Toronto Fringe Festival Team 2022
The Toronto Fringe will continue to work with a flexible model working structure, ensuring all staff, including seasonal workers, are offered the opportunity to tell us how they best work and what they need in order to make that happen. We will review policy documents before each festival to ensure they remain responsive to the work/life balance of the team.
Toronto Fringe Festival
Toronto Fringe Festival
Flexible Work Guidelines
Level UP! Strategy Area: Flexible Working Models
Pilot Project: Creating an HR resource for onboarding staff that clarifies the organization’s flexible working models
Project Duration: November 2021 – July 2022
Continuing to Implement: Ongoing development of flexible work policies
Resources Shared: Hybrid Workplace Guidelines for Staff, Executive Director and Co-Lead Job Posting, Level UP! Project Report
About Toronto Fringe Festival
Location: Ontario
Artistic Discipline: Theatre
Operating Budget: More than $1,000,000
Toronto Fringe is a grassroots, charitable organization that runs the Toronto Fringe Festival each July, the Next Stage Theatre Festival each October, and various year-round programs that benefit youth, artists, and the theatre community at large. Embedded in Fringe’s operations are the values of Access, Accountability, Creativity, Exploration, and Support.
Toronto Fringe is a creative match-maker, connecting artists with audiences, and empowering everyone to unleash their inner artist. Toronto Fringe creates vital opportunities for both emerging and established artists to produce their work with complete artistic freedom, while engaging members of the community by making productions as affordable and accessible as possible. Toronto Fringe is a proud member of the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF) and World Fringe.
Toronto Fringe Festival’s Level UP! Project
In 2021, Toronto Fringe’s former Executive Director, Lucy Eveleigh, and Managing Director, Laura Paduch, researched creating an HR resource document that would clarify the structure and processes of the organization’s flexible working models. They began with the core tenet of Fringe’s approach to workplace culture: “that it’s about the people first and how they carry out work.”
Project Highlights:
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- Created a policy, Hybrid Workplace Guidelines for Staff, which applies to permanent, long-term and/or full-time staff and employees
Resources
Toronto Fringe | Hybrid Workplace Guidelines for Staff
About This Resource Toronto Fringe created this Hybird Work Guidelines for Staff document in 2023, building on their Balancing Act Level UP! project.
Toronto Fringe | Job Posting: Executive Director and Co-Lead
About This Resource Toronto Fringe created this Executive Director and Co-Lead Job Posting in 2023, informed by their Balancing Act Level UP! Pilot Project.
Toronto Fringe | Project Report
About This Resource Toronto Fringe created this Project Report in 2022 as part of their Balancing Act Level UP! pilot project. The report outlines their exploration of pathways to support flexible work, and their Hybrid Working Guidelines for Staff grew out of this...
More Information
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