Technology - Tools & Systems
Audience Accessibility
You've made the art, but is your art accessible to people with disabilities? How can producing considerations alter the artistic landscape so that performance can include and involve more audiences?
Making your art accessible goes beyond offering accessible performances. Here are some (but not all) of the considerations you should make when looking at accessibility for your event/production…
Accessible Websites, Graphics, Videos, and Documents
Producing live performance usually means producing a lot of content around your event: marketing and communications (like marketing materials, a website, promotional photos, and graphics) to share information about you or your project with an audience; important documents (like contracts, invoices, and schedules) to manage your team and your project; and the scripts and designs that help bring your creative ideas to life.
For Artist: Communicating and Requesting Accessibility
Let’s face it, theatre and access aren’t always words we find in the same sentence, even in 2025. Though there is a long way to go - there are ways to start the conversation. Remember - ensuring a theatre space meets your access needs, should NEVER be your sole job, it needs to be a conversation with the producers and facilitators of the process!
Climate Justice in Producing Practices
Climate Justice is a term linked to a movement intrinsically related to Social Justice that acknowledges climate change can have differing social, economic, public health, and other adverse impacts on people, communities, and ecosystems globally. Climate justice is a concept that addresses the ethical dimensions of climate change, and climate justice in producing practices requires artists’ acknowledgment of the short and long-term impacts of production for the planet and all living things, now, and generations to come.
Social Justice Solidarity
Going hand-in-hand with inclusion and accessibility, social justice solidarity is about using your platform appropriately to meaningfully and respectfully support causes aimed at promoting equal economic, political, and social rights and opportunities. Being an artist naturally lends itself to this work. However, the way forward isn't always clear, especially when funds are limited.
Inclusion
Inclusion is a way of thinking and acting that allows every individual to feel accepted, valued and safe(r). An inclusive community consciously evolves to meet the changing needs of its members. Artist producers can make conscious decisions to make safe(r), more inclusive spaces for themselves, their artists and their community.
Community Engagement
What is Community Engagement? It depends on who’s asking. Community can mean different things to different people. Generally, a community is a group of people that share some kind of commonality.
Community Partnerships
A Community Partnership is a relationship between your arts collective or organization and a non-arts organization or collective. This differs from a corporate sponsorship or private funding relationship as there is generally no exchange of funds or goods. Community partnerships often meet a more social service or community-oriented purpose.
Social Design
Social Design is the strategy and implementation of online tools to deepen or broaden the artistic nature of a live performance. There are three types of social design that mobilize digital tools like social media, live-streaming, green-screen technology, online forums, teleconferencing software, etc.