About the Santa Clara Performing Arts Foundation
Inciting random acts of culture. That's one way to describe our mission. We focus the power of innovative live performances and shared cultural experiences to build community. We don't try to duplicate work that others are already doing well -- giving grants, sponsoring arts education, funding performances, and supporting specific art forms. We focus instead on promoting and sharing the skill and creativity of local performers and performing companies -- and doing that in ways that engage people socially, because that's what builds audience and support.
To do this we're partnering with local performers and performance companies to help bring their artistic visions to life. We do this in several ways.
One is through marketing, public relations and advertising. We send regular emails highlighting local performances. Our community calendar is a great way to see who we're working with and what's going on in the city. Our Arts Roundtables promote dialog and cooperation among performing companies. Another goal is helping performing companies find performance opportunities in Santa Clara's existing venues, and by identifying unconventional venues and supporting the development of new venues.
Santa Clara has many arts-related programs and groups, and artists of major stature live and teach here. But our city is just a blip on the arts map. We'd like to change that. And we've already started. In 2014 we launched the Triton Free Fridays performance series. That series brought 10 fresh, live and free performances to standing-room only crowds at the Triton Museum of Art -- introducing many to the Triton for the first time. The shows featured world cultures, diverse art forms, and traditional, classical and modern works.
We can imagine someday having thriving arts and entertainment “destinations” in Santa Clara: performing arts, visual arts, sports, restaurants and their entertainment, and a variety of appealing and innovative spaces and activities that draw visitors to the area and keep them coming back. It's not just about art -- it's also about the economic and social well-being of our city.
If you share our vision, help us build dreams into realities.
To do this we're partnering with local performers and performance companies to help bring their artistic visions to life. We do this in several ways.
One is through marketing, public relations and advertising. We send regular emails highlighting local performances. Our community calendar is a great way to see who we're working with and what's going on in the city. Our Arts Roundtables promote dialog and cooperation among performing companies. Another goal is helping performing companies find performance opportunities in Santa Clara's existing venues, and by identifying unconventional venues and supporting the development of new venues.
Santa Clara has many arts-related programs and groups, and artists of major stature live and teach here. But our city is just a blip on the arts map. We'd like to change that. And we've already started. In 2014 we launched the Triton Free Fridays performance series. That series brought 10 fresh, live and free performances to standing-room only crowds at the Triton Museum of Art -- introducing many to the Triton for the first time. The shows featured world cultures, diverse art forms, and traditional, classical and modern works.
We can imagine someday having thriving arts and entertainment “destinations” in Santa Clara: performing arts, visual arts, sports, restaurants and their entertainment, and a variety of appealing and innovative spaces and activities that draw visitors to the area and keep them coming back. It's not just about art -- it's also about the economic and social well-being of our city.
If you share our vision, help us build dreams into realities.
The SCPAF is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit California corporation.
