Rotating Producer Cohort Model

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Rotating Producer Cohort Model ::::

introducing our brand new…

This is a model that fosters support, collaboration, mentorship, and rest (imagine that?!)

It ensures a constant influx of new perspectives, centers peer-to-peer producing and skill sharing, and has built-in structures designed to ease the transition for new Cannonball producers — and hopefully, avoid the self-immolation that befalls many perennially under-resourced arts administrators. We hope Cannonball will be sustainable and enriching for our community for years to come.

(get it? It’s rotating?)

HERE’S HOW IT WORKS

Each year, members of our larger community join the Producer Cohort.

They start as Associate Producers, and learn by doing as they produce the Festival.

YEAR 1:

YEAR 2:

They become Core Producers, guiding the vision for that year’s Cannonball and making it all happen.

As Mentoring Producers, they document knowledge and pass it on, working directly with Associate Producers to prepare them for their roles.

YEAR 3:

YEAR 4:

They REST. It’s mandatory.

CHECK OUT THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL! (delivered in April, 2023, along with some delicious pizza by our co-founder Ben.)

FULL SUMMARY

The Producer Cohort programs Cannonball, works directly with Artists and leads festival staff on the ground. They are the visible faces of Cannonball, and they work within its mission to actualize their visions and empower their communities.

The work and vision of the Cohort is supported by two year-round “Program Managers,” who maintain relationships with venues, funders, artists and other stakeholders.

This model is new, and it is an experiment in community curation and peer-to-peer presentation.

Festival as Laboratory
Producing as Learning
Labor as Service
Polyphonic Perspectives as Keystone
Curation as Community Building
Welcoming the Outsider as Practice
Gathering as Medicine

Interesting in learning more or getting involved? Contact us, we honor your voice and strive to listen.

images by Wide Eyed Studios

As artist-producers, we view curation as an embodied practice, an extension of each of our artistic worldviews, and an organic extension of our overlapping communities.