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Alaine Handa and Dancers mission is to present and support independent contemporary artists and companies in New York and worldwide. Through collaborations with local dancers and artists of other mediums, Alaine Handa and Dancers hope to share modern dance to communities that lack exposure to it.

ArtBattles produces live art events and competitions that expose emerging artists to the masses.  By presenting the creative process as a form of entertainment, they've changed the way artists display their talent and created a new model for exhibition and sales.ArtBattles produces live art events and competitions that expose emerging artists to the masses. By presenting the creative process as a form of entertainment, they've changed the way artists display their talent and created a new model for exhibition and sales.

Built on Respect embraces the DIY mentality; its founder heidiminx personally works to raise funds, and also to directly oversee their disbursement while documenting it, working side by side with different Tibetan community organizations.Built on Respect embraces the DIY mentality; its founder heidiminx personally works to raise funds, and also to directly oversee their disbursement while documenting it, working side by side with different Tibetan community organizations.

Daylight Community Arts Foundation (DCAF) is a not for profit organization dedicated to publishing in-depth photographic essays on important issues of the day via Daylight Magazine (print) and Daylight Multimedia (online). By reimagining the documentary mode through collaboration with established and emerging artists, scholars and journalists, Daylight has become one of the premier showcases for contemporary photography.

Keep Chuck Rolling is a campaign to raise funds for actor and comic Chuck Smith for his fight to stay onstage despite the degenerative effects of Multiple Sclerosis. A life long thespian living in Erie, Pennsylvania, he has gracefully adapted from agile actor to perfecting "characters in a wheelchair", little old ladies, cranky or clever detectives, befuddled directors. Our goal is to get him into a wheelchair accessible van and wire him with adaptive technology so he can Keep Rolling!

U.S. Poets in Mexico brings American and Mexican poets together to collaborate, work to strengthen their own writing, to expand public audiences for poetry from both nations to further literary cultural awareness between Mexico and the United States.

The Wassaic Project creates an opportunity for artists of all mediums to engage in a community-based, site specific, and site informed experience. Artists are invited to come out of the confines of their studios and experiment in a safe, supportive, and collaborative art-making venture. The project is situated on a series of historic farm structures and their adjoining land in the hamlet town of Wassaic in Dutchess County, NY.

Wednesday's at A’s is a feature-length documentary about Arleen Schloss, a noted underground artist, painter, video director and curator who was an influential figure in the 1980s and 1990s New York art and music scenes. Known as an “artists’ artist,” Schloss began her influence through A’s – an interdisciplinary loft space that became a hub for music, exhibitions, performance art, videos and films that rivaled venues like the Mudd Club and CBGB’s. The documentary explores how Schloss’s art work evolved and changed with the times. She was and very much still is an artist ahead of her time. WEDNESDAYS at A's is currently in post production and is looking for finishing funds.