Antiracism Training Arc
Since 2020, Baltimore Center Stage’s Learning and Social Accountability department has coordinated staff training in antiracism and equity. The goal is to deepen and refine our institutional antiracist learning and to help assure the alignment of our work with our values. We steer BCS toward its mission with training that empowers an inclusive and equitable workplace prepared to create positive change and to prevent, disrupt, and heal harm.
Staff Trainings for our 60th Season
For the 2022–2023 year, we are partnering with leading-edge facilitators and organizations to advance our institutional learning. Scheduled trainings include:
Building Community-First Nonprofits
Facilitated by LTHJ Global
- Developing an equity lens
- Building a data-centric approach that fosters “quick failure” and agility
- Building teams and systems that solve age-old problems, not symptoms
- Exploring diverse funding models to pursue institutional values
Unlearning White Professionalism
Facilitated by LTHJ Global
- Identify dominant workplace culture norms that harm marginalized groups and reinforce existing power structures
- Identify your relationship to the dominant workplace culture norms
- Develop skills to interrogate and apply antidotes to “White professionalism”
Antiracist Theatre Training
Facilitated by Nicole Brewer
Anti-Racist Theatre (A.R.T.) adopts practices and policies that actively acknowledge and interrogate racism, antiblackness, and other discriminatory practices. A.R.T. promotes anti-racist ideas, values, and policies that counter the oppression of any people during theatre production and theatre education.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from a Conversational and Inclusive Perspective
Facilitated by Dr. Eric Jackson
Conversations about taboo topics happen at work and at school every day. If they are not handled effectively, they can become polarizing and divisive very quickly, which will impact productivity, engagement, teamwork, retention, and the educational process. In this presentation, productively addressing sensitive subjects will be demonstrated through the lens of African American history nationally and locally. Examples will cover areas such as health care disparities, the criminal justice system, and unequal school systems. Additionally, concepts such as the social construction of race, institutional racism, the concept of Whiteness, and racial, ethnic, and gender inequality will be explored in a way that will lead to continuous conversation and create a more inclusive work and educational environment.
About our Facilitation Partners
LTHJ
LTHJ Global is a national Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) firm, recognized for its leadership in anti-oppression organizational support. LTHJ serves nonprofits, businesses, and agencies in creating a world and workplace where diversity is the norm and where each person can bring their best to the table. LTHJ Global team members are pioneering consultants, researchers, curriculum designers and operations leads who are dedicating their lives to being on the cutting edge of inclusive organizational design. These passionate experts are taking Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from theoretical to practical. www.lthjglobal.com
Nicole Brewer
Nicole Brewer is a passionate advocate for anti-racist theatre. She has spent the last seven years refining and practicing an inclusive method of theatre training and practices which she calls Conscientious Theatre Training (CTT). She has authored four articles about the need for the theatre industry to shift from racist and oppressive models to anti-racist and anti-oppressive. Why Equity Diversity and Inclusion Are Obsolete was reported by American Theatre as one of their top ten most-read stories of 2019.
Nicole is invited all over the US to teach and speak about CTT and facilitate anti-racist theatre (ART) workshops. She’s also facilitated ART workshops in the UK providing workshops for The Globe and Cambridge University. Nicole is a board member of Parent Artist Advocacy League (PAAL) where she works to shift how the industry can become more proactive to the needs of caregivers. Nicole is one of the four producers of the COVID19 freelance artist resource website, freelanceartistresource.com. The producing collective also partnered with HowlRound to produce six weekly webinars that centered the needs of freelance artists impacted by the pandemic.
Dr. Eric Jackson
A Professor of History, with 28+ years of academics at the university level (most at NKU as Professor of History and Director of Black Studies Program), Dr. Eric R. Jackson has taught classes in the fields of American and African American History, Race Relations and Peace Studies.
Dr. Jackson has published a wide array of books, book reviews, articles, etc. in local, regional, national, and international journals (Journal of African American History, Journal of Negro Education, Ohio History, International Journal of World Peace, and Journal of Pan African Studies). With over fifty publications, Dr. Jackson continues to work on an online book/website on African Americans in Cincinnati (Oxford University Press), co-authored Cincinnati’s Underground Railroad (Arcadia Publishing, Inc.), co-authored Unique Challenges in Urban Schools: The Involvement of African American Parents (Rowman and Littlefield, May 2015), and authored Let Freedom Ring for Everyone (Cognella, 2020/21). He is in the process of writing an Introduction to Black Studies textbook (University of Kentucky Press, 2023). In addition, Dr. Jackson is a content expert and/or grant reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities and a member of the Grant Professional Association. He is the Interim Editor of Journal of Pan African Studies, and in 2017, he received the Second International World Civility Award from “I Change Nations”. Dr. Jackson joined the Boone County Public Library Board of Trustees as Vice President in July 2021. He has served on several boards from the Boone County Historic Preservation
From previous years
Restorative Response Baltimore
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Right to Be ___ (formerly known as Hollaback!)
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Social Accountability
Learn more about our institutional social accountability efforts here.