Artistic Programs
(Ages 13-18)
viBeStages
The organization’s cornerstone program that provides the foundational curriculum for all our theater & music arts-based programs. It provides a collaborative performance experience in which 6-12 femme/gender-expansive artists work with professional theater directors to write and perform an originally written and produced show.
Various versions of this program focus on specific mediums like choreoplays/movement (viBePhrases), BIPOC LGBTQ+ affinity cohorts (viBeOut), solo performance (viBeSolos), and playwriting (viBePages to Stages).
This program is often offered as a residency program to schools and other community organizations.
viBeSongmakers
A 6-month program that provides the tools/techniques for 6-14 viBe femme/gender-expansive artists to express themselves through writing/recording, composing, and arranging a full-length album of songs. Participants are paired with professional musicians and producers to receive basic music instruction and guide through the songwriting and recording process, resulting in a live performance and album release party to celebrate!
This program comes in adjustable iterations: viBeSongMakers Express (short summer program) and can be elongated depending on partnership/residency needs.
Artistic Programs
(Ages 18-26)
viBeCompany
viBe’s pre-professional group of young adult artists who collectively produces and performs one full-length show each year. The ensemble receives ongoing training in various theatrical elements such as devised/experimental theater, movement/choreography, design elements, stage management, and directing to enhance their creative skills. As a part of their tenure in the program, they receive paid performance opportunities for viBe's invited performances.
This program is a prerequisite for our viBeCollaB program that sponsors alum in producing their individual multi-media productions.
viBeCollaB
An advanced artistic conservatory that provides intensive artistic training to viBe alumni of our viBeCompany and viBeLeadership Institute programs. viBeCollaB is an arts incubator and production company designed in direct response to the articulated need for more opportunities to create, devise, and stage personal multi-disciplinary projects. Artists in this program receive professional development, mentorships, and resources to enhance their artistic careers and uplift their individualized theater projects/productions. Providing artists the opportunity to lead through collaboration– without the direct facilitation of a teaching artist.
Professional Development Programs
(Ages 14-26)
viBeApprentices
A PAID year-long internship program sectioned in seasons (Fall, Spring, and Summer) and offered to youth interested in careers in the theater/music, arts nonprofit, and arts administrative sector. Participants are given the opportunity to develop their leadership skills through hands-on experiences alongside viBe staff and other partners. By collaborating with professionals in the field, they are provided the space to grow and deepen their knowledge tools for working in their chosen field(s).
viBeLeadership Institute
An artistic training program for early-mid career femme/gender-expansive Teaching Artists of color, as well as young viBe alums. This program helps young artists to develop the skills necessary to lead arts programs and become arts practitioners in the field. Through training workshops, a retreat, and ongoing, one-on-one professional development support participants become well-acquainted with viBe pedagogy, multi-hyphenate arts practices, and a community of other arts practitioners.
This is often a summer program offered in collaboration with guest artists, partner organizations/businesses, and mentors.