Los Angeles Performance Practice is excited to launch CONCENTRATE, a six-month workspace residency which provides two arts workers with round-the-clock access to a shared office space with LAPP staff including a rotating desk shared with their fellow resident partner, business services, meeting spaces, and larger opportunities to engage with the WeWork community.
Participants will also have hosted active monthly gatherings for peer support on their journey as well as engagement with the LAPP team. In addition, they will be invited to participate in another administrative focused program LAPP is creating (soon-to-be announced) which is aimed at providing support for artists and/or independent producers to make ten critical movements towards their own sustainability.
As our field emerges from a time of severe isolation due the pandemic of COVID-19, there is an ongoing need to combat the loneliness arts workers have experienced during this time as well as boost infrastructure support for them to get back to creating. The life of an arts worker is one filled with visioning, rehearsal, collaboration, and practice but it is also the reality that an arts worker’s life is also filled with paperwork, grant applications, emails and project proposals.
CONCENTRATE’s goals are:
- Provide support to contemporary LA arts workers to deepen their administrative focus in a shared workspace setting;
- Combat isolation and encourage collaboration through cohort gatherings and conversations as well as sharing of resources;
- Alleviate the challenge of focusing in a home environment while providing access to professional business services;
- Document and share how having workspace access impacts an artistic practice.
2022 Interest Forms are Now Closed.
Selection Process:
Residency interest forms will be reviewed by LAPP staff: Miranda Wright, Patricia Garza, Deborah Reed, and Elaine Nguyen. The staff will select two arts workers to receive the six-month workspace. Final candidates for participation will be asked to attend an in-person conversation.
Residencies will be selected based on the following criteria:
Los Angeles based artists and independent producers who are working in contemporary performance and actively involved in generating new projects.
Demonstration that a workspace residency would be critical for the arts worker’s administrative focus.
Interest in participating in a shared workspace setting including collaborating through a cohort model.
In alignment with our Board-adopted Cultural Equity & Inclusion policy, we will prioritize interest made by female-identifying, non-binary and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color arts workers, however, we welcome forms from independent artists and producers of all backgrounds.
All invited participants must show proof of vaccination from COVID-19.
Questions?
Please contact Patricia Garza at [email protected].
