ShadowLight Productions
For Strategic Planning
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Amount$20,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/12/2012
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
ShadowLight Productions creates experimental, interdisciplinary live performances that showcase the unique medium of Balinese shadow theater. ShadowLight’s performances combine traditional shadow casting with contemporary technology and stagecraft, and the organization’s actors perform stories from many cultural traditions, including Native American, Chinese, Latin American, and Indonesian. The organization reaches approximately 4,000 Bay Area residents each year, and hundreds more see its work on national and international tours. In addition, ShadowLight artists teach workshops in K-12 schools and after-school programs that reach 1,500 youth and 200 adults each year.
As its artistic director ages, this artist-led organization is now at a critical point of reflection and plans to undertake a "strategic learning process" that will lead to the development of a future vision and legacy plan. In addition, ShadowLight wants to develop plans for a more adaptive organizational structure that would help staff and board respond to a rapidly changing external environment.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.shadowlight.com
Address
22 Chattanooga Street, San Francisco, CA, 94114-3025, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
ShadowLight Productions creates innovative, multi-disciplinary performances that are rooted in traditional Balinese shadow puppet theater. Its productions around the Bay Area draw from traditional Balinese shadow theater, and incorporate contemporary and experimental techniques including video projections, reflections, and musical accompaniment. Through ShadowLight’s educational workshops, residencies, and performances, students and audience members of all ages gain first-hand experience in shadow puppetry. The organization reaches 500 people each year. In addition, ShadowLight’s master-level workshops, geared toward accomplished artists, teach advanced techniques developed and perfected over decades.
for general operating support
ShadowLight Productions creates experimental, inter-disciplinary live performances that showcase the unique medium of Balinese shadow theater. ShadowLight’s performances combine traditional shadow casting with contemporary technology and stagecraft, based in a diverse cultural tradition. The organization reaches approximately 4,000 Bay Area residents each year, and hundreds more see its work on national and international tours. ShadowLight is grounded in its education workshops for K-12 students, and after-school programs that reach 2,000 youth each year. Renewed funding would support ShadowLight in implementing findings from its strategic learning process, funded by a Hewlett Organizational Effectiveness grant, to strengthen organizational infrastructure and invest in the founding artistic director Larry Reed’s living legacy.
