Fiscal Sponsorship

Brought to you by Marya Stark and Sedona Swan Soulfire ‘The She Rose Show’ emerges as a transmission of beauty, hope and liberation through the tending of community and the awakening of imagination. The show offers an immersive multi-modality experience of sacred song, dance, ritual theater, puppeteering and visuals in celebration of the emergent divine feminine and the possibilities that arise when we collectively choose love and unity as a way forward. The She Rose Show seeks to inspire a reverence for the power of our shared lineages, the sacredness of our bodies, the wisdom of women’s stories and the beauty found in diversity.

Visit www.sheroseshow.com for more info

Te Hau Nui shares Hawaiian hula and Polynesian dance, culture and traditions. The art of dance is a gift to the dancer as well as to the observer; it enriches all! Te Hau Nui provides dancers of every age the opportunity for character development through dance practice, performance and to be guided by the principled values of hula traditions.

Our new larger studio space allows for us to continue sharing the sacred and festive dances of Polynesia with our beloved Santa Cruz community.

Kumu Lorraine will live on through this legacy. Mahalo nui loa from Te Hau Nui Ohana!

Devon (they/them) and Cass (they/she) of Dual Demons are two Queer, trans, non-binary educators, performers, and producers of explicitly Queer events. Their core mission is to bring people together and to provide spaces that are welcoming, safe, and inclusive, while also being silly and subversive. They produce large Queer variety shows, teach shibari rope bondage, perform immersive rope suspension, and more! Dual Demons also produces K!nk at Pride - a large-scale, annual event in Santa Cruz that brings together all-Queer educators and performers to teach, play, and learn. Devon and Cass weave together art, education, and community, creating vibrant, unapologetically Queer spaces that celebrate self-expression, subversion, and liberation.

Our goal is to create a documentary about a gathering of Black luminaries working in the psychedelic space. We’ll gather 35 key members from all around the country in a safe place and give participants the chance to share their strengths, experiences, hopes, and challenges. The goal is to highlight those doing great work and to expand the reach of these important ways of healing to more Black people. We also wish to de-stigmatize these substances so that they’re no longer seen as “White people stuff” and more as the natural balms and salves to Black people’s psyches that we’ve been using for millennia.

Rebecca Hernandez, PhD, (Mescalero/Warm Springs Apache and Mexican American) is a local consultant who offers workshops and informational presentations about American Indians in the United States. Your support will assist Rebecca in her efforts to educate folks about important topics such as American Indian art, cultural sovereignty and stewardship, land acknowledgments, and how to engage with tribes respectfully.

Our mission is to preserve and honor the rich Filipino immigrant experience in the Pajaro Valley through cultural arts and education to share with the broader community.

A Community Collective for Families

Raíces y Cariño is an equitable, inclusive, and safe space for the community to gather and raise their children together. We are a hub connecting diverse families, educators, and organizations to create cross-cultural connections and wellbeing for the whole family.

Help support Everyone's Music School provide compassionate Music Instruction to our community. Your donation will go toward our BIPOC scholarship fund, Community Choir, Free weekly music classes and general operating expenses. We truly believe quality music education should be accessible to all walks of life!

Creative Listening Across Differences

When those who are most marginalized are given the chance to be seen and to collaborate in the making of new works of art, all of us are uplifted.

In 2022-2023 artists brought together a housed and unhoused person to create new songs, dances, and visual art. Audiences found this work moving and inspirational.

Your contribution will help us complete and distribute five new short documentaries!

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Watsonville Yoga, Dance and Healing Arts is the first dedicated Yoga studio in our town, and also one of the first in the Bay Area to offer bilingual Yoga and dance classes, and holistic health services since opening in 2016. Watsonville Yoga hosts a healing arts clinic, where you can find licensed practitioners of Ayurveda, Massage, Sound Healing, Herbalism, Peruvian shamanism, and other modalities. We have an intense commitment to serving and uniting people of diverse backgrounds from all ages, and aim to transcend the perceived limitations of language barriers, as we build friendships, trust and understanding through movement arts for a stronger community.

