The goals of the festival are: To realize an urgent, challenging, international and multidisciplinary arts festival in Utrecht every year for a diverse audience. Developing innovative forms of production and programming. Increase the impact of What You See on: Public : by programming more, also outside the festival days, by developing community projects, offering workshops and other participation opportunities and increasing our audience reach. Artists: by creating more opportunities for presentation, development, networking and co-productions. The performing arts field : by offering workshops by artists and experts for the benefit of a more accessible and safer performing arts field and by contributing to the artistic development of the cultural field through research and co-productions. Organizations and companies: by expanding What You See Business & Partnership, through which we offer creative trajectories that support them in their inclusivity policy.

SUPERVISORY BOARD & ANBI - What You See Festival

SUPERVISORY BOARD & ANBI

About the foundation

What You See is an international and multidisciplinary arts festival about gender and identity. Every year we realize a festival with challenging and urgent programming and projects for a broad audience. For this we bring dance, theater, music, visual arts, poetry and spoken word by professional artists from home and abroad to Utrecht. What You See is a place where you can be who you are, and at the same time calls on you to allow new experiences and discover new sides of yourself. Stichting What You See Festival is registered as a public benefit organization (ANBI).

Be welcome!

Vision

Gender and identity affect everyone. Whether you identify as a man, a woman, a trans person, non-binary, straight, gay, lesbian, genderqueer and/or other. Whether you are young or old and no matter how your body and brain function. Wherever you come from and whoever you love; everyone sometimes feels the unwritten norms, rules, prejudices and expectations that exist in our society. What You See puts as international and multidisciplinary arts festival on gender and identity explicitly focuses on a (gender) inclusive society. We are convinced of the potential of art to to stimulate imagination, to deepen human qualities such as empathy and (self)reflection and to collectively imagine a better future. Art makes the complexity of the world tangible and tangible. And that is very necessary in these times. Arts festival What You See is an antidote, a place where professional artists and visitors come together bring about change and where we work constructively towards a better future. Because Art can change the world!

What You See is:

positive activist: We stand for a better world and contribute to this by moving constructively and positively in today's world.
intersectional: people consist of layered identities and cannot be pinned down to one thing. With gender as the core, we also take into account aspects such as social & cultural background, skin color, physical or mental abilities and ages.
groundbreaking: With our programming we stretch the unwritten norms about gender and identity and we also work across genres.
inviting: Everyone is welcome at What You See! Even if you have doubts, don't understand things or don't always know the right words. What You See is the place to go and explore.
accountable: We are accountable for our activities and actions, we like to engage in dialogue and implement feedback when organizing our activities.
a pioneer: the values we embody and convey find their way into the innovative way in which we program and produce.

Mission

To contribute to a gender diverse and inclusive society by presenting, initiating and producing professional artworks that offer diverse perspectives on gender and do justice to the diversity and complexity of the subject.

Goals

The goals of the festival are:

To realize an urgent, challenging, international and multidisciplinary arts festival in Utrecht every year for a diverse audience.
Developing innovative forms of production and programming.
Increase the impact of What You See on:
Public: by programming more, also outside the festival days, by developing community projects, offering workshops and other participation opportunities and increasing our audience reach.
Artists: by creating more opportunities for presentation, development, networking and co-productions.
The performing arts field: by offering workshops by artists and experts for the benefit of a more accessible and safer performing arts field and by contributing to the artistic development of the cultural field through research and co-productions.
Organizations and companies: by expanding What You See Business & Partnership, through which we offer creative trajectories that support them in their inclusivity policy.

Remuneration policy

The What You See Foundation endorses the Culture Governance Code, the Fair Practice Code and the Cultural Diversity Code.

Stichting What You See has a Supervisory Board. The director/manager is responsible for the daily operations, prepares decisions and executes them, in collaboration with the core team. The Supervisory Board meets at least four times a year and is responsible for the financial control of the foundation. In addition, the RvT builds a network that is important for the festival.

The members of the supervisory board are committed to What You See Festival for a minimum of four and a maximum of eight years and are unpaid. The members of the Supervisory Board of What You See Festival are independent and ensure honest and role-conscious actions.

The What You See Festival team members are involved in the festival as employees or as freelancers. The award is based on the Collective Labor Agreement for Theater and Dance.

Code of conduct

What You See uses a Code of Conduct for the team, Supervisory Board, artists and visitors.