Performing Arts Workshop

The highlights of our 2018 Student Showcase are live on YouTube! Listen to our young artists talk about their experiences and relive one of the most joyous celebrations of our community's growing voices. Videographer: Barni Axmed Qaasim

Reimagine Distance Learning is a sequential multi-language 15-30 session art program launched by Performing Arts Workshop in July 2020. Through a series of video lessons and individually designed community building curricula, students will have the opportunity to engage in learning, contextualizing, and practicing an art form in collaboration with a teaching artist and peers. Learn more and register for classes: https://www.performingartsworkshop.org/reimagine-distance-/

This week, ArtChangeUS launched the Cultural New Deal for Cultural and Racial Justice, in collaboration with the Center for Cultural Power, First Peoples Fund, NALAC, Race Forward, and Sipp Culture. It is a call for: -The support, recognition, and prioritization of the leadership of Black people, Indigenous peoples, and people of color.... -The reversal of long-term inequities in funding, hiring, and resources in the arts and culture sector. -Investment in arts and cultural ecosystems for Black, Indigenous, and communities of color. -Investment in building healthy communities through centering cultural and racial equity. -Accountability, commitment, and integrity in the pursuit of cultural and racial justice. Here’s the link to sign on: https://culturalnewdeal.com/

Our Reimagine Distance Learning courses start next week! We are still accepting students for Storytelling through Capoeira, Spoken Word, and Hip Hop. Please spread the word. Learn more: https://www.performingartsworkshop.org/reimagine-distance-/

Spoken Word Graphic Stories, Grade: 9-12 (ages 13-21) In this 15 session distance learning summer intensive, we will explore how to translate poetry into illustrations on paper. Students in this graphic poetry class will explore dialogue, space, color, intensity, perspective, and iconography to write dynamic poetry while we investigate, question, and challenge our own associations of words and pictures. At the end of the residency, we will turn a spoken word poetry piece into a complete illustrated comic, aiming to visualize the feelings, sounds, and aspects of our own identities that we explore in our poems. https://www.performingartsworkshop.org/reimagine-distanc//

Creative Movement Pre-K In this 15 session Creative Movement distance learning summer intensive, students will demonstrate an understanding of movement vocabularies, various movement techniques, physical relationship to space, choreography, and improvisation. Students will be encouraged to express their creativity and voice through exploring physical possibilities in their learning environment. A sharing session at the end of the course is optional for students who are interested. Program Dates: July 6, 2020 July 31, 2020 https://www.performingartsworkshop.org/reimagine-distanc//

Storytelling through Capoeira In this 15-session Capoeira distance learning summer intensive, Salê will be sharing body movement techniques, rituals, and acrobatics using capoeira storytelling. Students will be encouraged to document their own stories and capoeira learning through journaling and painting. They will explore their creativity by envisioning, creating, and rehearsing capoeira solo performances using acrobatics and capoeira body movements explored in the course. https://www.performingartsworkshop.org/reimagine-distanc//

Reimagine Distance Learning is a sequential multi language 15-30 session art program launched by Performing Arts Workshop in July 2020. Through a series of video lessons, and individually designed community building curricula, students will have the opportunity to engage in learning, contextualizing, and practicing an art form in collaboration with a teaching artist and peers. Stay tuned as we feature the courses that will be offered next month! More info and to register: https://www.performingartsworkshop.org/reimagine-distance-/

Remaining silent is violent and contradictory to our mission click through the link to read our full statement: https://drive.google.com//1JsL3fIOnzYZfD-2cr7UcEW8N3/view

HowlRound Theatre Commons hosts Weekly #ArtistResource Talks every Tuesday, webinars centering the voices and practices of disabled artists, arts programming and artistic development programming - especially for theater artists and playwrights https://howlround.com/upcoming-events

Dancing Alone Together aims to be a central resource for the dance world during this time of social distancing. Dancing Alone Together does not host classes or events, but rather collects information about the following types of online opportunities to make them easily accessible: -Live-Streamed Dance Classes -Dance-Making Prompts and Communities -Dance Performance Footage & Films https://dancingalonetogether.org/

The Center for Cultural Innovation CALI Accelerator program will award grants of up to $1,000 to emerging arts professionals affiliated with a nonprofit arts organization, with a priority for those whose perspectives are not well represented by the conventional arts and culture field, to practice their leadership vision and voice. Grants are awarded on a monthly basis throughout the year. https://www.cciarts.org/cgi/page.cgi/cali_grants.htm

The Workshop is hiring a Grants Manager! https://www.performingartsworkshop.org/careers/

Wide Open School is a free collection of the best online learning experiences for kids curated by the editors at Common Sense. Wide Open School will offer many resources that can be completed offline and on smartphones, as well as bilingual and English-language learner resources. https://wideopenschool.org/

In light of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the artist community, on March 18 Foundation for Contemporary Arts launched the FCA Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund. FCA is focusing its efforts on addressing the extraordinary need in the arts community as a result of COVID-19 and will not be accepting project-based applications until that need has abated. If you are an artist who has suffered financial losses as the result of a project cancelation or postponement due to COVID-19 you can apply for relief through our FCA Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund. https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org//emergency-g