We hope we've seen the worst of COVID and that any fall/winter return is mild and manageable.
We have some post-COVID news to share.
Our initial vision for Adelante Studios was of a co-working community for the visual and performing arts, but the tools we had at hand were too static and time consuming to properly realize it. Nothing came of that and we settled into being yet another rental studio (albeit novel in combining dance and photography). Truth be told, that's neither challenging nor remunerative, particularly at this time.
The pandemic, with all of its business and personal losses, was also a time of assessment and reinvention. We assisted a few dance instructors in teaching online and in the course of that came across innovative tools and platforms that served them better and earned them more than what most instructors used the past year.
Our focus is now on doing something interesting and with longevity for us and our clients. With lessons learned, our new direction is to be both a physical and virtual community with resources for our clients to succeed in person and online.
Towards this, we've settled on the Ipso community and commerce platform for its range of tools and potential uses. We also have a commitment from its developers to cater to the needs of the fashion and dance industries.
Ipso (ipso.buzz) provides us a better means of communicating with clients and referring business to them. Event promoters may find it a good alternative to Eventbrite while content creators may find it better than Patreon. It's not inconceivable that in the future models and photographers would find it more useful than Instagram and Modelmayhem.
We invite all our clients to join and support the community and economy we are building and we hope that you do. Here's how we are starting.
Membership Model
We are switching to a membership model. The basic membership is a one time $10 and provides access to renting our studios. This applies to all our spaces and activities at Adelante Studios / Space-4-Shoots.
Other levels of membership will be offered and communicated through Ipso in the coming weeks.
Here's how to join:
Create an Ipso account and profile at https://ipso.buzz (name, email, password, and the profile name you want).
For the $10 photography/casting related membership, go here and tap on the $ icon to pay using a credit card. You can optionally follow Space-4-Shoots while there.
For the $10 dance related membership, go here and tap on the $ icon to pay using a credit card. You can optionally follow Adelante Studios while there.
Your credit card payment is processed securely by Stripe.
Note that Adelante's and Space-4-Shoots' Ipso profiles can also display our recent Instagrams. That's an optional feature of Ipso to get added exposure for your work.
Resources
Some of the resources we've added:
Zoom licenses, video storage, and live-streaming hardware available for use by our members.
Updated AV system for dance events, workshops, and fashion shows.
We are super excited about this and hope you'll support us in this new beginning and you'll join us in creating a synergistic community of talent and practice around Adelante Studios / Space-4-Shoots.
With much appreciation,
Adelante Studios & Space-4-Shoots
