BRB Retreat

Applications for the 2024 BRB Retreat are open.

Retreat attendees are chosen from an open application process. And this year, for the first time, the entire program is fully subsidized and free to attend for artists. Please review the residency program and apply to whichever week you think best fits your needs and process.

APPLICATIONS WILL CLOSE: Friday April 26th at 11:59pm.

PROJECT WEEK

August 3rd to 9th OR August 20th to 26th, 2024

This retreat is intended for artists of all mediums and interests. Artists are encouraged to apply with a specific project at any stage of development.

At the BRB Project Week residents will spend six-days living with a community of artists each working on a new creative project. The week is a deep-dive into FGP’s methods of delighted listening and joyful creation, providing an opportunity for artists of all mediums to jumpstart their own projects, build collaborative relationships, and develop their creative practice.

We encourage artists to apply with projects that will benefit from embodied exploration and investigation.

Projects being created by more than one artists , or by a group of collaborators, are welcome to apply. Please just submit one application for the project.

ECO WEEK

August 12th to 18th, 2024

Nature often serves as a backdrop or a provocation for our work as artists, but only human-nature is actually present in the ultimate manifestation of our work. How do we correct this imbalance? Galleries, theaters, and screens manufacture representations of the non-human world in empty climate-controlled studios, often with no windows. What leads to this sterility and how does it reinforce our disconnection from the more than human world? What are the underlying ideologies embedded within the stories we tell about nature, and the attitude with which we form an audience or play a role?

As species extinction and climate collapse threatens our lives increasingly each year, can we challenge ourselves as creators, not only to speak of the greater life that supports us through metaphor, but to go beyond metaphor, to be direct agents in the regeneration and protection of the ecologies that sustain us? In addition, can we enlist the more-than-human world as a teacher and collaborator? Can we de-center the human within our artistic lives and learn from the wild world itself how to become more resilient creators? What would it be like to put the non-human world at the center of our practice? 

This residency seeks to incubate artists who are interested in forging and deepening their own path towards an original ecological-centered artistic expression. We will work in community to devise, play, and nourish each other in building a regenerative creative biome. 

PlayGround PlayGroup

Applications for 2024 PGPG are closed. Please check back later for more information. Join our mailing list to stay up to date on upcoming applications and programs.

The PlayGround PlayGroup is a small, process-focused collective of makers gathered to celebrate the creation of new work. The group, now in its 14th season, welcomes artists of all creative disciplines to develop and support new projects within the structure of an engaged, curious, and uplifting cohort of colleagues.

This year, PGPG will convene both remotely and in-person, and the group is open to artists in the NYC area. Artists will rotate weeks of sharing and supporting during meetings that will occur approximately every two weeks from March - May 2024.

This year we are particularly excited to support projects that are mid-development on a first draft, and could use a final push of support towards a completed first draft.

We look forward to gathering with our cohort and exploring what it means to return to something and usher it toward a useful checkpoint, alongside other artists doing the same thing! Let's share our process as we make progress!

All artists will receive a stipend and projects will receive an allowance for support in their development. The season will culminate in a celebratory public sharing of the developed works in late Spring.

If you have any questions regarding this application, please email PGPG Co-Facilitator Jaclyn at jaclyn@freshgroundpeppernyc.com. She will respond in as timely a manner as possible!

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