Mentorship program for young women of colour and non-binary folks in the arts. 2016-2022
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After six years of The Future is You and Me, we’ve decided to close this chapter.
Today, The Future is so much more than just us. It’s dozens of women and non-binary folks of colour who have engaged with our programming.
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ICYMI: Future alum @sadgalsunny talks to @VanCultureBC and @stir_vancouver about the challenges of being a young, racialized, nonbinary artist and the power of community createastir.ca/articles/soun…
We've got this Nelly Furtado cover by Sunny, Elysse Cloma (AKA desire process), Vi "Kerub" Levitt, and Josh Eastman on repeat 🎧sadchina.bandcamp.com/track/…
Partner Shoutout: "A Seat at the Table" was made possible by a Develop Grant from @VancouverFdn LEVEL Youth Granting program. Develop Grant projects cultivate common ground for shared action and learning by community stakeholders. vancouverfoundation.ca/grant… #ASeatAtTheTableReport
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Partner Shoutout: @Cineworks is an artist-run production & exhibition centre that supports independent filmmakers and media artists in Vancouver. We're grateful to the Cineworks team for their partnership + commitment to anti-racism cineworks.ca/about #ASeatAtTheTableReport
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Like the illustrations on BIWOCinfilm.com and social? 👩🎨 They're the work of the brilliant Kaho Yoshida kahoyoshida.com #ASeatAtTheTableReport
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Meet the writers: @megan_lau is an arts and culture consultant with over 10 years of experience as a producer, communicator, administrator, project manager, and Girl Friday. She is a dog person and 1/2 of the Future's founding team. #ASeatAtTheTableReport
Meet the writers: @cheung_kristin is the executive director of @CommunityArtYVR, board member at @centrea & @roommagazine — and of course, a co-founder of The Future! Kristin is a cat person and 1/2 of the Future's founding team. #ASeatAtTheTableReport
Meet the writers: @sometimestanvi is a writer, facilitator, organizer — and an alum of our first ever Future cohort!! Tanvi was the lead researcher for our community research project and shepherded this project from start (Jan 2020!!!) to finish. #ASeatAtTheTableReport
When we oversimplify gender equity and diversity, we overlook the reality of lateral violence: when members of an oppressed group become the oppressor by directing abuse to ppl of their own gender, culture, etc. BIWOC film+TV creatives talk about it here: biwocinfilm.com/research-fin…
The lack of women of colour in leadership and decision-making roles is one of the reasons Canada's screen industries are #sowhite. Read more in our just published report, A Seat at the Table: biwocinfilm.com/research-fin…
Tokenism hurts. Is it better to opt out in the name of your values, or try to reform the current structures by disrupting them with your presence? biwocinfilm.com/research-fin… #ASeatAtTheTableReport
Thank you to advocates past and present for their work to eliminate systemic racism in the Canadian film and TV industry: @Screen_Office @BLKScreenOffice @BIPOCtvandfilm
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Interested in learning more about the status of women of colour in the Canadian film+TV industry? @WomenInView's critical research documenting women's employment in Canada's publicly funded screen-based media was foundational for this project! womeninview.ca/reports/ #thankyou
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According to @WomeninView, "Of the 43% of women in key creative TV roles in 2019, only 6.44% were Black women & Women of Colour and 0.94% were Indigenous women."
BIWOC have something to say about that: BIWOCinfilm.com/research-fin…
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ICMYI - A Seat at the Table is a community research project sharing experiences of Black, Indigenous + racialized women & non-binary folx in YVR film + TV.
We asked, What support do you need to advance your career and tell your stories? More at BIWOCinfilm.com
We talked to 30+ film + TV professionals about their experiences as women and non-binary people who are Black, Indigenous and/or POC in the industry. Read what they said in our new report, A Seat at the Table @ BIWOCinfilm.com
The Storyteller’s Spell Room is a fiction-writing program for teen girls and young women of colour in BC looking to connect, cast spells, and create 🪄🔮💫 forms.gle/KAakySQgszNEN4Hx5
support the 'fly together fundraiser' organized by @kyinskies @sadgalsunny + many rad artists involved.
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100% funds support
@SWAN_Vancouver @RedCanarySong @ButterflyCSW 💛💛💛💛💛
eventbrite.ca/e/fly-together…
The answers for a more just and sustainable path forward will come from women and non-binary folks of colour. We are honoured to publish and celebrate voices from the #2020FutureForum in this 'zine: thefutureisyouandme.com/futu…
Tomorrow! You can still sign-up for our virtual workshop in collaboration with Making Space! We'd love to see you there! eventbrite.ca/e/making-space…
Join us for our next workshop: Nov.7! We're teaming up with Making Space, a visual-arts focused peer mentorship group that decenters whiteness in Amiskwaciwâskahikan, and will be in conversation with Ociciwan and MAGES. Register: eventbrite.ca/e/making-space…
