Theatre Bay Area

Know Your Rights: Encounters with ICE What can you do to protect yourself and your loved ones?  Join Annette Wong of Chinese for Affirmative Action to learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones when facing Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). By equipping our community with knowledge and resources, we are stronger toget...

Tonight! Know Your Rights: Encounters with ICE
Join us for this FREE workshop on what to do when facing ICE

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Know Your Rights: Encounters with ICE What can you do to protect yourself and your loved ones?  Join Annette Wong of Chinese for Affirmative Action to learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones when facing Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). By equipping our community with knowledge and resources, we are stronger toget...

Know Your Rights: Encounters with ICE! Join TBA and Chinese Affirmative Action for an informational webinar on how to protect yourself and your loved ones.

🗓️Tues, July 15
6-7:30 PM 
📍Zoom

Learn more:

Know Your Rights: Encounters with ICE What can you do to protect yourself and your loved ones?  Join Annette Wong of Chinese for Affirmative Action to learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones when facing Immigration & Customs Enf...

Know Your Rights!

Join Annette Wong of Chinese for Affirmative Action to learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones when facing Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). This workshop is FREE for everyone.

Register: members.theatrebayarea.org/workshops/De...

We are thrilled to announce our 2025 Rella Lossy Awardee: Running After Shadows by Vincent Terrell Durham at City Lights Theater! 🎉

This award goes to upcoming premiere by an emerging playwright. Learn more: www.theatrebayarea.org/grants/rella-lossy-award/

Join our Regional Conversation in San Francisco on 6/7 @ Gray Area! Join our 6/7, 11am-1pm gathering of artists, arts administrators, advocates, cultural leaders, funders, policymakers, and cross-sector supporters to build actionable, community-driven strategies for the next chapter of cultural policy in San Francisco! #ArtsAdvocacy #CultureisHealing

Join a SF Regional Conversation this Saturday, 6/7, 11 AM - 1 PM at Gray Area!⁠

Let's respond to the urgent challenges facing SF’s creative sector and call for bold, collective action to shape a more equitable and sustainable future.

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What a great community turnout yesterday for
@matthaneysf.bsky.social's press conference in support of the PAEPF!

Let's keep up the pressure on ‪@governor.ca.gov‬ and the state budget committee!

Take daily action:
☎️ Call your state reps
www.caartsadvocates.org/campaigns/sa...

@matthaneysf.bsky.social

Update: Press conference will now be held at 3 PM Pacific! Please join us!

🚨 Updated Time 🚨
Press Conference @ 3 PM May 29th

Join us TOMORROW for a press conference with arts champion Assm. Matt Haney in support of the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund! Please show up and voice your support for the PAEPF!

📍YBCA
701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103

🚨Advocacy Alert 🚨
Join us TOMORROW for a press conference with arts champion Assm. Matt Haney in support of the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund! Please show up and voice your support for the PAEPF!

🗓️ Thurs May 29 | 1 PM
📍YBCA
701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103

TBA Member Arts Advocacy Roundtable Join other TBA Members at a lunchtime roundtable to strategize our local response to the current arts funding crisis! In recent months, we've seen extreme attacks on the arts at the federal, state, an...

Join other TBA Members at a lunchtime roundtable to strategize our local response to the current arts funding crisis!

🗓️TBA Member Arts Advocacy Roundtable
Tuesday, May 20 | 12-1 PM

Register:
members.theatrebayarea.org/eventcalenda...
p.s. Don't forget to keep contacting your elected officials!

theatrebayareasf on Instagram: "🚨 Advocacy Alert🚨 Urgent Action needed! The latest CA budget revision includes devastating cuts to the arts including removing th…" 🚨 Advocacy Alert🚨 Urgent Action needed! The latest CA budget revision includes devastating cuts to the arts including removing the $11.5M for the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll fund. ☎️We need you to call Governor Newsom @cagovernor and your state reps TODAY and tell them you oppose these cuts.This is a matter of survival,  we have to fight for funding on the local, state, and national level. 🗓️Join other TBA Members at a lunchtime roundtable this coming Tuesday to strategize our local response to the current arts funding crisis!#bayareaartstogether #artsadvocacy #theatrebayarea #takeaction

🚨Advocacy Alert🚨

The latest CA budget revision slashes promised arts funding. Call Governor Newsome and your state reps to oppose these cuts!

A text graphic. White text over blue duotone image of a microphone. The text reads: Advocacy Alert, Join TBA at the State of the Arts hearing. Make your voice heard! Wed. May 14 | 9 AM, Sacramento, CA

Join us TOMORROW in the state capitol!
📣 Bring your voice to the Joint Committee on the Arts hearing on how changes to federal cultural policy are impacting CA!

Advocates are needed to give public comment here:⁠
State of the Arts Hearing
🗓️ Wed, May 14th | 9AM
📍Room 2100, 1021 O Street, Sacramento⁠

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The Future of the Arts Needs You
National Endowment for the Arts faces devastating cuts - cancelled grants & 50% staff reduction putting artists, communities & creative economies at risk. Take Action Now: Appeal now & Contact representatives www.americansforthearts.org/advocate/protect-the-nea

Advocacy Alert: The Fight for Public Art is Here Two federal arts funding stories broke over the weekend. Learn how you can join the fight below — but first here are the key details. On Friday morning Trump released a budget proposal that would elim...

The fight for public art is here! Read below to learn how to resist grant cancelleations and support public funding for the arts! www.theatrebayarea.org/2025/05/06/a...

