2024/25 Annual Report

Generator has published our 2024/25 Annual Report! Our 2024/25 Fiscal Year was September 1, 2024-August 31, 2025. Here are some highlights:

• A big office move! We now call the B Street Arts Hub our home alongside the B Street Arts Collective and the Toronto Alliance of Performing Arts.

• We maintained our core programming with the Artist Producer Lab and professional development workshops!

• ArtistProducerResource.com moved to a new platform with the Edit-A-Thon in February 2025

• We continued our beloved Financial Literacy program and started the Producer Development Unit!

To learn more about our upcoming programming in 2024/25 , check out Generator’s Organizational Updates.

Thank you for being a part of our 2024/25 year.

Generator Endorses PACBI

We here at Generator endorse the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) as we collectively work to end oppression and genocide of the people of Palestine. 

“Cultural institutions are part and parcel of the ideological and institutional scaffolding of Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid against the Palestinian people. Israeli cultural institutions (including performing art companies, music groups, film organizations, writers’ unions and festivals) have cast their lot with the hegemonic Zionist establishment in Israel, and notwithstanding the efforts of a handful of principled individual artists, writers and filmmakers, these institutions are clearly implicated in supporting, justifying and whitewashing Israel’s occupation and systematic denial of Palestinian rights.”

• PACBI Guidelines

Why Committing to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is Important to Generator

Supporting PACBI aligns with Generator’s core values of Anti-Oppression, Intersectionality and Social Justice; Accountability; and Solution-Focused and Iterative practices. We are committed to creating safe(r) spaces by actively unlearning colonial biases and reframing conversations to support justice. 

A Future of Liberation

We advocate for Palestinian rights and dignity. We value the international laws set up to protect the most vulnerable. We recognize the International Court of Justice rulings that highlight the plausibility of Israel’s genocide and illegal occupation of Palestinian land, and ICC arrest warrants against Israeli officials for crimes against humanity. Numerous reputable human rights organizations, from Amnesty International to The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, have also declared that Israel is committing genocide. 

Our stance represents a principled opposition to the specific apartheid policies and institutional structures of the State of Israel that oppress Palestinian people. Our position focuses on systems rather than individuals.

We dream of a future where Palestinians and all people can live with security, dignity, and self-determination. Where liberation is a concrete reality.

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, which is inspired by the campaigns that helped end South African apartheid, explicitly rejects all forms of racism and racial discrimination, including, amongst others, anti-Black racism, anti-Arab racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism. As they write on their website: “Racism and racial discrimination are the antithesis of freedom, justice and equality.” 

We commit to:

• Abstaining from the use of products that invest in the ongoing genocide in Palestine;

• Engaging in conversations with sector-specific organizations that receive and benefit from the ongoing genocide in Palestine, to raise awarness on how systems of oppression are intertwined in the North American arts context 

• Continue creating low-barrier opportunities for artists and organizations in values-led practices that center equity.

For more information about PACBI, please visit https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi
ig: @theatre4palestinianvoices

In Solidarity, 

The Generator Staff (Patricia Allison, Bianca Guimarães, Nikki Shaffeeullah and Taranjot Bamrah) 

with the support of the Generator Board.

2023/24 Annual Report

Generator has published our 2023/24 Annual Report! Our 2023/24 Fiscal Year was September 1, 2023-August 31, 2024. Here are some highlights:

• After a successful search we welcomed Nikki Shaffeeullah to the Generator leadership team as the Director of Programming.

• The Artist Producer Training Program became the Artist-Producer Lab and ran with a cohort of 6 keen individuals shifted the focus towards micro research projects.

• ArtistProducerResource.com visits grew from past years to reach over 60,000 annual users!

• We continued our beloved Financial Literacy program with one stream: Financial Literacy for Independent Artists and added a special one-time only ONCA Transition Group for the non-profit sector to help lead them through their compliance.

To learn more about our upcoming programming in 2024/25 , check out Generator’s Organizational Updates.

Thank you for being a part of our 2023/24 year.

Announcement: Exciting Partnership between the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) and Generator Toronto

We are pleased to announce a new collaboration between the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) and Generator Toronto, focused on supporting independent theatre in Toronto. Spanning the 2024/2025 season, this important partnership brings together the expertise, resources, and passion of both organizations to equip local artists and producers with the tools they need to succeed. Here's a little of what you can look forward to:

Generator Workshop Series x TAPA Trade series are joining forces to offer three exclusive crossover workshops as part of their respective series. First up, we will have Trauma-Informed Budgeting followed by a Grant Writing double bill, and lastly Values-Based Contracting. They will take place in person at the B Street Arts Hub. Learn more about the Generator Workshop Series on generatorto.com and learn more about the TAPA Trade Series at tapa.ca

Podcast Collaboration To further the research of the 2024 Generator Artist-Producer Lab, select participants will host an exciting limited series podcast. This series will tackle the big questions coming out of the participants' research questions and offer them a platform to share their findings. Generator will be using the state of the art recording studio at the B Street Arts Hub as a home for recording.

A Message from Jacoba Knaapen, TAPA Executive Director: 

“This partnership is a fantastic opportunity for Toronto's Indie Theatre scene. Both TAPA and Generator are passionate about supporting artists-producers and are committed to ensuring the sustainability of making art in Toronto, especially in these challenging times.”

A Message from Bianca Guimarães, Generator Director of Operations:

“By combining resources and amplifying each other's voices, we are looking forward to making a larger impact on the independent theatre community that strives to center values-led producing practices. The B Street Arts Hub is an exciting place to be and we’re happy that the 2024 Artist Producer Lab vision and research will have the opportunity to dive even deeper in this space.”

We will release details about these events and other ventures from this partnership as they come out. Follow @tapa_to and @GeneratorTO on social media for updates.

Together, TAPA and Generator are committed to keeping the Indie Theatre spirit alive!

2022/23 Annual Report

Generator has published our 2022/23 Annual Report! Our 2022/23 Fiscal Year was September 1, 2022-August 31, 2023. Here are some highlights:

• The Artist Producer Training Program ran as an Embedded Edition and was facilitated by Eva Barrie. A cohort of 4 individuals were paired with partner organisations, SummerWorks, Toronto Fringe, Dancemakers, and Shakespeare in the Ruff. The participants combined independent learning with on the ground experience.

• ArtistProducerResource.com visits grew from past years to reach over 24,000 annual users! We focused our season on cleaning up the content and reaching out to new knowledge contributors.

• We continued our beloved Financial Literacy program in two stream: Financial Literacy for Independent Artists ran in the fall ; Financial Literacy for Non-Profit Workers ran in the winter.

• We hosted two community events which brought us together to share in grounding and self-care practises. We hosted Grounding Ourselves in partnership with Jamii and the Intimacy & Self-Care Check in with special guest facilitators Aria Evns, Lilia Leon, and Carine Diverlus.

To learn more about our programming in 2023/23 , check out Generator’s Organizational Updates.

Thank you for being a part of our 2022/23 year.