We are back! Offered since 2015, FREE ADVICE is an open and free consultation service with our staff. We make consultation sessions available throughout the year, and any artist in the region can sign up at no cost. Artists are encouraged to seek advice for a wide range of topics related to their work, from identifying grant and residency opportunities to locating creative communities and collaborators.
FREE ADVICE’s goals are:
- Provide support to contemporary LA arts workers by facilitating dialogue in a nurturing environment of ‘generous exchange’;
- Encourage network expansion for attendees;
- Provide helpful resources to arts workers that are new to them while also continuing to have a pulse on pressing issues facing contemporary artists and arts workers today.
This year we are offering two models:
FREE ADVICE (Online!): FREE ADVICE is now FREE (GROUP) ADVICE online! We are all working in a time of so much uncertainty, and we recognize we may not have the advice or answers you’re looking for these days. However, we’re very hopeful that by coming together, in small groups, we can learn to lean on each other as a creative community in Los Angeles. Available to any interested artist or producer, this program offers an opportunity to meet (virtually) as a small group to support a generous exchange of ideas, practices, knowledge, and inspiration. LAPP staff Miranda Wright Deborah Reed, and Patricia Garza will be in the room to offer any additional insight or knowledge of patterns in the field of contemporary performance.
Sessions will begin with a quick round of introductions, and will conclude with a summary of shared resources.
DECEMBER 10, 2021 at 10am-11:30am
FREE ADVICE (At WeWork in Downtown Los Angeles): We’re here to help! Los Angeles Performance Practice is offering free advice to local artists, in the form of 45-minute advisory sessions, hosted at our WeWork offices.
Current advisors include Miranda Wright, Deborah Reed, and Patricia Garza of Los Angeles Performance Practice. We specialize in contemporary performance and fundraising. You can read full bios of each of us here or specifics below:
About Miranda: I founded Los Angeles Performance Practice in 2010, to fill a need for a producing infrastructure for independent artists whose work I deeply admired. Over the past ten years, I’ve enjoyed getting to know artists, producers, designers, curators, and arts workers of all kinds here in Los Angeles and nationally. I have experience developing new works for touring, and love forming connections with friends and colleagues at arts festivals and art centers around the world. I’m happy to chat about your project ideas, finding creative community in Los Angeles, project budgets and overall project development.
About Deborah: My name is Deborah and I use she/her pronouns. I am a white Gen-X woman from New England, who has been living in Los Angeles for 20 years. My arts background is mostly theatre-focused, as an actor, director and producer. I would love to speak with you about the trajectory of your career, and how I might be able to help you find funding opportunities that will help you achieve your goals, and support specific projects.
About Patricia: A little bit about me as a human-I am a Latinx queer person, prefer they/them pronouns and have a background in theater at the regional level, new play development, dramaturgy, and ensemble-based theatrical practice. I am deeply invested in the local Los Angeles theater ecosystem. I also facilitate equity conversations nationally and love to talk about all things working towards our collective liberation. Of course, I’m also happy to chat about any available programs at LAPP and at the Network of Ensemble Theaters where I continue to consult.
Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP) is a producing organization and artists’ network dedicated to supporting Los Angeles’ unique contemporary performance community. Founded by Miranda Wright in 2010, it is composed of independent artists who create groundbreaking theatrical experiences through innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. By contributing to a shared knowledge, resources, and conversational critique; artists within this network will transform the cultural landscape of Los Angeles and beyond.
Please come to your session prepared with questions and any relevant information!
We ask anyone attending the in-person sessions to be fully vaccinated from COVID-19.
DECEMBER 16, 2021 with time slots at 3pm, 4pm, and 5pm with any member of our team.
