The Live Arts Boston (LAB) grant program was launched in 2016 by the Boston Foundation and the Barr Foundation to support Greater Boston-area artists and small arts organizations in creating, presenting, and producing new work. Through direct investment in artistic risk-taking, we aim to ensure and grow the richly diverse cultural vitality of Boston for generations to come. LAB provides up to $15,000 in project-specific funds to create, produce or present artistic work for Greater Boston audiences. In addition to grant funding, grantees receive support for project documentation, mentorship, peer networking opportunities and professional development.
LAB has provided more than $2.3M in grant funding and $500,000 in capacity-building supports to 186 grantees over the past three years. Priorities of LAB include investing in people of color, immigrants, and new Americans, as well as in disciplines which have traditionally received less institutional support. To learn more about the 61 artists, groups of artists, and organizations that comprise the 2019 LAB grantee cohort and their grant-funded projects, please see below.
Live Arts Boston will begin accepting applications in January 2020 for projects occurring July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021. Please check back in fall 2019 for more information on information sessions and how to apply. Feel free to reach out to the LAB team at UiJLl5WFv6wQa4uOGefc6x5ZniiLE6b6MfhsQIudSzGuqor2EIezXXvxsCVOzGqdWps9fmyeGGpSShb+c+CfQumz/hIXyeXnmvgkdIsGVJBbunoHdbcRUGVGUdXiWJR4 with any questions.
Next application deadline: Early 2020
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Boston needs to invest in a new generation of artists
Support our LAB grantees by attending their performances and productions:
2: ALFii
Bridge Sound and Stage
18 Edmunds Street, Somerville
4:00 p.m.
5: Anna Rae / All Together Now
The Burren
247 Elm St., Somerville
6:00 p.m.
Tickets and info
5: Fort Point Theatre Channel
Turtle Swamp Brewing @ the Roslindale Power Station
4228 Washington Street, Roslindale
7:00 p.m.
6: Charan Devereaux | Faith in a City
Tufts University Distler Performance Hall
Granoff Music Center
20 Talbot Avenue, Somerville
7:30 p.m.
Tickets and info
6: Triveni Dance Ensemble
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
33 Marrett Rd., Lexington
3:00 p.m.
More information
6: Omar Najmi
Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts Black Box Theater
321 Arsenal St., Watertown
7:30 p.m.
Tickets and info
10: Marshall Gillson / Porsha Olayiwola
Calderwood Hall at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
25 Evans Way, Boston
7:00 p.m.
Tickets and info
11: Non-Event
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
2450 Beacon St., Boston
8:00 p.m.
Tickets and info
11: Marshall Gillson / Porsha Olayiwola
Black Box Theatre at Codman Academy
14 Epping St., Boston
7:00 p.m.
Tickets and info
11: Asian American Playwright Collective
ArtsEmerson/Paramount Center
559 Washington St., Boston
7:00 p.m.
Tickets and info
11: Yo Soy LOLA
Oberon at the A.R.T.
2 Arrow St., Cambridge
7:30 p.m.
Tickets and info
11 and 12: New Movement Collaborative
Green Street Studios
185 Green St., Cambridge
8:00 p.m.
More information
13: Yo Soy LOLA
Makeshift Boston
549 Columbus Ave., Boston
7:00 p.m.
Tickets and info
14: Marshall Gillson / Porsha Olayiwola
Strand Theatre
543 Columbia Rd., Boston
7:00 p.m.
Tickets and info
16: Yo Soy LOLA
Lesley University Brattle Campus
99 Brattle St., Cambridge
4:00 p.m.
Tickets and info
19: Yo Soy LOLA
CROMA at Arlington St. Church
351 Boylston St., Boston
6:00 p.m.
Tickets and info
20: TC2 Theatre Company
Fort Point Room at Atlantic Wharf
290 Congress St., Boston
3:30 p.m.
More information
24: Nedelka F. Prescod
MIT Chapel
48 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
7:00 p.m.
1-3: Fresh Ink Theatre: Ink Spot Festival
Stafford Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts
527 Tremont St., Boston
11/1: 8:00 p.m.
11/2: 3:00 and 8:00 p.m.
11/3: 3:00 and 7:00 p.m.
Tickets and info
2: Jorge Santiago Arce / Humano Multicultural Project
CROMA at Arlington St. Church
351 Boylston St., Boston
8:00 p.m.
3: MassOpera
Strand Theatre
543 Columbia Rd., Boston
3:00 p.m.
Tickets and info
7: Fort Point Theatre Channel
Codman Square Health Center Black Box
637 Washington Street, Boston
7:00 p.m.
8: Joel LaRue Smith
Distler Hall
20 Talbot Ave., Medford
8:00 p.m.
