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Don’t Miss Out: Program Highlights & Internship Opportunities 📧 Calling Arts Entities and Aspiring Administrators! Are you an arts entity looking for extra hands and expanded administrative capacity? Or perhaps you are a budding arts administrator and would appreciate a structured, hands-on internship with a local performing arts organization. Apply… Read the full story

NEW Shows, Updates, & Opportunities! ✉️ NEW: Pentacle brings dance from NYC, LA, NJ, and CT to Philadelphia! For the first time, five female-led dance companies will present a diverse array of works for a two-night run at Philadelphia’s renowned home for dance, the… Read the full story

NYC’s Association of Performing Arts Professionals: A Pentacle Recap! For the first time since January 2020, Pentacle returned in-person to APAP NYC+ 2023. “The nucleus of a New York citywide explosion of live performance, this magnetic performing arts industry gathering drew professionals from across the continent and globe.” Pentacle… Read the full story

ALUMNI Lauren Beasley Morris uses her internship experience to fuel her dance and disability nonprofit in Nashville One of Pentacle’s proudest accomplishments is how we continue to cultivate a steady stream of arts professionals entering the performing arts and nonprofit fields. We want to spotlight one alumna of our … Read the full story

New Program Helps Small Arts Organizations Recover and Thrive For artists who don’t typically have access to other forms of credit or grant funding, Pentacle’s new Cash Advance Program enables artists to take the next steps in implementing their capacity and infrastructure plans. Five NYC… Read the full story

On American Business Women’s Day, we salute the remarkable women who have shaped Pentacle, and continue to lead the Performing Arts field today.   The Pioneer Mara Greenberg, former Director of Pentacle, earned an MBA at NYU’s Stern School of Business in the mid-70s, while also working as… Read the full story

Free Membership to the Administrative Support Program Three New York City artists will receive 1 year of Administrative Support and 5 hours of Financial Urgent Care–for FREE! Apply before 11:59pm ET on Wednesday, June 15th. Am I eligible? Tell me… Read the full story

Talk to our Executive Director every Wednesday Do you have questions about running an artistic entity? Executive Director Clarissa Soto Josephs is offering FREE 30-minute consultations to answer questions about creative business practices in the arts. Artists can reserve time on Clarissa’s calendar to chat one-on-one via nextSteps… Read the full story

On Monday, November 29th we premiered this FREE evening of inspiration! Now available to All! Featuring: Surupa Sen of Nrityagram Dance Ensemble; Davalois Fearon; Ephrat Asherie; and Gus Solomons jr Moderated by Anna Brady Marcus, Director, Pentacle Legacy Project.   Watch… Read the full story

[1988-1989] Unique Projects, Inc. We are diving into our archival materials and excited to share finds from Pentacle’s Legacy project on #WayBackWednesdays. On this Wednesday we are sharing Pentacle’s Unique Projects, Inc. which came into existence in 1988 as a fiscal sponsorship program for artists and organizations with… Read the full story