An administratively-focused mentorship cohort that shares, learns, and conspires together.
We have 3-to-4 spot(s) available as part of the 2025 Administrative Cohort Mentorship Program this year.
This biweekly cohort is an administrative-focused mentorship based in cultivating and exchanging administrative and producing knowledge with the goal of sharing the skills, tools and knowledge gathered between participants.
This cohort is a paid opportunity to focus on one project while learning and observing others own focuses and ambitions. The cohort will also welcome general discussion and opportunities to build one’s own administrative skills amongst peers, under gentle mentorship and facilitation from Impulse’s Andrew Barrett.
Impulse Provides:
This biweekly cohort is an administrative-focused mentorship based in cultivating and exchanging administrative and producing knowledge with the goal of sharing the skills, tools and knowledge gathered between participants.
This cohort is a paid opportunity to focus on one project while learning and observing others own focuses and ambitions. The cohort will also welcome general discussion and opportunities to build one’s own administrative skills amongst peers, under gentle mentorship and facilitation from Impulse’s Andrew Barrett.
Impulse Provides:
- Biweekly meetings scheduled with Mentor Andrew Barrett and other Cohort Members.
- $1000 honorarium
- A showcase opportunity with other cohort members at Peek Fest 2025.
- Access to all specialized Peek Fest workshops and festival gatherings
Each participant/group will bring one primary project as their focus, and we will work to identify needs, research, and/or steps required to execute the project. Previous examples include: incorporation, writing one's first project grant, or brand management/longterm planning. No project is too small or too big. Curation of applications will be selected based on optimal cohort skill-sharing.
We will divide sessions between general conversations around group-chosen topics (like "Why is this hard?" "How might it not be?" "How can we be gentle with ourselves and still get things done?") and sharing and chatting about each project. We encourage the use other people’s projects as a way for to expand administrative practice, and consider it as an extension of artistic practice.
The cohort will meet once or twice a month through August until November (digitally or in-person TBD) on Monday or Tuesday afternoons [schedule depending]. The program will culminate with a 10 minute public presentation summarizing your experience and learnings in the program as part of Peek Fest 2025.
We will divide sessions between general conversations around group-chosen topics (like "Why is this hard?" "How might it not be?" "How can we be gentle with ourselves and still get things done?") and sharing and chatting about each project. We encourage the use other people’s projects as a way for to expand administrative practice, and consider it as an extension of artistic practice.
The cohort will meet once or twice a month through August until November (digitally or in-person TBD) on Monday or Tuesday afternoons [schedule depending]. The program will culminate with a 10 minute public presentation summarizing your experience and learnings in the program as part of Peek Fest 2025.
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Andrew Barrett (he/him) is a queer multidisciplinary performing artist based on the traditional territories of the Lekwungen-Speaking Peoples/Victoria, BC. He is a creator, choreographer, performer, director, educator, administrator, and founding Artistic Producer of Impulse Theatre. He received his BFA in Theatre from UVIC, and studied Arts and Cultural Management through Macewan University. He has worked as a producer, choreographer, operations manager, and more, with such companies as the Belfry Theatre, Intrepid Theatre, Theatre SKAM, and CCPA. He was a 2020/21 and 2024/25 Artist in Residence at Dance Victoria, and was the recipient of the 2022 City of Victoria Creative Builder Award. |
Important Dates:
- July 3 - Application Deadline
- July 22 - Artist Notification Date
- August 15 - Administrative Cohort begins [Monday or Tuesday afternoons for up-to 3 hours each]
- November 17 or 18 - Public Presentation
PAST PARTICIPANTS
2024
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Amber Downie-Back COWBOY Plastik Chaskilla |
