NATIONAL ARTS ADVOCACY. . .  FOR A DIVERSE ARTISTIC DOMAIN

DDMAAC recognizes the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples in Canada as the traditional stewards of the land we live on today.

DIS JUSTICE FOR DIS ARTS 

Dis/ENGAGED was a high-impact, advocacy-focused gathering hosted by Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, in 2018 – for the Deaf, Disability & Mad Arts Alliance of Canada (DDMAAC). This strategic planning retreat had four main goals:

    1. Shift domain authority to qualified Deaf, disabled and mad-identified arts
         advocates, artists and cultural workers. 

    2. Prioritize the inclusion of marginalized dis arts advocates in and at the retreat. 

    3. ​Integrate dis justice into all aspects of the domain and throughout the
         broader professional arts ecology. 

    4. Forge conduits of national connection and cause for dis arts advocacy that
         extends far beyond "access".


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"Dis justice" prioritizes decolonization, anti-racism and anti-oppression within equity for Deaf, Disability & Mad Arts and rights movements. 
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Note that DDMAAC uses "dis" to stand for the whole of "Deaf, Disability and/or Mad", for ease of communication only; we apologize for the many ways that the abbreviation  minimizes cultural and socio-political distinctions among all of us who are part of a very diverse artistic domain.

Rachel da Silva Gorman,
Revolutionary Forms

 Canada's disability arts & culture movement has continually been threatened  
 by arts institutions and charitable organizations that seek to promote
 disability arts ​​and culture ​while dismissing its political base. (FUSE Magazine)