CREATIVE FAMILIES RESIDENCY

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ABOUT THE RESIDENCY

As a member of Brooklyn’s creative community for over 30 years, White Bird Productions is acutely aware of the challenges facing artists making work and supporting a family in the face of a cost of living crisis. We also understand that this crisis has disproportionately affected the economic wellbeing of women – and particularly women of color.

The Creative Families Residency aims to address these issues and the growing precarity of our city’s creative ecosystems by offering artists who identify as women, and rent-stressed or housing insecure parents the support they need to continue making work in such a challenging context.

Though not a requirement for residency, we are particularly interested in supporting artists whose work directly responds to the experience of living in Brooklyn and addresses urgent issues facing its communities.

HOW THE RESIDENCY WORKS

White Bird will run two residencies in 2024 with one artist selected for each:

RESIDENCY A: July 8 – 19

RESIDENCY B: Aug 5 – Aug 16

Both residents will receive:

            • A stipend of $1,000.
            • All-day access to a desk in a co-working space in or near White Bird’s Summer Theater Workshop.
            • A community sharing in December 2024 hosted by White Bird.

ELIGIBILITY

Open to artists identifying as theater/performance practitioners (performers, playwrights, designers, puppeteers, directors, producers, movers), prioritizing those who identify as rent-stressed and/or low-income.

The residency is open to Brooklyn residents who identify as a woman or non-binary.

Applicants must identify as the caregiver of at least one child ages 4 – 15 at time of application.

No group applications accepted.

Residency activities should be possible within a co-working space. This residency is ideal for writing, designing, producing, dreaming. It is not designed to provide resources (space, budget, etc) for a rehearsal process. If this is an integral part of a proposed project/application, specify how you will support rehearsal/production activities.

Must be 18 or older.

APPLICATION DEADLINE

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Applications must be submitted by 11:59pm on Friday, May 31, 2024. Residents will be announced no later than Wednesday, June 5, 2024.