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 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
Address
80 Turk Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Grants to this Grantee
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.
for construction costs for the renovation of the facility at 80 Turk Street
Since 2007, the Performing Arts Program has funded CounterPULSE (also recommended on this docket for general operating support). CounterPULSE’s lease for its current location on Mission Street in San Francisco will end in 2015, and the organization is actively searching for a new physical home in its Mid-Market neighborhood. This capital grant would provide CounterPULSE with flexible funds that could be used for expenses such as planning, capital campaign implementation, site acquisition, and renovations.
