After years of working together, The Orchard Project and The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group are combining their respective expertise in the arts and creating inclusive workplaces to launch a series of Growth and Inclusion Labs at the Orchard Project.
These programs include our one-off Notes 2.0 workshop and weekend-long Leadership Intensive. Both of these programs support existing and aspiring leaders in various dramatic endeavors (theatre, TV and audio) to enhance their practice, develop additional skills, expand their networks and collaborations, and develop successful approaches to creating new work today and in the future.
Program Offerings
Next Up: Notes 2.0 October 2024
October 30, 2024
2-4 ET Online
register HERE
Who do you know who has actually been trained in “giving notes?” This two hour session touches on core subjects of setting common vocabulary, joining vs. judging dynamics, self-awareness in creative feedback, and taking conscious actions to include everyone. Playing upon hard data about how to both give and get notes with impact, this workshop provides essential tools for creative leaders and artists alike.
The Orchard Project and KJCG Growth and Leadership Intensive will examine approaches to producing and supporting the production, distribution, and marketing of new work in a post-covid, digitally-embraced, anti-racist, anti-isms reality. The goal of the intensive is to build a community of change agents and empower these diverse artistic leaders to:
- create community/organizational vocabularies that enable growth, abundance, and inclusion;
- gain insights and strategies for industry change; and
- develop and share individual “field change strategies” that enable learnings from the lab to directly apply to the field and one’s own work.
The Orchard Project Growth and Inclusion Programs are made possible through a grant from the Nathan Cummings Foundation and the leadership support of individual donors. To support these programs, visit out donation page or email us at any time.
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More about the OP/KJCG Growth and Inclusion Programs
Led by Frederick Miller and Dr. Kate Richmond of KJCG (the oldest Organization Development firm in the US and experts in inclusive workplaces) and Ari Edelson (Founding Artistic Director of the Orchard Project), these workshops feature core training, case studies on inclusive growth with entertainment industry leaders, and opportunities for project development by participants.
The Orchard Project Growth Workshops are specifically designed for established and aspiring producers, agents, artistic directors, board members and other leaders in the dramatic fields (theatre, TV, film, and audio) looking to combine an intensive workshop in trends in inclusive practice with a deep dive into how to apply a leadership approach into both personal growth and business growth.
The Orchard Project Growth Workshops examine approaches to producing and supporting the production, distribution, and marketing of new work in a post-covid, digitally embraced, anti-racist, anti-isms reality. Overall goals of these programs are to:
- Move the processes of the creative and performance world to an enhanced integration of financial needs/goals and the inclusion of human diversity in all its forms and experiences.
- Continue to open the creative and performance world to the full range of human diversity in leadership, thinking, creative output and participation.
- Enhance participants’ perceptions and understanding of self, their work, and the industry, in order to be more reflective of the human experience and diversity in the creative processes and outcomes.
- Learn how to move one’s work at a faster pace, adapting to evolving field creative processes and maximizing your contributions to the world.
- Explore ways to push back on thinking and acting that do not support diversity and inclusion by exploring obstacles and opportunities related to access.
The Orchard Project Growth Workshops provide both a networking opportunity for artistic leaders and an intensive growth workshop. They explore two main questions:
- How can leaders move the entertainment and culture industry into a new post-covid, post-digital centric reality? Where are leaders finding opportunities for growth, equitable artistic vision, artistic success, diversity and inclusion, community, and mission-centric impact?
- What are possible problems and opportunities within the artistic fields that participants can identify and explore that will open doors to creators, patrons, attendees, the greater public to more expansive experience for all?
