Different Ships, Same Boat (A Production of Arts for Social Cohesion)
Applicant Details
Application ID:
23190
Applicant first:
Guy
Applicant last:
Mendilow
Contact Info:
Executive & Co-Artistic Director
Arts for Social Cohesion / Guy Mendilow Ensemble
+1-857-222-0235
Mailing Address:
17 Atherton Street
Boston
MA
2119
US
Performer Details
Different Ships, Same Boat (A Production of Arts for Social Cohesion)
Representation:
Performer with Representation
Last showcase:
Last application
Category:
Multidisciplinary
Category subgenre:
Subgenre 1:
Subgenre 2:
Spoken Word
Global/Classical/Multimedia
Based in:
MA
US
Origin:
Perf. Type:
Organization
Identifies as:
Black,Newcomer,Otherwise racialized
Phone:
857-222-0235
Website(s):
Performer Description
Arts for Social Cohesion harnesses moving artistic experience, informed by best practices in social psychology, to strengthen relationships within and between communities.
ASC helps civic, business, educational & cultural communities navigate complex challenges with greater creativity & resilience.
ASC offers arts-based cohesion processes, original productions, pedagogy and project/foundational funding consultancy.
Note: For production description of Different Ships, Same Boat, please see uploaded bio
Support Materials
Showcase Description
Different Ships, Same Boat (DSSB) is an interactive, multidisciplinary performance combining powerful spoken word, music & song to explore the multifaceted ways Americans risk, live, love & laugh. Unfolding through a series of chapters — each curating real world stories — literary performer Regie Gibson & composer Guy Mendilow guide audiences with podcast-like narration, at turns humorous, poignant or poetic, over an evocative musical score.
The 250th anniversary of the American Revolution invites us to pause & ask: What might it mean to love & celebrate not just America, but Americans?
DSSB’s moving personal stories give flesh, blood, & bone to the living histories that make up this country. With stories from small towns, cities & ports of entry, along with music spanning lyrical blues & songs from older homes from which today’s Americans came (e.g. Ottoman Jews from present-day Greece), DSSB stirs explorations of the joys, tensions & complexities of who we are & who we wish to be.
Would this artist like to be considered for Quick-Pitch?
no
Work Samples
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Application Files
Application filenames:
ID023190-different-ships-same-performerphoto.jpg
ID023190-different-ships-same-pressphoto.jpg
ID023190-different-ships-same-biography.pdf
ID023190-different-ships-same-epk.pdf
ID023190-different-ships-same-techreq.pdf
ID023190-different-ships-same-itinerary.pdf
ID023190-different-ships-same-supplementary.pdf
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Supplementary Files
Filename (also listed above):
ID023190-different-ships-same-supplementary.pdf
Supplementary file description
A sample 2-Day residency associated with Different Ships, Same Boat.
For additional community engagement, including children's performances, see https://bit.ly/4492HqX
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General Touring Info
Performance Fees
1 show
$10,000 USD
2-3 shows
$9,500 USD
4-7 shows
Higher Than $5,000 USD
8+ shows
Higher Than $4,000 USD
Touring Performers:
5
Rooms Needed:
4
Please answer indicate that your 2 most viable touring months in the upcoming season(s).
February, May
Community & Educational Outreach
Extensive community engagement includes:
•Ponder to Page workshops — A fun, easy, safe step-by-step process for crafting resonant stories out of seemingly ordinary experiences (geared for “non-writers”)
•Listening Labs — gatherings in which moving stories told through powerful spoken word, music, & sand animation facilitate generous listening with fellow participants in conversations that are honest, intimate & alive
•Crowdsourced Poems — Poems made from community members’ input & actual words. Folks respond anonymously/candidly to selected prompts. These reflections shape a spoken word poem mirroring the community’s feelings, thoughts & beliefs. The poem is set to original music & shared back live.
•Interactive Children’s performances
Is an outreach performance included in your mainstage performance fee?
In a block booking situation, this fee DOES entail a single outreach event, as long as it does not require an additional day's stay or additional technical production/strike (i.e. technical production occurs in the same venue as the performance, or does not entail technical production). For a sampling of engagement offerings please see uploaded sample 2-Day residency
Other Offerings
Residencies,Workshops,Master Classes,School Programming,Christmas Shows,Lectures/Speakers
Promotion Publicity
Alongside posters, postcards, robust press materials, radio/podcast appearances etc, ASC provides:
•A list of target audiences, organized by theme in the production; •Marketing Strategies — Ideas to build relationships with specific community segments towards DSSB (see for example https://bit.ly/3RDp1Br)
•Language for press releases
•Language for funding proposals (ASC draws on its strength as a proposal consultancy, e.g. recently raised $1.8M from Mellon)
Promotional filenames (also listed above):
ID023190-different-ships-same-performerphoto.jpg
ID023190-different-ships-same-pressphoto.jpg
ID023190-different-ships-same-biography.pdf
ID023190-different-ships-same-epk.pdf
ID023190-different-ships-same-techreq.pdf
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Tech Information
Performance Load Strike Time
•Load in & setup: 90
Tech Requirements Files
ID023190-different-ships-same-techreq.pdf
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Additional Tech Requirements