UNIQUE, HILARIOUS & FEARLESS.
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Meg Torwl
Victoria Maxwell
Rachel da Silva Gorman
Bliss the Clown
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Stage Left's Purpose
- To infuse art with social responsibility* and use it as a potent force for personal & social transformation. Vision - Repurpose live performance into potent public spectacles that turn passive spectators into active spect-actors.** Aims - Invest in, amplify and prioritize the collective interests of marginalized, diverse artists - Disrupt colonial ways and transgress normalized artistic expectations and aesthetic aspirations - Cultivate a professional arts ecology in which diversity is truly valued - Prioritize decolonization, anti-racism, anti-oppression and non-normalization in arts 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 literacy education and resources - A regional network of equity-seeking arts advocates Guides - 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. |
