Build Art Space Equitably (B.A.S.E.)                     2024/2025 Cohort Application
Yay! You're interested in joining the Build Art Space Equitably (B.A.S.E.) 2024 cohort! We're very interested in learning more about you. We regularly get about five applications for every spot we have available in the cohort (about 100 applications for about 20 spots). 

About B.A.S.E.
In 2018 the City of Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture launched the Build Art Space Equitably, or B.A.S.E., certification program. The program engages an annual cohort of roughly 20 people who spend a year moving through a curriculum designed to explore the intersection of cultural development and commercial real estate development. In 2022 the B.A.S.E. program was transferred from the Office of Arts and Culture to the The Cultural Space Agency.

Each year twenty experts in fields related to cultural space – architects, city planners, commercial property developers, and property brokers, as well as community organizers, cultural organization leaders, writers, and artists, spend twelve sessions together building awareness and understanding of the critically important new field of Cultural Space. The cohorts are intended to be made up entirely of People of Color, a choice intended to reverse centuries of institutionalized racism and to aim the knowledge the program provides towards the communities that have been denied access to that knowledge.  

The B.A.S.E. program is creating an of culturally savvy real estate developers and development-savvy arts and culture entrepreneurs. It is creating an constituency of professionals who live at the intersection of the arts and commercial real estate, an army whose purpose is to hack existing systems in both commercial real estate and arts & culture, to make those systems more equitable, more accessible, more comprehensible, and more functional.  

The B.A.S.E. program’s goal is to build capacity in communities of color to build permanent affordable cultural spaces and to extend the “onramp” to commercial real estate development further into cultural communities. It has already graduated its first three cohorts and is slated to graduate its fourth cohort April 2024

Participants are compensated at $25 per hour for their participation in meetings and sessions, in addition to catered meals being provided, and basic participation costs being covered.


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Please spend about 20 minutes telling us about yourself. We will keep all of this information private and will only share it with the community-based review panel that will be choosing next year's cohort. 

Questions?
Please reach out to B.A.S.E. program manager Stephanie Morales, the Community Liaison at The Cultural Space Agency, with any questions at Stephanie@culturalspace.ageny Use subject line: "B.A.S.E. Application"


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Hi, what's your name? *
First and last name
At what email address can we get a hold of you? *
What's a good telephone number for getting a hold of you?
Demographic, Personal, and Professional Information
We want our cohort to represent our region really broadly. Please answer the following questions. Again, none of this information leaves this particular process. These questions are optional and we cannot require you to answer them. If you are uncomfortable answering any of these questions please feel free to skip to the next question. 
How old are you, roughly?
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How do you like to identify your gender?
How do you like to identify your race or ethnicity?
In what neighborhood of Seattle, or in what other city, do you live?
Is there a different neighborhood that you connect with, or where you've spent a lot of time? Meaning, if your current neighborhood or city doesn't resonate for you as "home," where does?
Typically our cohort members come from one of the professional backgrounds listed below. Do you identify with one or more of these? If not, that's great -- please use the "Other" option to tell us in just a word or two about your background.
We work a lot with the City's Equitable Development Initiative. They've developed a slightly tongue-in-cheek metric from "Shovel Hungry" to "Shovel Ready," the "Shovel" being used to call to mind the golden shovel people use at a formal groundbreaking ceremony. This cohort is about the creation of cultural space. Do you consider yourself to be more shovel-hungry (dreaming of a project, curious about the field), or more shovel-ready (the vision is well-defined, you're assembling the money to start), when it comes to creating cultural space? (There's no right answer here, again, we're looking for a range from one to the other in our cohort.)
Shovel Hungry
Shovel Ready
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Do you have any access needs that the BASE organizing team should note? How can the BASE team make cohort meetings and other requirements more accessible to you? (Please note: anyone can have access needs. This question is not limited to those who identify as disabled and/or chronically ill.) 

Let's go a Little Deeper
Thanks for the information above.

One of the things that defines a "Cohort" experience is that everyone in the room is there both as a teacher and as a student. With that in mind, please think about what you would bring into the room that might be valuable to your fellow cohort members, and what you'd like to take out of the room that would be valuable to you, your organization, or your community.  

BASE is largely about bridging the divide that exists between the worlds of commercial real estate, arts & culture, and community development. The next couple of questions are about how you will be a part of repairing that divide.

Please answer the following questions with a paragraph or two.
What information, what expertise, what experience and wisdom, what knowledge and what values, do you bring into this room? What do you have to teach your fellow cohort members?
What information, expertise, wisdom, and knowledge do you hope to take away from this room? What do you hope to learn from your fellow cohort members?
The next BASE cohort will launch in June 2024. There will be 10 sessions. Some of the sessions will be in person at a local cultural space and some will be virtual via Zoom. Each session is generally scheduled for 3 hours. Please help us plan by selecting some days of the week that typically work with your schedule for us to meet regularly.
Please select times that typically work with your schedule on the days that you selected above for a 3 hour session about once a month.
Is there anything else you would like us to know about your schedule. Is there a certain week of the month that works best for you or a specific time on certain days...?
Thank you for applying to B.A.S.E!
The review panel (made up of current cohort members and the BASE Leadership Group) will notify applicants of their status in the later spring. Thank you so much for your interest. Again, please reach out to BASE program manager Stephanie Morales with any questions at stephanie@culturalspace.agency Use subject line: "B.A.S.E. Application".
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