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Forum Theatre Training
Image Theatre Workshop
Medical Education
The Transitions Program
Youth Skills, Youth Jobs
Forum Theatre Training
Activist Training
Indigenous Mental Health
Indigenous Health
Disability Rights Organizing
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STAGE-LEFT'S ARTS-BASED ACTIVISM
Our history of supporting communities to use art to effect personal and social transformation! WITH THE DISABILITY ACTION HALL: OUR ARTS-BASED ADVOCACY MODEL Supporting Calgary's Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD) Community in the art of protest 1999: Speak Out '99; Calgary's First Disability Rights Rally 1999: Power Plays I; Forum Theatre-based Protest Training 2000: Speak Out 2000; Calgary's Second Annual Disability Rights Rally 2000: Don't Cut My AISH Rally; Protest Banners, Postcards, Placards & Pleas at City Hall 2000: The Halfway There, Ralph Rally; Placard Protest at the Premiere's Stampede Breakfast 2001: Speak Out 2001; Calgary's Third Annual Disability Rights Rally 2001: The Second Class Citizens Rally; Protest Banners, Postcards, Placards & Pleas at City Hall 2002: Power Plays I Protest Performance at The Arusha Centre's Annual ArtsJamb WITH THE RADICAL LOVE COALITION: OUR ARTS-BASED ACTIVISM MODEL Improving Alberta's Handicap: a. Immersing disability service providers in the social model of disability 2003: Forum Theatre Youth Self-Advocacy Workshop; at the Williams Syndrome Assn's Annual Conference 2005 - 2008: Transitions to Adulthood: A Self-Advocacy Training; with Youth on the Spectrum 2008: Same Difference, a Political Theatre production; co-created with Youth on the Spectrum 2008: Forum Theatre Exploration of Intercultural Models of Care; at Calgary Health's Diversity Conference 2009: SASS! (Speaking Against Social Stigma) Digital Film on Mad Pride in Mental Health Service; with OBAD 2010: Ikaakimaak, Digital Film on Indigenous Health & Wellness Models; with Elbow River Healing Lodge b. Training the disability community to self-advocate and organize 2000: Self-Advocacy Workshop; with The Aberhart Access Class (developmentally disabled youth) 2000: Forum Theatre Advocacy for Competency in Dementia Care; with Fanning Centre Seniors Action Group 2002: Power Plays II; a Self-Advocacy Drama Program with Disabled Youth & Adults 2003: A Wild Ride; Forum Theatre Engagement; at The Self-Advocacy Summit 2004: Power Plays II, Forum Theatre Engagement; at The Reality Check Conference 2005: Power Plays II, Forum Theatre Engagement; at UCalgary Social Work's Social Justice Day 2004: Power Plays II, Forum Theatre Engagement; at Calgary City Hall in support of AISH Rallies 2014: From Where I Sit: PhotoVoice Exhibit on Inaccessibility; with on-reserve Indigenous, disabled youth 2014: Access THIS! Forum Theatre Exploration; of On-Reserve Barriers to Accessibility 2012 - now: Urban Interventions - Pop-Up Social Justice Encounters Staging counter-cultural resistance to the social & structural determinants of health 1990 - 1996: Annual Native Awareness Weeks, with Sagebrush Lodge & Four Directions Lodge 1996 - 1998: Annual Graduation Pow Wows; at Mount Royal College (now University) 1990 - 2003: Decolonization & Aboriginal Rights Organizing; with Pegan Lonefighters Society, Idle No More, etc. 2003 - 2005: The Building Aboriginal Health Teaching & Learning Capacity Development Project 2003: The Aboriginal Playwrights Festival, with Crazy Horse Theatre 2008: Hearing Voices, Forum Theatre Training for Mental Health Clinicians; with Elbow River Healing Lodge 2015 - 2018: Forum Theatre on Disrupting Anti-Indigenous Racism in Health Care; with Dr. Lindsay Crowshoe 2018 - 2019: The Indigenous Youth Suicide Prevention Canadian Institute of Health Research Project 2020 - 2025: The Transforming Stories Series; with Dr. Lindsay Crowshoe, for the ILGHO* 2023 - now: The Interrupting Toxic Stress In Indigenous Youth Project; with Dr. Lindsay Crowshoe 2023 - now: The KIT Podcast on Indigenous Health & Wellness Frameworks; with Dr. Lindsay Crowshoe 2023 - now: The Navigating Indigenous Cancer Care Medical Education Project; with Dr. Janet deGroot 2024 - now: The Decolonizing Disability Campaign; with Treaty 7 collaborators 2024 - now: Metaxis: The Arts in Indigenous Health Project *ILGHO: Cumming School of Medicine's Indigenous, Local & Global Health Office Welcoming newcomers, and fostering belonging by confronting racism 2000: Image Theatre-based Self-Advocacy Workshop; with girls from Calgary's Immigrant Women's Association 2000: Forum Theatre-based Anti-Racism Event, with youth from Forest Lawn High School 2008: The Get Global Provincial Forum Theatre Rural Tour; with the Alberta Council for Global Citizenship 2009: The Calgary Centre for Social Justice Start-Up Advisory; which we supported 2012 - now: Urban Interventions - Pop-Up Social Justice Encounters Putting street-involved youth concerns centre stage 1999: Forum Theatre-based Volunteer Training for Ghost River Rediscovery 2000 - 2001: Welcome to the System Forum Theatre engagements 2001 - 2002: Acting on Authority Performance Creation production 2002 - 2003: The Struggle is the Blessing Collective Creation production 2008 - 2010: The Youth Skills, Youth Jobs Program; with Action for Healthy Communities 2012 - now: Urban Interventions - Pop-Up Social Justice Encounters Immersing Queer Youth in arts-based activism 2007 - 2008: In-Service Training Workshops; for Calgary Sexual Health Centre 2008 - 2009: OutSpoken: The Putting the Politics Back in Pride Project 2009 - 2010: Acting Out: The Stage Left Model of Arts-Based Queer Youth Organizing 2010 - 2011: Making A Scene; Invisible Theatre disruptions against queer baiting/ bashing 2012 - now: Urban Interventions - Pop-Up Social Justice Encounters |
