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SFIAF’s mission
SFIAF’s mission is to promote the arts and San Francisco through production of an annual, multi-disciplinary festival that brings together the world community of artists and audiences. The festival:

  • Commissions innovative, collaborative performances and projects that push the boundaries of artistic excellence and genre and that are focused on increasing human awareness, appreciation and understanding.
  • Is a catalyst for emergence of a cohesive, culturally and socially diverse artistic community in San Francisco that is actively engaged in addressing the civic, social, and cultural issues of our environment and time.
  • Establishes San Francisco as a model for integration of the arts into the fabric of the community in a meaningful, productive and mutually beneficial fashion.

SFIAF’s Goals Are To
SFIAF seeks to achieve a balance between the following three criteria when considering projects for inclusion in the Festival.

  • Frame the work of Bay Area artists within an international context.
  • Insure the City of San Francisco’s future allure as a vibrant, creative artist community by informing and enriching the arts at home through encouraging an innovative international dialogue between Bay Area artists and their peers throughout the world.
  • Collaborate with other San Francisco arts organizations to share our resources and stage the Festival in the most cost effective manner possible.
  • Provide rich and meaningful learning experiences through a wide range of residency activities aimed at multiple sectors of the population.
  • Promote the festival to a local, statewide, national and international audience.
  • Raise the City’s profile as an international culture destination.
  • Demonstrate how the arts perform a vital role in stimulating and positively impacting the economy of San Francisco.

Curatorial Priorities
SFIAF seeks to achieve a balance between the following three criteria when considering projects for inclusion in the Festival.

  • Projects in which Bay Area based artists are participating as a lead artist in an international collaboration.
  • Projects in which Bay Area artists are performing as part of a shared bill or in repertory with artists from other countries.
  • Projects that feature world-class artists from outside of the United States whose work has a consistent record of excellence.
SFIAF Core Values
Rather than building an event that is the sole responsibility of a single producer, SFIAF is dedicated to working with an array of San Francisco arts organizations to develop a paradigm that utilizes the shared resources of multiple local presenters to reach mutually-beneficial goals. The Festival’s core values are based on principals of cultural and economic equity. Therefore, in 2007, in addition to working with larger institutions such as the San Francisco International Airport, MoAD and the Magic Theatre, SFIAF places a high priority on the participation of culturally diverse and smaller arts organizations that represent the City’s broad demographics. Activating and supporting relationships between large and small organizations and individual artists is also a key component of what SFIAF does.

SFIAF 2007 National Advisory Committee
Danny Glover, Anna Maria Horsford, Ernie Hudson, Bill T. Jones, Baraka Sele, Geol L. Weirs.

SFIAF Board of Directors

Thelma J. Fuqua, President
Principal, Fuqua/Robinson, Inc.

Kristan Almgren, Vice President
Grupo Entrada, Management Consulting

John Potocki, Treasurer
President, Potocki & Company, Inc.

Mark Rennie, Secretary
Attorney at Law

Jonathan Leong
Asian American Donor Program

Karen Oakley
Business Manager, Oakley & Oakley Engineering

John Stalnaker
Assistant Vice President, Information Technology
POE Financial Group

Luis Vasquez-Gomez
Artist

Susan Hopkins
Freelance Writer

Shereel Washington
Co-founder and Director, Ixalt

Dee Williams
Marketing Director, Human Resources, Inc.

Andrew Wood
Executive Director, SF International Arts Festival

Kyoko Yoshida
Director, Japanese Cultural Trade Network of Arts Midwest
Senior Program Advisor, SF International Arts Festival

SFIAF Staff

Artistic
Artistic Director: Rhodessa Jones
Film Curator: Ave Montague

Administrative
Executive Director: Andrew Wood
Senior Program Coordinator: Kyoko Yoshida
Education & Outreach Coordinator: Constanza Svidler
Volunteer Coordinator: John Potocki
Corporate Sponsorship Director: Susan Hopkins
Office Manager: Kate Hardy
PR & Marketing: David Perry & Associates, Inc. / Dominic Phillips Event Marketing
Graphic Designer: Kevin Clarke
Web Designer/Developer: Jeffrey Ruhser
On-line Services: Open Range Enterprises
Production Manager: David Young
Assistant Production Manager: Calvin LL Jones
International Artist Visa Applications: Minal Shah Fenton and Lisa Spiegel of Duane Morris; Juli Gammon; Dan Roemer; Lucy Lee and Julia Day Marquez of Fallon, Bixby, Cheng & Lee; Marcine Seid; Larry Drumm of Berry, Appleman & Leiden, LLP; Bill Martinez of Martinez & Associates; Ed Litwin and Donald E. Smith of Litwin & Associates

Box-Office Ticketing: Tickets are available through the Box Office at TIX Central at San Francisco’s Union Square and by phoning (415) 439-2456 and online at www.sfiaf.org.