T & A Grand Theater and Media’s seasonal schedule has produced and co-produced festival style events, mainstage works and mentorship programs such as Black on Both Sides, the We are Ceremony four week intensive, the West Coast Black Circus, the Georgia Black Imminent Needs Fund, Peacock House Artist House and of course the Ten, Tiny, Talks Artist in Residency and Film Festival.
During the last four years T & A Grand Theater and Media and Ten, Tiny Talks Artist in Residency has served over 40 trans and queer producers, independent artists and curators who are defining Black and Indigenous modern art and reclaiming our cultural importance.
Resident artists are selected based on the provocative, authentic, and innovative proposals they present and every single one requires administrative, technical and creative casts to produce the projects successfully.
During an artist’s time in Ten, Tiny, Talks their work is documented via video as part of a larger archive of Black, Indigenous trans and queer history. Artists whose projects are films, have their work debuted at the Ten, Tiny, Talks Film Festival along side work by locally and internationally known filmmakers.
Annually, close to 50,000 new community members engage with T & A Grand Theater and Media events and programming. Changing the trauma induced narrative about trans and queer artists of Black and Indigenous heritage to one where we’re thriving. Our desire is to elevate each other and to design our own creative and resource economies.