NEA Grants Canceled to Bay Area Arts Nonprofits | KQED The National Endowment for the Humanities suddenly canceled grants to nonprofits on Friday afternoon.

BREAKING: Several Bay Area arts nonprofits received emails Friday afternoon that their grants from the National Endowment for the Arts have been canceled — including SCRAP, the San Francisco creative reuse center; the Oakland Theater Project; and The Lab.

California for the Arts | Arts Advocacy Day 2025 Join CA Art Advocates and bring your voice to Sacramento for Arts Advocacy Day on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025.

April is arts advocacy month! Join CA Arts Advocates and bring your voice to Sacramento for Arts Advocacy Day on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025.

www.caforthearts.org/advocacyday2...

California for the Arts | Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund (PAEPF) Senate Bill 1116 (Portantino) (Government Code 8757) established the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund (Program) to support small nonprofit performing arts organizations (SNPAOs) with adjusted gr...

🚨 Important Update! Due to an overwhelming number of applications since the opening of the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund (PAEPF), they will stop accepting new applications on Monday 3/17/25 at 11:59 pm.

More details on the CFTA website below

Will Glickman Award About The prestigious Will Glickman Award celebrates excellence in playwriting by selecting the best new play to premiere in the region each year. Named in honor of Bay Area playwright and screenwriter Will Glickman, this award has been presented annually since 1984. The winner is chosen by a panel of leading Bay Area theatre critics.…

We’ve got an exciting update: TBA is now accepting applications for the 2026 Will Glickman Award! This year, we’ve added the option to directly submit your upcoming premiere for consideration.  Learn more on our website!

This week only! Don't miss out on these great productions from all around the Bay Area

Read this weekend's show round up on The Scene: www.theatrebayarea.org/2025/03/13/s...

🎟 Find out more info & get tickets: members.theatrebayarea.org/whatsplaying

Action Alert! Send a Letter to Urge Your Lawmaker to Restore CAC $5M Take Action and send a letter to urge your lawmaker to restore $5M to the CAC! #ArtsAdvocacy #InvestCAArts #FundCAArts #ProtectArtJobs

🚨Action Alert🚨

Send a letter to urge your lawmaker to restore the $5M that was cut from the
@calartscouncil.bsky.social  (CAC) budget in 2024.

Send your letter today:

California for the Arts | Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund (PAEPF) Senate Bill 1116 (Portantino) (Government Code 8757) established the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund (Program) to support small nonprofit performing arts organizations (SNPAOs) with adjusted gr...

Get ready! The Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund (PAEPF) will open for applications Monday 3/10 at 9am PST.

The Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund (PAEPF) is funded by the State of California and administered by CalOSBA. Eligibility criteria apply.

Artists Mount 1st Amendment Challenge to New NEA Grant Requirements Filed by the ACLU on behalf of theatre organizations, including TCG, the suit is aimed at a new anti-trans guideline recently added by the endowment.

The @aclu.org & @riaclu.bsky.social have filed suit on behalf of theatre organizations, including TCG, to challenge a new NEA grant guideline mandating that applicants comply with the president’s anti-trans “gender ideology” executive order to receive funding. www.americantheatre.org/2025/03/06/a...

Artists Mount 1st Amendment Challenge to New NEA Grant Requirements Filed by the ACLU on behalf of theatre organizations, including TCG, the suit is aimed at a new anti-trans guideline recently added by the endowment.

BREAKING NEWS: @aclu.org has filed lawsuit on behalf of artists and theatre organizations, including TCG, to challenge a new #NEA grant guideline mandating that applicants comply with the president’s anti-trans “gender ideology” executive order to receive funding. via @americantheatre.bsky.social:

Congratulations to the 2025 Glickman Awardee, Thirty-Six by Leah Nanako produced by Shotgun Players!  🎉

Read more about this great show: https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/thirty-six-leah-nanako-winkler-glickman-20192018.php

Congratulations!!

Leah Nanako Winkler’s ‘Thirty-Six’ wins Will Glickman Award for best new play in Bay Area The romantic dramedy, which Shotgun Players premiered, gets its title from a 2015 New York Times article headlined “The 36 questions that lead to love.”

Breaking: Leah Nanako Winkler's "Thirty-Six," which Shotgun Players produced, has won the 2025 Will Glickman Award for best play to premiere in the Bay Area! CONGRATS to all involved! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

This week only! Don't miss out on these great productions from all around the Bay Area.

Read this week's Show Round Up on The Scene: www.theatrebayarea.org/2025/02/26/s...

🎟 Find out more info & get tickets: members.theatrebayarea.org/whatsplaying

THRIVE: A BIPOC Arts Leadership Program Application PROGRAM INFORMATION. PLEASE READ BEFORE COMPLETING FORM. THRIVE provides BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) arts leaders, visionaries, change-makers and culture bearers resources and skills so...

Exciting news! Intersection for the Arts has launched ✨THRIVE✨A #BIPOCArtsLeadershipProgram! THRIVE provides #BIPOC arts leaders resources and skills to grow community, belonging, & confidence rooted in power.

Apply: bit.ly/thriveapplication2025. Deadline: 3/15/25.

You Belong in Bay Area Theatre For context: Last week, the National Endowment for the Arts made a series of changes including the elimination of a grant program for underserved communities and new anti-DEI requirements for applican...

As pro-discrimination and anti-transgender policies gain prevalence, we at Theatre Bay Area want to reaffirm our commitment to the full breadth of theatremakers shaping our vibrant artistic community.

Read our full statement:
www.theatrebayarea.org/2025/02/13/y...

📷 Kayleigh McCollum