Support

As a small, independent 501(c)3 ensemble, we rely on individual donations as well as institutional grants to sustain our work. If you’ve made it to this page, we know that you care deeply about adventurous and socially responsive art. Pick a project that centers issues you care about and click DONATE! No matter how large or small, your tax deductible donation will have a truly meaningful impact.

Thank you x 3, from all of us in Longleash!

Our composition seminar — tuition free since its first season in 2015 — brings composers from around the country to central Kentucky for a week of intensive collaboration and creation. Your contribution will support the creative development of emerging composers, free/low-cost community events, and the artistic and administrative labor that sustains the project

This composition workshop for middle- to high-schoolers recruits and supports aspiring young composers from backgrounds historically underrepresented in traditional composition. Your contribution helps support the work of teaching artists and the administrative labor that keeps the Pathways gears turning.

[currently in development] Collective healing and social responsiveness is centered in this exploration of listening practices, music, and mindfulness. Your contribution will help support musical commissions, editing and sound design, and the artistic labor and research behind each episode.

We believe that a dedicated commissioning fund is just one of many necessary components of an antiracist performance practice that responds to the racial justice movements of today. Supporting the creation of a stronger, more diverse ensemble repertoire — one that can be shared with other ensembles and live beyond our own programming — is the primary mission of this fund. 30% of individual donations will be personally matched by members of Longleash.

[currently in development] A multimedia performance program that invites audiences to contemplate and cultivate practices of eco-responsiveness. Your contribution will support new commissions by James Diaz and Eve Beglarian; video/projection design; and the artistic and administrative labor behind the project, from concept to execution.

Your contribution will support a top priority area of need, as determined by the ensemble — ranging from components of any of the above projects, to general operating expenses, project supplies and materials, and/or artistic and administrative labor.