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Greetings, Our Practice folks! My apologies for skipping April - it was a packed month and time got away from me. But here we are back in the habit with all things May!

Don’t forget to follow @ourpracticenyc on Instagram where I reshare lots of events and links. If you are producing something, tag us or send our way!

ID: Purple, beige and orange abstract shapes dot the background. Black text describes an upcoming event (written below). Facilitators are pictured in the lower left corner. One has long dark hair, light olive skin and is wearing a maroon off the shoulder flower top. The other has curly dark hair and a beard and is wearing a purple and orange collared shirt and large glasses.

Workshop: GET SHAMELE$S ABOUT YOUR ART AS A BUSINESS! A Financial Wellness Workshop for Arts Workers
from Asian American Arts Alliance
May 3, 2023 from 6:30-8pm In-Person

“Our dreams of being creatives didn’t include having to be our own accountant, bookkeeper, HR, insurance specialist, marketing, merch desk, shipping, and personal assistant too! This workshop will help you set up your writing/freelance work like a business so you can set up systems, stop overthinking, and get out of your own way.” Link here!

ID: An Indigenous teacher sits on a stool of books and reads to a class of young people. The class consists of folks of multiple ages, races, genders and identities. There are other learning tools in front of them on a blu rug, such as a bone, feather, goggles and book and pencils.

Workshop: Learning from the Land: Deferring to Indigenous Leadership to Transform the Experience of Education
from OJI:SDA’ SUSTAINABLE INDIGENOUS FUTURES
May 13, 2023 10am-4pm EST - Online!
“Join us and learn about why aligning instructional decisions you make with Indigenous teachings from the Haudenosaunee confederacy and other nations can significantly improve how students experience education.” Link here!

ID: Adults sit at a long table together with art supplies on it. Adults are drawing, cutting paper, gluing and taping. They are all wearing masks, and you can tell many art smiling and talking. The background shows colorful art and a long white hallway.

Workshop: 2023 Day of Learning – Groundwork: Honoring Arts Ecosystems From Root to Flower from Arts in Education Roundtable
Registration Open Now Event Date: June 14, 2023 9am-4:30 In-Person @ BRIC

“This year’s symposium will center strategies and tools to uplift artists who have been culture-bearers and sharers in NYC-based communities that are being systematically displaced or disregarded. Through panel discussions and workshops on topics such as archiving to prevent cultural erasure, and alternative-text as poetry, participants will explore new and old methods to foster equity and inclusion in our arts classrooms, organizations, and communities.” Link here!

ID: A large beautiful mural on the side of a white brick building. The mural depicts a young Black woman in the foreground wearing a blue and yellow mortarboard, doctor’s coat and stethoscope. She has tight curly dark hair and is wearing a butterfly necklace. Behind her is a Black man with a black goatee/beard wearing an orange construction worker’s hat and vest with a collared shirt. On the other side is a Black person with longer dark curly hair and is wearing some kind of uniform with a tie. They are surrounded by blue crystals, white clouds, and black star-like triangles.

Event: Youth Take-over: Youth Exhibition Opening Reception & Film Festival
from BRIC
Thu, May 25 from 5-7:30PM
“Please join us for the Opening Reception of BRIC's Emerging Creators exhibition and Youth Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition: The World Reflected In Your Eyes; as well as our Youth Media Festival: 10th Annual Concrete Stories.”
Link here!

ID: Poster for BX EXPRESSIONS 2023 PERFORMANCE SERIES. A couple embraces in front of a skyline at sunset. The woman wraps her arm around the man’s head. The woman is wearing a bright red top, has tan skin, curly black hair tied up, and has large curvy red earrings and red lip stick. The man is looking down towards the woman and he has long black tied in two braids, tan skin, and is wearing large black glasses and shirt with flower designs.

Events: BX EXPRESSIONS: BCA SPRING CONCERTS AND PERFORMANCES
from Bronx Council on the Arts
Fridays in May @ Various Locations in the Bronx

“BX EXPRESSIONS IS BACK! Join us for our Free Spring concert series kick-off event – A Night with Uptown Royalty on Thursday, May 4th at 6pm!” Link here!

ID: Two large words: Create written in black print and Freedom written in red cursive. They look like they have been penned by hand.

Opportunity: Create Freedom Artivist Fellowship
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2023

“The Create Freedom Artivist Fellowship is a 6 week program that is intended to empower young people (18-25 years old) with experience in the foster care system, with incarcerated parents, part of the global majority, LGBTQIA2S+, or with disabilities. This fellowship will allow participants to explore artivism as a means to tell their story to the world and explore topics such as movement building, grassroots organizing, abolition, and more. ” Link to their website!

ID: Image of young person with long dark hair wearing a black track jacket and shorts with white lines on them. They are leaning towards the viewer and a seated audience in masks is behind them. Also behind them is an explosion of yellow orange light, casting a blue purple glow over the rest of the imag. BRIClab is written in all white text on top.

Residency Opportunity: BRICLab
Deadline: Due May 8, 2023
“BRIClab offers emerging to mid-career artists essential support and opportunities to share their work. All residents receive a $2,500 stipend, mentorship, skills-based learning and professional development, and documentation of their work. Additional support, in the form of funding, space, access to equipment and media classes, and other resources vary according to tracks. In-process public programs for the 2023/2024 cohort will take place from September 2023 through May 2024.”
Link here!

ID: Logo for Art on the Ave. Yellow circle with ART ON THE written around the top, AVE written large in the middle, and NYC in block letters at the bottom.

Call For Artists: The Rise: Art in the Heights via Art on the Ave
Deadline May 15, 2023
“Art on the Ave uses vacant storefronts and existing businesses in high- visibility locations to create interactive art exhibitions for all to enjoy. Using the work of local New York artists, we wish to spark a conversation about the concept of “rising.” What does it really mean? The act of rising hits differently for people with different socioeconomic backgrounds, life experiences, and privilege. We want to explore this concept as we reflect on what it means to rise in modern times based on unique experiences.
Link here!

ID: Photograph of an NYC bridge with clouds behind it. In the foreground is a large stained glass water tower on top of 20 Jay Street created by artist Tom Fruin. It is comprised of many multicolored squares of glass and iron.

Grant Opportunities: Creative Capital List
Deadline: May/June 2023
“It’s our biggest list this year of grants, residencies, and other opportunities for artists! Below, check out the possibilities to fire up your creative practice—from arts in health projects in New Hampshire to ceramics in Minnesota to filmmaking in California, and everything in between.”
Link here!

Read: [at]SoJustBooks on Instagram
Wonderfully curated recommendations for social justice, multicultural and inclusive books for families, educators, and folks of all ages.
Link here!

Learn: Music-making resources from Building Beats
Use these free tools to learn how to make music on Soundtrap!
Link here!

Recollect: Raising an Artist blog post from Fractured Atlas
Link here!

If this was helpful/interesting to you, please share with your arts ed pals. If you hear of happenings that should be included, please send them my way! You can also follow on Insta - @ourpracticenyc. See you next time!

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