Z Space Code of Conduct
The following is the code of conduct that we require anyone who is doing any work in our space to sign, whether they are a staff member, a member of a show production or design team, show actors and other performers, as well as volunteers and interns. Productions that rent our space and have employees or volunteers not directly hired by Z Space are responsible for ensuring that their artists and crew comply with these policies.
Diversity and Inclusion
Z Space is committed to promoting and supporting a rigorous artistic and intellectual community enriched by diversity and inclusion. Our goal is to foster environments that value diverse artists, audiences, and staff by providing all community members with a respectful and challenging space to explore divergent opinions and ideas. We are committed to an intersectional approach to diversity and inclusion, recognizing that there are many interconnected factors such as race, gender expression and identity, age, ability, nationality, socio-economic status and the many other composite forms and life experiences that span these differences. Diversity and inclusion efforts inform all programmatic, operational and artistic practices of the organization.
Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy
Z Space is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits discriminatory practices, including harassment. Therefore, Z Space expects that all relationships among persons working, performing, or otherwise conducting business in our facilities will be professional and free of bias, prejudice, and harassment.
Z Space endeavors to ensure equal opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, age, disability, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law and prohibits and will not tolerate any such discrimination or harassment.
Definitions of Harassment
1. Sexual harassment constitutes discrimination and is illegal under federal, state and local laws. For purposes of this policy, sexual harassment is defined, as in the Equal Employment Opportunity Guidelines, as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when, for example: (i) submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual’s employment; (ii) submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individual; or (iii) such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work performances or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.
Sexual harassment may include a range of subtle and not so subtle behaviors and may involve individuals of the same or different gender. Depending on the circumstances, these behaviors may include, but are not limited to: unwanted sexual advances or requests for sexual favors; unwanted sexual jokes and innuendo; verbal abuse of a sexual nature; commentary about an individual’s body, sexual prowess or sexual deficiencies; leering, catcalls or touching; insulting or obscene comments or gestures; display or circulation in the workplace of sexually suggestive objects or pictures (including through e-mail); and other physical, verbal or visual conduct of a sexual nature.
2. Harassment on the basis of any other protected characteristics is also strictly prohibited. Under this policy, harassment is verbal or physical conduct that denigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual because of his/her race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law or that of his/her relatives, friends or associates, and that (i) has the purpose or effect of creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment; (ii) has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work performance; or (iii) otherwise adversely affects an individual’s employment opportunities.
Harassing conduct includes but is not limited to: epithets, slurs or negative stereotyping; threatening, intimidating or hostile acts; denigrating jokes and display or circulation in the workplace of written or graphic material that denigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward an Individual or group (including through e-mail).
Retaliation against any individual who reports harassment or discrimination or participates in an investigation of such reports is prohibited by law.
Conduct prohibited by these policies is unacceptable in the workplace and in any work-related setting outside the workplace; as such these policies apply to anyone working, performing, or otherwise conducting business in our venue.
