Artist Producer Training (APT) Peer Conversation Project

Building and expanding creative networks, encouraging new relationships, offering financial and mentorship support to artists and producers, and raising awareness and sparking conversation about emergent issues in the field.

About

In 2022, Generator invited each Artist Producer Training (APT) program graduate to identify one (1) artist or arts worker, to engage in an in-depth conversation about current creative practices, and to surface and understand more about our collective hopes, needs, and challenges as artists, and as producers in the performance sector.

Each APT graduate was asked to document their conversations (in any format) and share this documentation with Generator, with an aim towards further sharing on our blog and social media platforms. The overall themes and topics of discussion within these conversations were varied, and bring many emergent and urgent issues into focus. As well, everyone was encouraged to work within their own personal capacity, to produce their documentation.

To support further community and sector knowledge sharing and conversation, Generator is sharing all of the project documentation (mostly unedited).

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APT Peer Conversation Project: Michelle Langille x Kat McCormack
APT Peer Conversation Project: Michelle Langille x Kat McCormack

As part of the APT Peer Conversation Project, Michelle Langille meets with Kat McCormack (Artistic Director, Eastern Front Theatre) in studio, to capture a podcast recording of their conversation about accessibility in theatrical contexts.

APT Peer Conversations: Tsholo Khalema x Jan Alicia Jennings
APT Peer Conversations: Tsholo Khalema x Jan Alicia Jennings

As part of the APT Peer Conversation Project, Tsholo Khalema meets with Jan Alicia Jennings (Singer, Playwright, Poet, Songwriter, Visual Artist, Art's Facilitator, Dramaterg and Comedian) to discuss creation, art, digital spaces + more in a series of three conversations.

APT Peer Conversations Project: Maricris Rivera x Kodie Rollan
APT Peer Conversations Project: Maricris Rivera x Kodie Rollan

As part of the APT Peer Conversation Project, Maricris Rivera speaks with Kodie Rollan (Artistic Director, Chromatic Theatre) to unpack ways to minimize harm in the creative process and value humans first, before the art.

APT Peer Conversations Project: Ryan G. Hinds x Julie Tomaino
APT Peer Conversations Project: Ryan G. Hinds x Julie Tomaino

JT: “You have to ask for what you want. You can’t just

sit around and expect that everyone’s gonna be like

‘Oh, Julie Tomaino you should do this’. It doesn’t work

that way. There’s too many people in this industry,

especially if you’re an emerging artist, not to be clear on

your goals”

APT Peer Conversations: Jordan Campbell x Andrew Tay
APT Peer Conversations: Jordan Campbell x Andrew Tay

Toronto is hardcore

conservative

intense

hustle

back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back

APT Peer Conversations Project: Kitoko Mai x Brianna Seferiades
APT Peer Conversations Project: Kitoko Mai x Brianna Seferiades

SCENE ONE.

Brianna and Kitoko sit at a table in Mulberry

Coffeehouse. Kitoko leans forward.

(A SILENCE.)

KITOKO

So you’re disabled!

Brianna cackles, her laughter as crisp as the autumn air.

BRIANNA

Yes.

KITOKO

What has it been like for you? Working as an artist while managing your disabilities?

How has the pandemic affected your practice?