SaltWater Road Performance Institute is building a long-term creative humanities and performance institution in the Deep South.
Your support helps us provide artist stipends, residency housing, transportation to historic sites, public programming, documentation, archive development, and the organizational infrastructure needed to sustain this work.
When you give to SaltWater Road, you support artists, community engagement, cultural memory, and the future of experimental performance in the American South.
WHY YOUR SUPPORT MATTERS
SaltWater Road is currently growing from a founder-supported residency model into a more sustainable Southern performance and creative humanities organization.
Since 2023, SaltWater Road has supported interdisciplinary artists, engaged historic and cultural sites across the Gulf South, hosted public sharings, and begun building an archive of Black Southernist experimental performance.
Your gift helps us deepen and expand this work with greater care, consistency, documentation, and artist support.
What Your Gift Supports
Artist Support
Stipends, housing, transportation, materials, and time for creative development.
Residency + Public Programs
Site visits, artist laboratories, public sharings, workshops, conversations, and community engagement.
Documentation + Archive
Video, photography, artist interviews, field documentation, and the growing Black Southernist Experimental Performance Archive.
Organizational Infrastructure
Strategic planning, website updates, fundraising systems, archive storage, and long-term sustainability.
Giving Levels
$25
Supports artist meals, materials, or local transportation.
$100
Supports transportation to historic and cultural sites.
$250
Supports documentation, artist materials, and public sharing expenses.
$500
Supports artist documentation, video capture, and archive development.
$1,000
Supports guest artist facilitation, artist stipends, or public humanities programming.
$2,500+
Supports strategic planning, organizational infrastructure, and long-term growth.
From the smallest to the largest contribution, you are helping build a world-class home for contemporary performance in the American South.
Join us in raising $3,333 to support the SaltWater Road Present: Theatrical Jazz Crossroads 2026 Residency!!!
From August 9–16, SaltWater Road Performance Institute will convene a week-long artist residency in Montgomery, Alabama and across the Gulf South exploring Theatrical Jazz through collaborative improvisation, site-responsive research, and embodied performance practice facilitated by Sharon Bridgforth.
The residency is deeply informed by Theatrical Jazz as both a devising methodology and a performance form rooted in Black improvisational traditions, spoken word, ensemble storytelling, and community-based performance practice.
Throughout the residency, Sharon Bridgforth will lead daily facilitation sessions introducing artists to improvisational writing, ensemble composition, rhythm-based storytelling, and interdisciplinary devising structures rooted in Theatrical Jazz practice. Through these sessions, artists will collaboratively generate performance material responding to landscape, memory, movement, and collective encounter in real time.
Your contribution directly supports:
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artist stipends
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site-based research
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public performances
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documentation
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archival preservation
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community engagement
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interdisciplinary collaboration rooted in Black improvisational traditions
Whether you contribute $25 or $500, your support helps sustain artists, interdisciplinary experimentation, and public humanities practice in the American South.
For sponsorships, institutional partnerships, or larger gifts, please contact SaltWater Road directly using the form below. We welcome support from individuals, foundations, universities, arts organizations, businesses, and community partners interested in public humanities, artist support, cultural preservation, and Southern performance practice.
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