Mission: To foster a vibrant and prolific performing arts community around shared resources of space and talent, to increase stability and growth within the artistic community, and to help broaden public access to the performing arts.

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 Artists & Arts Organizations

We run programs like the Con Edison Musicians’ Residency: Composition, and we analyze community-wide workspace needs like the dance rehearsal space study for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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 Facility Managers

We study workspace issues facing cultural facilities in New York, and we advise individual  facilities on how to make better use of their space.

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 Funders & Government

We identify unmet workspace needs through studies, surveys, and collection of quantitative data, and we serve as a referral resource for individuals.

Con Edison Musicians’ Residency: Composition

This program, run by Exploring the Metropolis, provides selected NYC-based composers free space in a cultural facility for their creative work. Each composer must present one public program. Program info

Composers’ Upcoming Public Events all future events

Theo Metz Plays Flushing Town Hall

May 26, 2013, 2:00-4:00pm, Flushing Town Hall — In this program, the culmination of his 2012-13 EtM Con Edison Composers' Residency at Flushing Town Hall, percussionist/composer Theo Metz will present a lecture/performance of original... More »

Gabrielle Herbst and Contemporaneous at BYCA

May 31, 2013, 6:00-7:00pm, Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy — Innovative composer/cross-disciplinary artist Gabrielle Herbst - along with new music upstarts Contemporaneous - presents a free public program as part of EtM's Con Edison Composers Residency... More »

Guy Barash in Concert at Turtle Bay Music School

June 4, 2013, 7:30-9:00pm, Turtle Bay Music School — Israeli-born modernist composer, ASCAP Plus Winner, and EtM's Con Edison Composer-in-Residence Guy Barash brings his collaborative works to Turtle Bay Music School for a free concert. ... More »

Molly Herron: Creativity and Play

June 15, 2013, 2:00-3:00pm, Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy — EtM's Con Edison Composer-in-Residence Molly Herron presents "Creativity and Play," a program exploring the relationship between imagination in childhood games and artistic exploration.... More »


Composers-in-Residence 2012–2013

Guy Barash at Turtle Bay Music School (spring 2013)
Jeff Fairbanks at Flushing Town Hall
Patrick Grant at Turtle Bay Music School (fall 2012)
Gabrielle Herbst at Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy
Molly Herron at Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy
Elizabeth Lim at Bloomingdale School of Music
Theodore Metz at Flushing Town Hall
Jeff Myers at Bloomingdale School of Music





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