East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
For General Operating Support
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Amount$325,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/22/2011
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Term36 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Since 1968, the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts (EBCPA) has been the primary artistic and cultural resource for the low-income, ethnically diverse community of Richmond, providing opportunities for a quality education in the arts regardless of background, age, disability, previous experience, or ability to pay. The Center's wide array of dance, music, theater, and film/video classes reaches more than 12,000 people annually, 75 percent of whom are under the age of eighteen and 90 percent of whom are African American, Hispanic, or Asian American. The training programs EBCPA offers are in the art forms most significant to the kids who live in the Center's neighborhood. In 2011, the Center will return to its home in the Winters Building after a $15 million renovation that was funded in part by two grants totaling $2.5 million from the Hewlett Foundation in 2005 and 2008.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.eastbaycenter.org
Address
339 Eleventh Street, Richmond, CA, 94801-3105, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts an arts education provider located in Richmond’s Iron Triangle neighborhood. It offers year-round curriculum for youth ages three to 18, including 65 weekly group courses, private instruction, recitals, social and emotional support services for students and families, and an intensive young artist diploma program. Its in-school and after-school education programs reach 4,000 students in West Contra Costa Unified School District. Each year, the organization also reaches another 15,000 people through community events and public performances that reflect a broad array of art forms, and often feature the stories of local students, families, and communities. Support for East Bay Center for the Performing Arts advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy through the Program Delivery substrategy.
for the 2021 50 Arts Commissions for folk and traditional arts
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. This grant will support the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts in commissioning, developing, and presenting “Hogbetsotso — Day of Crossing Over,” a work by choreographer and drummer C.K. Ladzekpo. The work will reenact the Anlo-Ewe people’s historic flight from servitude in Togo, and ultimately from European coastal raiders, to freedom in Ghana. The performance will include dance, music, regalia, and ceremonies for the renewal of justice.
