Amoeba Productions' goals for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belongingness

We are happy to present Amoeba Productions’ Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belongingness Statement and Goals. Check back at the end of the year for an overview of how we did on our goals, what we learned, and what we intend to improve on next year.

 

STATEMENT

Amoeba Productions is committed to creating intentional spaces that honor the autonomy, vision, and identity of all experiences held by our collaborators and audience members. This requires our constant dedication to transparency, education, and action to grow our understanding of how we can serve the communities we make art with, and within. 

First, we must confront that Amoeba Productions is a product of the oppressive systems that this industry and country are born from. The white supremacist capitalist patriarchy puts each of us in places of privilege. Only by welcoming conflict as an opportunity to place lived experience over the urgency for profit, can we build a liberated company.

In striving to move beyond statements and instead enact tangible actions that discard the practices of ableist white supremacy, the company has set the following goals. Our intention is to weave accessibility, agency, and accountability into every function of Amoeba Productions.

 

GOALS

Accessibility

    1. Amoeba performances and rehearsals will be in wheelchair accessible spaces.
    2. Amoeba will have audio descriptions or an ASL interpreter at full productions. 
    3. Amoeba will have bathrooms and water free at all programming.
    4. Research assisted listening devices for 2028.
    5. Ticket prices to Amoeba performances will be on a sliding scale, prioritizing accessible attendance for community members. 
    6. All Amoeba events will seek feedback from its audience.
    7. All Amoeba performances will create a comfortable viewing environment for all by doing the following:
      • Clearly communicate that all Amoeba audiences can come and go as they need and are welcome to engage verbally with the art.
      • All Amoeba events will have a “Know Before You Go Guide” that contains details on how to get to the event, and what to expect once they arrive. 

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Community Engagement 

    1. Three times a year Amoeba will engage externally in a charitable endeavor within and for the community the project is housed.
    2. Amoeba will seek continued education on its role in liberating performing arts spaces by at least one board member attending a nonprofit or charity event every trimester and sharing the experience at board meetings and included in the trimester update.
    3. Amoeba will create a platform of resources relevant to its community of early career artists.
    4. Amoeba will offer its community three accessible educational or professional development opportunities.

 

Hiring and Casting 

    1. Amoeba will always post hiring and creative opportunities in three public spaces that do not require application fees.
    2. At least 50% of all Amoeba’s collaborators will represent diverse communities encompassing race, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability.
    3. At least 50% of all Amoeba’s collaborators will represent diverse communities encompassing race, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability.
    4. All hiring and casting application processes will offer accommodations based on individual needs, like allowing for applicants to share a video in place of written responses.
    5. No less than 50% of programming will be written or created by artists from historically underrepresented groups.
    6. When hiring or offering an opportunity, Amoeba will always include a written expectation of compensation, labor, time, and anything else related to their involvement with the company that will be signed by the collaborator and an Amoeba Board member before their role begins. 
    7. Amoeba will actively seek resources to be able to compensate all collaborators. 
      • Applying for at least two grants a year to fund artist salaries
      • By 2027, have a development director

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Transparency & Accountability 

    1. Amoeba bylaws, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belongingness (EDIB) goals and reports, Board Member contact information, and monthly financial records are available on the website. 
    2. Amoeba productions will create an update on its EDIB goals each trimester and make it available on the Amoeba website. This report will continue Amoeba’s education on its own goals and the needs of its community.
    3. Amoeba will create a financial report once a trimester that will be available on the Amoeba website. 
    4. Amoeba will always have a feedback form available on its website.
    5. All Amoeba Board Members and Associates will complete Sexual Harassment Training. 
    6. Contents of all Amoeba feedback forms will be discussed by the full board and results of those discussions will be recorded on the triannual EDIB update. 
    7. Each year Amoeba will re-evaluate its goals to continue to take risks in pursuit of creating equitable, liberated art. 

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