Thank you to all the creatives who applied to the Magnify Microgrant! Such beacons of talent reside all over Philadelphia!
CONGRATULATIONS to Pratima Agrawal (she/her), Briyana D. Clarel (they/them), Shizu Homma (she/her), and Sabriaya Shipley (she/they) for being the Magnify Microgrant 2021 Grantees! Abundant success on the continuation of your projects!
About the Magnify Microgrant
For centuries, creatives of color have manifested glory to illuminate the darkness, constructed joy to swallow the hungered folly, and fashioned psalms to salve the unknowns. From the recognized to the unrealized, artists of color continue to weave wonder for the masses. Whether personal, political, or financial, that dedication to community and craft wields a heavy price. As a symbol of abundant gratitude to center and support these voices, AngelPirate Productions and HawkEye Entertainment, page2stage LLC collaborated to provide a microgrant offering for BIPOC/BILAM+ theatre artists living in the Philadelphia area!
Offering:
A $500 microgrant will be provided to 4 individual theatre artists living in the Philadelphia area.
Who is eligible:
Performers (actors, dancers, musicians), theatre directors, and playwrights who identify as BIPOC/BILAM+ and who are age 18+.
Submission requirements:
Completion of the quick microgrant application at the link below by the submission deadline, including a brief bio or personal statement, description of a project you are currently working on or of a personal or professional development need, your contact information, and your payment app information.
Submissions are now closed!
Recipient notification and payment:
Recipients will be notified within the first week of November 2021! Thank you!
Adjudication:
4 recipients of $500 microgrants will be selected together by Gabrielle Corsaro and TS Hawkins. If selected, recipients are asked to please share on social media and/or acknowledge our support in future promotions of your work!
About AngelPirate Productions:
AngelPirate Productions is a performance arts initiative, owned and operated by Gabrielle Corsaro. A native of Philadelphia, Gabrielle graduated from Temple University with a Communications degree, and then spent several years studying and working as an actor in NYC, appearing in independent films, commercials, and many black box theatres. Parenthood brought her back to Philly where, along with performing, she began writing, directing, and producing, and she is a co-founder of The Bridge PHL. Some of Gabi’s recent plays include White Script, Diversity Day, and Love & Light (& Other Lies). AngelPirate Productions seeks to serve its community by exploring stories of culture, bias, privilege, and power. We create original performance pieces and assist in sponsoring and producing the artistic work of marginalized voices, particularly those of artists of color in the Philadelphia area. angelpirate.org
About TS Hawkins:
TS Hawkins is an international author, performance poet, art activist, playwright, and member of the Dramatists Guild. Plays, short works, and books include Seeking Silence, Cartons of Ultrasounds, Too Late to Apologize, They’ll Neglect to Tell You, #RM2B, The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G, AGAIN, #SuiteReality, “don’t wanna dance with ghosts...”, Sugar Lumps & Black Eye Blues, Confectionately Yours, Mahogany Nectar, Lil Blaek Book: all the long stories short, and The Hotel Haikus. Hawkins’ one-act choreopoem, AGAIN, was acknowledged for having the “Best Theater Moment of 2017”. #SuiteReality received the 2017 “Theatrical Reality Check” Surya Bonaly Award, an international publication in WORDPEACE Literary Journal, showcased in Chicago at the Goodman Theatre for the Black Lives, Black Words International Theatre Festival, and shares residence at the Carnegie Mellon University Hunt Library. Cartons of Ultrasounds had the pleasure of returning to New York for a limited off-Broadway run to rave reviews. Recently, The Secret Life of Wonder: a prologue in G graced Australian stages as part of Antipodes Theater Company's Ricochet Reading Series! Hawkins' residency credits include National Black Theatre SOUL Producing Resident, Swim Pony Performing Arts TrailOff Writer-in-Residence, 1812 Productions’ Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Residency, Out of Exile Artist-in-Residence, Irondale Ensemble “To Protect, Serve, and Understand”, Painted Bride Art Center’s Souls of Black Folk, and Alphabet Arts Puppets & Poets. Notable writing contributions include Rising Voices: Poems Towards a Social Justice Revolution (University Professors Press), Closet Cases/Queers on What We Wear (Et Alia Press), Family Legacies (SONKU Collective Magazine), Fragrance of Love (Poet Tree), WORDPEACE Literary Magazine/vol. 2 Spring Edition, and Long Wharf Theatre Blog Series. tspoetics.com
Please send any questions to info@angelpirate.org.