CounterPulse
For Organizational Adaptation
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Amount$450,000
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Program
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Date Awarded12/1/2020
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Term42.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
CounterPulse supports emerging multi-disciplinary artists who are engaged in the creation of cutting-edge and contemporary performance, often from a queer or LGBTQ perspective. Its programs serve this community of artists through the commissioning and production of new work and providing fiscal sponsorship services and subsidized rehearsal and performance space. This grant advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy by ensuring a cultural home for queer and avant-garde movement artists, many of whom are facing displacement. This grant will support CounterPulse’s adaptation planning and implementation.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.counterpulse.org
Address
80 Turk Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the 2021 Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions for Folk and Traditional Arts
The Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions initiative marked the foundation’s 50the anniversary by supporting the creation and premiere of 50 exceptional works of performing arts. This grant provides supplemental support for CounterPulse to develop and present the Indian folk opera “Princess Nautanki” in partnership with lead artist Devendra Sharma and the fiscally sponsored project, Devendra Sharma’s Nautanki Folk Opera Ensemble.
for general operating support
CounterPulse supports emerging artists and cultural innovators engaged in the creation of cutting-edge and contemporary performance artists. The organization commissions and produces new work, provides fiscal sponsorship services, and subsidizes rehearsal and performance space for a community of 1,000 artists that largely identify as part of BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and/or disabled communities. In a typical year, CounterPulse performances and classes engage more than 15,000 audience and community members at its 10,000-square-foot facility in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. This grant advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
