The Rude Mechs Residency at Crashbox is an answer to art-making in the time of COVID-19

Entrants for The Breath Project, please also use this residency application for access to the space for your project.

We welcome for artists looking for space.  Since Rude Mechs isn’t able to present public performances at our space, Crashbox, we are making the space available for people to work on creative projects and cultural production of all kinds.  Residencies can last anywhere between an afternoon and a month.

Go here to fill out the application https://rudemechs.com/aboutus/whatwedo/crashresidency/
What we have to offer:
At Crashbox we have 1500 sq ft in total.  There is a large air-conditioned room–the theatre space–with 16′ ceilings and 31′ x 24′ of raw open space.  This room has a sound system and theatrical lighting and a dance floor of sorts.  In addition to this space there is a workshop perfect for constructing and crafting.  It’s non air-conditioned but has a giant roll up garage door.  The space also features a little kitchenette, bathroom and a paint sink.  We have all kinds of tools and materials that you might be able to make use of too.  Just ask.
What about Covid?
During your designated residency time, you would have the space completely to yourself. You wouldn’t have to worry about coming into contact with others.  But we do ask that you tell us everybody that uses the space so that we can do contact tracing if need be.  We would hand over a disinfected space to you and ask that you deliver a disinfected space back to us when your residency is complete.
Jubilee 
Priority will be given to BIPOC, Women, LGBTQIA artists and artists with disabilities. The 2020/2021 Season would be/is our Jubilee season.  A small group of theatre makers calling themselves the committee of the Jubilee put forward a challenge in 2020/2021 that in order to address equity and injustice in our industry every theatre in America participate in a nation-wide, year-long theatre festival featuring only superlative work by women, black artists, people of color, Native American artists, LGBTQIA artists, Deaf artists, and artists with disabilities. Sadly we can’t bring you the public programming we had planned as part of our Jubilee Season … just yet. Our hope is that even if we can’t come together to celebrate the work of artists that have been historically marginalized the residency opportunities can still serve as a way to manifest this diverse, inclusive, and intersectional vision.
RESIDENCY TERMS

We will deliver a disinfected space to you at the top of your residency.

During the term of your residency:

  • You will have sole access to the space;
  • You will provide the name, email address, and phone number of every person you will be working with in the space;
  • You will only allow access to the space to the list of people you have provided us;
  • You will keep all high-touch surfaces disinfected on a daily basis;
  • You will deliver a disinfected space back to us when your residency is complete

Things we have that you can use:

  • 1500 sq ft in total
  • 31’x24′ playing space w HVAC
  • Lighting and Sound systems
  • Separate workshop space – un-airconditioned (roll-up garage door provides natural light)
  • Kitchenette
  • Bathroom
  • Tools and Hardware
  • Paint sink

RESIDENT ARTISTS

July 2020 Paul Kruse and Mason Rosenthal – month-long residency and production support – develop their Rude Fusion project, While Supplies Last.

July/Aug 2020 Salvage Vanguard Theatre – two-week residency – rehearse their original play, Amendment.

August 2020 Performa / Dance used their week-long residency and production support to build new work

August 2020 Teresa Roberson, Stephanie Webb – day-long residency and production support – create The Breath Project entry

September 2020 Sanchita Sharma – month-long residency

November 2020 – Beth Schindler, Lex Vaughn, and Michelle Deveraux with Mass Gallery – month-long residency – create Oceans of Emotions

December 2020 — Blipswitch Dance Company  – month-long residency – create and film an original work

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