Chinatown Music Festival 2021

733 Kearny St,San Francisco CA 94108

28 August, 2021

Description

Join the Chinese Culture Center for a day-long outdoor festival featuring music, dancing, and art activities in San Francisco Chinatown! Chinatown Music Festival is a day-long celebration of art and music that showcases the creativity and diversity of the Chinatown community! The festival is free and open to the public, featuring artist performances, workshops, and arts activities for kids. // 2021 LINEUP // Rebirth Canal Chino Yang Chris Songco Lion Dance Me 29th St. Swingtet The Autonomous Region Barbary Coast Brass This event is supported by the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development, with additional support by #Start Small, Grants for the Arts, San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission, Fleishhacker Foundation, the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, and Zellerbach Family Foundation. Presented in partnership with Manilatown Heritage Foundation and San Francisco Recreation and Parks. Chinese Culture Center, under the aegis of the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, is a non-profit organization established in 1965. CCC elevates underserved communities, and gives voice to equality through education and contemporary art. Recently, CCC was selected as a finalist for the national Robert E. Gard award, which honors exceptional integration of arts in the community for “Chinatown Art in the Alleyways” project, and for the prestigious “Our Town” series to represent the City of San Francisco, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. CCC’s curatorial perspective integrates innovation, respect for tradition, a sense of the power of place, and a commitment to engagement with the local community through a process-driven lens. In the last decade, the organization has sought opportunities throughout the neighborhood for the presentation of art, from Portsmouth Square as the “living room of Chinatown,” to vacant storefronts, to Chinatown’s network of alleyways, through which the community’s lifeblood flows. Moreover, deep engagement with artists steeped in a social practice approach to art-making has been a core to its programming.