Yellowknife Dene First Nations in Yellowknife; decolonizing mental wellness, through Stage Left's applied Theatre of the Oppressed practice (2019).
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DDMAAC promotes the collective interests of artists whose lived experience of disablement cultivates artistic autonomy, aesthetic non-normativity, cultural affinity and health equity – in and through impairment-informed artistic practices.
DDMAAC LABOUR CONTRIBUTORSUnpaid labour
• Michele Decottignies • Rachel da Silviera Gorman • Meg Torwl, Integrial Media • Geoff McMurchy; Kickstart Arts • Catherine Frazee; Art With Attitude • Dr. Kirsty Johnston; Madness & The Arts World Festival • Darlene Murphy & Roxanne Taylor; In-Definite Arts • The Radical Love Coalition Paid labour • Nicole Dunbar • Alan Shain • Frank Hull • Jenna Reid • Barak adé Soleil • Tamyka Bullen • Clayton Windatt • Syrus Marcus Ware • Black Lives Matter- Toronto • The Disability Justice Network • Sara Meurling, CultureThink |
DDMAAC KNOWLEDGE CONTRIBUTORSListed in order of longest relationships with DDMAAC
• Dr. Lindsay Crowshoe, Educating For Equity • Dr. Tim Prych, UCalgary Social Work • Dr. Dianne Mosher, Cumming School of Medicine • Dr. Janet de Groot, UCalgary Psychiatry • The KIT Podcast Team • The Interupting Toxic Stress Team Arts Sector Supporters • Ruth Ruth Stackhouse; Friendly Spike Theatre Band • Michael Green; Performance Creation Canada • Charlene Hellson, Counting Coup Collective • UCalgary School of Creative & Performing Arts • Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity Investors • Calgary Arts Development • Alberta Foundation for the Arts • Canada Council for the Arts • Canadian Heritage • UCalgary Faculty of Social Work |
DDMAAC's use of "Dis Arts" is meant to be inclusive of artists who are DDMSTC:
D/deaf/ hard of hearing; Disabled/ person with a disability; Mad, person with a mental illness, survivor of psychiatric incarceration; Sick/ spoonie/ survivor; Traumatized by lived experiences of systemic injustice; Colonized by imperialists.... But that's way too wordy for way too many of us. So we use "dis arts".
DDMAAC's framing of "Disablement":
Disablement is a social condition that impairs vulnerable populations. Disablement stems from socially-imposed processes of hegemonic bias, exclusion, inequity and disenfranchisement that results in poorer health outcomes for entire communities. DDMAAC thus takes up Health Equity models.
D/deaf/ hard of hearing; Disabled/ person with a disability; Mad, person with a mental illness, survivor of psychiatric incarceration; Sick/ spoonie/ survivor; Traumatized by lived experiences of systemic injustice; Colonized by imperialists.... But that's way too wordy for way too many of us. So we use "dis arts".
DDMAAC's framing of "Disablement":
Disablement is a social condition that impairs vulnerable populations. Disablement stems from socially-imposed processes of hegemonic bias, exclusion, inequity and disenfranchisement that results in poorer health outcomes for entire communities. DDMAAC thus takes up Health Equity models.
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!).
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