THE WORK I'VE DONE WITH STAGE LEFT HAS
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Youth Skills, Youth Jobs
Forum Theatre Training
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Time To Put My Socks On!
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ARTISTIC PRACTICE
ORIGINAL PRODUCTION We co-create original Popular Theatre productions, with professional artists and non-artists (community collaborators), in these community-driven models of artistic representation: Epic Theatre Venue-based Extravaganzas that break the fourth wall, and invite spectators to become spect-actors Artist-Community Collaboration Venue-based spectaculars that disrupt aesthetic elitism, through non-normative staging techniques Theatre of the Oppressed Image, Forum and Legislative Theatre engagements that pave pathways to systemic change Street Theatre Agit-Prop, Gorilla Theatre, Invisible Theatre, etc. that mobilize community toward social justice Digital Media To increase marginalized artists' and the public's access to our work ARTISTIC PRESENTING We've presented the work of over 1,000 professional Deaf/ Disabled/ Mad artists, to over 100,000 audience members in Calgary and Edmonton at Balancing Acts – our annual Disability Arts Festival; which we produced from 2002–2010. ARTIST COMMISSIONS We've commissioned more than twenty disabled, Canadian artists to create original performances or digital films, including Kazumi Tsuruoka, Lyle Victor Albert, Alan Shain, Rachel da Silveira Gorman, Elizabeth Hudson, Heidi Janz, Ruth Bieber, Vi Ann Diep, James Doyle, Tegan McGarty, Danny Watt, and JD Derbyshire. TRAINING & ARTS EDUCATION We run regular summer training intensive in Theatre of the Oppressed techniques; develop and deliver master classes in aesthetic representation, non-normative staging techniques and accommodating production models; and facilitate arts equity training for allied agents of systemic change in the arts sector. We especially also provide arts-based social justice training for non-artists/ community-based catalysts of systemic change. |
