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the development process where anyone is invited to watch us as we sketch out ideas in our devising process? Could we host failure Fridays where we talk about all the grants we didn’t get, the ideas that didn’t work and what we wish we did in the future? Would this radical sharing model help local artists explore new creative and entrepreneurial strategies they can apply to their own practice? I don’t know if this will help the community understand our work on a deeper level, but it’s worth a try.
Listening, showing up, accountability, sharing power, self-care, speaking up when something can potentially hurt your colleagues or community, treating the team that takes care of your theater the same as the donor who gave you money to build it and creating a long table where everyone is invited to the party.
I need to credit my peers from the early days of the global Girls Rock Camp Movement. Nothing has influenced my leadership more than this time in my life. Our collective effort started with less than 10 women representing a few grassroots camps who all came together to build a vision that utilizes music as a tool to amplify the voices of women, girls and nonbinary youth. In short, the punk rock ethos was applied to building a movement. These women introduced me to a world I never knew was possible. Co-leadership, collective creation, transparency.
Alicia Anstead is the editor-in-chief of Inside Arts magazine and a co-producer of APAP|NYC. She is also associate director of programming at the Office for the Arts at Harvard.
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