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61. - Page 4 of 7 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF ARTS COMMISSION LARGE GRANT APPLICANTS FY 19-20 Art Bias. Art Bias is a non-profit originally established in 1992 as the Art Center of Redwood City. From mid -2017-2018, the Presidency and Board of Directors reformed and created a new name, mission, policies, and procedures. The Art Center has evolved into a multi -program provider to all artists, with a special focus on artists in the peninsula area. Support from the Redwood City Arts Commission will enable Art Bias to continue providing and enhancing its emerging Speaker Series Program which offers Artist Development Conferences and Art Demos to the community at a lower - than -market affordable price. Funding Requested: $9,447. Funding Recommended: $2,000. Ballet America. Ballet America is a community based Ballet Company for students ages 2 - 65. Funds requested are to provide funding for their annual production of "The Nutcracker" held at the Fox Theater. The production includes two matinees and evening performance and is part of with the annual Hometown Holiday event held annually on the first Saturday of December. Funding Requested: $2,500. Funding Recommended: $1,100. Bay Shore Lyric Opera Company. The Bay Shore Lyric Opera Company is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 in Northern California that serves audiences in the Greater Bay Area counties. BSLO is producing the opera "FALSTAFF" for one night show on September 8th, 2019 on the Courthouse Square. Admission for this opera is free. Funding Requested: $2,500 Funding Recommended: $1,100. Broadway by the Bay. This is Broadway by the Bay's (BBB) ninth season at the Fox Theater and the third time they have applied for a grant from the Commission. BBB has scheduled four full scale musical performances bringing over 20,000 patrons annually to core of downtown Redwood City. Their funding request is for scholarships for their Theatre Arts Academy summer youth training program. Funding Requested: $5,000 Funding Recommended: $2,000. Casa Circulo Cultural. Casa Circulo Cultural in partnership with San Mateo County History Museum and the Redwood City Library Foundation are inviting the community to participate in the 9th Annual Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead event downtown Redwood City on Theater Way in November 2019. Attendees can come and enjoy sugar skull painting, children's activities, Catrinas face painting for adults and children, altars created by families, procession, music and traditional food and treats. The day emphasizes the traditional, cultural, and artistic values of the Mexican culture. Funding for from the Arts Commission will help increase the capacity of the event across the board. Funding Requested: $4,000. Funding Recommended: $2,800. Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival. For the third year in a row, Cinequest has partnered with Century 20 Theater to bring their creativity festival to downtown Redwood City, March 3-151h, 2020. Cinequest fuses innovation with the arts to empower great creations and to connect audiences, youth, artists, and innovators with these creations and with each other. Funding from the Commission would go towards the centralized hangout area proposed for next year's event that would be active 5-7 days out of the festival for patrons and community members to congregate between screenings to network and build community while enjoying refreshments, as well as creative activations (examples: DJ, live painting, stand-up comedy, poetry reading). Funding Requested: $10,000. Funding Recommended: $2,300. Page 1 116