The Deaf, Disability & Mad Arts Alliance of Canada
unique ART. 
 distinct CULTURES.
 non-normative AESTHETICS.
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Rachel Gorman in PASS (2009)
Yellowknife Dene First Nations in Yellowknife decolonzing mental wellness, through Stage Left's applied Theatre of the Oppressed practice.

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

Changing the DDMSTC* Arts Framework:
from Access to Justice [to Decolonization]

Disability Justice has the power to not only challenge our thinking about access, but to fundamentally change the way we understand organizing and how we fight for social change. 
​(Mia Mingus)
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 Leaving Evidence: 
 Transformative Justice | Disability Justice

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

DDMAAC: Stage Left's National Network
   1. Current team (note that all labour is voluntary)
       
Listed in order of time/ labour invested in DDMAAC:
        •  Michele Decottignies
        •  
Rachel da Silveira Gorman
        •  Jenna Reid
        •  Barak adé Soleil
        •  Tamyka Bullen
        •  Clayton Windatt
        •  Syrus Marcus Ware


   2. Current allies (activity supports)
        •  Sara Meurling, CultureThink
        •  Tamara Ross
        •  Kate Cornell
        •  Sue Urqhart, CAPACOA
        •  Robin Sokaloski, Mass Culture
        •  Drs. Lindsay Crowshoe & Dianne Mosher
        •  The Great Canadian Theatre Company

        •  Calgary Arts Development

        •  Alberta Foundation for the Arts
        •  Canada Council for the Arts
        •  The daring, anonymous street artists in our network 
           who are shaking shit up – from the bottom up, through  
           Pop-Up social justice encounters!


PAST COLLABORATORS

  1. Past DDMAAC labour (paid):
        •  Nicole Dunbar; former Stage Left Associate AD
        •  Rachel da Silveira Gorman; Revolutionary Forms
        •  Alan Shain, Frank Hull & Kazumi Tsuruoka; Independent

        •  Meg Torwl; Integrial Media

   2. Past allies (investors)
        •  Prismatic Festival; International Marketplace
        •  UnderCurrents Festival; Industry Showcase
        •  Michael Green; 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

        •  Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity
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*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, 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!). 

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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
unique ART. 
 distinct CULTURES.
 non-normative AESTHETICS.
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