Deadline: 6-Jan-23
Applications for the 2023 – 23 PAD Showcase Program are open!
25 artists/ensembles will be selected for the 2022 – 22 PAD cohort. Each artist/ensemble will receive support from the expert video production team to create a professionally-produced live performance video which PAD will promote and showcase on a virtual cloud-based platform for international markets.
Benefits
- Artists/ensembles accepted into PAD Showcase — the ‘PAD cohort’ — receive support from the expert video production team to each create a professionally-produced live performance video.
- PAD will promote and showcase the cohort’s work to international markets via a virtual cloud-based platform.
- Additionally, the cohort will receive priority consideration in the selection process for PADX delegations — trips to international conferences and events with a focus on potential production and touring opportunities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Performing artists from all traditional, classical, contemporary, and culturally specific art forms — including musicians, hip-hop artists, spoken word artists, dancers, and performance groups — are eligible to apply.
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Applicants must:
- Be U.S.-based professional performing artists;
- Be U.S. citizens or have permanent resident status;
- Be planning to tour work within the coming three years.
- PAD encourages those who identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and/or LGBTQ+ to apply.
- There is no application fee for PAD.
Limitations
- There is a limit of one application per artist/ensemble.
- No more than two artists/ensembles represented by the same artist manager/agency will be recommended.
Requirements
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Those selected to showcase must:
- Be available to record and work with the showcase production team beginning March 2023.
- Coordinate with the production team to receive and return rented recording equipment.
- Agree to provide additional recording equipment and instruments at own expense.
- Be responsible for all necessary licenses and permissions to perform, promote, broadcast, transmit, and/or display all elements of their performance, including without limitation elements protected by copyright, trademark, patent, rights of privacy, rights of publicity, trade secret, and contract.
- Be responsible for any costs and arrangements related to the rental of recording space, travel, and lodging for the recording session.
For more information, visit PAD Showcase.
For more information, visit https://www.westarts.org/pad-showcase
