COMMUNITY NEWS
Arts Grants Fund Community Projects L ocal residents can attend upcoming community arts projects arts funded by Arts Council Santa Cruz County. They include: • Bree Karpavage (First Friday Santa Cruz): First Friday Night Market Summer Series, 4-8 p.m. Abbott Square, Tannery Arts Center, R Blitzer Gallery in Santa Cruz and downtown Felton (https://firstfridaysantacruz. com/) • Pivot — The Art of Fashion: for a live multi-disciplinary fashion runway performance Sept 25 at the Rio Theater, Santa Cruz. (http://www. pivot-artfashion.com/) • Gerald Casel Dance: BBQueer (Black, Brown and Queer) a series of performances, collective community actions, workshops and private gatherings culminating in a multi-day festival in Sept. 30-Oct. 3. (https://bbqueerfest. com/) More than $80,000 was awarded to 72 artists and organizations. Other funded projects range from murals and music albums, to dance workshops and racial
equity outreach, and some relating to the 2020 destructive CZU lightning fire in Boulder Creek, Bonny Doon and Last Chance. • Ryan Masters: To finish a booklength memoir about the CZU August Lighting Fires and his subsequent enrollment in the Santa Cruz County Fire Academy in 2021 (https://ryan masters831.com/) • Irene Lusztig: Documentary film to be created in San Lorenzo Valley with families impacted by the CZU wildfire (http://komsomolfilms.com/) • Stacy Monowitz: for a collaborative community visual art project to be exhibited at the Felton library • Paul De Worken: Laundry Day Watsonville Mural Project (http://www. mbmurals.com/)
• The Tobera Project: Watsonville is in the Heart, a volunteer-driven cultural arts project that seeks to uplift the Filipino farmworker narratives of Watsonville and Pajaro Valley (https:// www.toberaproject.com/) • Loubayi Arnaud: 6th Annual Ha Mbongui African Dance and Drum Conference at the Tannery Arts Center (http://facebook.com/GataBantu) • Linda Cover: To create a Tannery Arts Center cookbook (https://www.linda cover.org/) • Maha Taitano: Permanent metal art sculpture piece in one of the flower blocks at the Tannery Arts campus (https://www.instagram. com/a_maha_design/) • Cid Pearlman: (home)Body, art installation in January 2022 with dance video, poetry. Collaboration between choreographer Cid Pearlman, video artist Mara Milam, poet/dramaturge Denise Leto, dance artists, and poets. (http://www.cidpearlman.org/) • Jose Gonzalez Oliveros: To create monthly artists’ interview videos
Pivot: The Art of Fashion
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