Seattle Theatre Group is committed to examining, challenging, and updating how we do business through the lens of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility.
We are working together to evolve STG in all that we can and should do for historically excluded and underrepresented groups. STG is also committed to ensuring that our services, events, and spaces are accessible to all. We believe everyone has the right to live with dignity, equality, comfort, and independence. We understand every lived experience is different, and we are working to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcomed.
Seattle Theatre Group is reviewing and updating current policies to eradicate racist ideologies and practices. As an organization, we commit to continuously reviewing, evaluating, and challenging our current practices.
To be an anti-racist organization, we are acknowledging there is a system of disproportionate opportunities for historically excluded and underrepresented groups. This is a critical time for us to re-examine existing systems of oppression and work towards becoming a fully inclusive and equitable organization.
STG’S PLEDGE:
- A 10-year commitment to empower, represent, and engage the work of artists and organizations within our work and/or organization who identify as and whose primary focus is from Black, Native/Indigenous, People of Color, women, individuals with disabilities, and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. This includes a commitment to hire, develop, and provide opportunities for Black, Native/Indigenous, People of Color, women, individuals with disabilities, and LGBTQIA2S+ persons in leadership and staffing positions of our organization, incorporating local and regional demographics to inform these decisions.
- 20% percent of our programming or artist rosters are allocated exclusively towards the mission, performance, presentation, commissioning, and administration of the work by artists and organizations who identify as and whose primary focus is from Black, Native/Indigenous, People of Color, women, individuals with disabilities, and LGBTQIA2S+ persons.
- 30% percent of our annual budget for programming---for the presentation, commissioning, creation, producing or educating about work; for leadership and personnel---for the salaries and professional development costs in training and hiring for leadership, management, artistic, production, and staff positions of our organization; and vendors---to focus exclusively on those owned or led by Black, Native/Indigenous, People of Color, women, individuals with disabilities, and LGBTQIA2S+ persons and include local and regional demographics to inform these decisions.
STG’s commitment was set to surpass the 10-year commitment to empower, represent, and engage the work of artists and organizations, 20% percent of our programming or artist rosters and 30% percent of our annual budget for programming. We commit to providing current data in these areas to track our efforts’ current state and progress as part of a field-wide benchmarking effort and to issue an annual report on status, reflection, and discovery based on the work of this Pledge.