Adding to our December return of FREE ADVICE, we are excited to announce additional dates for upcoming offerings.
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, 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.
April 5, 2022 from 6pm-7:30pm PST
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.
We are also thrilled to announce that for the remaining FREE ADVICE sessions our colleague, Alex Sloane, Associate Curator of Performance and Programs at MOCA, LA, will be joining us! Read more about Alex 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.
About Alex: I am originally from the UK but have been in the US since 2009 and am currently the Associate Curator of Performance and Programs at MOCA, LA. I have been in LA for just under a year and came to my new position with the intention of expanding the scope and breadth of performance and public programming at the museum. Prior to arriving in LA, I worked as the Assistant Curator at MoMA PS1 in New York City, where I advocated for institutions to support the creation and development of new work through commissions and residencies – something I hope to continue here in LA. I would love to talk more about your practice, project development, and how institutions can best support you and your work.
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.
About MOCA, LA:
Established in 1979, MOCA is the only artist-founded museum in Los Angeles. They are dedicated to collecting and exhibiting contemporary art. MOCA houses one of the most compelling collections of contemporary art in the world, comprising roughly 7000 objects, and have a diverse history of ground-breaking, historically-significant exhibitions.
MOCA is committed to the collection, presentation, and interpretation of art created after 1940, in all media, and to preserving that work for future generations. They provide leadership in the field by identifying and presenting the most significant and challenging art of our time, actively supporting the creation of new work, and producing original scholarship.
With two distinct venues in Los Angeles—MOCA Grand Avenue, and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA—and Michael Heizer’s seminal artwork Double Negative (1969-70) in the Nevada desert, MOCA engages audiences through an ambitious program of exhibitions, educational programs, and publishing.
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.
APRIL 26, 2022 with time slots at 4pm, 5pm, and 6pm with any advisor available.
