AGENDA: FROM INDIVIDUAL EMPOWERMENT TO COLLECTIVE IMPACT

DAY 1: SETTING THE STAGE 
CANADA'S NATIONAL DIS ARTS DOMAIN

THE CANADIAN WHOLE
Michele Decottignies & Rachel da Silva Gorman
    •  45 years of Canadian dis arts history
    •  15 years of successful dis arts advocacy
    •  3 phases of dis arts domain development
    •  3 national dis arts frameworks:
            a. Socio-Political Perspectives
            b. Artistic Practices
            c. Non-Normalizing Aesthetics

PARTS OF THE WHOLE
All participants
    •  Introductory presentations from all attendees,
       detailing own artistic and/or advocacy practice(s);
       with a focus on sector-wide impacts and barriers.

DAY 3: BEYOND ACCESS
THE INEQUITABLE RESULTS OF "ACCESS"

ALL BARRIERS: INTERNAL TO THE DOMAIN
Michele Decottignies & Rachel da Silva Gorman
    •  The cultural and systemic consequences of the 
        neoliberalized, over-represented “access agenda”
    •  Displacement - aka The Non-Profit Industrial
        Complex in the Arts Sector
    •  The negative impacts of Identity Politics (aka single-
        issue approaches to diversity in the arts)

ALL BARRIERS: EXTERNAL TO THE DOMAIN
Presentations from all participants on:
    •   Inequities in Inclusive Arts practices
    •   The pros and cons of being included in the upper 
        echelons of professional arts sector
    •   Assimilation or inclusion?
        The separation of art from dis arts aesthetics,
        culture and politics in “Integrated Arts”
    •   Deaf responses to Phonocentrism in the arts
    •   “Next Generation” Challenges in Dis Arts Advocacy
    •   Settler colonial norms as the arts sector default
    •   The lack of informed consent protocols in
        collaborations with artists with intellectual and/or
        developmental disabilities
    •   The history of equity-seeking advocacy and 
        where DDMAAC is located in it/ what we uniquely
​        contribute to it.

DAY 2: FILLING IN THE GAPS
TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES OF DIS ARTS

INVISIBLIZED CONTRIBUTIONS
Rachel da Silva Gorman & Onyii Udegbe
    •  Contributions to Canadian dis arts by Indigenous
        artists and artists of colour
    •  The lived experience of disablement (vs disability)
    •  Cultural & systemic interventions 
    •  Socio-poltical & cultural affinities
    •  Non-normalizing techniques

​INTERCULTURAL, INTERSECTIONAL PRACTICES
Rachel da Silva Gorman, Onyii Udegbe & Jenna Reid
  •  Decolonial perspectives of the dis arts framings
  •  Socio-political aesthetics in dis arts practice
  •  Intersectional approaches to diversity in the arts
  •  Intercultural practices in the dis arts domain

DAY 4: SOLIDARITY
NATIONAL ADVOCACY FOR DIS ARTS

SOLIDARITY-BUILDING 
Jenna Reid & Soraya Peerbaye
    •     Conduits of cross-cultural solidarity
    •     Chasms of immutable difference
    •     Strategies for multiple tactics of intervention
    •     Policy Impacts of where we are now at as a domain
    •     Practice Impacts of where we are now 
    •     Leadership Impacts of where we are now

SOLIDARITY STRATEGY     
All participants
    •  Frameworks Agreements
    •  Equity Priority Agreements
    •  National Promotional  Agreements
    •  National Leadership Agreements

ACTION PLAN
All participants
    •  National Messaging, about the whole domain
    •  National Advocacy, for the whole domain
    •  National Promotion, of the full body of work
    •  Next Steps and Timeline

DDMAAC WORKING GROUPS
All participants
    •  What we're each contributing to the Action Plan

Jenna Reid,
Artist, Academic, Advocate. 

 I can’t help but feel discouraged and underwhelmed when this growing momentum
 of recognition [of dis arts in Canada] is severed from 45 years of artistic production
​ connected to the disability arts and culture movement(s). (Canadian Art)