Equity is the prerequisite to diversity in the arts.
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FROM A CONGRESS TO A COLLECTIVE TO A CATALYST...
With the backing of many diverse arts companies/ collectives, Stage Left Productions launched CCEDA in late 2015, as a high-impact activity intended to do one thing: Establish arts equity as a core value in Calgary's arts & culture sector.
That goal has been met, yet a thirst still exists for far more in-depth approaches to collaborative systems-change work. So Stage Left has made CCEDA a permanent program, now called The Calgary Catalyst for Equity & Diversity in the Arts. Stage Left's team of systems-change advocates are now working toward increased equity in the art sector structures status quo.
The arts equity education and advocacy services Stage Left offers through CCEDA span all disciplines, advance the shared concerns all equity-seeking arts groups and promote human rights in our workspaces. Our approach is unique in that we advance intercultural, interlocking approaches to diversity in the arts over single-issue tactics.
VISION
CCEDA's vision is to draw together marginalized diverse artists in cross-cultural solidarity, to collectively work against embedded patterns of systemic exclusion and the inequitable distribution of sector resources. Stage Left's CCEDA team also advances Truth & Reconciliation.
OBJECTIVES
With the backing of many diverse arts companies/ collectives, Stage Left Productions launched CCEDA in late 2015, as a high-impact activity intended to do one thing: Establish arts equity as a core value in Calgary's arts & culture sector.
That goal has been met, yet a thirst still exists for far more in-depth approaches to collaborative systems-change work. So Stage Left has made CCEDA a permanent program, now called The Calgary Catalyst for Equity & Diversity in the Arts. Stage Left's team of systems-change advocates are now working toward increased equity in the art sector structures status quo.
The arts equity education and advocacy services Stage Left offers through CCEDA span all disciplines, advance the shared concerns all equity-seeking arts groups and promote human rights in our workspaces. Our approach is unique in that we advance intercultural, interlocking approaches to diversity in the arts over single-issue tactics.
VISION
CCEDA's vision is to draw together marginalized diverse artists in cross-cultural solidarity, to collectively work against embedded patterns of systemic exclusion and the inequitable distribution of sector resources. Stage Left's CCEDA team also advances Truth & Reconciliation.
OBJECTIVES
- Offer solidarity and support services to marginalized equity-seeking artists, especially those of us who do not seek to be included;
- Advocate for increased funding, resources, public stature and sector influence for equity-seeking artists;
- Support the sector as a whole to increase equity & diversity in their organizations, operations and programming; and
- Locate conduits of connection and collaboration against interpersonal, cultural, social and systemic inequities in the arts.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We acknowledge the land on which we operate, Calgary, as the traditional territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy and the peoples of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai, Tsuut’ina and the Ĩyãħé Nakoda (Chiniki, Bearspaw and Wesley) First Nations). Calgary is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.
ACCESS STATEMENT
We regret that we lack the resources as an independent collective (of disabled artists) to provide website accessibility. We apologize for the barrier this creates for so many, and will attend to it when we are able to remedy the digital divide/ as our limited resources allow.
CCEDA is an initiative of Stage Left Productions, which is generously supported by:
We acknowledge the land on which we operate, Calgary, as the traditional territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy and the peoples of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai, Tsuut’ina and the Ĩyãħé Nakoda (Chiniki, Bearspaw and Wesley) First Nations). Calgary is also home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III.
ACCESS STATEMENT
We regret that we lack the resources as an independent collective (of disabled artists) to provide website accessibility. We apologize for the barrier this creates for so many, and will attend to it when we are able to remedy the digital divide/ as our limited resources allow.
CCEDA is an initiative of Stage Left Productions, which is generously supported by:
