Saturday, March 23rd, 2024
— 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. @ Studio 303
Cost: 25$, 30$ or $35 sliding scale (includes one meal and one massage) — Email us if the price represents a barrier – no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Open to professional artists in the performing arts, dance, circus, performance, theatre and interdisciplinary practices
Offered in collaboration with LA SERRE – arts vivants
On request, a childcare service will be offered free of charge in the adjacent office – Please contact us at info@studio303.ca before Monday, March 18th 2024 at 9am.
The Studio 303 SPAs – Once a month, our studio becomes a coworking space. With tables set up around the studio, participants are invited to work on their own things in their own time.
Each SPA centers around a specific topic, with relevant mentors present to answer questions and share their expertise.
The schedule and set up is designed to recreate a day at the spa: a quiet space with foot baths and massage devices, yoga mats and cushions for stretching and rest, a community lunch midday (gluten free & vegan) and free 10 minute professional chair massage appointments throughout!
Mentors at this Grant Spa will go through your grant application and offer individual feedback. They can look into your written content, budget and supporting material. They can also help with clarifying how to best organize your project according to the different sources of fundings available (mostly the Conseil des arts de Montréal, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Canada Art Council).
MENTORS // Mari Deckers + Sasha Kleinplatz + Claudel Doucet and Manuel Shink from LaSerre
Mari Deckers is Studio 303’s co-director. She has worked for AlterHéros, L’R des centres de femmes du Québec, Réseau Koumbit, Glass Collective and Sidetracks (which she co-founded). She is also a visual artist, pursuing her silkscreening practice as an artist and instructor. Trained in active listening, non-violent communication and anti-oppression, Mari is involved in various community initiatives and collective creative projects.
Sasha Kleinplatz is a dance artist based in Tio’tia:ke-Mooniyang. She is the co-founder of Wants&Needs danse-a collective focused on creating non-traditional contexts for choreographers to make work, and for audiences to engage with a plurality of contemporary performance practices. In December 2021 Sasha completed a Masters degree at Simon Fraser, her thesis focused on consent in dance pedagogy, and practicing interspecies care through modes of scored, collaborative, performance. Sasha’s new full-length works Miracle’ing, and We Move Together or Not at All premiered at Montreal, arts intercultural in Fall 2022.
Appointed Artistic Director and Co-Executive Director of LA SERRE – arts vivants in January 2022, Claudel Doucet brings to LA SERRE her interdisciplinary perspective rooted in a directing and performing practice. Strong of her extended international career, she now dedicates her energy and creativity to supporting and disseminating the voices of emerging artists. She created LION LION, a company dedicated to exploring new transdisciplinary dramaturgies. As a creator, she convenes risks within the bodies and the presences to weaken the facades and to rush into the forces that spread between violence and tenderness. LION LION gave birth to Coconut (short movie, 2021), FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN (micro-festival, 2021), and Se prendre (apartment show, 2019). The latter piece, created in collaboration with Félix-Antoine Boutin and Cooper Lee Smith, has been touring in dozens of international festivals. Claudel also acts as director and mentor for the École Nationale de Cirque (National Circus School) in Montreal and for various projects, including Emile Pineault‘s More-than-things, Zip Zap Academy (Cape Town), and Uniarts (Stockholm).
Manuel Shink is an interdisciplinary queer artist (photo, video, performance, dance) and cultural worker living in Tio’tia:ke / Montreal. They have worked for several choreographers over the past 15 years, and now develop their own artistic and collaborative projects. A graduate in contemporary dance (EDCM, Concordia) and management (HEC Montréal), they initiated the activities of Queer Bodies Montréal and became involved with Fierté Montréal. As artistic development manager at LA SERRE – arts vivants, they now contribute to the accompaniment and support of emerging artists.
SCHEDULE // Come and go as you please from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. *
11:00 a.m. – Start of 10 minutes professional chair massage appointments
1:00 p.m. – Vegan + gluten free lunch
*We recommend arriving at 10 a.m. to get the most out of the day. Massage appointments will be first come first serve!
GRANT SPA REGISTRATION
