MISSION STATEMENT: The mission of Amoeba Productions is to produce a wide variety of performance art by utilizing the talents of early career artists in accessible and community based spaces in the New York Metropolitan area.
VISION: Our vision is for early career performance artists to have the means and support to produce their work in ways that challenge the boundaries of tradition and inspire transformation.w
THE TEN VALUES OF PEACEMAKING CIRCLES:
- Respect. honoring ourselves by acting in accord with our values, honoring others by recognizing their right to be different, treating them with dignity, and fairly compensating them for their contributions.
- Honesty. We lower our masks and share our inner world, beginning a dialogue aimed not at defending our perspective but at openly questioning it to discover a wider truth.
- Trust. Trusting that we can follow through on what our values call us to do and challenging ourselves to risk exposing who we are first and then in reaching out to others. We build trust by addressing intimacy, violence, and other triggering material with educated methods designed to protect and empower artists.
- Humility. We honor another’s voice by focusing more on discovering the wider truth than on advancing our own needs. Humility grows from recognizing our own limitations.
- Sharing. We need to release the urge to control people and situations. Yielding power on one side allows others to take power as they assume responsibility.
- Diversity. Actively seeking everyone whose interests are affected. We will employ a diverse community of individuals and tell stories about a multitude of experiences. How you send participants away from the community is how they come back to the community.
- Empathy. Expressing the equality between our suffering and those who suffer differently. Understanding each other through our stories reduces the distance separating us.
- Courage. Courage does not mean the absence of fear but the ability to acknowledge fears and to go forward in spite of them. We instill courage by employing specifically early career artists who haven’t yet been given the support to produce their brave work.
- Forgiveness. Emerging from the dynamics of each individual’s healing journey, which begins with learning to forgive ourselves.
- Love. Deepening our awareness that we are not separate, however much we may appear to be.
