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Presenting

Leanne Tintori Wells, Senior Program Officer
(212) 741-7013
Arian Blanco, Program Officer (212) 741-6226

Presenting aims to develop, nurture, and strengthen presenters of the live professional performing arts through grants and services. There are four categories of support: Presentation, General Operating Support, General Program Support, and Services to the Field.

Goals:

Encourage the presentation of innovative and culturally diverse performances exemplifying artistic excellence.

Encourage the understanding and appreciation of performing artists and their work by diverse audiences of all ages, including the presentation of artistically innovative work for children and family audiences.

Encourage the development of new presenters in regions of the state with a scarcity of professional performing arts activity or an absence of a particular art form.

Advance the presenting field in areas of planning, programming, marketing, and management through dialogues, technical assistance, and use of new technologies.

Priorities and Prerequisites

Priorities:

Programs or activities that present contemporary and new commissioned works.

Programming that represents a broad range of culturally diverse work, particularly work by international artists, lesser known artists, women artists, or artists of color.

Projects that explore new directions involving performing artists, multi-media, and hybrid art forms.

Co-presentation efforts in which two or more partners share in the expenses and income.

Presenters that operate in economically depressed communities, as well as presenters that own and/or operate theatrical facilities.

Prerequisites:

Presenting considers support for only those organizations that engage, present and promote professional performing artists and are committed to paying artists a contracted minimum guaranteed fee. Guaranteed fees accompanied by share-of-gate arrangements are acceptable.

The following activities are not eligible:

Single and two-day festivals (unless incorporated within a larger presenting season)

Competitions, contests, talent showcases, parades

Poetry readings (unless incorporated within a performance context) or staged readings

Magic shows, ventriloquists

Lectures

In-school classroom activity, master classes, or workshops

Presentations or events that include the presentation of the organization's own work or work of their staff or board members, even when the project includes guest artists

Student work

New and Returning Applicants

New applicants to Presenting and those applicants returning after an absence of more than two years are expected to contact staff well before the registration deadline to arrange for a consultation. This consultation provides a valuable interaction between staff and applicant which will help guide you in developing your NYSCA application.

Generally, first time grants do not exceed $5,000.

Artistic Evaluation

NYSCA must be able to evaluate an applicant's artistic quality on an ongoing basis. It is the responsibility of all current and prospective applicants to inform staff of public programs or events well in advance of the event date. This is required so that staff, advisory panelists, or auditors may attend and evaluate the events. Email notification is welcome at pop@nysca.org.

Evaluative Criteria

Grant requests are evaluated in accordance with agency-wide criteria.

NYSCA believes in honoring aesthetic and artistic excellence that reflects creative diversity without cultural boundaries and an evaluation process that embraces the widest spectrum of cultural expression offered to the public, in a broad array of settings and contexts -- from classrooms and community centers, to parks and open spaces, to more traditional venues. NYSCA celebrates artistic pluralism and welcomes requests from organizations serving all of the communities that make up New York State. These include the physically challenged, immigrants and other communities with special needs.

Presenting

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General Operating Support

General Program Support

Presentation

Regrants and Partnerships

Services to the Field

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