some random info I’ve compiled, hope it is helpful:
performance opportunities:
Max 10 at Electric Lodge (Venice) First Monday of every month – on hiatus in August & September
Max 10 Performance Laboratory is an uncurated event, a place to do brave work, experiment, and risk failure. Ten months a year, ten performers, ten minutes each and you never know what you are going to get!
max10@electriclodge.org
DanceSpot
Studio A Dance (Silver Lake)
new monthly series
http://www.studioadance.com/special/dancespot.shtmlREDCAT - Studio series - curated, by audition
http://redcat.org/participate/artist.phpand as always, don’t forget
Anatomy Riotlow-tech, small-scale works.
second Monday of the month
http://www.myspace.com/anatomyriot
Ledges and Bones Emerging ABOVE GROUNDseries
Unknown Theater presents dance regularly (by application), and has these late-night slots for new performance work, after the main event (theatre piece) and before
the band.
I don’t know if the Anatomy Riot contingent is interested, but there’s always room for 1-3 pieces that can act as a bridge, connect with an audience, and change the tone of the space. Would that be of interest to your connections and artists?
there is a calendar at DanceChannelTV.com,
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Somatic Movement Arts Festival in September @ Highways Performance Space.
ID Fest in January.(improvisation)
* soon to be released website tericarter.com will feature information on Somatic Movement, Tai Chi and Chi Gung (exercisetaichi.com), as well as the SOMA Fest (somafest.org).
* The Continuum studio has ongoing classes as well as numerous workshops (continuummovement.com).
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dance writing
(coming soon)
www.itchjournal.org
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http://www.pluginamp.com/amphome.html
an artists collective started by a local woman and in one year it’s grown to include 2000 artists in 63 countries. It’s main objective is to connect artists on a global level and help out with venues, lodging, etc..
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listings:
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and don’t forget the DRC (Dance Resource Center). they have a good performance calendar and resource lists on their site (under "News"), you can log in as a guest to view:
http://www.drc-la.org
---Southern CA Dance Directory has 457 professional dance companies and dance organizations - the address is:
http://www.LAChoreographersAndDancers.org/socaldancedirectory.html
non-profit info
Sign Up for the Los Angeles Culture Net listserv
The Arts Commission maintains LA Culture Net (LACN), a moderated listserv that provides a forum for arts administrators and artists in Los Angeles County to share information. The Arts Commission uses this listserv to communicate with the local arts community about its programs. Other contributors use LACN to:
• Announce job openings, volunteer options, and calls for artists;
• Share grant opportunities;
• Initiate art/cultural policy discussions;
• Issue calls for action to arts advocates;
• Make supplies available to arts groups/artists; and
• Notify people about arts workshops and professional development classes.
To access LA Culture Net, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laculturenet
To subscribe: laculturenet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
To post messages: laculturenet@yahoogroups.com
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Los Angeles County Arts Commission:
in addition to their grants programs and the Ford, they have a useful technical assistance program and their summer multicultural internship program.
information on the Los Angeles County Arts Commission’s grant program at
http://www.lacountyarts.org/grants.html
L.A. Department of Cultural Affairs,
http://www.culturela.org/
Center for Cultural Innovation:
http://cciarts.org
The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) was launched in 2001 to promote knowledge sharing, networking and financial independence for individual artists and creative entrepreneurs by providing business training, grants and loans, and incubating innovative projects that create new program knowledge, tools and practices for artists in the field.
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130 PAID SUMMER INTERNSHIPS IN THE ARTS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY ARTS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Los Angeles County, through its Arts Commission, has given grants totaling $530,000 to 90 performing, literary, media and municipal arts organizations throughout Los Angeles County to support paid internships for college undergraduates in summer 2007.
Descriptions of and contacts for the 130 internship positions are posted on the Arts Commission’s web site. Go to www.lacountyarts.org
.. , click on Internships, then 2007
Internship Database. (The direct link is
http://www.lacountyarts.org/internship_positions07.pdf.) The positions are searchable by arts discipline, professional area/department, region and keyword.
Interested undergraduates should apply directly to the organization offering the internship, not the Arts Commission.
College undergraduates either resident in or attending school in Los Angeles County are eligible for the internships. Interns are paid $350 per week for ten weeks and take part in educational and arts networking activities. Through the program, interns gain a deeper understanding of the work involved in nonprofit arts administration and the role of the
arts in a community, and develop business skills that can be put to use in their future careers. Internship host organizations help mold and shape potential new workers in the arts field who may go on to arts leadership positions on staffs, boards or as volunteers.
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SideStreet Projects (Pasadena):
http://www.sidestreet.org/services/index.html
offers professional development workshops for individual artists, such as
Get Your Shit Together, Get Your Grant Together, etc.
Also, a rental program for technical equipment (projectors?) and a work-working workshop open to the community (build your sets here).
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http://arts.santa-monica.org
Cultural Affairs has three types of grants:
Organization Support Grants, Community Arts Grants and Education Transportation Grants. Unfortunately, we don’t have an ’emergency fund’ or individual artists grants at the moment. However, with the impending adoption of the Creative Capital Cultural Plan, we will be embarking on a re-evaluation of the grants programs and hopefully developing new types of grants programs that would support this type of project/situation.
For more information about the existing grant programs outlined above, please see our website at: http://arts.santa-monica.org/programs/index.html
Cultural Affairs Division
City of Santa Monica
1685 Main Street, Rm. 106
Santa Monica, CA 90401
310.458.8350
310.917.6641 FAX
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Community Partners:
http://communitypartners.org/
We act as a catalyst for community change, civic action and readiness by offering critical support, guidance and training to a range of nonprofit organizations, initiatives, foundations, government agencies and social entrepreneurs with innovative ideas for building communities. We work to recognize, invest in and celebrate the critical role individuals and groups play in achieving a just, vibrant civil society.
incubating a new nonprofit organization; fiscal sponsorship; workshop on whether and how to incorporate as a nonprofit.
The Law Firm for Non-Profits:
like the name sounds, nonprofit clients only. Very arts-knowledgeable.
http://lfnp.com/
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Dance Camera West
http://www.dancecamerawest.org
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Join the Ford’s email list to receive program updates and special offers... Go to
http://www.fordamphitheatre.org
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California Lawyers for the Arts
http://www.calawyersforthearts.org
workshops for how to organize as a non-profit, immigration issues for artists, etc.
TO REGISTER: Call California Lawyers for the Arts at (310) 998-5590,
or send an email to us (including your contact information) at
UserCLA@aol.com
(regular office hours are 10:00am – 5:00pm., Monday through Friday.)
California Lawyers for the Arts is a non-profit service organization providing legal services and information for the arts community since 1974.
Become our Myspace Friend! http://www.myspace.com/calilawarts
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Center for Nonprofit Management:
various management consulting and training resources (not arts-specific).
http://www.cnmsocal.org/