In the process, we center the process over the product. We are about the people, the art, and the work providing fulfillment. We want inspiration and respect.
In the process we value open communication and practice openly stating intentions.
In the process we encourage discussions for reparations and transformation when harm occurs.
In the process the art is activism. As artists, it is our duty to listen to and uplift the communities that our art reaches.
In the process we value queerness, you know the gay stuff!
In the process there’s no time or energy for separating the human from their art as an excuse for poor behavior.
In the process we value our home and encourage each other to minimize waste and maximize resources already in use. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle– YUM!
In the process we generate systems that navigate harm. Systems– whether generated by the artist involved or borrowed from preexisting practices, must champion justice and care for the harmed.
In the process we value experimentations with spectacle. We will push forward GenZ Theatre, Transmedia Art, Camp, and yet to be named artistic schools of thought.
In the process we practice radical citations!
In the process we embrace the intersections of our identities. All identities: racial, gender, religious, sexuality, class, disability, geographical, philosophical, political; inform how we view and navigate the world. A process that celebrates and reflects the lives of those involved in the work is represented on the stage.
In the process, we value a balance in creating art that is anti-capitalist in a capitalist society. Art is not a luxury. Everyone deserves pay for the hours poured into projects, and we recognize that balancing this value with our company structure renders us CURRENTLY unable to always fully pay artists what is truly deserved. Nevertheless, we strive to honor everyone’s time, including the audience and look forward to updating this value to be a statement of our practice rather than a promise.
We, Do Process, as a theatre company involved in promotion of culture as a tool for liberation, endorse the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) call and affirm our support for and commitment to the growing international movement for Palestinian rights and for justice, equality, and freedom for all. We commit to respecting the principles PACBI, which, inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, urges international cultural workers and cultural organizations, including unions and associations, to boycott and/or work towards the cancellation of events, activities, agreements, or projects involving Israel, its lobby groups or its complicit cultural institutions.
Israel uses culture to cover up its grave violations of international law. Israel’s cultural institutions are part and parcel of the ideological and institutional scaffolding of Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid against the Palestinian people. These institutions are clearly implicated, through their silence or active participation, in supporting, justifying and whitewashing Israel’s occupation and systematic denial of Palestinian rights.
We refuse to be complicit in a culture of impunity, power abuse and human rights violations. Because we want to be the change that we want to see in the world, we want this cultural space to be free from oppression, violence, racism and sex, gender, class, ethnic, religious or any other kind of discrimination.
As PACBI endorsers:
We recognize that all our struggles for social, racial, gender, and economic justice and for self-determination are deeply interconnected and can only gain strength and power from mutual support and transnational solidarity. Acknowledging Do Process as committed to the PACBI call allows us to take a step further in the fight for decolonization in this world and stand on the right side of history.