Idris Ackamoor and Cultural Odyssey
For AATAIN's Development And Marketing Planning
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Amount$24,600
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Program
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Date Awarded11/14/2016
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
Founded in 1979, Idris Ackamoor and Cultural Odyssey produces original work rooted in African American music, dance, and theatrical traditions. The African American Theater Alliance for Independence (AATAIN) is a fiscally sponsored project led by Cultural Odyssey. AATAIN is a consortium of organizations based in San Francisco, creating work that reflects the African American experience. This unique capacity building initiative partners closely with the AATAIN consortium made up of the resident companies at the African American Art and Culture Complex. An Organizational Effectiveness grant to AATAIN will support work with a consultant to produce a marketing and communications plan to collectively utilize a new database and box office.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.culturalodyssey.org
Address
Post Office Box 156620, San Francisco, CA, 94115-6680, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Idris Ackamoor and Cultural Odyssey supports the work of jazz musician and recording artist Idris Ackamoor and theater artist and teacher Rhodessa Jones. The artists create, produce, and present work rooted in the African American experience. They present and tour throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, nationally, and internationally. Cultural Odyssey provides performing arts training and performance opportunities to women who have experienced the ill effects of incarceration and HIV/AIDS, and leads a consortium of San Francisco African American performing arts organizations, with the goals of providing mutual support, building organizational capacity, and better serving audiences. Support of Idris Ackamoor and Cultural Odyssey aligns with the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for an equity, inclusion, and diversity capacity-building project
Idris Ackamoor and Cultural Odyssey supports the creation, production, and presenting of work supports the work of two Bay Area jazz and theater artists rooted in the contemporary African American experience. 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 Idris Ackamoor and Cultural Odyssey advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for general operating support
Cultural Odyssey supports the work of its two founders, jazz musician and recording artist Idris Ackamoor, and theater artist and teacher Rhodessa Jones. The artists create, produce, and present work rooted in the contemporary African American experience in the Bay Area, nationally and internationally. Through the Medea Project, Rhodessa Jones works in and out of prison settings with women who have experienced the effects of incarceration and HIV/AIDS. In addition, the organization engages in collaborations and projects that help ensure the co-founders’ artistic knowledge and legacy are shared with scholars, journalists, and artists.
