• All Brown Box venues will be welcoming and inclusive to BIPOC artists and patrons.  
  • We maintain relationships with donors and board members through personal connection. We commit to building similar personal relationships with leaders of BIPOC community organizations in the areas we serve. 
  • In order to serve our mission of increasing arts accessibility, many of our performances are completely free to the public. When productions require us to charge ticket prices, we have committed to a maximum ticket price of $25. We regularly examine our pricing structure to ensure there is no barrier between our audiences and our work. Our development department will research and apply for any and all corporate, foundational financial support in order to help decrease our ticket prices as much as possible.
  • Brown Box aims to acquire the corporate and foundational support necessary so that all performances will be completely free for our audience members following the model of our annual Shakespeare production. 
  • Brown Box commits to holding our venues accountable for 
    • fostering inclusive environments for artists and audience members.
    • their history as a site and acknowledgement of the indigenous and/or enslaved peoples who inhabited the land on which they program
  • Brown Box commits to partnering with new venues that are within majority BIPOC neighborhoods. 
  • For the performances where tickets and reservations are required, we commit to working with our BIPOC organizational partners to provide and market early access to ticket reservation. 
  • Brown Box’s mission of arts accessibility does not support holding exclusive events for donors or board members. Excepting the rare instance of privately commissioned work, we are committed to making all of our programming and events accessible and inclusive.
  • At this time Brown Box does not create any kind of publications for distribution to our audiences outside our regular marketing materials and social media accounts. We do, however, commit to creating content for these platforms that prioritizes BIPOC audiences. 
  • For the performances where tickets are required, our seating is general admission, and handled on a first come, first serve basis. We recognize that this practice can be exclusionary as it prioritizes people with the foreknowledge and free time to arrive especially early for performances.
  • Brown Box commits to provide free tickets to members of Native communities whose traditional homelands are serving as our performance spaces. For productions where we do not charge for tickets, we will still reach out to these communities  to offer invitations to our free performances.