SAIVUE!

Safety & Accessibility for Improvised Venues and Unconventional Events

SAIVUE!

Safety & Accessibility for Improvised Venues and Unconventional Events

A community resource planned & facilitated by Control Group Productions

In 2020 we spent some time rethinking how we can bring more sustainability and responsibility to how we operate, how we collaborate, and how we participate in our community.

Among other things, we started developing an in-house emergency safety planning process that would support our nomadic programming model. We were also rethinking accessibility practices. We quickly recognized two things:

  1. Safety practices are basically accommodations, and correlate closely to accessibility

  2. A lot of what we were putting together should be established standard practices but isn't.

We certainly aren't experts, but we think this is some useful stuff, and we figured that, if we've done the work to gather it together, why should anyone else ever have to do that work again? So we started thinking about how we could share it.

This will likely be a work in progress for a while, but here’s where we’re at currently:

  1. We’ve created an in-house Intersectional Safety & Accessibility Plan (available here in full).

  2. We’re working on dividing this 56-page document into digestible modules that will seed the community resource (late 2023).

  3. We’re seeking funding that will support the development of a wiki-style platform where other artists and orgs can add to what's there, dialog about what's not there, and generally share ownership (2023 and beyond).

So, welcome to SAIVUE! (Safety & Accessibility for Improvised Venues and Unconventional Events). Check back for updates, or please reach out if…

  • you're interested in hearing more about the SAIVUE!

  • you can't wait to put the SAIVUE! to use.

  • you're interested in helping build the SAIVUE!

  • you have a much better platform for this than we do! We're very aware that we're not the best long-term home for this, but... no one else is doing it, so...

 

Cordially,

Patrick Mueller

Artistic Director, Control Group Productions

patrick@controlgroupproductions.org