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A Warmer Welcome: Cultural Competency Training for FOH Staff and Volunteers

By Corinna Schulenburg posted 12-10-2020 11:59

  

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A Warmer Welcome is part of TCG’s White Theatre-makers Acting On BIPOC Demands Affinity Space. In addition to our regular monthly meetings to work through the demands, we’re also hosting quarterly open forums to provide more expansive action-planning around specific demands.  On Tuesday, December 15, from 2 to 3:30pm ET, TCG will be hosting A Warmer Welcome: Cultural Competency Training for FOH Staff and Volunteers. This open forum will focus on the following We See You, White American Theater demands:

  • Develop intervention and disruption protocols for harmful moments (i.e. racist audience members).  Cultural Competency, page 2
  • Abolish the policing practices of audience response and promote statements of inclusion for BIPOC audience cultural practices. Cultural Competency, page 3
  • Abolish the policing of BIPOC audience members inside of lobbies, rehearsal studios, and other theatre-related spaces. Cultural Competency, page 3
  • Provide theatre personnel (including ushers, front of house, concessions, etc.) with Anti-Racist, Implicit Bias, Anti-Oppression and Bystander Training. Cultural Competency, page 3
  • Every student/employee/volunteer associated with your institution should be properly and regularly trained by a specialist in anti-racism intervention with the requisite tools necessary to address racism/harm when it happens. Academic and Professional Training Programs, page 25

These demands are being prioritized for our first open forum based on feedback from participants in the White Theatre-makers Acting On BIPOC Demands Affinity Space. The meeting will be co-facilitated by Teresa Eyring and Corinna Schulenburg, and focus on action-planning to meet these demands. To join the affinity space, please email Corinna.

Whether you’ve joined these meetings before or it’s your first time, you’re welcome to attend! While this affinity space prioritizes white learning and action to remove the burden from our BIPOC colleagues, BIPOC theatremakers are also always welcome in these spaces. Please register using the link below, and feel free to share any ideas or questions you might have in the form below.

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