Rachel da Silva Gorman, PASS. Balancing Acts Disability Arts Festival, Big Secret Theatre; Calgary (2009)
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WELCOME > ABOUT DDMAACCanada's disability arts & culture movement has
continually been threatened by arts institutions and charitable organizations that seek to promote disability arts and culture while dismissing its political base. (FUSE Magazine) Dr. Rachel da Silva Gorman, Artistic Director Revolutionary Forms |
VISION: DDMAAC cultivates 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.
and promotes the collective interests of artists whose lived experience of disablement advances artistic and aesthetic non-normativity.
ABOUT > HISTORYAt this stage of development, DDMAAC is a nascent National Arts Service Organization (NASO). It emerged in late 2012,
out of Stage Left's Beyond Access dis arts gathering, to attend to the shared artistic, aesthetic and equity concerns of Canada's Deaf, Disability & Mad Arts domain. Stage Left remains DDMAAC's umbrella organization, but DDMAAC's team of Core Collaborators function as an arms-length, grassroots collective with specialized roles and shared leadership responsibilities. While DDMAAC is inclusive of the Deaf, Disability & Mad Arts domain's many disparate contributors, we prioritize artists with impairment(s) who advance disability justice in their artistic practices in all positions of DDMAAC leadership, authority and influence. |
ABOUT > UMBRELLA ORGDDMAAC is an initiative of Stage left Productions, which has contributed the following to Deaf, Disability & Mad Arts:
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