Arts Groups: 'Reflecting' Diversity Reinscribes Oppression.
​(Jason Tseng, Artist, Advocate, Activist: Link to full article)

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Lifting each other up!

The CCEDA team has been hard at work, behind the scenes, developing support services for diverse artists and collectives, and our allied agents of change:  
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Support services for equity-seeking artists
     - grant advising and writing
     - letters of support and recommendation
     - by-laws and incorporation
     - policies & governance models
     - connections to available resources and partnerships
     - digital promotion 
     - cultural and systemic advocacy
     - equity intervention
     
Support services for allied agents of change
     - arts equity literacy training, mentorship, and consulting
     - diversity advisors and capacity development
     - organizational assessment and continued learning tools
     - conflict mediation 

Contact us for more information.


posted November 7, 2018

The iCount Campaign

TalkBacks  |  Digital Diversity Video Series
We are creating a series of Digital  Profiles of under-sung diverse artists in Calgary! We're launching them publicly in the Winter, 2019. Watch for a few teasers coming soon! 
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Equity Soundings  |  State of the Art Reports
CCEDA's team members are hard at work mapping the more marginal contributions of diverse artists to Calgary's arts sector, through both qualitative and quantitative data from many of us who have been heard the least.

Collective Impact​  |  Policy Influence
Both the TalkBacks and Equity Soundings will be presented to policy-makers at a public consultation in the Spring, 2019. 

posted June 24, 2018
updated November 7, 2018

The Full Spectrum
​Arts Equity Intensive

Training & Education
​CCEDA facilitated its first foundational arts equity training intensive! It was attended by 24 members of the arts & culture sector, from all disciplines and from both the "art" and "culture" parts of Calgary's arts & culture sector!

CCEDA thanks Quest Theatre, The Rozsa Foundation, and Calgary Arts Development for supporting the intensive. 

Visit the Full Spectrum website for updates on the next intensive.


​posted March 2, 2018

The In/Pact Partnership

January, 2018
CADA & CCEDA are back in business! Thanks to CADA's renewed investment in The In/Pact Partnership, CCEDA is now able to engage a team of advocates and offer up a full slate of equity & diversity programming during the 2018/19 season.

We'll also continue working with CADA directly on Reports to the Community, on the Demographic Profile generated from the data submitted in 2017, and an Equity & Diversity Advisory Committee.

posted June 24, 2018

SECTOR IMPACT

DECOLONIZING THEATRE
​OF THE OPPRESSED
Michele Decottignies, CCEDA's founder & Co-Coordinator, is collaborating with Drs. Lynden (Lindsay) Crowshoe and Cindy Jardine on the use of Theatre of the Oppressed as a tool of Truth & Reconciliation.

CONTRIBUTING TO
​BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Wunmi Idowu, CCEDA's Outreach Coordinator, is producing UNGANISHA, on February 2 at Arts Commons, for 2019 Black History Month.

PROMOTING DIVERSITY
​​Jacquie Aquines, CCEDA's Digital Coordinator, is implementing the People’s Coalition to Advance Fairness and Equity (People’s CAFÉ) across Alberta – as part of her work with Action Dignity.

ADVOCATING FOR EQUITY
IN DEAF/ DIS/ MAD ARTS 
August, 2018
Michele Decottignies and Olivia Glossy, CCEDA's Co-Coordinators, produced Dis/Engaged – a high-impact gathering of dis arts advocates, hosted by Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity.

​CCEDA is an initiative of Stage Left Productions, which is generously supported by:

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