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Don't Let This Deadline Slip By: February 26, 2010

Posted by Emily Bowles, 3 weeks ago - 0 comments

Tags: musicians' residency, composers

MUSICIANS!  Friday, February 26 is the last day to submit your application for the Con Edison Musicians' Residency: Composition Program.

 

Six (6) residencies will be awarded, each providing a suitable workspace for three months plus a stipend.  In addition, each hosting facility will present a free public program featuring their resident composers' work (that's a built-in audience!).

 

Queens-based composers take note: four of the six residencies are open only to Queens residents and will be hosted by cultural facilities in Queens.

  

One of last year's winners, Matt Schickele, describes how his Con Edison Musicians' Residency helped his career:

 

"My residency at Flushing Town Hall in 2009 gave me the time and space, both physically and mentally, to complete the chamber opera that had until then been written in whatever niches of time I could find. Now the opera, which would have taken me ages to finish without the residency, is already being performed."

 

Full Residency Guidelines

Residency Application

 

Don't delay!  Apply today!

 

Con Edison Musicians' Residencies - DEADLINE IS FEB 26!

Posted by David Johnston, on February 2, 2010 - 0 comments

Tags: musicians' residency, composers, arts service orgs, free space, rehearsal space

For those musicians and composers in your life, taking up space in your apartment with their noise-making...  steer them to our Con Edision Musicians' Residency:  Composition Program, which is currently taking applications. We're putting six composers in residence in three facilites; Turtle Bay Music School, Florence E. Smith Community Center in Corona, Queens and Flushing Town Hall in historic Flushing.  (Site of the Flushing Remonstrance.  You've never heard of it?  Click here and find out.) 

 

Many thanks to the Clyde Fitch Report and American Opera Projects for the shout outs.

 

In other news...if you haven't already seen it, check out the New York Innovative Theater Foundation's latest study, a ground-breaking demographic survey of Off Off Broadway artists.

 

Con Edison Musicians' Residencies - We're BACK!

Posted by David Johnston, on January 20, 2010 - 0 comments

Tags: musicians' residency

Guidelines and applications are up for the next round of Con Edison Musicians' Residencies: Composition Program.  This time around, we're partnering with the City of New York  Department for the Aging to offer residencies at the Florence E. Smith Community Center in Corona, Queens.  In addition, we're continuing our partnership with the terrific Flushing Town Hall.  Composers based outside of Queens can apply for Turtle Bay Music School.  The deadline is February 26.  

Out with the Aughts: It's Twenty-Ten!

Posted by Emily Bowles, on January 19, 2010 - 0 comments

Tags: musicians' residency, studies, shameless self-promotion

 

Happy New Year from

NYC Performing Arts Spaces!

 

More than halfway through January and we're still writing "2009" occasionally...  but what better moment to reflect on the past year? 

 

 

We are certainly proud of our accomplishments, which included:
    

• * Keeping our online databases -- with over 1,600 detailed listings of New York City performing arts spaces -- completely free. 
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• * Using our Facebook page, Twitter, this blog and our e-newsletter, PAS/pace, to keep you informed of residencies, grants, events, housing opportunities and new spaces in the NYC performing arts community.
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• * Assessing the impact of the economic downturn on New York-based performing artists and cultural facilities via survey (read the results [PDF]).
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•  * Developing and awarding the first Con Edison Musicians' Residencies.

In 2010, we'll continue to build on these achievements by:

 

•     * Adding even more spaces for theatre, dance, music, film and special events to nycPASpaces.org.
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•     * Becoming the prototype for other space databases that will be developed in other U.S. cities.
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•     * Connecting more NYC musicians with their communities through an expansion of the Con Edison Musicians' Residencies: Composers Program (read the overview, guidelines and application here).
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•     * Continuing to study problems that impact performing artists in NYC, such as with our current Mellon Dance Space Needs Assessment Study.

We wish you peace, comfort and inspiration for the coming year!

Thanks for your continuing support!

Eugenie Cowan, Director
Kirsten Nordine, Program Director
David Johnston, Consultant and Program Director, Mellon Dance Study
Jonna McElrath, Administration, Mellon Dance Study
David Sheingold, Dance Community Consultant, Mellon Dance Study
Emily Bowles, Marketing Director

Coming Up...

Posted by David Johnston, on January 12, 2010 - 0 comments

Tags: musicians' residency

Information, applications and guidelines for the next round of our Con Edison Musicians' Residency program!  We're in the process of finalizing and tweaking our deadlines. So watch this space for criteria, deadlines, and new host facilities.  Very soon...