Rachel Gorman in PASS (2009)
NOTWITHSTANDING: 100 Years of Eugenics In Alberta, Stage Left's contribution to Alberta's Centennial celebration; Big Secret Theatre, Calgary (2005)

WELCOME TO DDMAAC
THE DEAF, DISABILITY & MAD ARTS ALLIANCE OF CANADA
​A STAGE LEFT NETWORK, OF ARTISTS EXPERIENCING DISABLEMENT

What was established twenty years ago as a site of cultural autonomy, artistic self-determination, and collective representation...is now a site of inclusion wherein disabled people are dependent on the non-disabled for access to the arts. (CTR 165)

​Michele Decottignies, 
​Stage Left Productions
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VISION: Through DDMAAC, Stage Left cultivates grassroots conduits of cultural affinity, artistic autonomy and disability justice in Canada's Deaf/ Disability/ Mad Arts domain, and promotes the collective interests of artists whose lived experience of disablement advances artistic and aesthetic non-normativity.

Advocacy & SUpportS FOR DDMTSC* Arts

DDMAAC is a collective of diverse advocates, from within Stage Left's national network of collaborators, and the current, continually-evolving hub of 20-years of successful systemic advocacy for DDMSTC Arts. 

Through DDMAAC, Stage Left offers solidarity and support services to diverse artists who experience disablement in the professional arts ecology, and collaborates with allied agents of change to advance disability justice: The prioritization of decolonization, anti-racism, anti-oppression and non-normalization in all things "access". 

While DDMAAC remains inclusive of the DDMSTC Arts domain's ​many disparate contributors​, we prioritize supports for artists with impairment(s) who advance disability justice and non-normativity in their artistic practices and own advocacy efforts.

DDMAAC is an initiative/ program of Stage Left Productions. Stage Left - and thus DDMAAC - is proudly supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Calgary Arts Development. 
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contributions TO DDMSTC* Arts

Stage Left has contributed the following to the DDMSTC Arts domain in Canada:
  1. An national Arts Support Organization
  2. A national Presenters' Network 
  3. A national Artists' Network
  4. 10 annual Disability Arts Festivals, in 8 years & 2 cities
  5. 25 original, multidisciplinary productions
  6. 30 digital films
  7. 35 independent artist commissions
  8. 25 community-based/ amateur productions
  9. 10 self-advocacy & community inclusion programs
  10. 75 professional training labs
  11. ​14 national DDMSTC Arts gatherings
  12. An intercultural Practice-Centric Framework
  13. A national DDMSTC Arts study & resultant Equity Strategy
  14. An Canadian-centric Arts Equity Framework
  15. An accommodating producing & presenting model
  16. A lot of successful policy and funding recommendations
  17. Decolonized approaches to all things "DDMSTC Arts" 
*DDMSTC Arts:  D/deaf/ hard of hearing; Disabled/ person with a disability; Sick/ spoonie/ survivor; Traumatized; Colonized....

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
DDMAAC acknowledges the Original Peoples in Canada as the sovereign stewards of the traditional territories we now occupy. We also acknowledge our Treaty obligations, and work daily to maintain good relations and uphold the 94 Calls to Action from the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. 

We apologize for not yet being able to secure the funding needed to bridge the digital divide; meaning that we can't afford to provide full and proper access to our website and literature (which is ironic, considering that DDMAAC is Canada's only national arts support organization specifically attending to the collective interests of professional, diverse artists who live with some form of impairment!). 

DDMAAC: An initiative of Stage Left Productions
Making the invisible VISIBLE
c/o Box 8007 CANMORE MAIN
Canmore, Alberta   T1W 2T8
403.829.2307 | Email | Website
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