The Black Femme Musical Artist Incubator for Sunstar 2022 Info Session
KST Presents
Wednesday, December 8
6:00pm
Join Us on Zoom!
Free
Interested in applying to be a headlining artist in the 2022 edition of KST’s Sunstar Festival: Womxn & Music? Join us for this online information session led by KST Programming Manager Chanel Blanchett and Programming Director Ben Pryor! Participants will find out more about the program and ask questions about the application. Additionally, Chanel and Ben will talk participants through the application questions and provide insight into what panelists will be looking for in applicant responses.
The info session will be broadcast to KST’s Facebook page and available for viewing after the initial broadcast.
The Black Femme Musical Artist Incubator is made possible with support from Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh, a partnership of The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments.
- MORE ABOUT SUNSTAR AND THE BLACK FEMME MUSICAL ARTIST INCUBATOR
KST’s annual Sunstar Festival celebrates the power and diversity of womxn in art and creativity. Since its 2009 inception, Sunstar has endeavored to highlight a diversity of womxn musicians and to center BIPOC womxn.
For Spring 2022, the focus of our Sunstar Festival is KST’s The Black Femme Musical Artist Incubator (BFMA). Through this new program, KST seeks to use Sunstar as an opportunity to build out a model of support for Black femmes pursuing music in Pittsburgh.
Over the course of six weeks, BFMA will provide two black femme-idenitfying artists professional development sessions designed to expand their palette of possibility for future stage performances and equip them with the tools to carry their vision forward in the field. The program will culminate with each artist headlining a day of the 2022 Sunstar Festival through a 40-45 minute performance at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, March 18-19, 2022.
Funding for the Black Femme Musical Artist Incubator for Sunstar 2022 was provided by the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Program, a partnership of The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments.