ShadowLight Productions
For General Operating Support
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Amount$75,000
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Program
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Date Awarded6/15/2017
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
ShadowLight Productions creates innovative, multi-disciplinary performances that are rooted in traditional Balinese shadow theater. Its founder and artistic director, Larry Reed is one of the first Westerners to train in Bali as a "shadow master," manipulating more than 20 carved leather shadow puppets, while simultaneously serving as conductor of an accompanying gamelan orchestra. Reed has performed more than 250 shows, reaching 4,000 audience members around the world. ShadowLight’s arts education program provides first-hand experience for K-12 students, community organizations, colleges, teachers, and performing artists through workshops, residencies, and performances. Continued funding will enable ShadowLight to build its organizational capacity and support its continuing education work, as it develops a mentorship program and collaborates with an archivist to catalogue its work.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.shadowlight.com
Address
22 Chattanooga Street, San Francisco, CA, 94114-3025, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
ShadowLight Productions creates innovative, multi-disciplinary performances that are rooted in traditional Balinese shadow puppet theater. Its productions around the Bay Area draw from traditional Balinese shadow theater, and incorporate contemporary and experimental techniques including video projections, reflections, and musical accompaniment. Through ShadowLight’s educational workshops, residencies, and performances, students and audience members of all ages gain first-hand experience in shadow puppetry. The organization reaches 500 people each year. In addition, ShadowLight’s master-level workshops, geared toward accomplished artists, teach advanced techniques developed and perfected over decades.
for general operating support
ShadowLight Productions creates experimental, inter-disciplinary live performances that showcase the unique medium of Balinese shadow theater. ShadowLight’s performances combine traditional shadow casting with contemporary technology and stagecraft, based in a diverse cultural tradition. The organization reaches approximately 4,000 Bay Area residents each year, and hundreds more see its work on national and international tours. ShadowLight is grounded in its education workshops for K-12 students, and after-school programs that reach 2,000 youth each year. Renewed funding would support ShadowLight in implementing findings from its strategic learning process, funded by a Hewlett Organizational Effectiveness grant, to strengthen organizational infrastructure and invest in the founding artistic director Larry Reed’s living legacy.
