{"id":5429,"date":"2020-08-03T19:05:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T02:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/?page_id=5429"},"modified":"2023-11-16T08:56:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T16:56:51","slug":"our-commitment-to-antiracism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/our-commitment-to-antiracism\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Commitment to Antiracism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\tWe at the Ashland New Plays Festival acknowledge our complicity in racist structures and pledge to move forward with concrete actions. Beginning in 2021,\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\nWe pledge that at least 50% of the plays we present each year will be the work of BIPOC playwrights.\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\nWe will launch a new initiative called &#8220;Pass the Pen,&#8221; which will reserve fifty spaces for invited BIPOC playwrights to submit plays for consideration in our Fall Festival, free of charge.\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\nANPF&#8217;s board and reader leadership will form a Reader Recruitment Committee, which will work to recruit and welcome BIPOC readers from the community.\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\nAll ANPF board, staff, and readers will commit to unconscious bias training.\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\nAt our annual retreat\/strategic planning session we will undertake an annual review process to hold ourselves accountable. If the steps outlined above do not yield necessary change, further action will be taken.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nWe are deeply committed to supporting theatre artists during this time of crisis in funding for the arts. We ask that you stand with us as we reach toward a more equitable and ethical future.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We at the Ashland New Plays Festival acknowledge our complicity in racist structures and pledge to move forward with concrete actions. Beginning in 2021, We pledge that at least 50%&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"Tribe__Tickets_Plus__Commerce__WooCommerce__Main","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15051,"href":"https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5429\/revisions\/15051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}