City of Berkeley
For Cultural Planning
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded8/21/2015
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The City of Berkeley Civic Arts Commission advises the City Council on all matters affecting the beauty and culture of the City. It encourages and provides resources for cultural enrichment through three programs: Grants, Public Art, and Public Art Galleries. It also provides technical assistance and information and referral services for arts organizations and individual artists. This grant will enable the Civic Arts Commission to undertake a multi-year cultural planning process that builds on existing planning efforts and solicits input from the public in order to develop a unified vision and set of strategies that would guide the City’s continued cultural vibrancy.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.ci.berkeley.ca.us
Address
2180 Milvia Street, Fifth floor, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for an assessment of arts space affordability challenges, displacement risks, and possible strategies
The City of Berkeley Civic Arts Commission advises the city council on all matters affecting the beauty and culture of Berkeley. The commission encourages and provides resources for cultural enrichment through three programs: Civic Arts Grants, Public Art, and Public Art Galleries. It also provides technical assistance, publications, and information and referral services. This supplemental grant will enable the Civic Arts Commission to acknowledge and adapt to the impacts of COVID-19 in its assessment of current art space affordability challenges and displacement risks within Berkeley, and support the development of strategies to protect affordable spaces for arts organizations, artists, and cultural workers. This grant advances the Infrastructure component of the Performing Arts Program’s strategic framework.
for cultural planning
The City of Berkeley Civic Arts Commission advises the City Council on all matters affecting the beauty and culture of the City. It encourages and provides resources for cultural enrichment through three programs: Grants, Public Art, and Public Art Galleries. It also provides technical assistance and information and referral services for arts organizations and individual artists. This grant will enable the Civic Arts Commission to undertake a multi-year cultural planning process that builds on existing planning efforts and solicits input from the public in order to develop a unified vision and set of strategies that would guide the City’s continued cultural vibrancy.
for an assessment of arts space affordability challenges, displacement risks, and possible strategies
The City of Berkeley Civic Arts Commission advises the City Council on all matters affecting the beauty and culture of the City. It encourages and provides resources for cultural enrichment through three programs: Civic Arts Grants, Public Art, and Public Art Galleries. It also provides technical assistance, publications, and information and referral services. This grant will enable the Civic Arts Commission to conduct an assessment of current art space affordability challenges and displacement risks within Berkeley, and develop strategies to protect affordable spaces for arts organizations, artists, and cultural workers.
