BAX Announces 2016 Artist Services Day

BAX / Brooklyn Arts Exchange is hosting the third annual ARTIST SERVICES DAY on Sunday, February 7, 2016, featuring an array of talks and workshops designed to support working dance, theater, performance artists and their supporters.

Workshop Schedule

SESSION WITH DANCING WHILE BLACK FELLOWS 11:00 - 12:30 Digging into issues identified by the 2015-16 cohort of DWB Fellows
The Dancing While Black 2015-16 Fellowship brings together eight emerging Black choreographers to spend six months engaged in a collective developmental process which includes intimate workshops with seasoned artists Onye Ozuzu, Jawole Zollar and Ishmael Houston-Jones. The cohort includes: Brother(hood) Dance! (Orlando Hunter and Ricarrdo Valentine), Jonathan Gonzalez, Marguerite Hemmings, Sydnie L. Mosley, Candace Thompson, Shamar Watt, and nyx zierhut.

Directed by BAX/AIR Paloma McGregor and supported by the Surdna Foundation.

PARENT/ARTISTS CREATE
11:00- 1:00
Join Adrienne Westwood, Nami Yamamoto, Karen Grenke and Sarita Covington. These four PARENT ARTISTS who have been recipients of the BAX Parent/Artist Space Grant invite you to join them (with your kids) to create community and art as a family. It will be fun, open, and is an opportunity for parent-artists together with their children of all ages to engage in creative exploration.

LEARN ABOUT BAX AIR AND SPAC E GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
11:30 - 12:30
A Q&A with BAX Founding & Executive Director Marya Warshaw.

APPETIZER WORKSHOP FOR ACRE (Artists Co-creating Real Equity)
1:00 - 3:00
The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond focuses on understanding what racism is, where is comes from, how is functions, why it persists and how it can be undone.
This workshop will serve as an introduction to or an "appetizer" for The People's Institute 2.5 day training entitled UNDERSTANDING & UNDOING RACISM -- COMMUNITY ORGANIZING FOR ARTISTS.
It will focus on:
How can we add equity to arts funding?
How do our solidarity movements thrive or not?
How can we improve our community engagement & "audience development?"

BAX/ARTIST IN RESIDENCE OPEN STUDIOS
1:00 - 3:00
Choreographer Ni'Ja Witson and Playwright/Director Will Davis

The Helix Queer Performance Network Presents: WHAT DOES QUEER PERFORMANCE WANT (PART 2): A Long Table Conversation
3:30 - 5:00 A free-flowing conversation about queer performance, this town hall forum will give intersecting queer communities, artists and audiences a chance to engage with the issues facing us today. Utilizing Lois Weaver's Long Table format, everyone is welcome to participate, and no topic is off limits. Part 1 of this event, in December 2012, was one of the motivating factors behind founding The Helix Queer Performance Network.

MULTIPLE ENTRY POINTS INTO CREATIVE COLLABORATIVE WORK
3:00 - 5:00
Facilitated by Donna Costello and BAX Youth Education Celebrating and drawing from 25 years of BAX teaching and learning, this workshop will highlight three entry points - skill building, experiential activities, and personal inquiry - that facilitators can draw upon when creating collaborative performance work with young artists. Through three BAX program scenarios - studio program, seasonal program, and public school art residencies - participants will experience and discuss how these entry points can be harnessed and built upon to create original work. Additional key teaching and learning terms and tools, including BAX Best Practices, will be provided.

REPORT OUT
5:00 - 5:30
Two minute summary/share on each workshop. Everyone is welcome. We will look at themes that have emerged throughout the day. Notes will be published at a later date.

THE PARTNERSHIP - Artists and Artistic Directors, Funders, Producers
5:30 - 7:00
What makes for a dynamic, fruitful partnership? What constitutes a strong relationship between an artist and an organization?
Join us to have a conversation on what makes an organization relevant and accessible to artists and communities? Where do funders fit in? What do artists know and what would serve them to understand about the institutions they interact with?
Confirmed: luciana achugar, Moira Brennan, Will Davis, Levi Gonzalez, Taylor Mac, Malcolm Jason Low, Craig Peterson, Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Risa Shoup, Maria Striar, Shay Wafer, Sacha Yanow.

25TH ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION AND LAUNCH!!
7:00
After a full day of inspiring and provocative discussion and community, join us for an hour of fun and celebration as BAX kicks off its 25th year of arts and artists in progress.
ABOUT BAX Founded in 1991, BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange, is a community based performing arts center dedicated to developing artists of all ages, from children to professionals. The organization offers community access to arts and culture, supporting the creation of new work by emerging artists, engaging diverse audiences and providing arts education to youth and families. BAX has intentionally constructed an environment where children study and professional artists create under the same roof. Students are mentored by professional directors and choreographers. The organization's distinct focus on developmental process makes it a nurturing incubator for experimental dance and theater artists and is an important advocate for under-represented voices in the New York City performing arts community.

For more information about BAX and its programs please call 718-832-0018, email press@bax.org or visit us on the web at www.bax.org.

FUNDINGBAX's Artist Services Programs receive generous funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, and the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation.

The 2016 ARTIST SERVICES DAY workshops are sponsored through the underwriting and generous contributions of the Scott Klein Team at Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

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