SF Bay Area
2016 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards
Awardees will be recognized by Mrs. Obama for using engagement in the arts and the humanities to help increase academic achievement; growth in graduation and college enrollment rates; and improvements in literacy and language abilities, communication and performance skills, and cultural awareness.
Pueblote
People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights (PODER) is an environmental justice non-profit organization that is based in the Mission and the Excelsior Districts of San Francisco, California. PODER's youth program, Urban Campesinos, strives to make social and environmental change in their community.Â
The Youth Power Map
The Anti Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting the dispossession of San Francisco Bay Area residents in the wake of the current tech boom. Â Young people have been dramatically impacted by this phenomenon- displacement has left SF with the lowest population percentage of young people of any major city in the U.S. Â Some of our students have themselves been forced to relocate, while many more have seen it happen to friends, family members and neighbors. Their project,"The Bay Area Youth Power Map,"Â showcases outdoor spaces, organizations, and institutions that students deemed as important resources for [...]
Straight from the Source
A look at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s process of bringing quality drinking water from the valleys of Hetch Hetchy to the homes of San Francisco’s residents, while also revealing the problems that arise from California’s drought.
Growing Community
An investigation on the importance green spaces in urban environment for people, mental health, and the environment. and looking at how the College Hill Garden is working to help add more productive green spaces in San Francisco. Done in partnership with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. Factory 2016
Concrete Canvas
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is dedicated to facilitating the empowerment of communities through commissioned urban art projects. Because public art has the power to distribute accessible messages of change to the masses, this investment in urban art is essential to democratic growth within communities.Â
Transmission E08 – A Local Show Celebrating the Artistic Voices of San Francisco
Learn more about us here: https://bavc.org/transmission TRANSMISSION Episode 8 Program List  - December 2015 ARTISTS INSIDE : Featuring poets, writers, musicians, movers, visual artists and storytellers who practice and engage with art within the prison industrial complex. Segment 1Here / Now (00:50)The following digital stories grew out of a 14 week collaboration between men in Resolve to Stop the Violence Project (RSVP), majors in the USF Performing Arts and Social Justice Department and the Bay Area Video Coalition. The class was an opportunity to develop and create personal artistic expressions, using one’s own voice and style in music, movement, writing, [...]
2015 SF Commons Award Winner: Reality Check TV
Winner: Arts, Culture & Entertainment Category. All winners for the SF Commons Awards were selected by viewers via online and in-house voting ballots. Congratulations to all the winners!
2015 SF Commons Award Winner: SF Community News
Winner: News, Politics & Current Events Category. All winners for the SF Commons Awards were selected by viewers via online and in-house voting ballots. Congratulations to all the winners!
