Culture
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
Our values are:
Interdependance
Sustainability
Wellness
Accessibility
Empowerment
Workplace Culture
Generator is a highly collaborative, team-based workplace. The Generator staff share space with several other collectives and organizations through our Resident Company and Company Collaborator programs. We work in an open space environment where we often pause our work to come together to ask for support, collaborate, discuss current events, or watch a YouTube video. This fun and thoughtful environment drives our efforts to make a positive impact on the performance sector and the lives of artists. Generator staff work on a flexible schedule to accommodate the needs of our programs and our external passions. We support each other in achieving work/work/life balance and workdays that support our lives outside of work. We encourage staff to have active, creative, passionate lives in addition to their work here as we know this fuels Generator. As an organization committed to learning and well-being, we offer a Wellness Fund, paid vacation, and Professional Development Fund to all staff.
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.