Hip-Hop
Theater Festival
57 THAMES ST #4B BKLYN NY 11237, O: 718-497-4282 F: 718-497-4240
Future Aesthetics Artists Regrant Program
Organized by a cohort of performing arts companies including Global Action Project (New York, NY), La Pena Cultural Center (Berkeley, CA), Hip-Hop Theater Festival (Brooklyn, NY), Miami Light Project (Fl), Rennie Harris Puremovement (Philadelphia, PA) and Youth Speaks (San Francisco, CA), the Future Aesthetics Artist Regrant Program (FAAR) is a program designed to cultivate young and innovative artist by providing financial support to individual artists. The goal of the FAAR program is to support individual, emerging artists in the early stages of their professional career who are creating work within the Hip-Hop aesthetic from culturally and geographically diverse constituencies across the United States. Applying artists are nominated by diverse, local arts and community based organizations from around the U.S. based on
artistic merit and sustainability.
FAAR is a one-year pilot program made possible with major support from the Ford Foundation. Artist grants are in the amounts of $2,500 and $5,000 are made to individual artists living and working in the United States for unrestricted use. Grants are awarded in a variety of disciplines and/or forms with an emphasis towards work that challenges or combines traditional aesthetics (i.e. theater, dance, dance/theater, music, new media, film, literature, visual art).
FAAR awards are not project grants but are instead intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice, regardless of the level of his or her artistic development. The program is committed to supporting artists of diverse cultural, sexual, geographic and ethnic backgrounds and welcomes work that reflects the lived experiences of the applicants.
Please feel free to contact any of the following individuals for further information:
Elz Cuya
Director of External Affairs & Communications
57 Thames Street, #4B
Brooklyn, NY 11237
Tel: 718.497.4282
elz@hhtf.org
Daphne Farganis
Director of Education
Hip-Hop Theater Festival
57 Thames Street, #4B
Brooklyn, NY 11237
Tel: 718.497.4282
daphne@hhtf.org
Kamilah Forbes
Artistic Director
Hip-Hop Theater Festival
57 Thames Street, #4B
Brooklyn, NY 11237
Tel: 718. 497.4282
kamilah@hhtf.org
Sarah Guerra
Programming Coordinator
La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705 USA
Tel: 510.849.2568 ext. 11
Sarah@lapena.org
Rennie Harris
Rennie Harris Puremovement
Centre Square Building
1500 Market Street
12th Floor East Tower
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Tel: 215. 665. 5718
Kristen Hill
Grant Coordinator
57 Thames Street, #4B
Brooklyn, NY 11237
Tel: 718.497.4282
grants@hhtf.org
Gayle Isa
Executive Director
Asian Arts Initiative
1219-1223 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Tel: 215.557.0455
Gayle@asianartsinitiative.org
Alan “Ket” Mariduena
From Here to Fame Publishing
560 W 218 Street #2E
New York, NY 10034
Ket@fromheretofame.net
Rebekah Lengel
Director of Marketing & Communications
Miami Light Project
3000 Biscayne Blvd. Suite 100
Miami, FL 33137
Tel: 305.576.4350 x21
rlengel@miamilightproject.com
Jason Mateo
Program Director
Youth Speaks
290 Division St STE 302
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel: 415.255. 9035 ext. 13
Jason@youthspeaks.org
Weyland Southon
Hard Knock Radio KPFA 94.1
1929 Martin Luther King Jr Way
Berkeley, California 94704
Tel: 510.848.6767 ext. 613
Weysouth@gmail.com
Carlton Turner
Regional Development Director
AlternateROOTS
1083 Austin Ave.NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
Tel: 404-577-1079
Carlton@alternateroots.org
Clyde Valentin
Executive Director
Hip-Hop Theater Festival
57 Thames Street, #4B
Brooklyn, NY 11237
Tel: 718. 497.4282
clyde@hhtf.org
Diana Coryat
Founding Director
Global Action Project
4 W. 37th Street 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10018
Tel: 212. 594. 9577
Diana@global-action.org