Community Arts Stabilization Trust

Enough with the status quo. ✨ We’re going from profit-driven to people-powered! ✨ The old mode of real estate has relied on driving up rents for profit, squeezing out cultural spaces and displacing artists in the process. Our Space to Dream Initiative, a 10-year effort to secure affordable spaces for artists and arts organizations in the Bay Area, is flipping the script! We’re creating a new path that puts community and creativity first, ensuring affordable, lasting spaces for artists and neighborhoods in the Bay Area. Here’s how we’re doing it: 💸 Affordable Capital: Investing in spaces for the arts, optimizing for people not profit 🏛 Policy Change: Partnering with policymakers to remove barriers for artists to access affordable housing and create the conditions for downtown revitalization 🤝 Capacity Building: Empowering communities to lead the change Together, we can transform empty corridors into vibrant cultural hubs that make our cities more inclusive and resilient. Join us as we build a new way forward! Click the link to learn more ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gWa_EAte #CASTSF #SpaceToDream #CulturalSpaces #AffordableArtistSpaces

❄️ Happy Holidays from all of us at CAST! ❄️ As we reflect on a year filled with creativity, community, and collaboration, we’re grateful for the artists, cultural workers, organizations, and supporters who make our work possible ❤️ Please note: Our offices will be closed from Monday, December 23 through Friday, January 3 to give our team time to recharge and prepare for an exciting year ahead. We look forward to reconnecting in 2025 and continuing to create lasting spaces for arts and culture to thrive! Wishing you a joyful holiday season and a creative New Year! 🎨🎭 #HappyHolidays

With the year winding down, we're reflecting on all we've learned in 2024 and getting excited for what's to come in the new year ✨ We’re proud to look back on a year filled with growth, collaboration, and community impact. In 2024, we launched groundbreaking initiatives like #SpaceToDream and deepened partnerships—both existing and new. We’ve been steadfast in our mission to secure permanently affordable spaces for arts and culture and there's so much more coming in ⭐️ 2025 ⭐️ Watch to see some of our proudest highlights of the year and click here to read more about what we’ve been up to and what’s on the road ahead 🛣️ https://lnkd.in/g4eVps2A Thank you to our partners, supporters, community members, and all the artists who have inspired us and been a part of this journey—onward! #CASTSF #2024Highlights #BayAreaArtists #SpaceToDream #CommunityConnector Images 📸 : 1: Photos by Mogli Maureal 3: Photos by Cesar Rubio (right) and Fox Nakai(background)

Please give a warm welcome to our new neighbors on Minna St! 🌟 We’re thrilled to announce that the Filipino American Development Foundation (FADF) has acquired its first permanent home at 457 Minna Street! 🏠🎉 This historic milestone, supported by a $2.89M award from the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development API Equity Fund, cements FADF’s role as a vital cultural anchor in the SOMA Pilipinas Filipino Cultural District. For over 27 years, FADF has provided essential arts, wellness, and youth services while managing community assets like the Bayanihan Community Center. Now, in partnership with CAST, they’ll continue building a vibrant cultural corridor for the Filipino community and beyond. This acquisition is a testament to the resilience and self-determination of SOMA’s Filipino community, reclaiming space in a rapidly changing real estate landscape. At a time when commercial properties are more accessible, this marks a hopeful chapter for community-driven cultural preservation ⭐️ Click here to read the full press announcement 📣 https://bit.ly/fadfpress #CASTSF #SOMAPilipinas #CulturalEquity #SFArts #FilipinoCommunity #FADF Images: 1. FADF Executive Director Gayle Romasanta (second from left) with part of the FADF Board. 📸 Courtesy of FADF 2. CAST Real Estate Project Manager Yi Zhong leads a tour of 457 Minna with FADF and their community organizations 3. The Galing Bata team at the 22nd annual Parol Lantern Festival

