ACTIONS

What if I/You/We…

“It is slow - it is even the most patient able bodied folks starting to freak out”

Rick and Morty put it this way - ‘the thing about repairing, maintaining, and cleaning is it’s not an adventure’

Care is investment in me as an individual, the company, our way of working and what we were trying to achieve- a core set of principles that we have all agreed on.

“I’m going to talk to you as a person and acknowledge that you have needs and a body and brain that doesn’t function like mine does” - Toni-Dee Paul

“Even if you don’t know the destination we are all looking at the same map”

Importance of deep-listening and hearing other people. Figuring how not to communicate past each other.

Receiving care is just as important as giving care

How does our preoccupation with putting something new into the world stifle the care work needed to make and sustain an ecosystem of folk that make and experience art?

How do we provide 360 degree care?

Made our contracts, policy and practice docs easy-read

Removed the labour from artists with access needs by asking everyone what they need to do their job as part of the induction process?

Planned with multiple scenarios built in?

(If A is not possible then B is, If B is not possible then C is)

Built care contingencies into every element of a budget

Had moveable deadlines

Had care practices mandated by funders

Created easy-read contracts, policies and procedures

Used plain language as common practice / standard, evolving the creative industries by learning from health sector practices

Were asked by our funders to evidence health and wellbeing practices as a core competency before funding contracts are agreed

Reprioritised what we already have rather than delaying until we have more resources to centre care

Acknowledge that care riders and/or access needs evolve during projects and build in scope and capacity for needed adaptations