We work to nurture healthy environments as one way of confronting toxic and demeaning work experiences within the nonprofit arts sector. Healthy spaces, though, are not without conflict. And while conflict can lead to a deepening in understanding of colleagues, we understand the challenges of overcoming potential miscommunication.
To support you in achieving your project goals, we ask that you read, consider, and agree to the points below before browsing our site. By using, contributing to, or being part of this website, you are agreeing to the following community guidelines.
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Assume the best of people and situations (until proven otherwise) by treating everyone you meet through this platform with grace, kindness, and respect. Be part of a welcoming community for both the artists and arts workers, including the communities and cultures they represent, and those seeking to work with them.
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Listen to understand each other’s perspectives, boundaries, needs, curiosities, and opinions.
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Strive for clarity and accuracy with the terms, payment, timelines, and other details of gigs and collaborations, including when those terms shift and change.
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Before you react, reflect and consider the visible and invisible labor involved at all levels of creative work and collaboration.
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Place people over productivity by acknowledging that while we’re all doing incredibly important work, we’re also living during wild and challenging times. Here, we create spaces and relationships where we take our work very seriously, but we also interrogate any false or unhealthy sense of urgency. We embrace flexibility and place people over productivity. We approach all situations knowing that a solution that works for everyone is possible.
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Keep things confidential between collaborators, unless consent is clearly expressed by everyone involved. Unless explicitly told otherwise, the stories, ideas, and information shared between collaborators should remain confidential.
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Acknowledge and value the experiences and distinct expertise, methodologies, approaches, and perspectives of indigenous, diasporic, queer, and disability communities.
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Take accountability for missteps along the way. A project is rarely without a hiccup or two.
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Ask for help by reaching out to Sixty Collective when any issue seems too big to resolve on your own. We are here to also support you in working through challenges to ensure your project moves forward.
