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Updates
“Omar,” coming to SF Opera this fall, wins Pulitzer Prize for music
Coming to the San Francisco Opera in the fall, Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’ opera Omar has won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for music. The opera is based on the actual 19th century journal of an Islamic scholar abducted from his home in West Africa and enslaved in South Carolina.
Koret Foundation Grants $6M to Bay Area Arts and Culture Efforts
Grants over three-year period to expand arts education and engagement, restore Bay Area’s cultural backbone
Television Academy Honors awarded to “The U.S. and the Holocaust”
The Emmys have awarded The U.S. and the Holocaust with their 16th annual Television Academy Honors, which recognizes television programs that have harnessed the extraordinary power of storytelling to fuel social change.