Artists in Residence
The Delight Factory is proud to incubate, support, and produce works by creative explorers through our Artists in Residence Program. We provide use of our space and equipment, marketing and brand consulting, as well as feedback and constructive critique on the work itself before it’s presented to the public. We work with all kinds of artists–musicians, dancers, poets, and painters, as well as creatives whose work is multi-disciplinary and/or underrepresented.
Our Artists / ArtsOrgs in Residence
2023: DJ Baldie Locs
Delight Factory’s resident DJ is Brooklyn’s DJ Baldie Locs.
DJ Baldie Locs has been inspired by artists like DJ Scratch who generate a good vibe through their music, personality, and positive energy. Knowing the power of the dance floor, Baldie Locs is now developing her own parties during her artist residency at Delight Factory.
As part of this residency, Baldie Locs is on the decks at Delight Factory every Monday night, working on different musical directions and concluding it with a series of dance parties:
MONDAY NIGHT MIX
Four BOYB open-house sessions, four musical directions
6:30 - 9:00 PM
$ donation encouraged to support the artist and the space
Nov 13: Hip-hop & RNB Edition
Nov 20: 90s/2000 Pop Edition
Nov 27: K-Pop Edition
Dec 4: Disco Edition
These nights will be shoes-off, no drinks on the dance floor.
Come dance your heart out!
ABOUT DJ BALDIE LOCS
Baldielocs is a new DJ on the scene and is ready to infuse your dancing experience with her good energy. She’s been part of the Delight Factory family since the beginning, supporting it with her wise and creative mind, and elevating the energy while being in charge of the bar.
2022: Remix Culture
Remix Culture is a borderless collective of co-creators using traditional music, film, and remix to promote more interconnected and resilient communities.
Remix Culture’s mission is to co-create spaces of belonging and mutual support by collaboratively documenting and remixing underrepresented traditional musicians and their communities’ stories.
For the residency, Delight Factory will help Remix Culture facilitate collaborations between NY-based traditional musicians, remix artists, and DJs rooted in the SWANA (South West Asian and North African) region, culminating in live experiences intended as cathartic journeys.
The series is called "Tanfis," which is understood in Arabic as the journey of the nafs (self/soul) from a place of stuckness towards liberation, from the holding of breath to the exhalation. In English, tanfis can be understood as "catharsis." As humanity copes with the crises of our times, the notion of tanfis invites us to meet hopelessness and instead plant seeds. To lean into our imaginations. To create together, locally, globally, and in solidarity.
2021: Filmmaker Meghan Scibona
Meghan is a Director and Executive Producer based in Los Angeles and New York, and heads the production company My Scibona Productions . Meghan co-directed "Kid Happy", a feature film set in India about the search for belonging and family, now in post-production, and “Blood Junkies,” a blood-soaked tale of vampire-as-addict. She has directed and/or produced videos for brands like Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Chopra and more.
Meghan spent two weeks at Delight Factory, working on her new screenplay “Her Bette Davis Eyes”. She did research, talked to people in the space and online, and wrote the script.
During her residency, she brought a key theme for her main characters to the Delight Factory’s monthly Ego Free Jam: Ancestry. Some of our regulars said they were able to tune into what their ancestry meant to them, and it influenced what they played and expressed.
Meghan also hosted a Directors Collective NYC workshop at the Delight Factory. Each director in the Collective works with the same script and the same 2 actors. Meghan presented a scene from her new screenplay, and the actors were our very own Jason Nunes, and our friend Christina Giordano. Meghan said it added such legitimacy to the project to watch other people working with her words and characters. And it helped her see all the directions the story could go.
2024: Zenni Corbin
Zenni Corbin is an actor, songwriter, and dancer from New Jersey. Their credits include The Diving: Ceremonies from In the Name of The M/other Tree at The Apollo Stages, Sandy Lam's Pravna tour, an MTV Video Music Award in Japan for the video Nan Nan, as well as several works with Ebony Golden's Jupiter Performance Studio. Corbin's debut solo show at Delight Factory explores displacement, migration, and housing in urban settings. To see more of their work follow them on Instagram @Zennireach