WELCOME TO DDMAAC
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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* ArtsDDMAAC is Stage Left Productions' national network of diverse DDMSCT Arts* contributors, and a hub of systemic-change advocacy in Canada's DDMSTC Arts domain. We do not, however, aspire to represent nor lead the entire domain. More specifically, DDMAAC supports Stage Left collaborators who are marginalized from the domain, as a result of its neoliberalization and the classist imposition of "access" (to a mass culture that relentlessly devalues people who live with any kind of impairment? No thanks!).
Through DDMAAC, Stage Left offers solidarity and support services to socially and culturally diverse members of our company who experience disablement in the professional arts ecology, who seek a practice of autonomy over inclusion and who understand that "access" is merely a condition of artistic practice, not the end goal. We consequently collaborate with other radicals (catalysts of systemic change vs. inclusion) to advance disability justice, throughout the professional arts ecology: The advancement of counter-cultural, non-normative aesthetics, through the integration of decolonization, anti-racism and anti-oppression into production and presenting processes. |
contributions TO DDMSTC* ArtsMichele Decottignies, Stage Left's founding Artistic Director, has contributed the following to the DDMST Arts domain:
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*DDMSTC Arts: D/deaf/ hard of hearing; Disabled/ person with a disability; Sick/ spoonie/ survivor; Traumatized; Colonized....
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 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!).