Partners

Produced by ArKtype in collaboration with Festival Director Mark Russell, the Under the Radar Festival will be reimagined as a new, city-wide annual festival of theater and performance emerging from New York and around the world that incisively speaks to our moment. Rather than being tied to a single host institution, this iteration of Under the Radar is curated in collaboration with an array of New York arts organizations and curators, each harnessing the community-building, connective, celebratory nature of the festival format to introduce some of today’s most innovative voices to wider audiences. The festival sets an example of how ​​collaboration can get the American theater through this moment of existential crisis: reinvigorated and ready to create a theater that can embrace diversity, risk, and reinvention.

BAM (The Brookyn Academy of Music) is a multi-arts center located in Brooklyn, New York. For more than 150 years, BAM has been the home for adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas—engaging both global and local communities. With world-renowned programming in theater, dance, music, opera, film, and much more, BAM showcases the work of emerging artists and innovative modern masters.

Based in New York City, The People’s Creative Institute serves as a gymnasium for the imagination—an incubator where underserved and immigrant communities grow ever more resilient through interdependence, collective visioning, shared artistic practice, and leadership training. Developed with the people themselves, The Institute nurtures a program of fellowships to enable the creation of public-facing artwork, and thereby realize beautiful urban spaces through shared cultural knowledge and expertise. We foster new knowledge, develop capacity and forge strategic alliances across the arts and other sectors. 

The Community Arts Network (CAN) is a global platform that seeks to enable, engage and empower individuals, organisations and communities that use the arts for social impact.

The Atelier New York is possible in part with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund is a private family foundation with a mission to advance social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Founded in 1940 by the sons of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has six grantmaking programs that reflect a combination of thematic and place-based approaches. Three thematic programs—Democratic Practice, Peacebuilding, and Sustainable Development—are anchored in the United States with targeted engagements throughout the world. Two pivotal place programs—China and the Western Balkans—pursue the Fund’s three fields of interest in specific geographical contexts. The Charles E. Culpeper Arts & Culture program nurtures a vibrant and inclusive arts community in the Fund’s home city of New York. Learn more at RBF.org

Arts Council of Korea was founded to support projects and activities for the promotion of culture and arts with a faith that all of us have the power to change our life to share the joy of creation and enjoy the valuable life. Per year, up to 2 Festival Managers working in the Republic of Korea can receive support in the framework of the partnership between ARKO and The Festival Academy

The Festival Academy is an initiative of the European Festivals Association (EFA) which unites distinguished music, dance, theatre and multidisciplinary arts festivals from Europe and beyond since 1952. It connects about 100 festivals and festival associations in 40 countries. EFA’s activities are implemented with the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

Thanks to the support of the Open Society Foundations, The Festival Academy is able to further extend its activities geographically as well as its global community of festival makers. More people worldwide will have the chance to participate in its programmes and will become part of its growing community.