Meet the newly founded CREATIVE & INDEPENDENT PRODUCER ALLIANCE (CIPA).  With the health of artists, producers and producing organizations at the forefront of our concerted efforts, and in response to the urgent need for sustained advocacy and support of art-making in the US and abroad, CIPA is an open membership organization created to advance producing models that support all corners of the industry and help diverse and pioneering performance projects in all genres evolve and thrive. Panelists Linda Brumbach (Pomegranate Arts), Sophie Blumberg (Octopus Theatricals), Iyvon Edebiri (The Parsnip Ship), Rika Iino (Sozo Media), Mara Isaacs (Octopus Theatricals), Tommy Kriegsmann (ArKtype), Beatrice Thomas (Authentic Arts & Media), and Miranda Wright (Los Angeles Performance Practice) will lead an open discussion around evolving and equitable approaches to funding, creating and touring new work, and to ensuring a strong, generative arts ecology.