About

Generator is a mentoring, teaching, and innovation incubator that expands the skills, tools, and competencies of independent artists, producers and leaders. From intensive programs to online tools, Generator is transforming the role of the artist producer one artist at a time.

Vision & Mission

Our vision is a world filled with interdependent, resilient, joyful creative communities, where everyone has access to art-making on their own terms.

Our mission is to shape the performing arts sector to be sustainable, healthy, accessible, indispensable, and joyful, through the lens of producing. We nurture thought and practice through the provision of low-barrier, accessible programming and resources; participatory research projects; and community spaces. We support arts workers to understand the sector, to be active agents in shaping the sector, to work relationally, and to be intentional with their goals and processes.

Mandate

Our mandate is to facilitate learning & mentorship; to incubate research & further thought; and to centre equity in all that we do:

• Learning & Mentorship: We steward learning and mentorship opportunities to support people and communities to produce live art in ways that are sustainable, resourced, affirming, and values-led. 

• Research & Thought: We create, resource, and maintain digital and physical spaces for the performing arts community to gather, to ask and explore urgent sectoral questions, and to propose answers. We offer curation and facilitation where useful. 

• Centering Equity: We work to nurture the communities, individuals, and work that are systemically relegated to the ‘margins’ of the performing sector, knowing that is to the benefit of all. We ongoingly work to reduce barriers to participation. We foster community and encourage collaboration and interdependence between performing art makers, producers, and organizations.

Values

Interdependance 
Sustainability 
Wellness 
Accessibility 
Empowerment

Our Safe(r) Spaces Policy

At Generator, a safe(r) space is a supportive, non-threatening environment that encourages open-mindedness, respect, a willingness to learn from others, as well as physical and mental safety. 

Read our Safe(r) Spaces Policy 2024 here. Each program reviews this policy annually. Program participants also create a Community Agreement that outlines, amongst many things, measures and procedures to help us all create safe(r) spaces, including ways to summon immediate assistance, resolve conflict, report incidents, and/or raise concerns.