In times like these. The Unknown. The Unusual. The non-conformist. We need ART to sustain us. Uche Elueze’s show, Coming To America; not the movie, is a story about his life: being born in Nigeria, and spending most of his life abroad. This is a one-man solo show centered around self, and how different institutions and countries shape one's character. The show explores various modes, including: storytelling, monologues, performance art, and Improv. Uchè Elueze has been part of Santa Cruz Shakespeare and he appreciates any and all support.

For over three decades, monologuist and filmmaker Josh Kornbluth has been telling stories to make the world more loving and fair (and also to get people to laugh). His most recent focus has been on uplifting the rights and dignity of the elderly, of people with brain disease, and of those who care for them. Josh was the first Artist-in-Residence at the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, and a Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute at UCSF's Memory and Aging Center. His "Citizen Brain" video series (www.citizenbrain.org), about the connection between brain health and social justice, has been viewed by over half a million people.

Liminal Space Collective's mission is to build connection and facilitate change through collaborative art, immersive experiences, learning, experimentation and sustainable innovation. We believe in the power of collaborative, interactive art to build community resilience. We create open and accessible experiences that unite creatives and art lovers from all walks of life. We cultivate a new kind of third place, one of grounding, healing, and adaptation, where connections spark meaningful change. By supporting Liminal Space, you enable artists to collaborate, create, and share their work. Together, we can foster a vibrant and sustainable creative scene that inspires existential optimism and turns dreams into reality. What's your dream?

A Dog’s Smile Documentary Feature Film is a transformational “tour-du-furs” that dares ask what humans can learn from dogs about life: about challenges like grief, trauma, and conflict, about our capacity for healing and renewal, about our own mortality, and about the ability to live with joy, ease and wonder. As intermediaries between the human world and the broader community of life (“nature”), canines turn out to be messengers of surprising insights into our hidden potentials and place on the planet. The science, stories and explorations of the film are edutainment of a gentle variety.

We are the Rainbow FRC, a collective of neurodivergent and disabled individuals and caregivers dedicated to launching a cooperative Family Resource Center in Santa Cruz County. Our mission is to support, affirm, and validate individuals and families with diverse neurotypes, developmental needs, and disabilities by providing connection tools, support services, and resources from birth to end of life. The Rainbow FRC is currently working on starting an accessibility-focused center where individuals and families can come to play and build community.

We are a collective of visionary creators founded by a local Afro-Caribbean queer movement artist Kaiya Ashanti. We are dancers, artists, entrepreneurs, healers and mystics. We believe in co-creating experiences that inspire through music, dance, art, health, spirituality, culture, and education. We would like our attendees to feel a sense of transformation, feeling deeply inspired, empowered, and connected to their own inner potential and to others. The events we hope to get sponsored for highlights diversity and world cultures and music as well as queer creative expression, in a way that celebrates and uplifts us.

We are “Raízes do Brasil Capoeira and Brazilian Cultural Arts Center”. We provide classes to both kids and adults at our own space and at many of the public schools throughout both the Santa Cruz and the Pajaro Valley School Districts. We are specifically hoping to fundraise to support students who may not be able to afford classes, as well as to pay travel stipends to our teachers who need to commute to teach.

Ripple Effect: Santa Cruz Arts Festival is a vibrant celebration that unites visual and performing arts through collaborative events, interactive workshops, and awe-inspiring surprises. This dynamic festival showcases the creative spirit of Santa Cruz County, inviting participants of all ages to engage with art in unique and unexpected ways. From hands-on activities to spectacular performances and exhibitions, Ripple Effect highlights the transformative power of art to inspire connection and creativity.

The first Ripple Effect festival will take place April 16-April 26, 2026… You don’t want to miss this!

Goddess Moon Temple — A community dedicated to spirituality, creativity, and embodiment to uplift the human experience in a world that can feel lonely and unsafe. Created by artist and entrepreneur Vaidehi Amair, offerings include yoga wisdom, spiritual practice and self-development tools. Her self produced sanskrit music, performances, and kirtan/voice workshops empower the voice and inner healing through prayer. The moon ceremonies/coaching/tarot support emotional regulation and self actualization. The movement offerings improve mobility, strength, and provide a healthy channel for expression and sensuality. Support Goddess Moon Temple so this work continues, expands and thrives in a new location!

