City Lights Theater Company is dedicated to hospitality and goodwill toward everyone at all levels of participation: staff, artists, board members, patrons, volunteers and contributors. This “Culture of Care” allows everyone at the company to forge lasting, authentic connections to each other, to our audiences, and to the stories we tell.
City Lights is dedicated to care and community as essential components of live theater. We recognize the rich diversity of the community we serve, and denounce the intolerable social and professional inequities throughout the Bay Area and beyond.
We at City Lights commit ourselves to:
- asserting ourselves as advocates for justice and equity among all human beings;
- standing against hate, injustice, inequity and white supremacy within the Bay Area theater community and beyond;
- providing a platform for stories of, by and for our entire community, celebrating all ethnic and cultural identities, gender identities, sexual orientations, fiscal strata, etc., in a manner that is genuine, authentic, and truthful;
- building a Board of Directors that reflects as accurately as possible the diversity of the community we serve;
- maintaining and promoting ongoing growth among all company members, audiences, supporters and our surrounding community as advocates for equity, diversity, inclusion and change;
- recognizing that the work we do now to address inequity in all forms is only the start, and that there is much work to be done before the cloud of white supremacy and oppression that has been endemic to the theater industry is forever lifted; and
- listening to all members of our community as we work to effect change within ourselves, our company and our world.