NPN Programs
Links to program summaries below:
NPN Subsidy Programs - Residencies, Creation Fund, Community Fund, Mentorship & Leadership Initiative, Freight Fund
NPN Convenings - Annual Meeting, Regional Meetings
Strategic Partnerships - Performing Americas Project, NCCC, Asian American Initiative
As an aritst-centered network, NPN structures its programs and services to create changes in the conditions artists face while creating and touring their work. NPN is deliberate in crafting its programs to reflect basic priciples of equitable standards for artists. As a result, NPN has established a distinct yet interrelated cluster of Subsidy Programs that both reflect its mission and add value to the ongoing work of presenter, artist, audience, and community constituencies. These three programs are:
- Performance Residency Program: This program provides subsidies to NPN Partners to present performing artists from other communities within the United States for one- or two-week stays. Artists presented under the NPN Performance Residency model are required to work under the NPN Standard Contract and Fee Structure.
- Creation Fund: This program provides commissioning support to local or out-of-town artists toward the creation of new work.
- Community Fund: This program enhances the connections between an NPN Partner’s local community and teh national artists participating in Performance Residnecy or Creation Fund programs.
Face-to-face meetings of NPN Partners, artists, and colleagues is an essential part of building relationships and keeping in place the "network" aspect of NPN’s structure. Annual and Regional Meetings enable issues to be identified, case studies about work to be shared, and collaborative projects to be planned that cross cultures, generate multi-state partnerships, and disseminate knowledge gained by our practice.
NPN recognizes that, given finite resources, its capacity to add NPN Partners to the Network is limited. NPN therefore actively explores and develops collaborative partnerships with other like-minded organizations in order to leverage additional resources and extend opportunities to artists not consistently served by NPN’s Subsidy Programs
- La RED (Red de Promotores Culturales de Latinoamerica y el Caribe): Performing Americas Project
- Network of Cultural Centers of Color (NCCC): Artist of Color Performance Residency Program
- Asian American Initiative: National Asian American Theater Festival
