About The Garage, a space for art in San Francisco

SAFEhouse • Saving Art from Extinction

715 Bryant Street @ 5th Street, San Francisco • (415) 518 1517 • Look for the red door!

But there's something special about going to see work at this venue.

It fosters a strong sense of community and you enter through the door thinking that

something unlikely will happen to you on the inside.

Chloe Veltman, SF Weekly

	HOW TO APPLY TO PROGRAMS AT THE GARAGE
	In an effort to make it simple to apply for our programs, we ask for the following: a 25-50 word description of your project for 715bryant.org a 300 dpi photo and a 25-50 word biography a youtube link of your work. a list of times you are available to rehearse usually Mon-Fri 10am, 12pm, 2pm & 4pm (usually 12 weeks for each performance and four hours per week) Why is it so simple? We don't want you to jump through hoops to make work at The Garage. Part of our philosophy is that your job is to make art not do fill out forms. We usually book about six months into the future, so it's a good idea to plan ahead. Another suggestion for applying is to come down and introduce yourself and see a show. It's important to us that you know about what we do and that you propose a work that is appropriate for the space. We strongly encourage you to have a facebook page. If you're making work at the The Garage, you should send a request to join our yahoo group (see link on homepage) to see the rehearsal schedule and send schedule requests to joe _ landini at hotmail, we usually update the rehearsal calendar on Mondays.

The Garage is the home of

The raw & uncut performance series

The Garage’s ongoing performance showcase series featuring multi-media, contemporary dance, spoken-word, experimental theatre and performance art.

Resident artist workshop A 12 week residency program offering approximately 4-6 hours of free rehearsal space that culminates in a
two night performance. Artists of all disciplines and sexual orientations are encouraged to apply.

SPF	SPF (summer performance festival) is The Garage’s annual performance festival, featuring both veteran and emerging artists. SPF enters its sixth year and in 2011, the festival will feature a three-months-long series that reflects the broad spectrum of contemporary performance in the Bay Area.

(Artist In Residence) is a queer performance laboratory and rehearsal program at The Garage.

AIRspace was originally created at the Jon Sims Center for San Francisco artists to develop production skills and create new work. The Garage selects queer performing artists or artist groups to participate in an ongoing residency that includes fall and/or spring performance showcases for both works-in-progress and finished works. The program is on-going and there are not any deadlines. Some artists are also selected to participate in the National Queer Arts Festival at The Garage in June and to present encore presentations in SPF (summer performance festival). Applications are encouraged in performance, dance, theater and/or any other multi-disciplinary art form. After being selected, resident artists spend a period of time preparing their pieces (usually 12 weeks), then present their work either in a shared program with other artists or individually. The final length of the residency is determined during the application process and periodical evaluations during the initial phase of the residency (the first 12-weeks).

The Garage provides:
· Four hours of rehearsal space per week, usually Monday-Friday 10am-6pm
· Publicity and technical support
· A two night presentation

SAFEhouse for the Arts (Saving Arts From Extinction) is an non-profit, arts-presenting organization that specializes in incubating new performing art through residencies, workshops and performance.

Archives for SAFEhouse Click here

The resident theatre company of The Garage:

PUS (performers under stress)
Delighting and disturbing audiences and theatre critics alike, Performers Under Stress is comprised of Scott Baker, Valerie Fachman, Charles Pike, and Rick Razo, with help from other performers and technicians. Throughout its 20-year existence, Performers Under Stress concentrates on barebones productions of Samuel Beckett’s works, reimagined selected classics, and projects of our own creation. PUS is dedicated to explore the unknown, the undocumented, the unspoken, and the unexpected.

Performers Under Stress is critically lauded in both Chicago (Joseph Jefferson Award recipients) and San Francisco for its interpretation of Beckett plays and short works, including the eclectic Son of Sam I Am group of plays, and its original works such as Ghost Train Coming. Other productions include Robinson Jeffer’s Dead Soldier Walks Home; Pound Bound; Fun with Dick and Perry; Jungle of Tongues; The Farmington Armada; George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession; and Failure 2 Communicate.

for information about any of these programs,

please contact director joe landini

SUGGESTIONS FOR ARTISTS WORKING AT THE GARAGE

PUBLICITY MATERIALS should be submitted 60 days before performances (this is the deadline for In Dance, Theatre Bay Area Magazine and local critics). Publicity photos should be 300 dpi and approximately 4x6 in size. SAFEhouse enthusiastically promotes artists developing new work at The Garage but we are not able to send additional requests for publicity materials.

We also encourage artists to join FACEBOOK.COM and send us a friend request. Most Garage events are posted under events and artists should click the LIKE button to become administrators (this will allow you to add photos, descriptions and forward the event to your lists).

Most events are posted at BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM a month before the event. Tickets are normally sold at brownpapertickets.com for $15 (plus a surcharge for the purchaser). Cash tickets for most events can be purchased at the door for a sliding scale of $10-$20.

POSTCARDS are usually distributed a month before the performance. It's the artists responsibility to get cards from The Garage and distribute them.

PROGRAMS for the performances are usually designed the Monday before your performances. Again, The Garage is not able to send reminders to the artists to send program information, which should include biographies for the artistic collaborators. Unfortunately, we are not able to print biographies for dancers and actors.

About the artistic director

joe landini is a bay area based choreographer/curator and has been the program director at the shotwell studios and the jon sims center for the arts.

he founded the non-profit SAFEhouse in 2003 (Saving Art From Extinction) to create new forums for contemporary performance.

in 2007 he founded The Garage to create a "safehouse" for local performers and foster a creative community that is both inclusive and professional.

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