action items:
Just a quick personal note:
As some of you know I had been planning on leaving New York City this summer to finish the dissertation and then go off into the wide world of who knows what. Plans change. I am quite excited to report that as of this past week I will be sticking around and back in the trenches working as the new Director of Development at Performance Space 122. For a number of years I have had a great fondness for P.S. 122, everyone on staff there, and all the artists Vallejo has brought to us. All of that said, I will keep sending out these emails, but they will focus more on the training, submissions, requests, and advocacy things. In place of the show promotion section, I will begin including a new section -conversations- which will give you all links to artists in interviews, conversations, talks, etc.
So - first action item:
Go get a camera, or download the audioboo app, or use the built-in camera in your mac, sit down with a friend or two, and ask each other - why do we do what we do? or some other such question, load it up to youtube and send me the link!
okay now to business.
skip to:
conversations training requests for X submissions advocacy & services
check out:
The new Wiki for Contemporary Performance and help me build it - please!
conversations:
Playwright Lucy Thurber and director Lear deBessonet discuss their current project MONSTROSITY produced by 13P: watch!
Richard Foreman and Yehuda Duenyas have a chat after ASTRONOME - archive from April 2009: watch!
training opportunities:
NYFA is pleased to host Creative Capital in offering this workshop open to artists of all media. There is limited space and registration will be filled on a first-come first-served basis. This introductory workshop, based on Creative Capital's acclaimed weekend Professional Development workshop model, employs an integrated approach to Strategic Planning, covering topics such as time management, business management, communications and negotiation.
The workshop takes place on July 9.
For more information, visit: brownpapertickets.com/event/70047
TNT: Training, Networking, and Talks
The Funding Ecosystem: What you should know before you start fundraising
Led by: Kay Takeda, Director, Grants & Services, LMCC
This workshop reviews basic information that artists need as they begin to research and apply for grants. The session will review types of funding sources, frequently used terms in fundraising, what happens once your application is submitted, and processes to follow and understand from the initial inquiry through receipt of a grant. The goal of this workshop is to prepare artists to understand and better navigate the range of funding resources available to the field.
Workshop is free, but space is limited. Registration is required and accommodated on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Click here to sign up.
Date & Time : Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 6:30PM
Location : Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor
request for information/things/people:
The Work Office (TWO) is a multidisciplinary art project disguised as an employment agency. Informed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the Great Depression in the 1930s, TWO is a gesture to "make work" for visual and performing artists, writers, and others by giving them simple, idea-based assignments that explore, document, and improve life in New York. From a temporary, publicly accessible storefront office, TWO's administrators will hire employees, exhibit work, and distribute Depression-era wages during weekly Payday Parties.
Submit your application online, be interviewed, and, once "hired", choose an assignment, such as building a bridge, recording an oral history, designing a poster, cataloging existing WPA structures in New York, etc. Participants will have a week to complete their assignment, for which they will be paid $23.50, the weekly wage for an artist in the Federal One Project (the arts division of the WPA).
Applications accepted on a rolling basis through July 9th.
Need computers or software?
Nonprofit TechSoup.org received the 2008 ArtsTech Award from Carnegie Mellon University in recognition of product donations enabling the Arts to save over $100 million in expenses to date. TechSoup.org is a 501(c)3 making software donations to nonprofits from 35 major technology providers, including Microsoft, Cisco, Symantec, Intuit, and Adobe (for an administrative fee as little as 5% of retail cost). To qualify, organizations must be a 501(c)3 or a library. The Refurbished Computer Initiative gives nonprofits a chance to get low-cost, high-quality computers with a new operating system and up-to-date software (covered by a 90-day warranty).
Performance Space 122: Performance and rehearsal rental opportunities
DATES AVAILABLE AT PS 122: Upstairs Theatre (128 seats) Available August 3 – August 30 (4 weeks). Downstairs Theatre (70 seats) Available July 28 – August 30 (5 weeks).
REHEARSAL RENTAL RATES: Upstairs Theatre: $20 an hour or $1800 for weekly lockout Downstairs Theatre: $15 an hour or $1200 for weekly lockout. Rehearsal rental rates include use of work lights and boombox only. there is no access to lighting inventory or sound booth for rehearsals.
PERFORMANCE RENTAL RATES: Upstairs Theatre- $7000 per week. Includes light and sound package, technical support: 2 technicians, front of house, and inclusion on PS122 website.
Downstairs Theatre: $4000 per week. Includes light and sound package, technical support: 1 technician, front of house, and inclusion on PS122 website.
For more info: www.ps122.org or email rentals@ps122.org
calls for submission:
2009 NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA) Grants from $2,500 to $10,000 for Latino Artists and Organizations. The purpose of the NFA is to provide financial support to Latino working artists and small and mid-sized Latino arts organizations* in communities across the country. Additionally, NALAC strives to strengthen Latino artists and Latino arts organizations through direct training and technical assistance. Click here to view the list of forms required. The technical assistance period ends July 10.
Deadline: July 13
LMCC Swing Space Project-Based Residencies
Swing Space makes vacant spaces available to artists, arts groups, curators, and arts organizations for the development and presentation of new projects in the visual and performing arts. Projects recommended by our independent review panel will be considered for placement from November 2009 through July 2010 for residencies lasting 2–4 months.
LMCC new Governors Island opportunity: Please note LMCC intends to place recommended Swing Space visual and performing artists during this session at our new facility on Governors Island. Selected artists will be matched with space during an appropriate residency session according to their availability and project needs.
