Idris Ackamoor and Cultural Odyssey
For General Operating Support
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Amount$135,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/15/2014
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Idris Ackamoor and Cultural Odyssey produces original work rooted in contemporary African American music, dance, and theatrical traditions. The organization’s programming consists of award-winning productions, residencies, and pioneering community engagement projects, such as The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women and the Healing Force Orchestra that works to transform the lives of the most vulnerable members of our community. The organization reaches local audiences of 5,000 people; thousands more see its work on national and international tours. Renewed funding would support efforts to consolidate the artistic directors’ living legacy through books, residencies, and new productions.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.culturalodyssey.org
Address
Post Office Box 156620, San Francisco, CA, 94115-6680, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Idris Ackamoor and Cultural Odyssey supports the work of jazz musician and recording artist Idris Ackamoor and theater artist and teacher Rhodessa Jones. The artists create, produce, and present work rooted in the African American experience. They present and tour throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, nationally, and internationally. Cultural Odyssey provides performing arts training and performance opportunities to women who have experienced the ill effects of incarceration and HIV/AIDS, and leads a consortium of San Francisco African American performing arts organizations, with the goals of providing mutual support, building organizational capacity, and better serving audiences. Support of Idris Ackamoor and Cultural Odyssey aligns with the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for general operating support
Cultural Odyssey supports the work of its two founders, jazz musician and recording artist Idris Ackamoor, and theater artist and teacher Rhodessa Jones. The artists create, produce, and present work rooted in the contemporary African American experience in the Bay Area, nationally and internationally. Through the Medea Project, Rhodessa Jones works in and out of prison settings with women who have experienced the effects of incarceration and HIV/AIDS. In addition, the organization engages in collaborations and projects that help ensure the co-founders’ artistic knowledge and legacy are shared with scholars, journalists, and artists.
