become a member
Membership is for those who want to collaborate. You can contribute as much or as little as you can. Our purpose is to lobby for and promote opportunities for comedic action by supporting the work of comedians by providing a professional body and a community of practice. Membership is for those who can demonstrate a commitment to comedy action. You don’t need to be a member to come to events or apply to perform (just subscribe by email).
The purpose of the association is to promote comedic action by providing a community of practice to:
1. Establish skills sharing, peer mentorship and formalised training programs,
2. Provide curated comedic action events,
3. Provide collective action to support better working conditions for comedians,
4. Auspice grant and funding application writing support by pooling available expertise, and,
5. Facilitate organisational partnerships with other action-based collectives and community organisations.
comedic action means any action, event or performance with a clear intent to strategically craft a comedic response to issues of systemic and structural oppression using comedy of any form, style, or genre.
Apply to be a member if that sounds good to you. And if you don’t become a member, you are still welcome to anything we advertise or promote and any open-source resources we produce in the future.
CACA Membership application
Full transparency…
We are woke and proud of it.
Membership is for people who are unashamedly interested in work that promotes and lobbies for a more inclusive world.
But even if you are not a member, there will be resources and things CACA does that EVERYONE will benefit from. So you don’t have to be a member to benefit. That’s how we roll.
We know some of you won’t always do what we are calling comedic action.
Some of you will have more subtle messaging and that is fine.
So, members are people that are happy to collaborate and contribute and the comedians that often get called ‘woke’ as if that was a slur (it’s not).
Cancel culture?
Whatever. If you can afford to have a comeback tour a year later, you weren’t cancelled.
Grassroots comedians are more likely to be cancelled for a progressively political message than any of the usual suspects crying about being cancelled.
CACA is committed to people who care about their craft.
Not just because doing comedy is cool or a potential cash cow.
Times change, language changes, comedy can and does bridge all of that change.
But ultimately, CACA is a place for those open to collaborate and not get stuck in transactional capitalist thinking.
Apply to be a member if that sounds good to you. And if you don’t become a member, you are still welcome to anything we advertise and any open-source resources we produce in the future.
*NB: there is an option to be a silent member. This is for artists who would like their details kept from the general membership. Currently CACA does not advertise who is on our committee. We do this to keep them safe, because attacks on those speaking up are more frequent of late. If you insist on asking, we will give you who they are. However, if you harass or target them in anyway for any reason we will respond accordingly with appropriate action.