Say, can you say a little bit about Ground Floor for folks who may not know what that is?

Yeah, so the, the Ground Floor is our center for the development of new work, and it includes things from commissions to workshops and readings to a, a flagship program which we have called The Ground Floor Summer Residency Lab, where we have artists, uh, apply to be in residence with us during the course of the summer.

And, uh, for four weeks, we have 20 different projects and 100 and some artists in residence with us, working on their projects in whatever stage of development they are.

It's a true incubator, and we try to curate those spaces for cross-pollinization between projects, between newer artists and more established artists, all sorts of different genres.

And these are folks that we're either interested in being in relationship with, or we're interested in a specific project and investing along the way, or we're just seeding the field with, with new projects, um-

That's smart

... much like what happens at universities and other incubators where, where folk...

Th- there may be company- like, for-profit companies that are, you know, giving a grant to Cal to develop, help develop the next whatever, and then once the scientists there come up with it, then the company takes the IP, the intellectual property, and then commercializes it.