August 28, 2023
6 pm – 8 pm
PAM CUT – 934 SW Salmon St., Portland, OR
Ages 18+
Cost: $60.00
Join Certified Consent-Forward Artist and Filmmaker Windy Borman, MS at the Portland Art Museum (PAM CUT) as she guides participants through a look at what it means to create storytelling in a consent-forward environment.
Six years into the #MeToo Movement, discrimination, harassment, violence, coercion, and abuse still occur in arts and entertainment. The missing piece is a reckoning about consent: what it is, how to request and give it, and how to foster a consent-forward environment.
Assumptions about consent, boundaries, and abilities can lead to workplace harm, injuries, complaints, or lawsuits. However, if we begin from a place of consent, we decrease liability while increasing safety and creativity, which leads to producing better content.
In this 2-hour long workshop, creative professionals will learn how to design consent-forward environments regardless of their artistic medium and role on a call sheet.
Through movement, group exercises, discussion, and reflection, participants will learn:
- The 5 Elements of Consent
- Why boundaries are necessary for consent, creativity, and trust
- How power dynamics effect consent
- How to lead and participate in a Boundaries Check-In
- The 5 Pillars of Intimacy in Creative Production
- When and how to work with an Intimacy Professional or Consultant
- Exercises to foster consent-forward creativity in your own projects.
Whether you work in film, theater, photography, radio/podcasting, performance art, or fine art—whether you create narrative, non-fiction, or branded content—you will leave with specific tools to build consent and trust into your creative endeavors!
About Windy Borman
Windy Borman, MS produces digital content and live events for thought leaders so they can entertain, educate, and empower their audiences to create global change. After teaching middle school drama and dance with Teach For America, she founded DVA Productions and has produced three feature films. A multi-award-winning producer and director, her work has screened at Sundance and the United Nations, and has been featured in Variety, Forbes, The New York Times, Washington Post, Huff Post, NBC, and ABC. In 2022 Windy became a Certified Consent-Forward Artist through Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC) Professionals.
