Our Partners

The 3rd & 4th floors of 447 Minna are home to visionary arts nonprofits PUSH Dance Company and Women's Audio Mission (WAM). Their programs have long served the San Francisco community while also having a broader national impact across dance and music respectively.

Occupying the black box theater beginning January 2023 is the critically-acclaimed San Francisco Neo-Futurists, a collective of wildly prolific writer/director/performers who create inclusive, accessible theater for all ages through their unique brand of non-illusory storytelling.
Five PUSH dancer perform on the 3rd floor of 447 Minnna

PUSH Dance

PUSH Dance is a contemporary dance company founded in 2005 by Artistic Director Raissa Simpson. PUSH examines issues of identity and intersecting cultures through performance, embracing new media and technology to create multidisciplinary works that address race, gender, history, and the digital divide. Their new home opening early 2023 will provide a BIPOC sanctuary for artists, choreographers, community partners, audiences, and students.

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Two young girls record a podcast in a classroom

Women’s Audio Mission

Women’s Audio Mission (WAM) is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of women and gender-expansive people in music production, performance, and the recording arts. Founded in 2003, WAM provides hands-on training, work experience, career counseling, and job placement to over 4,000 women and girls every year in creative technology for music, radio, film, television, and the internet.

The San Francisco Neo-Futurists are a collective of writer/director/performers who create theater that is a fusion of sport, poetry and living newspaper, and that conveys experiences and ideas as directly and honestly as possible. Named one of “22 San Francisco things everyone must do” by the SF Chronicle, their flagship show, The Infinite Wrench, is an ever-changing collection of 30 short plays performed in a race against the clock, performed 50 weekends a year. Since the company’s founding in November 2013, they’ve written and performed over 3,000 original short plays, winning Best Theater Company in SF Weekly’s Readers’ Poll & the SF Bay Guardian Best of the Bay.

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