Rob Hill of No Fun Club on Dignity in Creative Spaces
We’ve been following No Fun Club online for a while and love seeing who they create with, and what comes out of their space, and are so happy to see a team that stands on their beliefs for a space and open place for artists.
Get to know this team through our little interview with Rob Hill of No Fun Club.
What is the hardest part about what you do?
Marketing and growing customer base.
What is the all-time dream part of your job? The thing you still pinch yourself that you get to do? And, tell the people how often you actually get to do it.
Working with sound is a productive outlet for multitasking (aka ADD) haha.
Working with musicians to take their music over the finish line; it’s a vulnerable experience for both but the comradery and accomplishment of documenting art and exceeding expectations is beyond rewarding. Also, run-on sentences apparently!
What does dignity in your work look like?
It means treating all individuals and interactions with the same level of respect, care and lack of judgment.
What are some simple (or hard) things you did to bring more dignity into your creative space?
Adding a safer spaces policy. Hundreds of hours in the making followed by many tough discussions and situations where we needed to back it in practice.
Honestly; we’re weirdos, we get weirdos but we strive for professionalism and understanding in all interactions regardless of the situation, which is hard in reality but we do our best!
Being available to improve the accessibility of the studio. It’s very hard and expensive in this province to do things right re: accessibility. That said it’s a priority and we’ve developed the studio as such. We’ve extended ourselves as much as possible but can always and will do better to serve people with accessibility concerns.
Democratization of knowledge and experience: We share technical information and answer related questions free of charge. We don’t like gatekeeping and are the only studio we know of that if you have the desire and drive will teach you audio engineering free of charge in a professional setting. This opportunity is unheard of and even paid/intern opportunities are rare and almost always exploit the learner; leaving them with little knowledge and in debt.
If you could give Creatives one piece - one practice - they could add to their work to bring in more dignity to the people they serve what would it be?
Keep an open mind. Don’t adhere to any one schema of thought and explore/listen to others’ perspectives and opinions even if they make you uncomfortable and don’t adhere to your own.
Closing thoughts for the Camp Rover Community?
I’m just some dude. Thanks for asking me to share some thoughts!
Do you have a project collaboration you want to share with the Camp Rover Community?
You can find the shitty bands I play in here.
