Idris Ackamoor and Cultural Odyssey
For The African American Theater Alliance For Independence (AATAIN) Project
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Amount$200,000
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Program
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Date Awarded9/17/2015
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The African American Theater Alliance for Independence (AATAIN) is a fiscally sponsored project of Cultural Odyssey. AATAIN is consortium of organizations based in San Francisco that create work that reflect the African American experience. Within the context of continued displacement of the African American community from San Francisco, this unique capacity building initiative will work closely with the AATAIN consortium, specifically the African American Art and Culture Complex (AAACC) and its resident companies: African American Shakespeare Company, PUSH Dance Company, AfroSolo Theater, and Cultural Odyssey (current grantee). The aim of this project is to develop AATAIN’s capacity to increase earned revenue by expanding audiences and increasing ticket sales. This capacity building project consists of two phases of work: 1) Technology Assessment and Implementation, and 2) Box Office Development and Marketing Planning. Phase one will ensure that all cohort member organization have baseline tech capacities that will allow them to develop a marketing plan and implement a shared "box office solution" for AAACC’s resident performing companies.
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 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.
