CounterPulse
For The 80 Turk Project
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Amount$200,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/4/2016
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportCapital Funds
Strategies
Overview
CounterPulse is a presenter of contemporary performance art in San Francisco's mid-Market neighborhood. CounterPulse provides space and resources for emerging artists and cultural innovators, serving as an incubator for the creation of experimental, multi-disciplinary performance art and dance. The organization reaches more than 15,000 audience members annually, and no audience member is turned away if they cannot afford the price of a ticket. With the recent acquisition of a historic facility, this grant will support efforts to complete the renovation of the theater, which is expected to open by the end of 2016.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.counterpulse.org
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.
