Encounter. Craft. Kinship.
Proxima Performing Arts creates live gatherings where artists and audiences share the same ground. We present thoughtfully curated, cross-disciplinary programs that move out of the traditional concert hall, bringing art up close and within reach and extending each performance through shared food, drink, and conversation. In these spaces, performance is personal, dialogue emerges naturally, and community forms through direct encounter.
Encounter.
We present work in spaces where artists and audiences share physical and social closeness. Environment is intentional. Attention is mutual. The energy in the room is visible and reciprocal. We approach each event as hosts as much as performers, welcoming guests into the shared space of the performance. Atmosphere, acknowledgment, and care are integral to the work.
Craft.
Programs are thoughtfully curated and professionally prepared. Scale may be small, but standards are not. We hold ourselves to high artistic expectations in repertoire, collaboration, and execution. Projects are built through conversation and trust. Artists are invited into meaningful partnership rather than transactional engagement.
Kinship.
Performance is not only presentation. We value dialogue, reflection, and the shared experience that unfolds in the room. Proxima makes performance part of lived experience rather than distant presentation. Community forms through shared attention, conversation, and the vulnerability of being present together.
Attend.
Art has always been one of the ways people come together to share stories, values, and a sense of belonging. When those experiences happen in the same room — when artists and listeners gather not as strangers but as neighbors and friends — something lasting begins to take root.
Proxima exists to cultivate those gatherings.
Upcoming Events.
Eros Ascends takes its inspiration from Eros, the ancient force the Greeks understood as the spark that sets life in motion-an energy that draws us toward union and wholeness.
Join us for an evening of music by Scriabin, Szymanowski, Brahms, Duparc, and Gilmore that traces this rising impulse from its first stirrings to ecstatic ascent.
Attendance is limited. Tickets are inclusive of all food and drinks.
Spring concert: Eros Ascends
beginnings.
Proxima grew out of years spent inside the world of classical music—as performers, administrators, and listeners—where we’ve seen both the beauty these institutions protect and the quiet tension many now feel within them. Large systems, by necessity, can create distance: between artists and audiences, between intention and experience.
Proxima isn’t a rejection of that legacy, but a gentle shift in scale.
We focus on small, intimate performances where artists can take risks and connect directly with the room, creating something more immediate and alive. It’s a simple question, really: what might the future of the performing arts feel like if it grew in smaller rooms again?