Add your voice to the growing movement in the cultural sector taking action on climate change! Join Arts & Climate CA for its Culture & Climate Exchange: World Café event taking place in person on January 30, 10:30am – 5:00pm at Oakstop in downtown Oakland. This free event welcomes organizations, groups, collectives and artists interested in building community and exchanging ideas with peers interested in addressing the impacts of climate change and identifying what’s needed to advance that work. This event is presented by Arts & Climate CA, a joint initiative focused on assessing the climate change needs and impacts of frontline arts and culture organizations and artists, developing strategies and identifying resources to address those needs. The event will include: 🥂Time to connect and exchange ideas 🎤 Presentations by peers actively engaged in addressing climate change 💬 Opportunities to learn, share your thoughts, and get inspired Click the link below to RSVP to our FREE event ⬇️ 🗓️ Thursday, January 30 ⏰ 10:30am-5:00pm PST 📍Oakstop, 2323 Broadway, Oakland Presented by the Arts + Climate CA: San Francisco Bay Area Project Team & Partners: Community Arts Stabilization Trust, Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC), The Center for Cultural Power, SPUR, Stanford University Arts #CultureClimateExchange #CASTSF #CommunityConversations #EmeraldCities #ClimateAction #EnvironmentalJustice

After 10 incredible years of service, we bid farewell to our beloved Director of Community Engagement, Tyese M. Wortham ❤️ Over the past decade, Tyese’s leadership has been transformative, fostering trust, strengthening the Bay Area arts ecosystem, and supporting countless artists and cultural workers in San Francisco, Oakland, and beyond. As Tyese embarks on her next chapter, she continues her mission of community healing and advocacy through Thriving With Lyme, a program she founded to bring visibility to chronic Lyme disease in Black and brown communities. Tyese, thank you for your dedication, heart-centered holistic approach, and unwavering commitment to creating spaces where artists and organizations can thrive. Your legacy will always be part of CAST. 🫶 💬 Read a heartfelt reflection from Tyese on her 10 years with CAST and her journey ahead: ⬇️ #CASTSF #CASTCommunity #ThrivingWithLyme #ArtsLeadership #CommunityHealing #BayAreaArts

How do you dream up a permanent, affordable, inclusive, and innovative arts center? Start by listening to the community that will bring it to life. In 2023, we set out to generate ideas to envision a new, up to 90,000 sq. ft. arts center at Pier 70 in San Francisco. With about 200 touchpoints in the community and counting, your ideas and feedback have helped guide efforts to create an arts space that is permanent, affordable, accessible, inclusive, and innovative. We’re exploring concepts for the new arts building with support from Brookfield Properties, the developer of a 28-acre new neighborhood under construction at Pier 70, a historic shipyard property next to the Dogpatch neighborhood. Ultimately, Pier 70 will have… 🏘 new housing 🛝parks & open spaces 🏢commercial office & life science space ⚒️light industrial space for local makers & manufacturers 🏗rehabilitated historic buildings And, of course, a ✨new arts building 🎨✨ These exciting plans are a natural extension of Dogpatch’s creative ethos. Since January 2023, we’ve met with artists at the #NoonanBuilding to listen, learn and share ideas around their goals for the site, and throughout last summer, we continued to engage with a broader network of artists and arts organizations across Dogpatch, Bayview, Mission Bay, and city-wide to translate the community’s needs and vision. To ensure this project provides rich cultural experiences for artists and community members alike, it’s paramount that we integrate the perspectives of the arts community. “To keep San Francisco the vibrant hub of art and culture, artists and space for artists must be part of the plan. At Pier 70, the plan is very important to me, but even more so to those artists who will come after us.” —Marti McKee, Noonan Building Artist Read the full story below 👇 #Pier70 #Dogpatch #BayAreaArtist #SpaceToDream #CommunityConnector #VisionarySpirit #CASTSF

Looking for some seasonal magic this weekend? ❄️ Check out SOMA Pilipinas Filipino Cultural Heritage District's 22nd Annual Parol Lantern Festival! Enjoy food, music, a parol stroll, and more ⭐️ More info:

What you’ve all been waiting for… episode 2️⃣ of #RealEstate101 is here! In this episode of our series, we’re talking about what to consider when determining how much space your organization or group might need 🏢 Have questions about real estate terms and concepts? Comment below or send us a DM and we might feature it in an upcoming episode ⭐️ #AskCAST #AskMeAnything #BayAreaRealEstate #CommunityConnector #CASTSF

✨ This Wednesday ✨ Join us at 447 Minna for the opening reception of Gazelle Samizay's "Compassionate Exclusion: An Escape Room", an immersive escape room experience that explores the complexities of seeking refuge in a fictional war-torn country. Reserve your tickets here: https://lnkd.in/gx93HEuF