
Movement in Action Performance (1)7200 San Leandro St May 20, 2023 District 6 The Oakland Public Education
Fund for Youth Beat Eastmont Town Center 7101 Foothill Blvd June 2023 District 6 The Oakland Public Education
Fund for Youth Beat
Internships for Youth Uprising
Students
Film shoots in their
neighborhood -- exact locations
TBD with youth input Summer 2023 District 6
Acacia WoodsChan East Oakland Tour
Various neighborhoods in
Oakland- Black Culture Zone
to West and North OaklandApril - May 2023 District 7
Attachment B: Cultural Funding Grants Activity Locations FY22-23 Individual Artist Organization Program Grants
Recommended Grantee NameActivity Location Name Address Dates of ActivitiesDistrict Served Christian Martinez Noxhegalactica Podcast Recording643 South Elmhurst AveJanuary - August 2023District 7 Maria De La Rosa Acorn Woodland Elementary School1025 81st Ave February - April 2023District 7 Higher Gliffs for Endangered Ideas
Media Castlemont High School 8601 MacArthur Blvd May 1st, 2023 District 7 Media Elmhurst Junior High 1800 98th Ave May 22, 2023 District 7 Museum of Children's Art OPL - 81st Avenue Branch 1021 81st Ave January - June 2023District 7 Museum of Children's Art OPL - Brookfield Branch 9255 Edes Ave January - June 2023District 7 Museum of Children's Art OPL - Elmhurst Branch 1427 88th Ave January - June 2023District 7 Youth Uprising Youth Uprising 8711 MacArthur Blvd January - August 2023District 7
ATTACHMENT C
Fiscal Year (FY) 2022-23 Cultural Funding Program (CFP)
GRANT CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS
Round One: September 2022
Organizational Assistance (Two Year Grant)
Provides general operating support to established, primary arts organizations. To be eligible, an organization must have received CFP funding in two of the past four consecutive funding cycles.
Neighborhood Voices for Festivals
Neighborhood Voices for Festivals builds belonging within the dynamic neighborhoods of the City of Oakland by supporting culturally-engaging efforts to bring our city's community members together through festival culture. Festivals to be supported may include, but are not limited to: performances in poetry, dance, music or theater, visual art and public arts exhibitions/events, and literary presentations, that are rooted in a sense of place.
Round Two: April 2023
Neighborhood Voices for Individual Artist Projects
Neighborhood Voices for Individual Artist Projects is a fund that amplifies the cultural expressions, stories, histories, and heritage found within Oakland's neighborhoods-particularly neighborhoods and their community members who historically have not received equitable investments of resources or recognition. This grant opportunity seeks applications from individual artists and cultural workers focused on building neighborhood vibrancy and community belonging. Projects may include, but are not limited to: Cultural heritage practices, performance programs in dance, music or theater, visual art and public arts projects, classes, workshops, exhibitions, and literary activities that are rooted in a sense of place.
Neighborhood Voices for Organization Programs
Neighborhood Voices for Organization Programs is a fund that amplifies the cultural expressions, stories, histories, and heritage found within Oakland's neighborhoods-particularly neighborhoods and their community members who historically have not received equitable investments of resources or recognition. This grant opportunity encourages applications from Oakland-based cultural community builders that are focused on enhancing neighborhood vibrancy and community belonging. Applications must be for re-occurring arts and culture programs that have been in place for 2 years at the applying organization. Programs may include, but are not limited to: Cultural heritage practices, performance programs in dance, music or theater, visual art and public arts programs, classes, workshops, exhibitions, and literary activities that are rooted in a sense of place.