8: Fri-Sat-Sun beginning 11/8: Arlekin Players Theatre
Studio 368
368 Hillside Avenue, Needham
Through 12/8: Click link for spacific showtimes
Tickets and info
9: Anna Rae
Midway Cafe
3496 Washington St., Jamaica Plain
8:00 p.m.
Tickets and info
9: Josie Bray
Pao Arts Center
99 Albany St., Boston
7:30 p.m.
Tickets and more information
14: Fort Point Theatre Channel
Boston Public Library
700 Boylston St, Boston
7:00 p.m.
15: Non-Event
Boston City Hall
1 City Hall Sq., Boston
7:00 p.m.
More information
15: FUKUDANCE/Junichi Fukuda
Tony WIlliams Dance Center
284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain
7:00 p.m.
16: Madhvi Venkatesh
Magazine Beach
668 Memorial Dr., Cambridge
7:30 p.m.
16: Prakriti Dance
Green Street Studios
185 Green St., Cambridge
7:30 p.m.
17: TC2 Theatre Company
Fort Point Room at Atlantic Wharf
290 Congress St., Boston
3:30 p.m.
More information
17: Seraah
WBUR CitySpace
890 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
7:00 p.m.
Tickets and information
21: John Kordalewski
Bunker Hill Community College
859 Massachusetts Ave., Arlington
7:00 p.m.
21: John Kordalewski
Arlington High School - Auditorium
250 Rutherford Ave, Room A300, Charlestown
7:00 p.m.
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Grants since 2017
1,000
Performances of new and original work
71%
Projects headed by artists-of-color
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ALFii |
All Together Now | Anjimile |
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| Anthony Romero, in collaboration with Dan Jackson and Jules Rochielle Severt of NULaw Lab ...first in thought, then in action. |
Arlekin Players Theatre The Seagull |
Ashton Lites | StiggetyStackz Worldwide Inc. Stackin' Stylez Freestyle Dance Festival |
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| Asian American Playwright Collaborative New Works Series |
Billy Dean Thomas | Catherine Siller All American Beauty |
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| Ceren Turkmengolu East of the Sun West of the Moon |
Cliff Notez Live Concert Series |
D. Farai Williams Surveil Me |
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| Emily Beattie See | Be Seen |
Faith in a City Exploring Religion in Somerville, Mass. |
Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam Home Spaces: Sustaining FEMS Community Programming |
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| Fort Point Theatre Channel Tempest Reconfigured |
Fred Woodard The Dudley Jazz Festival |
Fresh Ink Theatre Company Ink Spot Festival |
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| FUKUDANCE A World In-Between |
Gabriela Martina Homage to Grämlis |
Guy Mendilow Ensemble & Sand Artist Kseniya Simonova The Forgotten Kingdom: Sand Stories |
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| Humano Multicultural Project Esto es Puerto Rico |
Isaac de los Reyes | Jane Park Asian Glow |
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| Jean Appolon Expressions Traka |
Joel LaRue Smith Pasajes (Passages): an Afro Latin Jazz Musical Odyssey |
John Kordalewski Big band arrangements of Chico Freeman compositions |
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| Jorge Perez-Albela Original music composing and recording project |
Josie Bray Owning Dissonance: A New Play |
JUMA Iconoclast |
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| Karen S. Young Older and Bolder Anthem |
Kera Washington/Zili Misik From Shining Seas, Freedom Sings |
Latrell James Under EP |
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| Marshall "Gripp" Gillson and Porsha Olayiwola Afro-futuristic Storytelling |
MASARY Studios Water's Edge |
MassOpera New Opera Workshop: Freedom Ride |
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| Mazumal New Music with Radical Intention |
Mehmet Ali Sanlikol Mehmet Ali Sanlikol & Whatsnext? feat. NEA Jazz Master Dave Liebman |
Nedelka F. Prescod The Un-Silenced Voice Project |
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| New Movement Collaborative Lions Jaw Performance and Dance Festival |
Non-Event Sounding Boston: Experimental Music in Non-Traditional Spaces |
Omar Najmi En la ardiente oscuridad |
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| Oompa Tbd |
Palaver Strings Lifesongs |
Prakriti Dance Through Fish Eyes |
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| Prometheus Dance | Regie Gibson and Queen Mab, Inc. The Juke: A Blues Bacchae |
Rising Step |
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| Schooltree The Telos Project |
Seraah Sad Satan
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Sissy Castrogiovanni TERRA:Mother Earth |
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| STL GLD The New Normal |
Sumati Ram-Mohan | TC Squared Theatre Company TC Squared Art Salons and New Play Festival |
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| Tim Hall Sonic Experience |
Triveni Ensemble Sapta - The Seven Deadly Sins |
Unbound Bodies Collective Unbound Bodies Lab: Unbinding Series |
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| Wee the People My Night in the Planetarium |
Yara Liceaga-Rojas El despojo: ¿Alguien ha/Has Someone? |
Yo Soy LOLA |
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| Zakiyyah Sutton African Import |