More information about Swing Space, including complete Application Guidelines, is available here.
Deadline: Wednesday, July 15 @ 5PM
Association of Performing Arts Presenters Announces Cultural Exchange Fund Travel Subsidy Program Cultural Exchange Fund awards grants to assist US-based presenters working to build partnerships with international artists, companies, and their collaborators.
Deadline: July 31
The Greenwall Foundation is accepting applications for their Arts and Humanities program.
The Greenwall Foundation is interested in supporting New York City’s cultural life and encourages requests from local arts groups and institutions. The Foundation’s grant giving focuses on emerging artists and the development of new artistic work. Applicants are encouraged to contact The Foundation’s Vice President for Program regarding their proposals well in advance of the application deadline.
Deadline: August 1
SPACE FOR CHANGE: New LINC Program Recognizes Innovation in
Development of Affordable Artist Spaces with Two Funding OpportunitiesTo learn more about Space for Change, read the ISA guidelines, and submit an application, visit www.lincnet.net/artist-space. For more information contact LINC at info@lincnet.net, or 646-731-3275. If you would like to download a PDF version of the guidelines and application, click here.
Deadline: August 24 @ 5PM (EDT).
The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) is now accepting applications for the third year of The Emerging Writers Group, an initiative that seeks to target playwrights at the earliest stages in their careers and nurture their artistic growth by providing necessary resources and support. In doing so, The Public hopes to create an artistic home for a diverse and exceptionally talented group of up-and-coming playwrights. This program is a component of The Public Writers Initiative, a long-term program that provides key support and resources for writers at every stage of their careers. Time Warner is the Founding Sponsor of The Public Writers Initiative. For more information, visit: publictheater.org/content/view/32/108
Deadline: August 28
LMCC: Borough-wide grants
MANHATTAN COMMUNITY ARTS FUND (MCAF) Provides grants of up to $5,000 for arts projects by individual artists and small nonprofit organizations.
FUND FOR CREATIVE COMMUNITIES (THE FUND) Provides grants of up to $5,000 to nonprofit organizations presenting arts projects that benefit Manhattan communities.
Two grants, one deadline: Tuesday, September 22, 2009.
Queens Community Arts Fund (QCAF) offers grants of up to $2,500 for individual artists residing in Queens and grants from $1,000 to $5,000 for non-profit organizations offering arts and cultural programming in Queens. Information sessions are mandatory for all first time applicants and previous applicants who have not applied within the last two years.
Deadlines
Non-profit organizations: Thursday, September 24, 2009
Individual Artists: Thursday, October 8, 2009
EMPAC The Artist in Residence program and The Scholar and Researcher in Residence Program
Deadlines Rolling
Union Square Awards Accepting Nominations
The Union Square Arts Award identifies innovative and creative arts programs that engage youth and families in low-income communities across the city. Consideration is given to all artistic disciplines – dance, theater, music, visual and media arts, and creative writing. The Union Square Arts Award consists of a grant up to $35,000. The Arts Award is made to organizations less than ten years old with annual operating budgets of less than $1 million.
Deadline: Nominations are accepted on a rolling basis.
advocacy made easy & human services for artists:
Email your SENATORS!
Federal: Urge Your Senators to Support the NEA
Write to your Senators Today!
On Friday, June 26, 2009, the full House of Representatives approved an FY 2010 spending bill that funds the National Endowment for the Arts at $170 million. This is a $15 million increase over current year but still below the agency's previous FY 1992 funding high of $176 million. Corresponding legislation in the Senate Appropriations Committee set NEA funding at $161.3 million, which meets the President's request but is $8.7 million less than this House proposal. Arts advocates must now put pressure on the Senate to match the funding level set in the House of Representatives.
one more little item....
No-Body Zone expanded out of Richard Foreman’s 1997 novel-in-parts “No-Body.”
From their statement:
“Can a media city-structure be built out of this book? We divided an audiobook recording among seven narrators, mostly previous Foreman actors. Using the recording process as a concrete method, and the narrators' bodies, histories, and recollections as a starting point, we gathered a spectrum of films, scripts, photos, recollections, city diagrams and material ephemera. Thus we tried to plan our city – and instead lost ourselves in spinning a paranoid web of incidentally connected work around the hermetic mythos of Foreman's theater -- a kind intertextual multi-lived hodge-podge/bricolage.
Like all hermetic projects, our No-Body archive shimmers with blind alleys, broken signs, and exploding hearts. In the liminal space between city and reverberation machine -- audiobook performance, hypertext plays, hard drive distribution, theatrical performance -- our audiobook, our website, and our thumbdrive vibrate together as No-Body. Our accreting remains in-process.
The Studio-X evening will produce another media artifact to be archived and broadcast: we will film the discussion and a performance of the new play 'Eastern/Western Meat Lessons' by Stephen Mosblech, a fragment-blending of Foreman's text and others, designed for the Studio-X space.”
Nobody Books is Greta Byrum, Stephen Mosblech, and Danny Snelson. www.nobodyzone.co
WHEN: Tuesday, July 14, 7 pm
WHAT:
Live Performance Eastern Western Meat Lessons written-designed by Stephen Mosblech, performed by Jay Smith, Sarah Dahlen, and Danny Snelson, with videopPerformance by Richard Foreman and Juliana Francis-Kelly.
Panel Discussion with Nobody Books.
Space is limited and registration is required
RSVP: gdb2106@columbia.edu
Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610, New York, NY 10014
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