Freight & Salvage
For General Operating Support
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Amount$70,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/17/2014
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music, operating as the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, provides concerts, music instruction, and participatory programs for more than 65,000 people each year. Specializing in folk, traditional, and world music, it offers classes and concerts nearly every evening each week at its 440-seat facility in Berkeley. Renewed funding would enable the organization to maintain a diverse roster of educational and performance programs and explore options for expanding its educational programs, most of which are consistently at capacity.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.thefreight.org/about.html
Address
2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, 94702, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Freight & Salvage is a presenter of traditional music, which it defines as “music that is rooted in and expressive of the great variety of regional, ethnic, and social cultures of peoples throughout the world.” Freight & Salvage provides concerts, music instruction, and participatory programs for more than 80,000 people each year at its 440-seat facility in Berkeley, California. It also provides programs at local schools and at community events. Support for Freight & Salvage aligns with the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for the 2021 50 Arts Commissions for folk and traditional arts
In recognition of the Hewlett Foundation’s 50th anniversary, the Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions initiative supports the creation and premiere of 50 exceptional works of performing arts. This grant will support Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music, better known as Freight and Salvage, in developing and presenting “Woven Verses: Poetic Resistance and Resilience,” a song cycle set to historical and contemporary Iranian texts. Lead artist Mahsa Vahdat will focus the performance on her escape from persecution in Iran and eventual exile from her homeland.
