Destiny Arts Center
For General Operating Support
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Amount$255,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/29/2018
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Destiny Arts Center seeks to inspire and ignite social change through movement arts by providing free and low-cost dance, theater, martial arts, violence prevention, and leadership classes to youth aged three to 18 in Oakland. Destiny Art Center’s professional teaching artists work with more than 3,000 primarily low-income youth and youth of color, both at the organization’s home campus, and at 24 schools and community centers throughout the East Bay. Destiny Arts Center’s two youth performing companies collaborate to produce one original piece of musical theater per year, and perform for more than 20,000 audience members annually.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.destinyarts.org
Address
970 Grace Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94608, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for an equity, inclusion, and diversity capacity-building project
Destiny Arts Center is a creative youth development organization that inspires social change through movement arts. This organizational effectiveness grant supports internal capacity building to deepen the organization’s awareness, knowledge, skill, policies and practices around equity, inclusion, and diversity. Strengthening an organizations’ equity-focused competencies supports its practices and outcomes and contributes to a Bay Area arts ecosystem that has examined and reflects an understanding of equity in the arts. Support for Destiny Arts Center advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth Strategy through the Program Delivery substrategy
for organizational adaptation
Destiny Arts Center seeks to inspire and ignite social change through movement arts. The center’s professional teaching artists also work with more than 3,000 primarily low-income youth and youth of color, aged three to 18, both at the organization’s home campus in Oakland, and at 24 schools and community centers throughout the East Bay. Each year, Destiny Arts Center’s two youth performing companies collaborate to produce an original piece of musical theater for more than 20,000 audience members. This grant to Destiny Arts Center aligns with the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy, and will advance the organization’s adaptation planning and implementation.
for the 2018 50 Arts Commissions for theater, spoken word, and musical theater
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. Destiny Arts Center’s "The Black (W)hole" is a multi-disciplinary theater project that addresses urban youth homicide and gentrification in Oakland by centering Black culture as a vehicle for resistance and spiritual renewal. This supplemental grant will help the organization reconfigure the project in response to changes forced by the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on public gatherings. This grant advances the Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions initiative.
