Arts Programming: BAE provides arts education programming in schools around the world, providing project-based and work-based opportunities for young people to develop a sense of safety, pride, and purpose.
Arts Programming: Events with the Broadway Women’s Alliance span from Happy Hour networking events, panel discussions, and Mom-centric programming.
Community Building:
“You Should Know Her” The BWA’s mission is to support, connect, and empower women on the business side of Broadway. With these core values in mind, we created “You Should Know Her,” a multiplatform series to highlight women working behind-the-scenes to make Broadway happen.
“The BWA Moms Group” is for any mom who works on or near Broadway: on stage, backstage, in an office, with theater people, etc. Working in this industry is hard and being a working mom is hard, and there aren’t many people who know the unique struggles of doing both. Sign up to join us here!
Education: The Business of Broadway offers an average of 2-3 courses each month, currently conducted virtually.
The Circle Keepers is a Brooklyn-based non-profit organization. They dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline by training youth organizers as restorative justice practitioners, participatory action researchers and socially conscious activists. By centering the lived experiences of youth leaders, and promoting peacemaking through cultural and educational community organizing that heal the harms of racial segregation in schools.
Arts Programming, Community Building & Education-
The Circle Keepers’ Sounds of Justice & Joy is a healing centered, trauma informed and culturally sustaining pedagogies based activist music education program that provides middle & high school students with opportunities to:
Listen to, research & analyze music about themes of identity, peace, justice, safety, belonging, mental health, and social justice, among other topics
Explore music making through a variety of different musical styles and genres, choosing their preferred instruments such as guitars, drums, keyboards, etc, as well as singing,
Compose original songs that tell their own stories as a way to make their voices heard.
Curate, Organize & Present socially conscious musical performances for their communities in efforts to engage community members and stakeholders in a process of transformation.
They stand affirmed in the words of Toni Cade Bambara, that: “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible!”
Education, Financial Assistance & Community Building:
The Cody Renard Richard Scholarship Program (CRR) encourages more Black, Asian, Latinx, Indigenous, and other students of color to pursue degrees in the theatrical management and non-performance artistic fields, such as Stage Management, Technical Theatre, Theatre Design, Playwriting, Directing or Theatre Management. The CRR Scholarship Program helps students reach their full artistic, academic and leadership potential by providing them: (1) a direct financial contribution to help ease the burden of the many costs of attending higher educational learning institutions, such as tuition, housing, textbooks and class fees. (2) a community of other young leaders to learn from and connect with; and (3) a series of workshops to build the knowledge, relationships and confidence to chart their own path in the industry. During the scholarship program, selected recipients will receive a scholarship for the spring semester at their respective institutions. Students will also receive an all expenses paid trip to New York City to meet with mentors and experience and learn about Broadway and New York’s theater scene in person.
Arts Programming: Creative Nations is an arts organization that works with Native artists to bring their work to life. They can support at every stage of the journey, from original inception to public presentation.
Community Building: A main focus of Creative Nation’s work is bringing local community together. Many of their events are free and open to the public, creating space for dialogue and interaction among Native and non-Native people.
Education: Creative Nations runs arts education programming for Native students in traditional arts, as well as writing education through their new First Storyteller’s Festival, currently. More expansion in educational offerings are expected as they grow.
Dance Data Project ®’s mission is to promote gender equity in the dance industry, including but not limited to ballet companies, by providing a metrics based analysis.
Through their research, programming, resources, and advocacy, DDP showcases and uplifts women throughout the dance industry. DDP focuses on leaders, both artistic & administrative, and artists of merit: choreographers, photographers, lighting, costume, set designers, and commissioned composers.
Founded in 2015 as a database, Dance Data Project® (DDP) was officially launched as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2019. Since then, their team has released 41 reports, and 16 mini reports or “Data Bytes” that focus on a specific problem or issue. DDP has also produced multiple virtual interview series (and one episode in person!), several advocacy campaigns, and extensive resources, including recurring listings of grants, fellowships and residency opportunities.
DDP began as an independent project researching the lack of new female choreographic works. DDP also examine gender imbalance in artistic and administrative leadership in dance companies, venues, and organizations. their research began with a focus on examining productions by companies generally rooted in or greatly influenced by the European classical form, but has since grown to examine modern and contemporary dance organizations and leaders.
The “ballet world” has only recently begun to discuss gender inequality in leadership. DDP uses their data to enrich conversations that create change. Through their original research and information derived from DDP Listening Tours, DDP highlights companies and initiatives that are making concrete gains in promoting female choreographers and women in leadership positions. Through sharing the results of their data analysis and acquired insights directly from the field, DDP designs programming specifically tailored to the needs of up-and-coming female talent in ballet.
Data Gathering- Dance Data Project® provides metrics-based analysis to examine the gender distribution of artistic and administrative leadership in dance companies, venues, and organizations. Using publicly available information, DDP ranks national and international dance companies based on their annual financial reporting from the IRS and other sources. DDP encourages the dance community to be forthright in its policies and procedures to help advance their mission toward full gender equity.
Education- “Raising the Barre: Curriculum for the Next Generation of Leadership in Dance” offers creative solutions to properly equip female dance leaders of the future with vital skills to strengthen their careers. This free series is accessible on the DDP website and each session is accompanied by a tangible resource. Viewers can watch and rewatch each episode and utilize the assets to compile a robust toolkit to build their careers.
“DDP Talks To” is an ongoing interview series engaging new & emerging talents as well as current leaders in the dance world: choreographers, art directors, journalists, dancers, set/lighting/costume designers, patrons, festival/venue programmers, etc.
“Moving Forces: Motherhood in Dance” compiles a series of conversations with working mothers in varying roles in the dance field to discuss their personal experiences, work-life balance, and recommendations to create an increasingly inclusive dance ecosystem.
“Global Conversations” is a series of bite-size interviews featuring some of the most notable leaders in ballet and the arts today. The series offers a holistic examination of the current state and potential future of classically derived dance as both an art form and a business.
Financial Opportunities: Design Action has previously offered micro-grants for Black and Indigenous students and have micro-commissioned early career artists to create installations.
Community Building and Education: Design Action regularly offers a variety community and networking events for theatrical designers as well as educational panels for rising designers with a focus on racial equity in the industry.
Arts Programming: Different Strokes is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to Making Theatre, Building Community, Facilitating Awareness, and Changing The World, One Play At A Time. Motivated by the belief that the arts are capable of bridging cultural and social gaps, we work to increase and sustain opportunities for diversity within the Western North Carolina performing arts community, and present works that confront issues of social diversity, in a provocative way.
Community Building: (DG) fosters a consistent and supportive community for theatre directors through membership, peer advocacy, and shared resource hubs. DGF offers virtual and in-person gatherings that center connection, dialogue, and mutual support across career stages.