I’m creating a land based art and design studio that serves as a vital community hub for creative renewal, and cultural repair. Blending art, land stewardship, and wellness, it offers workshops, mentorship, and gatherings that reconnect people to their hands, imagination, land and each other. The studio will also produce functional products to help sustain its mission while ensuring community access through low-cost programs. Fiscal sponsorship will support the work going into launching this space as a model for creative and ecological belonging, where making becomes medicine, and art restores the human capacity for connection, resilience, and joy.

Bands & Entertainment for Charity provides music and performing arts experiences throughout the United States. Our showcases feature live bands, comedians, DJs, tap dancers, art exhibits, theatrical performances, and film previews. Our mission is to celebrate cultural diversity, uplift emerging artists, and create inclusive and accessible events that inspire creativity, connection, and unity. Through our showcases and initiatives, we aim to foster a vibrant, harmonious society where music and the arts serve as catalysts for positive change and social impact. Additionally, we raise funds to support music, arts, and technology programs for youth, helping to nurture the next generation of creative leaders.

The ICONS Cabaret is a performing arts collective dedicated to celebrating Black women’s artistry and sustaining a platform for their stories. With an all-Black woman and gender-expansive cast, we honor the lineage that shapes our work. Our first production, ICONS: Black Women Illuminated, premieres September 20, 2025, at The 418 Project. This cabaret blends live jazz, variety acts, and short films to honor the pioneering Black women artists who transformed the 20th century.

We are guided by three principles: Honoring Heritage, Empowering Artists, and Building Community. Together, these values illuminate the past, empower the present, and build the future of Black artistry.

“Eastern Sierra Wild Horses” uses art to change the trajectory of policy and public perception. Our art helps people see wild horses not as expendable populations, but as family-centered, ecologically vital beings whose survival matters to our shared future and that of our planet.

These wild horses face permanent removal from their ancestral home later this year. Hence the urgent need to raise funds to complete filming before this herd is obliterated and their story with them.

Through free or low-cost community events and live streamed talks, we ensure broad access across generations, geographies and backgrounds.

The earth’s guiding star, Polaris, suddenly goes dark because of humanity’s failings. The question is, who can re-ignite the star to bring light and orientation back into the world? The urgency on the stage reflects the urgency in our world. Guided by ancient truths, The Further Shores of Knowing is a mystical journey to recover a sense of awe, wonder, and appreciation of our place in the cosmos. This is a show for audiences of all ages. In these troubled times, we hope to model a higher state of being and the potential we all have to work better together to fulfill our greatest promise.

Visit TheFurtherShores.com for more details.

Ancestral Wellspring Collective (AWC) is a healing justice initiative providing trauma-informed peer support and community-rooted care for Black women and Women of Color (BIWOC). Our work centers dignity, cultural resonance, and accessibility for survivors, caregivers, and community members navigating grief, burnout, and systemic inequity.

AWC offers free and sliding-scale 1:1 peer support sessions for BIWOC, as well as The Grief Nest, a free weekly peer support circle dedicated to Black women. Through our herbal care arm, Renegade Apothecary, we provide free or low-cost wellness support to Black women, BIWOC birth workers, and community organizations serving survivors and caregivers.

Starting in Spring 2026, AWC will expand its offerings to include 1:1 and small group restorative retreats for BIWOC, focused on rest, grief tending, and nervous system care. We are currently seeking partnerships with retreat centers, land stewards, wellness spaces, and sponsors to support these retreats through donated space, in-kind resources, and program funding.

AWC operates through a reparative giving model, where community donations, sponsorships, and philanthropic support directly subsidize access to care. This structure ensures that Black women and BIWOC most impacted by systemic and relational harm receive culturally grounded support without financial barriers.

Our mission is to expand access to survivor-informed support and herbal mutual aid that centers the emotional, cultural, and nervous system needs of Black women and BIWOC. With sustained funding, AWC will continue building a community-based infrastructure where healing is accessible, leadership is rooted in lived experience, and care is supported as a shared responsibility.

The Mad Hatters Ball is a fundraising celebration supporting Raíces y Cariño’s equitable birth and family programs. The 418 Project’s fiscal sponsorship percentage fee is waived for this fund.