support services
ID.Y support and consultations can be booked initially for 30, 45 minutes or 1 hour- get in touch on our contact page.
We work from a guiding set of principles which centre self empowerment, care and genuine accountability; and we prioritise Queer, Trans, Intersex People of Colour.
We believe decolonisation is possible in the arts, through our day to day interactions making collective small changes towards wider cultural shifts. We aim to to approach necessary change from within first, through alternative, harm-minimising ways of working in the arts and not-for-profit sectors.
Outwith the QTPOC community we are available to support wider individuals and organisations in any services wherever we have capacity. If you’re unsure if we could help, just drop us a line.
PRODUCING
& what does producing even mean?
To us, in performance & interdisciplinary arts in Scotland, it means collaborating with artists to facilitate informed decision making together, and realise their vision on a logistical, practical, administrative level.
We love to connect with producers of QTBIPoC / BIPoC backgrounds working with similar values, and those interested in getting into producing and arts management.
We are always glad to find ways to work together and support each other, and can offer development support for producers starting out including hosting FST Producer Placements like we did with MC Lafitte 2022-23 - just get in touch!
ARTIST DEVELOPMENT
We can support whether you’re just starting out, need a sounding board for a change in your practice or would like to connect to potential collaborators.
A session could focus on helping you think out your next two steps, scale up a project to the next level, figure out priorities for the next year or problem solve an area you’re feeling blocked in.
If we don’t have the right expertise for your practice we’ll make some suggestions and connects for people who do.
ADVOCACY & CONTRACTING
In interacting with cultural institutions and the wider sector, we aim to build strength in advocating for ourselves and each other, challenging inequities and normalising more ethical, sustainable and ethical ways of working. Discrimination is as commonplace as ever in arts working environments, and it doesn’t have to be something we face alone.
If you’re experiencing any issues in your workplace or project, and would like to talk through in a confidential, no pressure space, we can support you to share your worries, identify potential concerns and explore your options for next steps.
Contracts - negotiating & creating with confidence
Most contracts are unnecessarily lengthy and confusing! (& sometimes in bigger organisations the people issuing them don’t understand them fully either!) and most contracts are also imbalanced, with the freelancer or artist more precarious or left with less rights.
We always encourage to hold off before signing a contract you don’t fully understand - it is the issuing party’s responsibility to ensure the information is clear and you know what you are signing up to.
We are happy to share our simple contract templates with you, help you work through and question any clauses you’re unsure about, or help you draft your own.
More soon on our Advocacy Network and how to sign up for membership.
Mentoring & Dramaturgical Support
We value dialogues and reflection in our collective practices.
We can offer a creative sounding board for your initial ideas, a specific element of your performance or connect you with some of our wider network across artforms.
Research & Anti Racist Practice development
We contribute to a wider cohort of entities carrying out anti racist practice and research, currently finalising a Anti Racism in Practice sector research project (2020-2022) for Creative Scotland. (Report available later 2022)
We work on bespoke journeys with individuals and organisations, led by Adebusola Ramsay and nusa C Parinussa.
(Full info page coming soon)
Sustainable Working & Ethics
We feel strongly about practising healthier ways of working for our bodies, minds, relationships and our collective future.
We can think together on how to create harm-minimising, nurturing working conditions for your project and embed community-minded ethics at the heart of your approaches.
(This isn’t actually our current office but it could be our future so just leaving this image here to manifest. If you book us you can help us get there and we promise to make you really nice coffee when we do)