California Story Fund
Northern California
- Beat City, Spoken City
Youth Speaks
San Francisco
Project Director: Chinaka Hodge
Teen poets get inspiration from the Beat generation - Beauty Shops: Culture and Community
in the Bay Area
SF Camerawork
San Francisco
Project Director: Candacy Taylor
Chronicling beauty shop culture in the S.F. Bay Area - The Broadway Project
Capital Public Radio Inc
Sacramento
Project Director: Joe Barr
Radio series about cultures and cuisines on a Sacramento street -
Earth Team
Berkeley
Project Director: Lana Husser
Teens to make video about their neighborhood and a multimillion-dollar effort to transform it - The Gleaners of Salinas Valley
Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz
Project Director: Donna Haraway
Salinas Valley gleaners and their stories - LGBT Seniors Project
Intersection for the Arts: Outlook Theatre Project
San Francisco
Project Director: Rebecca Schultz
Creating a theater work based on the stories of LGBT seniors - Mission Echoes: Social Change Through Poetic Soundscapes (1968-2008)
Galeria de la Raza
San Francisco
Project Director: Julio Cesar Morales
Latino youths bring new life to San Francisco’s Mission District history - Oakland Chinatown Oral History Project
API Cultural Center
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Oakland
Project Director: April Kim
Mapping Oakland’s Chinatown stories - Pacific War and Peace
National Japanese American Historical Society
San Francisco
Project Director: Rosalyn Tonai
The role of Japanese Americans in U.S. military intelligence and occupied Japan - Polk Gulch Oral History Project
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Historical Society
San Francisco
Project Director: Joseph Plaster
Chronicling the history of San Francisco’s Polk Gulch neighborhood - Preserving the History of the Land
Lassen Community College
Susanville
Project Director: Candace Toft
Learning to write personal stories about the land and its meaning - Project S.O.S.: Sharing Oakland’s Stories
Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park
Oakland
Project Director: Shannon Petrello
Oakland youths create digital stories about their experience of violence - Reaching Forward: Youth Voices for Change
Center for the Study of Regional Change
UC Davis
Project Director: Jonathan London
Youth to document and map neighborhood concerns - River Stories
Harmony Health Family Resource Center
Marysville
Project Director: Marc Flacks
Youths document Marysville’s connection to its rivers - Uncle Toisan
Chinese Historical Society of America
San Francisco
Project Director: Francis Wong
Capturing the Chinese American experience - When Dreams Are Interrupted
Purple Moon Dance Project
San Francisco
Project Director: Jill Togawa
Capturing in music, dance and narrative the pre- and post-internment stories of a Japanese American community - Young Pin@ySOMA Voices
Kulintang Arts Inc.
San Francisco
Project Director: Alleluia Panis
Pillipino middle-school students to learn about Pilipino mythology as inspiration for their own stories
Central California
- Ordinary Stories — Extraordinary Stories
Hospice of Morongo Basin
Joshua Tree
Project Director: Kevin Wong
Capturing the life stories of Morongo Basin residents in hospice care
Southern California
- Arab-Americans in Los Angeles
Arab-American Historical Foundation
Los Angeles
Project Director: Joseph R. Haiek
A video documentary about L.A.’s Arab Americans - California Rural Community Story Project
Visible Light Inc.
Buellton
Project Director: Timothy Tyndall
Young people in rural communities to use video to capture agriculture life today - The Crew Project
Kidworks
Santa Ana
Project Director: Jessica Steaffens
Santa Ana youths tell stories of their lives and communities - The Drill Team
Harry Bridges Project
Los Angeles
Project Director: Ian Ruskin
Documenting the drill team of a union local - EngAGE Across Generations
Engage: The Art of Active Aging
Burbank
Project Director: Maureen Kellen-Taylor
Seniors and at-risk youths to create videos about each other’s life experiences - Faces in the Crowd: Venice Beach Boardwalk Performers
Venice Arts
Venice
Project Director: Pablo Toleda
Youths to create documentary film on Venice Beach Boardwalk performers - Hearing the Deaf
Son of Semele Ensemble
Los Angeles
Project Director: Matthew McCray
Oral histories of deaf seniors to be subject matter of dramatic play - Iraq in California
Chaldean-Middle Eastern Social Services
El Cajon
Project Director: Alex Farnsley
A documentary film about San Diego’s Chaldean Iraqis - Jackrabbit Homestead
Twentynine Palms Historical Society
Twentynine Palms
Project Director: Kim Stringfellow
The story of Jackrabbit homesteading - The Music of Indigenous California Project
California Center for Native Nations
UC Riverside
Project Director: Clifford Trafzer
Documenting and preserving the music of Southern California Indians - New African Immigrant in South Los Angeles
Labalaba Rediffusion Theater
Pasadena
Project Director: Debo Kotun
A dramatization of the stories of recent African immigrants - On the Streets: Homeless Youth in Santa Barbara
Youth Media Project; Shape of Voice
Santa Barbara
Project Director: Kristi Curtis
Documenting the experiences of homeless youths in Santa Barbara - Reading My World: Comic Book Chronicles of Youth Growing Pains in South L.A.
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
Los Angeles
Project Director: Yusef Omowale
South L.A. black youths to create comic books about family, school and violence - “Re-Discovering Bronzeville”
Robey Theatre Company
Los Angeles
Project Director: Judith Bowman
Capturing an important part of L.A.’s history - Refugee Nation — San Diego
TeAda Productions
Santa Monica
Project Director: Ova Saopeng
Telling the story of San Diego’s Laotian refugees - Sharing the Santa Barbara Channel
Earth Alert
Port Hueneme
Project Director: Janet Bridgers
Putting a human face on Santa Barbara Channel issues - Soldiers Stories: Los Angeles Veterans
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles
Project Director: Judith Royer
Creating a play from the stories of three generations of war veterans - TradesWomen Address the Next Generation
California State University Dominguez Hills Foundation
Project Director: Vivian Price
Capturing the stories of L.A. tradeswomen - Voices of L.A. Youth — Eastside Meets Westside
All About Productions
Pasadena
Project Director: Rose Portillo
High school students to create plays from their experiences - When Past and Present Converge
City of Montclair
Montclair
Project Director: Annette Johnson
Fourth and fifth graders gather their families’ stories - Without a Car in the World: Angelinos Tell Stories of Transportation Alternatives
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles
Project Director: Diane Meyer
Living in Los Angeles without a car