We are excited to introduce you to the four Los Angeles-based artists participating in our 2021 Research + Development Residency program: Marsian De Lellis, Lindsey Lollie, Chelsea Zeffiro with Summer Dunsmore, and Xiaoyue Zhang.
ARE YOU OKAY? ARTIST RELIEF SURVEY
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.
EMERGENCY RELIEF RESOURCES FOR ARTISTS
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.
A 3-Part Workshop with Abigail Levine
April 7, 14, and 21, 2021
In this workshop, we’ll develop the writing we do as artists, both the creative—language to use within our work—and the practical—language to use to describe it. We’ll do exercises to source language from our bodies.
Netta Yerushalmy + Company
free online screening
Tuesday, March 23 // 2p pacific 5p eastern
Filmed during an ongoing global health crisis, while confronting the deep inequities and unbalanced power structures embedded in every system, this dance is a time capsule that we are still living in.
Online Screening & Conversation Co-Presented with On the Boards
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Join the creative team of Acting Stranger for an online screening of a selection of short videos captured in Seattle in September, along with a conversation about the work and process.
In Conversation
December 16, 2020 // 7:00p PST
As a follow up to our conversation in July with 8 LA Artists, we are bringing together a group of local arts leaders to support a generous exchange of ideas, practices, knowledge, and inspiration – across creative practices and disciplines.
Application Deadline: January 4, 2021
We are excited to announce the next round of Research + Development Residencies, designed to act as a catalyst for the development of new work by Los Angeles-based performance makers.