The Svane Family Foundation launches $1M commission and auction to benefit Bay Area arts community
t.w.five, After the Pillow Fight, 2020. Hand-cut adhesive backed vinyl on panel, 36 x 48 in.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.- The Svane Family Foundation, launched in 2019 and focused on supporting Bay Area artists and arts organizations, announced today a first-of-its kind exhibition and auction featuring works created by 100 Bay Area artists. Titled Ark, this historic exhibition is a direct expression of how Bay Area artists endured the pandemic while envisioning our best days ahead. The foundations inaugural program, begun in June 2020, funneled $1M into the Bay Area art community through 100 individual, unrestricted $10,000 commissions in response to COVID-19 and the urgent need to get cash directly in the hands of artists suffering the economic fallout, where an estimated 66% of artists became unemployed at the peak of the pandemic in 2020, and 95% lost income, according to Americans for
Andrea Anacan
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She will compete in the non-contact kata competition.
Karate is making its debut at the Tokyo Olympics.
Anacan says she s honoured to represent New Zealand and karate. It means the world to me to be part of this New Zealand Team, said Anacan. I didn t ever dream of going to the Olympics when I started this sport, it s been a bit of a surprise to be honest. There s been a lot of hard work, I can t quantify the hours that me and my sensei have put in, we never could have imagined this but I couldn t be more excited.
Press Release – Ryman Healthcare
Ryman Healthcare’s very own resident Olympian Barry Magee learned some karate moves from Andrea Anacan, announced today as the first New Zealander to ever compete in karate at the Olympic Games.
Olympic medal winner Barry, who is a resident at Ryman’s Murray Halberg Retirement Village in Lynfield, presented Anacan with a fern to formally welcome her to the Olympic team.
While Barry won a bronze medal at the Rome Olympics in 1960 for the marathon event, he was happy to prove that you can still teach an ‘old dog’ new tricks, with Andrea taking him and the residents and media gathered through some basic kata drills.
Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 3:03 pm
Ryman Healthcare’s very own resident Olympian Barry
Magee learned some karate moves from Andrea Anacan,
announced today as the first New Zealander to ever compete
in karate at the Olympic Games.
Olympic medal winner
Barry, who is a resident at Ryman’s Murray Halberg
Retirement Village in Lynfield, presented Anacan with a fern
to formally welcome her to the Olympic team.
While
Barry won a bronze medal at the Rome Olympics in 1960 for
the marathon event, he was happy to prove that you can still
teach an ‘old dog’ new tricks, with Andrea taking him
and the residents and media gathered through some basic kata
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