SVCREATES’ Post

The City of Sunnyvale's Public Art Program is seeking artists who live or work in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Contra Costa, San Francisco, or Alameda Counties to apply for The Suns of Sunnyvale, a temporary, two-year sculpture exhibition. Selected artists will receive $1,000 to transform a blank, oversized, pre-fabricated sun into a work of art. Applications are due by Monday, July 22. 🌅 Apply: https://lnkd.in/gKFQqKGU

SJ PLACES (Public Life and Community Event Spaces) is a pilot program from the City of San José that removes all permitting costs for organizers of small-scale outdoor events at select locations in San José. Host your next creative event and activate Downtown spaces with SJ PLACES! Apply now for events occurring through October 31, 2024 at https://bit.ly/3VmpBow.

Enjoy a free city-wide celebration of music during Make Music San José (MMSJ) on Friday, June 21. This day-long music festival celebrates the first day of summer by spreading the joy of live music to neighborhoods all around San José. A lineup of featured artists will be coming soon! Learn more: makemusicday.org/sanjose

Applications are now open for the 7th cohort of SVCREATES’ signature arts leadership program, SVMindshare. Arts leaders need dedicated time to reflect and recharge with their peers in the field. SVMindshare meets regularly in small group discussion sessions to dive deep into the most pressing questions facing today's cultural sector. Over the course of the series, arts leaders develop invaluable new networks, a better understanding of challenges across artistic disciplines, and increased confidence in their leadership capacity. ➡️ svcreates.org/svmindshare/ Management-level nonprofit arts leaders (staff or board) seeking to strengthen their peer networks and to play a role in the greater Santa Clara County arts community are encouraged to apply.

Do you run an arts, cultural, or creative-based commercial business in the City of San José? The Creative Economy Fund provides grants of up to $8,000 to local, small businesses involved in producing or distributing the arts, contributing to the city’s cultural vibrancy. Competitive applicants will reflect the city’s diverse cultural communities and creative-based commercial landscape. Applications close Monday, June 17. Learn more and apply at https://bit.ly/3WdR2TE.

Join California for the Arts CEO Julie Baker for Wonky Wednesday to dig deeper into understanding cultural policy, state budget, and legislative processes on the second Wednesday of every month at noon. Got a question on how to advocate effectively locally or just want to ask what’s up with funding for the arts in California? This is your chance to ask and engage monthly in arts advocacy. Register: https://bit.ly/45fbc23

Explore the power of inclusion in the arts with CEN - Center for Excellence in Nonprofits' Telling a New Story: Inclusion in the Arts workshop on Wednesday, June 12 from 9:00am - 12:00pm, facilitated by Sinjin Jones, Executive Artistic Director of The Pear Theatre. Dive into how the arts can better embody IDEAL principles—Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, and Liberation. Use the discount code TELLYOURSTORY for 20% off. Register: https://bit.ly/3x1Rk5N

The Alliance for California Traditional Arts Living Cultures Grant application opens on Wednesday, June 5. These grants seek to sustain and strengthen traditional arts in the state of California with $7,500 grants to individual artists/culture bearers and $10,000 grants to California-based nonprofits and Tribal Nations, as well as other organizations and community groups. Through this grant program, ACTA supports nurturing cultural continuity, sustaining cultural practices, and engaging our own communities and others through public programs. Projects involving any genre of traditional arts—including but not limited to dance, music, food, material arts, and oral traditions—are welcome. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3KpBFAl 📅 Friday, June 14 at 12:00pm | Living Cultures Grant Info Session

SVCREATES is excited to introduce our new Conversations Series, where SVCREATES Board members sit down with local arts leaders and culture bearers to learn what’s top of mind. This month, Board member Tim Leehane talked with Los Lupeños de San Jose's Samuel Cortez. 📣 Check it out: https://bit.ly/45cJxyQ