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.
For this year’s Festival, we are excited to partner with the Vaccinate All 58 (VA58) Neighborhood Partnership Program and host an informational booth at our check-in. The Vaccinate All 58 (VA58) Neighborhood Partnership Program aims to educate community members on safe practices for the prevention of COVID-19 and importance of vaccinations.
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CASUAL returns on October 18 + 22! CASUAL provides Los Angeles artists with an opportunity to show a work in process. CASUAL supports artists who are looking to engage in a critical exchange with audiences by presenting their work in the early to mid stages of development. The new work can be loose. Anything between the spark of an idea or an excerpt from a new performance that is ready to be tested in front of an audience. CASUAL aims to create a space for experimentation with a friendly audience that feels useful to the artist’s practice and process.
Touch Praxis is a collaborative project exploring touch as a time-based medium and co-creative knowledge practice. Through workshops, reading groups, interviews and touch improvisation, we research and practice different dimensions of tactility, from the high stakes context of viral transmission and police violence, to the consent negotiations woven through every part of our lives.
Jasmine Orpilla’s ORASYON: A multilingual experimental operatic installation, is sung and danced in solo, sound-activated courtship choreography, inspired by the poetry of Jasmine’s grandmother’s Ilokano call & response dallot love-song tradition and the protective incantations of Jasmine’s albularyo-practicing grandfather from the Philippines.
CASUAL returns! CASUAL provides Los Angeles artists with an opportunity to show a work in process.
Interest Forms Now Open!
Due September 2, 2022
Beck+Col, Los Angeles based artist duo, worked on their piece Cyber Forest drawing the connection between a for-profit system that is not in our best interest as a species, and the depletion of essential natural resources that has directly led to the current climate crisis and loss of biodiversity.