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Foster City Arts and Culture Programs

Foster City Arts and Culture Committee

Here is an opportunity to share your interest in the arts while impacting a dynamic and changing city. Come help Foster City with their mission to promote arts and cultural activities in the community. To become a committee member, call 650-286-3251 or visit City Hall at 610 Foster City Blvd. to pick up an application.

Interested in displaying your art at the Foster City Art Gallery? The Gallery displays six to ten local Artists a year.  To be considered, please submit an application and work samples, to 650 Shell Blvd., Foster City, CA 94404, Attention: Art Gallery Submission.

Foster City International Writer's Contest

What began as a modest local community event back in the early 1970s has grown to become a contest with national and even international attention....

 

Foster City's Photography Contest

Start taking pictures for this fun contest!  You never know when you might snap an award winning picture.  The deadline is September 29, 2007!

 

A picture of the Foster City Community Chorus in concert.
Pictured above: The Foster City Community Chorus

Social Dances

Two dancers at a Foster City Ballroom Dance.Put on your dancin' shoes and dance the night away in a beautiful ballroom overlooking the Foster City Lagoon! This is a relaxing, smoke and alcohol free environment where you can meet other dance enthusiasts! A dance lesson is offered prior to each dance from 7-8pm. Dances are held in the Lagoon Room at the Foster City Recreation Center from 8-10:30pm. Please check the Upcoming Events Calendar specific dates.

 
For more information contact: 
Recreation Center
650 Shell Blvd
Foster City, CA 94404
Phone: (650) 286-3380
Fax: (650) 345-1408
Email: recreation@fostercity.org
Website: www.fostercity.org/recreation
Additional Resources
Hillbarn Theatre
One of the few remaining community theatres in the United States
1285 E. Hillsdale Blvd
Foster City, CA 94404
Phone: (650) 349-6411
Fax: (650) 349-6412
boxoffice@hillbarntheatre.org
Viva La Musica!
A vibrant, 50-voice mixed choir with a classical and multicultural repertoire. The mission of the choir is to provide a vehicle that allows the member participants to strive for and achieve personal musical excellence, and that challenges and delights the audience with a high quality, diverse concert experience.
Shulamit Hoffman, Artistic Director
Phone: (650) 349-9918
music@machutch.com
Foster City Community Chorus
A mixed-voice group offering a variety of musical literature, which also includes folk and popular songs. Rehearsals at the Audubon School, 841 Gull Ave, Foster City on Tuesdays, 7:30-9:30pm
Phone: (650) 513-5522
info@PeninsulaMusicalArts.org
Foster City Band
The Foster City Band is comprised of people with diverse backgrounds who share the same love for music.
Steve Chandler
Phone: (650) 345-3033
Foster City International Writers Contest