Grantees 2023

The Future Within Us

Arts & Climate Initiative

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

An evening of short plays about the climate crisis. Read More

Poetic People Power

Bracco, Tara

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

P3's 20th anniversary show, Not Yet Said, featured new spoken word poems by seven artists. Read More

Trolley Park: Midway Memories

Cabin Nine Films LLC

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

Trolley Park: Midway Memories visits one of the oldest trolley parks in the country. These parks helped usher in the golden age of amusement parks. In the early 1900s there were more than a thousand trolley parks. Now only a dozen remain. Read More

Once She Dries

Cohen, Nancy

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

Once She Dries is an experimental opera and multimedia installation about coral reefs and climate change, created by 6 artists across 4 continents. Read More

Singing for Justice

Estelle Freedman and Christie Herring

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

A 60 Minute Documentary about the life of Faith Petric - a joyous performer who united folk music and activism across nearly a century, singing to change the world – and herself. Read More

Metra: A Climate Revolution Play with Songs

Flux Theatre Ensemble

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

Flux Theatre Ensemble presents the World Premiere of Metra: A Climate Revolution Play with Songs, a speculative mytho-musical drama written by Emily and Ned Hartford with songs by Ned Hartford, directed by Emily Hartford. Read More

The Women of Terrell Homes

Green Diebboll, Isaac

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

A feature length non-fiction film about a multi-generational matriarchy who has been fighting for 12 years to protect their home, a 275 unit public housing complex in the Ironbound Neighborhood of Newark, NJ, which has been slated for demolition. Read More

Bad Outdoorsmen

Hargrave, Kathryn

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

We created experimental audition tape titled “Bad Outdoorsmen” for the survivalist reality TV show Alone. Shows like Alone glorify a traditionally masculine, white, individualistic, and extractive relationship with the land. Read More

{IN}TANGIBLE

Kalisch, Brianna

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

{IN}TANGIBLE is a dramatic circus play using dialogue and narrative circus to tell the story of a woman and her family in the blurred timeline of dementia. Read More

Disappearing Jewels

Kim, Will

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

Remembering the filmmaker's grandfather who was a blind man and walking weather forecast, Will Kim interviews ocean experts and brings his perspective on the impact of climate change and ocean warming. Read More