Embedding Justice & Equity at A Far Cry
We grieve for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, who lost their lives to overt police brutality. We grieve for Ahmaud Arbery, who lost his life to an act of senseless, unjust violence. We grieve for their families and communities. We grieve for the countless Black Americans whose lives, liberty, and happiness have been denied by systemic racism. It is time, it is hundreds of years past time, to make changes. In our world, this also means addressing systemic racism in classical music.
A Far Cry was founded on the belief that things work best when every voice is heard and treated with love, trust, and respect. This must include Black voices. Embedding justice and equity is forever work, and we recognize that there is hard and urgent work for us to do.
With this statement, every member of our organization commits to becoming actively anti-racist and to holding ourselves accountable for keeping justice and equity front and center in our pursuits. This means always examining and challenging our policies and practices through this lens, and defining explicit goals for how we will translate our commitments to embedding justice and equity throughout every layer of our institutional culture. We pledge to listen, educate ourselves, ask the hard questions, take action, learn from our mistakes, try again, and find ways to make true change from within.
As we continue on this road, we follow the example of artists and arts organizations who have long dedicated themselves to this work and are effecting change in our field. A few who we know directly are listed below—please take a look and join us in support of their missions:
~A Far Cry
Criers, Board, Staff
