Convener:
Poppy Burton-Morgan
Participants:
Poppy Burton-Morgan, Rosy, Marie Vickers, Loren O’Dair, Morven Macbeth, Simon
Pittman, Lucy Avery, Jen Tan, Jen Lunn, Arabella Lawson, Seth Honnor, Lucy
Westell, Jennifer Jacksons, Jamie Zubairi, Kelly Golding, Malwina Chabocka,
Matthew Smallwood
Summary of
discussion, conclusions and/or recommendations:
Feeling from some people that this D&D not as
inspiring as last year –
What inspired you last time? – Discovery, seeds of
ideas, leads to collaboration
Turning optimism into something concrete.
Having to step up when you have a baby.
Step Change program NT/ROH – Jen had an interview –
felt they were really looking for people wanting to be creative producers.
Acknowledging you’re the ones who care the most about
a project so you’re the best placed to set up and make it happen (in a sort of
producer-y way) or facilitate others to come on board to help you. But either
way we have to take responsibility.
Focusing energy.
How long it takes to get a tour off the ground (it
will happen!)
Offering opportunities to people who come and work for
you.
How to make the right connections.
How to best communicate and say who we are
Make a psychological choice – this is the year that I
will…
Lucy Pittman Wallace (Director) good at helping people
get what they want – asking difficult questions.
Reminding self that you are stepping up!
Investing in self – approaching new companies/people
Being brave – where do you get the bravery from?
Ringing people is hard and there’s a different level
of helplessness as a performer in that you’re more beholden to other people
choosing (or not choosing) you.
EVERYONE IS SCARED (even Nick Hytner. Especially Nick
Hytner!)
How do you deal with that?
Everyone feels like they’re a fraud, about to be found
out.
There is something empowering about writing a letter
(and a bit less scary than the phone).
PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE
Put yourself on people’s radars.
Get a ‘press quote’ from a friend/colleague about what
you bring to something.
Whatever stage you’re at there’s always someone
‘further along’ and those people are also always trying to step up!
Celebrate your accomplishments – it’s very easy once
we’ve achieved great things to undermine them because the very fact that we
achieved them means they’re doable and in time doable becomes equated with
easy.
DARE TO BE GREAT
Nothing of any worth every comes in comfort.
There’s a cost to everything, there’s a risk.
How can we be less risk-averse?
The gains always outweigh the risks actually because
even massive ‘failures’ give us huge learnings and experience.
We need a reason to jump.
It takes practice – break the comfortable seal and
keep breaking it.
Seeing other people be brave makes us brave. (And
knowing that we will try to catch them if they fall so there will be people who
will do the same for us)
TRUST.
We are our own worst critics.
It’s our attitude – therefore we have the power to
change it.
The language we attribute to ourselves is really
powerful – how we talk about ourselves changes ourselves.
Visualizations techniques.
Other people can help chivvy you along – mentors –
people who believe in you.
Each of us here are artists and all of us are trying
to use our art to change the world – we’re offering something else to the
world. There is a huge generosity in that.
ART IS A GIFT.
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