Weaving community and safety into every decision as an event producer is the path to delivering a positive audience and artist experience. In this lesson, you’ll learn to keep safer space-making front of mind from start to finish.

In planning a DIY event, Sarah Barrable-Tishauer advises you start by thinking about how you want your attendees to feel at the event, and allowing those values and principles to inform your approach to producing your event. For Sarah, those values are inclusion, representation and safety. This video explores how to prioritize these important elements as an event organizer, and how these values can be woven into all aspects of an event, from event promotion and communications, to signage, to the team that you build to support event execution.