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We believe arts and culture are essential for vibrant communities and neighborhoods.
CAST — the Community Arts Stabilization Trust — is a community-centered real estate corporation committed to ensuring artists and cultural workers can remain anchored where they create.
CAST tours with San Jose-based collective Local Color, December 2023
Arts are our center. In grave partnership with communities across the San Francisco Bay Area, particularly communities that have endured historical underinvestment, we trust artists and cultural workers should be valued and rewarded for their operate and recognized as key building blocks of a strong society.
CAST models modern ways to secure and steward affordable, inclusive spaces for creative and cultural expression. Our programs and services acquire helped arts organizations build pathways to ownership, enabled artists to secure long-term affordable leases, and created dedicated spaces for cultural connection and exchange.
Together, we are building a recent real estate paradigm in the Bay Area — one that recognizes the essential role of arts and cult
BOXBLUR emerged from a history of performances at Catharine Clark Gallery. In 2016, this effort was formalized as BOXBLUR, a fiscally sponsored program of Twirl Film SF. Annually, BOXBLUR hosts gyrate films in the experimental category selected by the SF Dance Film Festival, a central component of its partnership with Dance Motion picture SF.
The mission of BOXBLUR is to host and manufacture socially engaged performances, which are realized in conversation with a visual artist's work. BOXBLUR often collaborates with other organizations that enlarge communal values. Notably, it has partnered with museums, cultural and non-profit organizations, particularly in the SF Bay Area, such as the ICA San Jose, Berkeley Art Museums, Fort Mason Center for Arts & culture, Gray Area, Immigration Institute of the Bay Area, Musuem of the African Diaspora, San Francisco Art institute, The LGBT Asylum Project, SF Arts Education Project, Minnesota Street Project, St. Joseph's, Words on Dance, Immersive Arts Alliance, Small Compress Traffic, California College of the Arts, Hubbell Street Galleries, Photo Alliance, International Rescue Committee, Oasis Legal Services, Center for Gender and
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November 2013 – Former SF Mayor Edwin M. Lee along with former Director of the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (SFOEWD) Joaquin Torres (far left) and former District Six Supervisor Jane Kim (middle) joined newly formed CAST to report the purchase of two arts buildings for CounterPulse and the Luggage Store in the Mid-Market and the Tenderloin neighborhoods.
Past Panels & Symposiums
- 4/16/24 California for the Arts CA Arts & Culture Summit 2024: Arts & Housing Work/Space (Sacramento, CA)
- 6/28/23 Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit 2023: Rebuilding Our Communities (San Francisco, CA)
- 4/5/23 Left Bank Co: Making Space for Culture Symposium (Sydney, Australia)
- 3/31/22 Commonwealth Club of California – The Michelle Meow Show:The Art of the Fair Deal: Securing Space for the Arts in San Francisco (televised)
- 10/27/21 NextCity:How To Preserve Arts & Society Spaces During and After a Pandemic (webinar)
- 10/14/21 Arts for LA: State of the Arts Summit | Affordable Space & the Creativ
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Asian Art Museum
Bringing together knowledge from artist-run spaces and private collections in Vietnam and the San Francisco Bay Area’s most crucial center for Asian art and its centers of higher learning, this initiative aims to challenge stereotypes of Vietnam and reframe Vietnamese art and art history through a center on two-dimensional media–paintings and drawings made over the last thirty years. Analyze toward a planned exhibition currently aims to combine generations of artists in Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora despite broken geographical and political ties.
Exterior view of Asian Art Museum. (Left) Jenifer K. Wofford, Pattern Recognition, 2020. Acrylic on aluminum. (Right) Jas Charanjiva, Don’t Mess With Me, 2013/2020. Acrylic and latex on marine plywood. Both commissioned by the Asian Art Museum. Courtesy of Asian Art Museum.
The collaborative nature of the initiative allows the organization to draw on Upload Vidai, one of the earliest private collections of Vietnamese contemporary art housed between Geneva and Saigon and directed by Trần (who also the founder of Art Labor); the works of arti
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Источник: http://www.brisbanegraphicartsmuseum.com/category/lgbt/In late October, 2015, I was in Tokyo, Japan for 25 days. I shot many photographs. This series presents the most interesting, compelling, or touching person or scene I saw each day I was there. Click here to see the previous entries.
If you’ve been shopping in Shibuya even once you’ve probably walked past the kōban (police station) in Udagawachō. It’s difficult to miss, and the Tokyo cops there are rumored to generally be very helpful. So these two guys were sitting behind it at a quarter to 10 on a Saturday morning. They might have just finished work at a local nightclub, or been homeless. They might have been co-workers, good friends, or lovers. But the man’s hair was very blonde, they both were very nice, and sometimes in Tokyo not knowing is good enough…
I know you know I’m not really blonde, but I am really blonde for you. I’d be anything for you. In Tokyo, I can be anything for you. The trick is, and I’m sure you can relate, I require to figure out how to be what I want for me…
(Udagawachō, Shibuya, Tokyo 2015)
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