Creative labor — the work of artists and cultural workers — is real labor, deserving of fair pay, stable conditions, and the same dignity and protections as work in any other sector.
In collaboration with Arts Activate Boston, we aim to inform an equitable cultural labor policy for Boston and to make the case for creative labor as civic infrastructure.

All are invited to a morning fireside chat with Ali Noorani, president and CEO of the Barr Foundation (pictured, left), and Sam Gill, president and CEO of the Doris Duke Foundation (pictured, right), alongside two of Company One Theatre’s co-founders and leaders, Shawn LaCount and Summer L. Williams.

Our afternoon session, facilitated by Building Creative Power MA, a project of Congruence Cultural Strategies and the Greater Malden Asian American Community Coalition, will explore policies that impact wages, housing, healthcare costs, and/or working conditions for creatives, and give those in the room the opportunity to discuss and test out possible solutions. The afternoon session is now filled, but registration is still open for the morning session.

This summit is part of C1’s Creative Labor, Creative Conditions convening, co-produced with Doris Duke Foundation and Boston Public Library. Creative Labor, Creative Conditions is a national campaign supported by Doris Duke Foundation, bringing together coordinated activations across the U.S. to center artists in a national conversation about the future of artistic labor.

About Arts Activate Boston
Arts Activate Boston is a coalition managing a series of narrative and advocacy campaigns to shift public understanding of the arts from cultural enrichment to essential civic infrastructure in the city of Boston.