Earth Island Institute
For The Planet Earth Arts Project
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Amount$10,000
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Program
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Date Awarded9/25/2019
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Term12 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
A grant to Earth Island Institute will support its fiscally sponsored Planet Earth Arts project to enable the Stanford Repertory Theater to reach more diverse communities by offering free performances and talk-back dialogues. The grant specifically supports a Community Engagement Program in East Palo Alto and the surrounding community, designed and built around their summer 2019 Environment and Social Justice festival production of ’Polar Bears, Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids’. This is a powerful new play commissioned by Planet Earth Arts and written by African American playwright Vincent Terrell Durham. It explores the collisions, intersections, and tensions between the environmental and Black Lives Matter movements, played out against the inexorable forces of gentrification and displacement in communities of color.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.earthisland.org
Address
2105 Allston Way, Suite 460, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for PGM ONE programming and strategic planning
A fiscally sponsored project of Earth Island Institute, PGM ONE envisions a world that centers, values, uplifts, and empowers those who are most impacted by environmental harm and climate change — and in particular Black, Indigenous, and people of color/the global majority. The project, which engages with advocates from across the field of land and water conservation, is offering online programming and an annual summit to share, learn, collaborate, heal, celebrate, build community, find support, and deepen practice to uproot the systems of oppression and mobilize to transform individuals, movements, and society. (Substrategy: Build the Conditions for Enduring Conservation)
for PGM ONE strategic planning and development
A project of Earth Island Institute, PGM ONE envisions a world that centers, values, uplifts, and empowers those who are most impacted by environmental harm and climate change — and in particular black, indigenous, and people of color/the global majority. The project, which engages with advocates from across the field of land and water conservation, is conducting a strategic planning exercise and launching an evaluation of its impact. It is also working to offer webinars and online conversations this year in place of its annual summit to share, learn, collaborate, heal, celebrate, build community, find support, and deepen practice to uproot the systems of oppression and mobilize to transform individuals, movements, and society. (Western Conservation Substrategy: Building Conditions for Enduring Conservation.)
