STUDENT GUIDE

Incubator Week
28 March – 1 April, 20
CONTENTS

Emergency & Key contacts

Safeguarding

Welcome to Incubator 2022

What to expect during the week?
General Schedule / Extra Events

What kind of projects are there this year?

What has been prepared before the week?

Project index
 WHAT TO DO IN AN EMERGENCY

In case of EMERGENCY (life-threatening situations), such as:

Fire
Injury
Attack/Riot

CALL 112

Call the Head of Production after rescue services have been called
and once it is safe to do so. Jan Kuhr - +31 6 43233481

For the most updated Covid quarantine protocols, please check:

https://quarantainecheck.rijksoverheid.nl/en

Codarts prioritises creating a safe environment for everyone to work and learn,
please see next page for our Code of Conduct.

KEY CONTACTS during INCUBATOR WEEK

Artistic content/coaching questions OR technical requests:

Your project coach (see email)

Location/technical/logistics issues OR requests:

Your project producer (see email)

Any other concerns in the week:

Christine Cornwell - +31 6 39874136

Report of emergency incidents or accidents:

Jan Kuhr - +31 6 43233481
CODARTS CODE OF CONDUCT

To QR link: www.codarts.nl/sociale-veiligheid
 March 2022

Dear students,

Welcome to Incubator ’22! Welcome returning students who have been helping to build, develop
and improve the program. Welcome to all the new students too. We are looking forward to
meeting you, to exchange ideas, approaches, and methods. We wish you an inspiring adventure!

We believe performance education is both a training ground for excellence in the arts, and a
chance to explore what kind of citizens and community we can be together as you train for
artistic careers.

Where performing arts interacts in our fast-changing world – in work about the climate,
equality, (mental) health, technology – we can ask questions that resonate beyond our own
experiences. Training skills and attitudes for co-creation, and building a collective intelligence
and imagination is of the greatest importance.

INCUBATOR is a great space to put this work to practice.

Whether you are composing text & music,
creating a performance on location,

forming a band,

or taking part in skills workshops.

In any of these many projects we ask you to bring yourself,

Bring your expression, engage by listening,
Take this opportunity to be surrounded by multiple perspectives.
Be ready to meet your fellow artists of the future!

We are happy to welcome coaches from diverse artistic backgrounds to work with you and share
collective knowledge from the fields of:

composition, music, film, dance, production, theatre, performance art, circus,

puppetry, text-writing, songwriting, philosophy, scenography, and artistic research.

Of course, we feel blessed to be able to work again on locations this year, live!

After 2 years of struggling online or in distanced situations, we are so ready ‘meet again’.

In this handbook, and by email from your producer, you find all the practical information
for your Incubator-week.

We wish you a thrilling project and are look forward to seeing you during ther week!

Warm regards,
Arlon, Christine, & INCUBATOR Team
During the week

28 March – 1st April you will be working with your group and visiting coach on locations around
Rotterdam. The sessions are in the afternoon, they start at 13:00 so please plan to arrive in
good time.

Your key contacts are at the front of this handbook. You can see a full project listing at the
index. Your coach/producer contacts details are in your project email.

Frequently Asked Questions

>>Who do I contact with any questions before the week starts?

Your project producer, they sent you the email with this student guide.

>>What if I have questions during the project (including all technical/instrumental needs)?

Talk to your coach/contact your producer, we will see what is possible.

>>What if I cannot attend because of quarantine/illness?

Please write to incubator@codarts.nl and inform your project producer.

If you feel well enough, they will send you the link so you can >>attend our programme of
online presentations. If you are present online and complete the related tasks, you will receive
project points.

>>Where can I find my specific project schedule?

See the INCUBATOR PROJECT SCHEDULE email sent from your producer. Extra events
are listed in Asimut, they happen after 17:00 and are optional social events!
Extra events – for students!
Additional to project hours between 13:00-17:00 on 28th March – 1st April, we have some
optional social events, with offers on drinks and a party – from 17:00!

What kind of projects are there this year?

Skills Projects

Mostly music students take part, some performing arts.

If you are taking part in a skills workshop you will focus on a specific skill or creative process
from Monday – Thursday. The workshops do not have an official presentation, so there is no
pressure to perform newly learned skills.

On Friday, your groups will be part of the audience for presentations from Incubator and
Incubator + projects happening around the city.
Incubator Projects

With performing arts and music students.

If you are taking part in an Incubator group, you will be creating a project in a group with a
full-time artist coach. The framework and concept have been built by your coach, but the
material, ideas and presentation will be co-created with the group.

These projects explore types of creative collaboration.

There is space for all Incubator groups to present/share their work on Friday.

Incubator + Projects

With performing arts and music students.

If you are taking part in an Incubator + group, you are creating a piece collaboratively in your
group, and will be visited by a guest coach during each day.

A student, who is already in contact with you, are forming the framework of the project, but
they need YOU to bring out the elements of your discipline they do not know, and to give input
as an active group member.

All Incubator + projects have a theme, trying out creative collaboration.

There is space for all Incubator + groups to present/share their work on Friday.
What work have students and our team prepared before the week
starts?

1. NOV/DEC: Students who made Incubator + proposals sent in their ideas.

2. DECEMBER: Projects are selected by panel of students, teachers, and incubator team for
incubator +.

3. DECEMBER: Student groups and departments are asked about project ideas for Incubator
projects.

4. JANUARY: Projects are drafted and sent to all students for sign-ups.

5. JANUARY: Students are placed in their top choices.*

6. JANUARY-MARCH: Projects are developed with student leaders and matched with guest
artist coaches.

7. NOVEMBER-MARCH The production team scouts all locations, plans logistics, and
prepares all requirements for groups before the start of the Incubator Week.

* All Bachelor Music students and a selection of performing arts students were invited to sign
up to their top 4 projects. Once this was received, our team placed all students in one of their
chosen projects – a giant puzzle! Students who did not sign up were placed in projects which
required performers, and everyone received information about their projects by email.
PROJECT INDEX