With $50,000 in seed money, LAPP announces Bridge the Gaps, a fund to support fire-impacted artists in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Performance Practice reached out to over 1,372 members of our community to assess the impact of the wildfires on their well-being. Our findings may surprise you.
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.
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.
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 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.
The Crew Nation Global Relief Fund is committing $1 million to assist performing musicians, live music crew, and live music industry workers affected by the recent wildfires in Los Angeles. Established by Live Nation Entertainment in 2020, Crew Nation is dedicated to aiding music community members experiencing unforeseen hardships. In response to the wildfires’ devastation across L.A. County, Crew Nation has opened applications for grants up to $5,000 for individuals currently employed within the industry facing displacement expenses due to mandatory evacuation orders, damage, or loss.
KCRW Music Relief has compiled a list of resources for musicians affected by the wildfires that includes pro-bono studio time and recording services, gear-sharing and donations, and more.
Art Noir Jar of Love gives creatives of color access to funds and resources typically not reserved for them in the mainstream art world. To date, they have distributed over $300,000 in unrestricted grants, alleviating financial burdens and empowering artists to create and thrive. These microgrants are open to artists of all kinds, including performing artists, living in Los Angeles and adjacent tribal nations.
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Tuesday, December 8 // 1pm + 5pm
We are looking forward to an experimental revamping of our FREE ADVICE platform in December. What used to take place as in-person one-on-one advice sessions Upstairs at the Ace Hotel D.T.L.A. will now return in digital form, and in small groups.
Tuesday, October 20 // 5pm
Los Angeles Performance Practice hosts Cordelia Istel, Director of Organizing – Arts for LA, for an informal voter education event! This digital gathering will equip our community with crucial information about how to be an effective arts voter in 2020. Join us to learn about issues likely to impact the creative sector, including local elections and city, county, and statewide ballot initiatives.
Saturday, October 3 // 4:00pm
Performance artist, comedian, and elected representative Kristina Wong is taking her raucous campaign online to arouse civic engagement and counter-hijack our democracy. Is she more effective as a performance artist or a politician? Is there actually a difference between performance art and politics?
This fall On the Boards will present the newest iteration of Andrew Schneider’s ACTING STRANGER, re-developed in partnership with Seattle-based artists Minna Lee and Fox Whitney, director and curator Raelle Myrick-Hodges, and produced in partnership with Los Angeles Performance Practice. The project will then embark on a national tour over the next two years, generating a living archive of our post-pandemic world.
Join us virtually on July 29, 2020 for a conversation with 8 Los Angeles-based artists as they share their current creative needs and curiosities, which may or may not include: using technology to decolonize theatre and escape the Western canon, question leadership and accountability in our major institutions, artists as social workers, resiliency, our changing isolated bodies, nature and spirituality, systems, time, roots, funghi, repetition, and the microfauna growing on all of us.
We are thrilled to be part of the L.A. County Arts & Culture Internship program this year! Through L.A. County Arts & Culture, we are able to offer a paid internship to a currently enrolled undergraduate college student or recent graduate.