UNIQUE, HILARIOUS & FEARLESS.
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Rachel da Silva Gorman
Victoria Maxwell
Meg Torwl
Nicole Dunbar
Bliss the Clown
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PURPOSE
Social Vision - Infuse art with social responsibility* and use it as a potent force for personal & social transformation. Artistic Vision - Repurpose live performance into potent public spectacles that turn passive spectators into active spect-actors.** Aims - Foster an arts ecology in which diversity is truly valued - Promote the shared interests of marginalized, diverse artists and protected classes of people - Cultivate non-normative artistic expectations and aesthetic aspirations - Prioritize decolonization, anti-racism, anti-oppression and disability justice in systemic equity Roles - A significant contributor to Canada's Deaf, Disability & Mad Arts Domain - A global Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed - A national hub of arts equity training and education - A grassroots/ bottom-up network of creative catalysts of systemic equity Guidelines - Truth & Reconciliation - Popular Education - Radical Love - Bertolt Brecht/ Epic Theatre/ Theatre of Alienation - Critical Social Theory - Anti-Oppressive Practice - Solidarity * Our thanks to Anna Deavere Smith, for this framing. * * Our thanks to Augusto Boal, for this framing and for endorsing us as a Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed. |
