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UNIQUE, HILARIOUS & FEARLESS.
---- Michael Green

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Rachel da Silva Gorman
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Victoria Maxwell
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Meg Torwl
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Nicole Dunbar
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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



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    * 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.
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