Have you been asked to work in a way that you don’t like or feel productive?
Have you ever witnessed someone speaking with intolerance and prejudice in the workplace?

‘How do you respond?’ is a discussion group examining workplace situations which arise in the performing arts and negatively impact people. By unpacking these topics we can identify broader industry problems and discuss what we can do about them on a personal and community level.

In planning these sessions, it wasn’t our aim to give a workshop or to teach a methodology, but the more we talked about these scenarios the more we realised that we do have certain methods which work for us. We want to share some of these ideas, and learn from yours, in the hope that this exchange can support our practices in some way and aid in advocating better working conditions.
– OFEN Co-Arts Platform

Who:
the session is for open to everybody working in the performing arts sector and guided by OFEN Co-Arts Platform
free participation, and number of participants is limited,
registration is compulsory (links below)

When:
thursday 9th of December 2021, 15h to 17h
Discussion group theme: Have you been asked to work in a way that you don’t like or feel productive?

friday 10th of December 2021, 18h to 20h
Discussion group theme: Have you ever witnessed someone speaking with intolerance and prejudice in the workplace?

Where:
Beursschouwburg
Rue Auguste Orts,
Brussels, Belgium
Google Maps link 

More info and registration (clicking on link and then look for the button called ‘inschrijven’):
thursday 9th of December 2021, 15h to 17h 
friday 10th of December 2021, 18h to 20h

‘How do you respond?’ is kindly presented by Podiumkunsten (Brussels, Belgium) as part of the WeMeet series.

Disappointment is part of everyday life, whether it is hearing constant “no’s”, not getting the funding to make work, or not having your expectations being met, but how can we reframe disappointment in a way that protects our wellbeing and allows us to keep going.
Join us this Thursday at 18h CET for a discussion around this topic, the first of four upcoming sessions.
We organise these meeting as we see a need for discussions around unspoken subjects in the arts, we do not record these zooms in order to respect the privacy of those taking part.
We do acknowledge we are contributing unpaid labour, but we are happy to, also that we are not experts and come to these topics from the perspective of dancers who are interested in social justice.

Everyone welcome! (Safe space for trans/non-binary people, please message us if you have specific access requirements)
Free, primarily in English

ZOOM link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81269093390
Meeting ID: 812 6909 3390

Image: Cat flap in a glass door, a bulldog has its head through the cat flap, it appears to be wanting to go outside. One large tooth juts over the top lip giving it a disappointed look. Black text on the image say OFEN Co-Arts Platform discussion group. Pink text underneath it says; 1. How to deal with disappointment. Underneath is a zoom ID: 81269093390 and the date: Thursday 28th October 18:00 to 19:30 CET. Please say if you have access requirements.