NYC Performing Arts Spaces Blog

Free Space in Tribeca as Your "Blank Canvas"

Posted by Emily Bowles, 1 week ago - 0 comments

Tags: rehearsal space, theatre, residencies, call for applications, free space, music, dance

Space on White, a new facility in Tribeca, is seeking an innovative, artistic NYC organization to be its resident company.  And they hope to find one through a video contest that they are calling "The Blank Canvas Giveaway"!

 

If you are an artistic, theatre, dance, music or production company looking for a rehearsal and performance "home", develop a short performance skit on video (1-4 minutes), showcasing your organization’s talents and mission while answering Space on White's prompt question: “What could you do with Space on White as your blank canvas?”  More contest details are available here.

 

There will be two winners chosen: 

 

FIRST PLACE (by judges' vote): 80 hours of free space at Space on White, as well as a residency, which includes publicity through Space on White, storage space, and more.

 

SECOND PLACE (determined by highest number of views on the Space on White YouTube channel): 50 hours of free space at Space on White.

 

Click here for contest details and more information about Space on White.

Performing DIY-Types Sought for New Year's Bash: "Transmutation"

Posted by Emily Bowles, on November 9, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: performance opportunities, call for applications

Party people Winkel and Balktick have entertained the underground and NYC fringe folk for years (view their Flickr photos to see what colorful mayhem you've missed).  So, of course, they're pulling out all the stops for New Year's Eve 2010 and invite performing artists to be a part of the fun.

Fittingly called "Transmutation", the NYE 2010 fête-performance will be held on "the entire second floor of a 100-year-old warehouse featuring two enormous rooms with panoramic windows, 16' riggable ceilings, round columns, and level concrete floors."  There's a lot of alchemic possibility there... 

All the details are spelled out in this offical RFP:  Transmutation.pdf

 

If, after reading the PDF, you find your interest piqued, bring your questions, ideas and creative pals to the New Year's Eve Meeting & Social:

Tuesday, November 24 at Winkel's.
135 Plymouth St #208 in Dumbo, Brooklyn.  F to York St, A/C to High St.
Food and drink will be served.

Doors at 7:30 PM. Meeting at 8 PM.  
At 9 PM, everyone will be shuttled to the warehouse for a walkthrough of the space.  By 11 PM, everyone will be back in Dumbo.

RSVP to alchemy@wandbnyc.com requested, but not required.  There will be another meeting in a few weeks.

 

Image: Wedding of Wilkel & Balktick, April 2009, (c) 2009 Shoko Yanagawa

2010 Queens Community Arts Fund Grants

Posted by Kirsten Nordine, on July 23, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: grants, call for applications, queens, fundraising

Attention Queens artists:  Applications are now being accepted for the Queens Community Arts Fund (QCAF), which is administered by Queens Council on the Arts (QCA).  These grants are available to individual artists of any discipline and non-profit (or fiscally sponsored) organizations creating arts and cultural programming in the borough of Queens.  In 2009, QCAF awarded $232,400 to 18 individual artists and 42 organizations.

For those who are interested in applying, QCA is providing several grant workshops before the fall application deadline.  These information sessions are required for all first-time applicants, as well as previous applications who have not applied within the last two years. 

The next info session for organizations interested in applying is Monday, August 10, 5:30pm - 7:30pm at Cambria Heights Library, 218-13 Linden Blvd, Cambria Heights.

The next info session for individuals is Thursday, August 13, 6:00pm - 8:00pm at LaGuardia Community College, 31-10 Thomson Ave, Room E-500 in Long Island City.

Application deadlines are Thursday, September 24 for individuals and Thursday, October 8 for organizations.

Full guidelines, as well as a list of information sessions and the online application can be found at www.queenscouncilarts.org, or contact Katie Tuss, Arts Fund Coordinator, at 347-505-3019, or ktuss@queenscouncilarts.org, for additional information.

Duo Multicultural Arts Center Looking to Premiere 5 New Dance Works

Posted by Kirsten Nordine, on July 22, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: rehearsal space, performance opportunities, dancers, east village, choreographers, call for applications, fourth arts block

Hey dancers and choreographers!  This just in from Duo Multicultural Arts Center:

DANCE@DMAC December 2009 Commissions

DMAC- Duo Multicultural Arts Center 62 East 4th Street East Village is seeking to commission and premiere 5 new  dance works. The new works will be premiered December 7-11, 2009  in our beautiful turn of the century playhouse. Each piece must be between 8-10 minutes in length. Choreographers will receive a commission fee of $500.00 and adequate rehearsal time in one of our studios. The program is being curated by Lisa Rinehart and Michelangelo Alasa’ .

Since 2008, DMAC has presented 16 new dance premieres by Aszure Barton, Keely Garfield, Julian Barnett, Maria Hassabi, Alex Escalante, Anna Sperber, Deganit Shemy, Ariane Anthony, Claire Porter, Yin Yue, Kelley Donovan, Art Bridgeman, Myrna Packer, Nicole Wolcott, Catherine Galasso, Lauri Stallings, Carlos Velazquez as well as guest performances by Doug Elkin, David Parker and the Bang Group, Carlos Velazquez and the Rod Rodgers Dance Company.

Click to download application
 

The application deadline is September 15, 2009

The Work Office (TWO) is Now Hiring! Wait, $23.50 in Weekly Wages?

Posted by Emily Bowles, on June 16, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: economy, chashama, multi-disciplinary, call for applications

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 -- and made possible in part by chashama and a grant from the Black Rock Arts Foundation -- 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 City.

 

From a temporary, publicly accessible storefront office, TWO's administrators will hire employees, exhibit work, and distribute Depression-era wages during weekly Payday Parties.

You are invited to submit your application online, be interviewed, and, once hired, choose one of TWO's assignments:

 

* Build a bridge

* Make a regional travel guide for your block or neighborhood

* Record an oral history

* Reinterpret a newspaper photograph

* Design a poster to promote something

* Make a mixed CD related to...

* Catalog existing WPA structures in New York

...and more! 

 

You will have one week to complete your assignment, for which you will be paid $23.50 (now, before you sarcastically shout, "woo hoo!", know that $23.50 was the weekly wage for an artist in the Federal One Project, the arts division of the WPA).  TWO will hold a Payday Party each Friday evening in July at the office.  Employees will collect their wages and the public will be invited to view the week’s works and learn about the project.

Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis through July 9th.  Visit www.theworkoffice.com for details and an application.  Questions? Call 212-901-0659 or email to apply@theworkoffice.com.