Workshops
& Residencies
We create queer-centered spaces, online & in-person, for LGBTQ+ young people to connect with others and practice their creativity, alongside some amazing LGBTQ+ artist-mentors.
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Online Workshops & Residencies
Writer's Room
A monthly, online, free writing workshop that focuses on developing writing skills and tools for creatives of all backgrounds and experiences.
🗓️ Monthly, every 2nd Tuesday
⏰ Meets 8pm ET | 5pm PT
🌈 Open to LGBTQ+ youth and allies, Age 13-19
💻 Participants can join from anywhere in the world via Zoom
(Workshops are held in English)
Every month, we gather online to discuss topics through a queer lens, respond to writing prompts, and honor the writer in all of us. Queer guest-facilitators are welcomed into the space to share their personal experience as a writer and artist. This workshop is great for those who are just discovering their voice, and for anyone who wants to continue expanding and developing their artistic point of view. We invite participants to connect with the community, share, reflect, and respond.
I had never considered myself a writer. I was really good at it in grade school/middle school…and then I just kinda of dropped it… [Writer’s Room] brought it back like a storm…I didn’t think it was my thing, and then Future Perfect made it my thing. I can’t imagine my life without The Future Perfect Project.
—Sarah (Minneapolis, MN)
FPP Writer’s Room Participant
Future Perfect Records
A 6-month, online, application-based internship for LGBTQIA+ singer-songwriters, producers, and musicians ages 14-22.
Future Perfect Records is our ongoing online artist internship for LGBTQIA+ singer-songwriters and producers ages 14-22. This transformative 10-session offering allows selected applicants to create a full-length album of original music together to be distributed on all platforms.
Want to learn more? Check out our previous albums.
Follow @futureperfectrecords for announcements and alerts about submitting an application to our next cohort. Note: Preference will be given to applicants who have not recorded and produced music with us before, but we encourage previous applicants to apply! (Seriously!)
Being in touch with people in my community, though we are all so different, was eternally beneficial for me not only as an artist but as a person. The growth, compassion, and guidance will always stick with me!
—Bryan (Milwaukee, WI)
Future Perfect Records participant
The IFQT! Podcast Producer Team
I’m Feeling Queer Today!, FPP’s signature podcast series, amplifies the voices of LGBTQIA+ young people across North America, exploring themes and issues through a queer youth lens. The podcast is produced and hosted by a small team of select LGBTQIA+ producers, ages 16-22, who collaborate online to create the episodes. Applications to submit are reviewed every 6 months. Stay in the loop by joining our network here.
We are spreading lovely stories of queerness all over the world to people who need to hear them most.
—Wallace, (Kingston, NY)
Writer/Co-producer, I’m Feeling Queer Today!
The Julie Novak "Original Voice" Writer's Residency
In honor of FPP team member, Julie Novak, who passed away last September, The Future Perfect Project is offering an exciting residency open to all LGBTQ+ writers, ages 18-22, who exemplify originality in their writing.
Two selected young LGBTQ+ writers will receive no-cost mentorship for 4 months (May 15th-September 15th) with a dedicated LGBTQ+ writer-mentor (with zoom meetings 2x/month for 4 months). Youth will also be awarded with a free scholarship to attend a ONE WEEK WRITING WORKSHOP at The Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) in Provincetown this Summer 2025. Selected residents are invited to make their top 5 choices of any summer workshop (including photography, printmaking, poetry, painting, memoir, playwriting or prose), and FAWC will determine which of the workshops has availability. Housing, round-trip travel, and three meals/day will be provided to the participant free-of-charge.
Like Julie, who was a mix of big heart, punk rock, and stand-up-comic humor, FPP is seeking individuals with a clear originality in their writing style and voice. So if you feel like a weirdo, this application is for you. As Julie would say, there is “no one like you.”
Applications for 2025 are now closed.
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In-Person Workshops
We partner with LGBTQ Centers, arts institutions, and schools across the United States to provide queer-affirming spaces for creative practice, artmaking, and peer-to-peer connection, all in-person and 100% free to the youth.
Past Experiences Include:
Artivism:
A Community Speaks to Itself
As our primary in-person workshop, ARTIVISM calls on its participants to move through a series of writing and songwriting prompts to tell their own stories and express their visions of the future living inside of them. At the end of a week-long workshop, these young people share their work in front of the larger student body or community at large. Their work is also documented and shared through other audio and video media projects.
The Last Grove:
Queerness & The Environment
In Spring 2022, in collaboration with Atlantic Theater and theater-artists, nicHi douglas and Jeanna Phillips, a cast of eight LGBTQIA+ young writer-performers rehearsed for two weeks to create a devised theater piece about the human species and climate damage titled The Last Grove. The piece was performed outdoors in New York City.
Future Perfect Records:
Live in New York City
In June 2022, as part of Lincoln Center’s Pride programming, our first cohort of ten LGBTQIA+ singer-songwriters from around the country met in-person for the very first time in New York City to perform their album live, including performing as part of a secret showcase with Sofar Sounds. The current cohort of Future Perfect Records will be performing live in New York City in September 2023 (We are currently seeking sponsors for this and future programming).
Where We've Been So Far
ALABAMA
Magic City Acceptance Center, Birmingham
ARKANSAS
DYSC (Diverse Youth for Social Change), Little Rock
Central High School, Little Rock
CALIFORNIA
Orange County School of the Arts, Santa Ana
Canyon Crest Academy, San Diego
Alan Clark High School, Glendale
Glendale Junior High, Glendale
Herbert Hoover High School, Glendale
COLORADO
Denver School of the Arts, Denver
Strive Prep, Denver
CONNECTICUT
New Haven Academy, New Haven
Hartford Stage Company Youth Program,
Watkinson School, Hartford
True Colors LGBTQ Youth Conference, Storrs
PRISM LGBTQ Center, East Haddam
INDIANA
Greater Youth of Evansville
Brownsburg High School, Brownsburg
Herron High School, Indianapolis
Indiana Youth Group, Indianapolis
Park Tudor High School, Indianapolis
IOWA
Iowa Youth Writing Program, Iowa City
KANSAS
Lawrence Library, Lawrence
Park Highland High, Topeka
MAINE
Out Maine, Rockland
MASSACHUSETTS
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown
MICHIGAN
Michigan GSA Network
Stand With Trans
MINNESOTA
South High School, Minneapolis
MISSOURI
Kansas City Repertory Youth Program, Kansas City
Winnetonka High School, Kansas City
NEVADA
The LGBTQIA2S+ Community Center of Southern Nevada
NEW YORK
Kingston High School, Kingston
Camp Lightbulb, NYC
Professional Performing Arts School, NYC
Brookyn Technical School, Brooklyn
Ellenville High School, Ellenville
Rondout Valley High School, Accord
Little Island School, NYC
Harvey Milk High School, NYC
NORTH CAROLINA
Time Out Youth Center, Charlotte
Inside Out LGBTQ Youth Center, Durham
PENNSYLVANIA
High School of Creative and Performing Arts, Philadelphia
SOUTH CAROLINA
Uplift LGBTQ+ Youth Outreach Center, Spartanburg
TENNESSEE
Oasis Center for LGBT Youth, Nashville
TEXAS
HATCH, LGBTQ Youth Center, Houston
Tony’s Place, Houston
UTAH
Encircle Youth Summit, Lehi
Encircle, Provo, Salt Lake City & St. Charles
WASHINGTON
Mercer Island High School, Mercer Island
Garfield High School, Seattle