Pitch NOW: New & Out-of-the-box Works
Matching Artists & Producers with Partners & Collaborators
Pitch NOW is a forum for bold artistic ideas that need more than a stage and tour date to become reality. Creators with New or Out-of-the-box Works (NOW) can pitch their ideas to potential collaborators who get first dibs on supporting some of the most innovative projects in the performing arts today. Pitch NOW aims to turn ideas with promise into projects with partnerships and performance dates.
Who: You work across disciplines, alongside social movements, in nontraditional or public spaces, outdoors, with communities or schools, or in digital or other mediated formats. You welcome collaborators such as presenters into your creative process. You are ideally a WAA member, but it’s not required.
What: Imaginative and impactful ideas that push the boundaries of performing arts concepts. Pitch NOW highlights projects at any stage of development requiring energy and investment.
How: A panel of performing arts stakeholders will select six applicants to present their ideas to a live audience at the WAA Annual Conference. Those selected will each have ten minutes to present their ideas and answer questions. A/V support will be provided.
Where: Pitch NOW will take place on Monday, August 26 - the first day of the 2024 WAA Annual Conference in San Diego, CA.
Amplified!
Sharing Your Tour-Ready Work
Share your project, program, or artist and captivate our audience of presenters at WAA 2024!
Who: You are an artist or agent with an exciting tour-ready project, program, or artist to share. You are ideally a WAA member, but it’s not required.
What: All ideas are welcome, but Amplified provides an ideal opportunity for large or international ensembles for whom showcasing at the conference isn’t feasible to reach a captive audience of presenters.
How: A panel of performing arts stakeholders will select nine applicants to present their pitch to a live audience at the WAA Annual Conference. Those selected will each have five minutes to pitch and answer questions. A/V support will be provided.
Where: Amplified will take place on Tuesday, August 27 - the second day of the 2024 WAA Annual Conference in San Diego, CA.
WAA provides a safe space for dialogue where creators and collaborators can share perspectives without inhibition and practice the WAA Code of Ethics. WAA supports the intellectual rights of creators and will not tolerate the appropriation of ideas by other creators or attendees.
Note: All additional conference registration fees and attendance expenses are the responsibility of the applicant. All additional conference registration fees and attendance expenses are the responsibility of the applicant. It is the applicant's responsibility to confirm their eligibility to attend the conference prior to submitting. Nonmember Non-presenters (e.g. agents, managers) may attend the conference one time as a nonmember if your organization has not attended the conference before.
Applications are free for WAA members.
Pitch NOW: New & Out-of-the-box Works
Matching Artists & Producers with Partners & Collaborators
Pitch NOW is a forum for bold artistic ideas that need more than a stage and tour date to become reality. Creators with New or Out-of-the-box Works (NOW) can pitch their ideas to potential collaborators who get first dibs on supporting some of the most innovative projects in the performing arts today. Pitch NOW aims to turn ideas with promise into projects with partnerships and performance dates.
Who: You work across disciplines, alongside social movements, in nontraditional or public spaces, outdoors, with communities or schools, or in digital or other mediated formats. You welcome collaborators such as presenters into your creative process. You are ideally a WAA member, but it’s not required.
What: Imaginative and impactful ideas that push the boundaries of performing arts concepts. Pitch NOW highlights projects at any stage of development requiring energy and investment.
How: A panel of performing arts stakeholders will select six applicants to present their ideas to a live audience at the WAA Annual Conference. Those selected will each have ten minutes to present their ideas and answer questions. A/V support will be provided.
Where: Pitch NOW will take place on Monday, August 26 - the first day of the 2024 WAA Annual Conference in San Diego, CA.
Amplified!
Sharing Your Tour-Ready Work
Share your project, program, or artist and captivate our audience of presenters at WAA 2024!
Who: You are an artist or agent with an exciting tour-ready project, program, or artist to share. You are ideally a WAA member, but it’s not required.
What: All ideas are welcome, but Amplified provides an ideal opportunity for large or international ensembles for whom showcasing at the conference isn’t feasible to reach a captive audience of presenters.
How: A panel of performing arts stakeholders will select nine applicants to present their pitch to a live audience at the WAA Annual Conference. Those selected will each have five minutes to pitch and answer questions. A/V support will be provided.
Where: Amplified will take place on Tuesday, August 27 - the second day of the 2024 WAA Annual Conference in San Diego, CA.
WAA provides a safe space for dialogue where creators and collaborators can share perspectives without inhibition and practice the WAA Code of Ethics. WAA supports the intellectual rights of creators and will not tolerate the appropriation of ideas by other creators or attendees.
Note: All additional conference registration fees and attendance expenses are the responsibility of the applicant. All additional conference registration fees and attendance expenses are the responsibility of the applicant. It is the applicant's responsibility to confirm their eligibility to attend the conference prior to submitting. Nonmember Non-presenters (e.g. agents, managers) may attend the conference one time as a nonmember if your organization has not attended the conference before.
Nonmember Application Fee: A non-refundable $50 USD application fee is payable to WAA upon submission of each application by non-members.
Thank you for participating in WAA's governance and leadership process!
The Governance Committee is seeking nominations for three/four Board of Director seats and the Vice Presidency.
The nomination deadline is May 10, 2024. WAA's Governance Committee will review and vet all nominees, and their proposed slate of candidates will be distributed to the membership via email. Members will have 30 days to participate in our electronic voting process and the final results will be announced at the Annual Membership Meeting at the 2024 WAA Annual Conference.
This online form allows for one nomination at a time. If you wish to make more than one nomination. you may do so, but you will need to submit each nomination separately.
Note: candidates MUST submit their resume and letter of interest through the Submittable portal or to staff@westarts.org by the nomination deadline of May 10, 2024.