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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The Future will live on online. One of our values is knowledge-sharing, so we’ve gathered a collection of tools and resources that we hope will help folks in our community to kickstart their own projects. Read the announcement: thefutureisyouandme.com/blog…
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Megan & Kristin (2/2)
The Future retweeted
“I feel constantly disposable and unimportant.”
Led by the research of @thefuture_arts, "A Seat at the Table" is a staggering report documenting discrimination, harassment + other devastating barriers faced in the film industry for BIWOC folks. More: biwocinfilm.com/research-fin…
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
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
Like the illustrations on BIWOCinfilm.com and social? 👩🎨 They're the work of the brilliant Kaho Yoshida kahoyoshida.com #ASeatAtTheTableReport
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
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
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…
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
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I got to work on this report last year, so I can say with certainty that it’s filled with incredibly valuable stories + knowledge that anyone working in film & tv can learn from. read and share and let me know what you think!!
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
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
This project took place on the ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. As settlers, we recognize that this land was stolen and is occupied through various and evolving forms of colonial violence — of which we are often the beneficiaries.
These truths beget our responsibility to work in service of artists of the Host Nations, create culturally safe spaces for Indigenous creatives to thrive, and be accomplices in the #LandBack and @IdleNoMore4 movements.