Los Angeles Performance Practice is conducting a brief survey on the impact of the Los Angeles wildfires on the L.A. artist community. We care deeply about our artists and want to understand how the wildfires have affected you and your work. This survey is confidential and the answers will only be used to help our efforts to advocate for relief resources for L.A. artists. Please feel free to share widely.
This is an ongoing and active list. Please send any resources for performing artists impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires or other disasters to gina @ performancepractice . org
Major museums led by the Getty and including The MOCA, The Hammer, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, along with philanthropists like Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar and foundations like Steven Spielberg’s, have raised $12 million for an LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund. Applications open on Monday, January 20 at 9:00AM.
If you are self-employed, FEMA may be able to provide funds to repair or replace disaster-damaged tools and equipment required for your job. This help is available to a wide variety of applicants, including artists, musicians, and many other occupations.
MusiCares provides crisis relief, preventive care, recovery resources, and need-based financial assistance for people across all music professions. MusiCares is providing short-term disaster relief to those affected by the Los Angeles wildfires, including $1,500 in financial assistance and a $500 grocery card, to music professionals impacted. MusiCares disaster relief is intended to cover short-term costs, should you incur costs from evacuating (hotel, food, supplies). MusiCares is also able to provide additional support for individuals with considerable impact, including medical issues, mental health support, damaged music equipment or longer-term relocation needs.
Playwrights and librettists in need of financial aid due to the impact of the wildfires in Eaton Canyon, Pacific Palisades, and the greater Los Angeles area are eligible to apply for a Dramatists Guild Crisis Relief Grant. Crisis Relief Grants are available to support housing and utilities costs, medical bills, groceries, legal fees, and other essential expenses.
Infinite Flow Dance is offering eight LA Wildfire Relief Microgrants for Disabled Creatives. These grants are open to all disabled creatives who, through the January 2025 LA wildfires, either lost their homes (whether rented, owned, or shared), were displaced long term, and/or lost critical equipment used for their creative practice. Applications are due January 16.
If you are a craft artist impacted by disaster, The California Arts Council suggests The Craft Emergency Relief Fund‘s emergency relief assistance program, which includes grants, no-interest loans, access to resources, waivers and discounts on booth fees, and donations of craft supplies and equipment.
Entertainment Community Fund Emergency Financial Assistance is a program offering monetary assistance to performing artists and entertainment industry workers who have documented income within theater, film, television, music, radio and dance for the most recent six consecutive years. The organization will work with California-based applicants who don’t have access to the required documents to fulfill their application.
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation Disaster Relief Fund is a program designed to provide urgent financial assistance to SAG-AFTRA members who have been affected by a natural disaster. Currently, SAG-AFTRA is prioritizing Disaster Relief for members whose residences and/or vehicles have been destroyed by the Los Angeles wildfires.
June 10 & 11, 2022 from 4-7:30pm
Join us for this two-day outdoor workshop that invites us to cultivate our creative self-expression and intuitive movement while witnessing our surroundings.
All people of varying backgrounds/experience are welcome to participate.
We are thrilled to announce that for two upcoming FREE ADVICE sessions our team will be joined by colleagues in the field!
On April 26, 2022 we will be joined by our colleague, Alex Sloane, Associate Curator of Performance and Programs at MOCA, LA. On May 24, 2022 we will be joined by our colleague, Camille Jenkins, Programming Manager at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
LAPP is hosting an open Q&A on May 3rd at 1pm for Los Angeles artists to hear more about the upcoming opportunity for the MAP Fund from their team.
The MAP Fund announced their 2022 Grant Cycle, which will distribute $2.6M to new, live performance projects in the United States and its territories that connect with MAP’s mission to invest in artistic production as the critical foundation of imagining, and ultimately co-creating, a more equitable and vibrant society.
The application is open now and will close May 27, 2022 at 7:00pm E.T.
Los Angeles Performance Practice is thrilled to further expand on our Research + Development (R+D) program offerings by announcing a new residency opportunity for parents/guardians.
The program will support an early development process for two invited projects. Each invited residency will receive a $1,200 stipend, a $800 contribution towards childcare expenses, and one week or approximately 40 hours in a work/rehearsal space. We are open to artists constructing their time in a way that serves their creativity and their parenting lives, and will work with each invited artist to find an appropriate work space based on the project’s needs and the program’s available resources.
Monday, February 28, 2022 from 5-8:30pm.
In this workshop / session, we will set a personal intention for our practice together that will collectively invite in the potency of our desires, erotic potential, and dreams into the center of our space. Our bodies are our compass and we will tune, listen, confide in and with stillness, and from this sacred place allow what needs to happen to unfold. Technically speaking, we will move between healing circle orientations, club dancing and improvisational scores, and some distillations from biodynamic craniosacral therapy remixed with my own choreographic curanderx and divination practices.
Join us for three Tuesday working sessions, March 1, 8, and 15, led by Los Angeles Performance Practice’s founder and executive director, Miranda Wright and Development and Communications Manager, Deborah Reed. Our three session grant writing workshop is designed to leave you with a fully prepared proposal for your next grant application or project proposal.