Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Dancers on Buildings, Cowboys in Oakland, and Fun at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk This week across the Bay Area: From Santa Cruz Boardwalk to Big Sur’s Pfeiffer Falls Trail; Flyaway Productions’ in the TL to SoMa’s book readings; Hispanic Heritage Month and “A Taste of Oakland;” Coach Don’s and the SF Pizza Lady's kindness; West Oakland trees; and Eureka Fellowships.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Arts Groups, Nonprofits Hit Hard by Sudden NEA and AmeriCorps Cuts Many Bay Area arts and nonprofit organizations are facing sudden federal funding cuts from the NEA and AmeriCorps, forcing urgent budget changes and putting key creative and community programs at risk.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Gets an Artists' Pandemic Relief Fund Too, to the Tune of $625,000 East Bay and Oakland artists can get up to $2,000 apiece in unrestricted grant money, in a program from the same nonprofit that gave COVID-19 artists grants in SF.