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Paracademia
Photo collage from our Ladies First - We're All Immigrants Video, produced and performed in 2016.

Providing perfomance, education and professional opportunities to immigrant women

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SECRET CITY IS BACK!

We are delighted to announce that we are a part of the 2023 WHAM Festival, a month-long interdisciplinary performance arts festival for mixed audiences celebrating local women's creative leadership.


Join us on March 20th and 21st at The Bernie Wohl Center at 7pm for a night of magic, music, and merriment!


Explore all that our miniature utopia has to offer and unleash your most playful self through live performances, musical robots, autonomous projections, and adult beverages! 


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If you can't join us for the performance, the exhibition will on display until the end of the month. Check it out while there's still time!


And while you're here, why don't you watch our video below and get in on the Secret!


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paracademia is a new music and collaboraitve arts center

Photo by Kyra Mo, from Make Music Harlem 2017. Cellist Polina Bakhtina

  •  Academia (Ancient Greek: Ἀκαδημία), originally a public garden or grove in the suburbs of Athens, was founded by Plato (428/427 BC – 348/347 BC) in ca. 387 BC in Athens. Academia was not a school or college in the modern sense, but rather an informal association of people who were interested in studying with Plato as their guide. Festivals were held there, as were athletic events in which runners would races between the altars, and funeral games as well.
  • Paracademia (pronounced parakademya) was founded in 2015 in Harlem, NY by the composer, educator, performance artist, and Juilliard faculty Milica Paranosic. Paracademia is not a school or college in the traditional sense, but rather an informal association of people interested in fostering artistic growth and sharing under Paranosic’s mentorship. Festivals, workshops, social events and concerts regularly take place at Paracademia.
  • The “para-" comes straight from the Greek - a prefix with many meanings, including: alongside of, beside, near, resembling, beyond and apart from. It is also the first part of our founder’s Milica Paranosic last name.

Our Founder

 When she was 4 years old, our founder Milica Paranosic discovered interdisciplinary creation and performance in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia. 

She emigrated to New York in 1995 to begin a life as an interdisciplinary artist, composer, producer and educator.


Today, she embraces the opportunity to teach emerging artists the tools she learned to be useful in enjoying a life as a successful, fulfilled artist and citizen.


For more information, visit Milica's website

Our Mission

 As children, we all create art. We sing and dance together, we build sand castles, we make up stories and draw landscapes on the walls of our rooms. Then somehow, life teaches us to become ‘serious,' get a ‘real’ profession, and stop ‘playing around;' in other words, to break the links to our inner artists. 


At Paracademia, we keep those links alive, and awake them if they fall asleep. 


Paracademia is committed to nurturing and revitalizing our artistic predispositions through  community efforts and collaborative productions, performances and education.


We particularly support immigrants, women, and youth by providing education, performance and professional opportunities.

ZOOM SESSIONS ARE back!

Get excited, because classes are back in session! Every Wednesday from 5pm-7pm, join us for classes on music theory, composition, and film scoring. Open to all skill levels, and drop-ins are welcome - email info@paracademia.org for rates. See you there!

OUR PROGRAMS

Atterburry House Sessions

Lara St. John curates concert series with distinguished artists, produced by Paracademia center for music and # collaborative arts which provides aid to struggling musicians.

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Secret City

Lara St. John curates concert series with distinguished artists, produced by Paracademia center for music and # collaborative arts which provides aid to struggling musicians.

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Ladies First

Women Supporting Women Through Arts

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Add A Movie Film Festival

We foster Composers/Filmmakers Collaborations through original compositions to contemporary independent movies and visual media collaborative arts music performance

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The Other Graduation

the output-box music series

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ParaDivas

Performance Meets Fashion Meet Technology

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Make Music Harlem

Summer Solsctice Harlem Block Party

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We Believe You!

Our new program dedicated to preventing, protecting and healing the victims of sexual abuse in classical music community. Spearheaded by our board member, a sexual abuse survivor Lara St. John.

Read the Review of our inaugural event in the Philadelphia Inquirer,  

Our Promo Video from Ladies First 2016

Before it was a national movement, it was our program!

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Are you an artist or and an art advocate? Are you an immigrant, a woman, a young professional in need of guidence or a perfomance opportunty? Contact us  - We're here to help! music performance collaborative arts

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We are always looking to grow and extend our reach. Many opportunities are available, including board members, curators, interns, volunteers and visiting faculty. Contact us  to find out more.

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