School of Song Scholarship w/ ARCA

Trans Music Archive, in partnership with School Of Song, is offering four seats to the Workshop With Arca online course to trans identifying folks.

The application deadline is end of day March 1st, 2026. Applications are now closed.

Classes will begin on March 8th, 2026 via Zoom and will continue on Sundays March 15th, 22nd, and 29th, 2026 (12PM – 1PM PT)

  • Q&As will take place Wednesdays March 11th, 18th, and 25th, 2026 at 12PM PT

  • Song-Shares will take place: Saturdays March 14th, 21st, and 28th, 2026

Scholarship recipients will be announced by or before March 6th, 2026.

For more information about the course, please visit School Of Song.

Application

This is an open application and there is no application fee. Applications are due by the end of day March 1st, 2026.

Requirements to apply include

  • Self-identify as trans

  • Availability during class, Q+A, and song share times.

  • Stable internet connection to attend class via Zoom

"making music has always been a lifesaving experience, and for as long as i can remember it has been a way to connect with others, find my tribe, resonate on shared aesthetic sensibilities all while bringing people together into communities based on an appreciation of the intentional, careful crafting of energy and sound, and music is always there, existing in so many ways: both as a shared rhythm to dance to with others in nightclubs, and in headphones in cathartic moments of solitude and introversion, and every space in between.

and even at my most experimental - perhaps in some ways particularly at my most experimental - i feel like making music is a kind of reaching out, even if the person for whom you make music for is yourself, an idea of a person or a blend of people in your mind, whoever you write for becomes the hypothetical recipient of a gesture of communicating and expressing- in this sense i see every song as a kind of love letter to the collective, to that which unites us through sound art

you could say each songwriter is a unique synthesis of all the influences that shape them throughout the course of their explorations so formats become a shorthand that conveys the archetypal, that which we recognize intuitively - and recurring patterns in music, models of how to structure songs, form aesthetics that morph and synthesize into amalgamations each day. fusions between styles/synthesis, alchemy, exploration, play and discipline are some of the technologies we have as artists to help us create those mysterious and magical representations of modes of relating and feeling: songs."

-Arca