Workshops
& Internships
Connect, create and share your work in an online space that gives you the chance to meet and collaborate alongside other LGBTQIA+ peers from all over the world. Participants can join from anywhere in the world via Zoom. (Workshops are held in English.)
Online Programs
Connect, laugh and share in a safe space that gives you the chance to meet LGBTQIA+ young people from all over the world. Participants can join from anywhere in the world via Zoom. Workshops are held in English.
Writer's Room
A free and open invitation bi-monthly writing workshop that focuses on developing writing skills and tools for creatives of all backgrounds and experiences.
⏰ Writer’s Room meets 8pm-9pm ET / 5-6 PT
📝 Starting 1/30/2024, every other Tuesday, from January to June.
Each session, we meet with youth online to study queer writers, reflect upon current events, respond to prompts, and create original works of writing. This workshop is great for those who are just discovering their voice and want to continue expanding and developing their artistic point of view. We invite anyone to connect with the community, share, reflect, and respond. Each session is facilitated by two LGBTQIA+ artists, holding space to support the writing practice of young people and affirm their queerness.
Participants looking to bring their writing practice to the next level can enroll in our Portfolio Development Program, which pairs writers with LGBTQIA+ mentors and guides writers in creating a portfolio of five or more original pieces.
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 Podcast Project:
I'm Feeling Queer Today!
An online, application-based internship for LGBTQIA+ writers, journalists, voice actors and producers ages 14-22. Selected applicants create a 6-episode season of an original podcast to be distributed on all platforms.
The team at The Future Perfect Project hands the mic over to LGBTQIA+ youth with the podcast project, I’m Feeling Queer Today! This youth-produced podcast, a compilation of original poetry, one-on-one interviews, media reviews, comedy segments and more, explores themes and issues through a queer youth lens. In Episode 1, the youth explore the concept of Queer Joy. As host Logan Waugh states, “In a time that is so dark for so many people, we felt it was important to uplift the happiness, community and acceptance which accompanies our queerness.”
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!
In-Person Workshops and Performance
We partner with theaters, LGBTQ Centers and schools across the United States to provide transformative in-person creative writing, songwriting, and theater-making workshops that culminate in a live performance or documented media project.
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