Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

To: All San Francisco artists and non-profit arts organizations
From: Krissy Keefer, SF Arts Task Force member, appointed by the Board of Supervisors
Pamela Peniston, SF Arts Task Force member, appointed by Supervisor Sandoval
Ellen Gavin, Artistic Director, Brava Theater Center
Darryl Smith, SF Arts Task Force member, appointed by Supervisor McGoldrick
Laurie Lazer, Artistic Co-Director, the Luggage Store Gallery
Vinay Patel, SF Arts Task Force member, appointed by Mayor Newsom
Jeff Jones, Development Director, Queer Cultural Center
Pamela Wu-Kochiyama, SF Arts Task Force member, appointed by Supervisor Makarimi
Alma Robinson, SF Arts Task Force member, appointed by Mayor Newsom

Delroy Lindo protests CAC cuts in 2002
After a year of intense lobbying by members of the San Francisco Arts Task Force, the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors included $1,000,000 in the City�s FY06-07 budget to create a Neighborhood Arts Program. However, without soliciting the arts community�s input or circulating the staff’s proposal for public comment, the Arts Commission’s Executive Committee recently recommended spending approximately $650,000 of these funds to underwrite the agency’s staff positions and to hire consultants. Instead of supporting living San Francisco artists or attempting to integrate the arts into the fabric of the City�s neighborhoods, the Commissioners voted to allocate some of these funds to take care of the City�s various statues! The Arts Commission’s final vote will take place on Monday February 5th in City Hall Room 416 at 3pm. Please plan to attend.

Also please take ten seconds to let the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors and Arts Commissioners know that you strongly oppose this concept and that you want at least 80% of these new funds to be distributed to community-based arts projects serving the City�s neighborhoods.
Mayor: gavin.newsom@sfgov.org

Arts Commissioners
P.J. Johnston, President At Large
Maya Draisin, Vice President Media Arts
Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture
Jose Cuellar Music
Leonard Hunter Sculpture
John Kriken Architecture
Alex Lloyd At Large
Janice Mirikitani Literature
Beverly Prior Architecture
Jeannene Przyblyski At Large
Lawrence Rinder Visual Art
Dede Wilsey At Large
Pop Zhao Painting

Brava Theater Academy Onstage Dec. 2006
Board of Supervisors
Michela.Alioto-Pier@sfgov.org
Tom.Ammiano@sfgov.org
Chris.Daly@sfgov.org
Sean.Elsbernd@sfgov.org
Ed.Jew@sfgov.org
sophie.maxwell@sfgov.org
Ross.Mirkarimi@sfgov.org
Aaron.Peskin@sfgov.org
gerardo.sandoval@sfgov.org
Bevan.Dufty@sfgov.org
Jake.McGoldrick@sfgov.org