Yellowknife Dene First Nations in Yellowknife decolonzing mental wellness, through Stage Left's applied Theatre of the Oppressed practice.
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THE NETWORK > NATIONAL
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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.
CURRENT COLLABORATORS 1. Core Collaborators (paid labour)
• Michele Decottignies: National Focus • Jenna Reid: Mad Pride Focus • Barak adé Soleil: I2BQPOC Focus • Tamyka Bullen: Deaf Arts Focus • Jordan Baylon: Intercultural Focus • Paul Power: Social Media supports 2. Advising Collaborators (voluntary consultation) • Rachel da Silveira Gorman: Transnational Focus • Soraya Peerbaye: Systemic Impact Focus • Dr. Lynden (Lindsay) Crowshoe, Decolonization Focus • Sara Meurling: Stage Left Liaison 3. Allied Collaborators (activity supports) • CAPACOA • Mass Culture • Canadian Dance Alliance • Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity • Calgary Arts Development • Alberta Foundation for the Arts • Canada Council for the Arts • Great Canadian Theatre Company • Prismatic Festival • undercurrents festival • Arts Commons • Drs. Lindsay Crowshoe & Rita Henderson • Dr. Cindy Jardine & Laurie-Ann Lines • The many anonymous street artists in our network who are shaking shit up, from the bottom up! |
PAST COLLABORATORS 1. Networks
• Michele Decottignies & Nicole Dunbar; Stage Left • Rachel da Silveira Gorman; Revolutionary Forms • Alan Shain, Frank Hull & Kazumi Tsuruoka; Independent • Meg Torwl; Integrial Media 2. Knowledge • Michele Decottignies; Stage Left • Rachel da Silveira Gorman; Revolutionary Forms • Alan Shain; Independent • Charlene Hellson; Siksika First Nation 3. Activity • Michael Green, for Performance Creation Canada • Geoff McMurchy; Kickstart Arts • Catherine Frazee; Art With Attitude • Dr. Kirsty Johnston; Madness & The Arts World Festival • Sharon Wolf & Debra Walt; Abilities Festival • David Roche; Independent • Lyle Victor Albert; Independent • Elizabeth Hudson; Independent • Shara Weaver & Renata Soutter; Propeller Dance • Roxanne Ulanicki, Linsday Eales, Danielle Peers & Ian Gordan; CRIPSiE • Darlene Murphy & Roxanne Taylor; In-Definite Arts • Dr. Kathleeen Irwin; URegina Faculty of Performance • Canadian Theatre Review magazine • UCalgary Faculty of Social Work • UCalgary School of Creative & Performing Arts • Workman Arts |
*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, so we work daily to maintain good relations and to support 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 we are Canada's only arts support organization specifically attending to the collective interests of professional 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, so we work daily to maintain good relations and to support 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 we are Canada's only arts support organization specifically attending to the collective interests of professional artists who live with some form of impairment!).
