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The Jon Sims Center

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San Francisco CA 94103

  Five programs were created at Jon Sims Center for the Arts

Three of them have moved to new locations.

AIRspace (Artist In Residence) is a work-in-progress performance laboratory and rehearsal facility designed to allow selected resident artist to experience both the production and creative process within the performing arts in order to develop skills to present their performing arts craft.

For information about AIRspace click here.

AIRspace is moving to The Garage! For more information click here.

Alchemy Theater Company fosters new works and interpretations of existing works that address current themes and social issues relevant to the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender community.

Alchemy has moved to an at-large status under the direction of Alan Quismorio, Artistic Director.

For more information go to:  www.alchemysf.org

JSDance is a JSC program that emerged
from the highly successful AIRspace (Artists-In-Residence) program.

JSDance offered LGBT choreographers a platform, working together with artists from other mediums to create innovative and exciting performance pieces. Each choreographer received four months free rehearsal time, one work-in-progress show and a final performance of a finished piece.

"Venues like Jon Sims, are the lifeblood of new choreographyÉ.artist need these increasing rare spacesÉ.the atmosphere is super casual; the dancing, however is often very intense."

Rita Feliciano, SF Bay Guardian

San Francisco in Exile Live at JSC (SFinX) showcases San Francisco's queer performing arts world by documenting live performances as images and sound files on a web-based archive. SFinX is an aggressively inclusive project, led by the people who make the queer scene the most vibrant: creative writers and producers who are genderqueers, young people, people of color, working-class, and poor ..... in other words, those most easily at risk for exile.

Each show features a hot mix of local queer spoken word artists whose performances were recorded for an online archive at http://www.sfinx.org.
JSCinema was developed by former program director Maher Sabry.
His inspiration for JSCinema was to create a showcase for works-in-progress with a special focus on communities that are typically under-served by other film/video organizations and festivals.