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6.P. - Page 5 of 6 Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival. For the fourth year in a row, Cinequest has partnered with Century 20 Theater to bring their creativity festival to downtown Redwood City in March 2021. 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. In 2021, Cinequest will do more than ever to showcase online film screenings and creative experiences through free streaming services, as well as offering affordable online film & special event rentals. We will work with community partners to identify at -risk youth and low-income families to offer free access. In regards to accessibility for the disabled, they will clearly identify content that is available with subtitles for hearing impaired, and online services provide accessibility for people everywhere. Content in the festival is and always has been diverse, featuring artists from 55 countries. The diversity in language and culture is shown throughout the films presented. Funding Requested: $10,000. Funding Recommended: $4,660. FC Projects, INC. The specific purpose of this Non Profit is to engage the local community through arts education and community projects. FC will work with students, emerging artists and established artists to create art projects locally and nationally. FC Projects, in partnership with the Redwood City Improvement Association, creates art for the Art Kiosk exhibition in the Courthouse Square. Funds received by the Commission will help support participating artists from Redwood City and outreach programs to Redwood City residents and groups. Funding Requested: $10,000. Funding Recommended: $4,000 Fuse Theatre. Fuse Theatre, in collaboration with Dragon Productions Theatre Company, seeks financial support to help maintain and extend its annual Redwood City Play Festival series, Co - EXIST: stories of unlikely connection. Co -EXIST presents stories of timely topics and promotes narratives created by and that include people of color and others from underrepresented populations. Fuse's mission is to create meaningful theatre experiences to expand personal perspectives and connect communities in order to foster civic engagement. Dragon Productions Theatre Company adopted the mission 'to serve as a theatrical hub that fosters an inclusive artistic community for the creation of experiences that are innovative, intimate, empathetic, and accessible and bold.' Funding Requested: $6,000. Funding Recommended: $5,800. Pacific Art League. Pacific Art League strives to advance the expressions, appreciation, and enjoyment of the arts, for all. This grant will be used to immediately launch the Pacific Art League's Virtual Artist -in -Residence Program & Art Demo Event series to the Redwood City community. They will identify and invite six new Virtual Artists -in -Residence to provide quality free online art demo classes for students of all ages through the end of the year for the Redwood City community Funding Requested: $7,500 Funding Recommended: $3,700. Peninsula Symphony. Peninsula Symphony's All -Stars at Home is a new virtual series kicking off on Tuesday, August 25, 2020. In lieu of live concerts in the concert halls, they have enlisted both world class solo artists as well as their very own orchestra musicians to perform from their homes and to "livestream" with our maestro through zoom where "concert and conversation" occurs. This Q&A portion is a wonderful opportunity for audiences to hear directly from these musicians as well as insight from the maestro. Funding Requested: $3,000 Funding Recommended: $2,200. Quinteto Latino. Quinteto Latino (QL) will partner with Redwood City host organization Casa Circulo Cultural (CCC) to execute a musical residency project exposing Latinx youth to classical music and musical expression, as part of QL's broader mission to disrupt racial and economic Page 2 174