Expanding the Arts II: Deaf & Disability Expression & Engagement Strategy @CanadaCouncil
Expanding the Arts II: Deaf & Disability Expression & Engagement Strategy  @CanadaCouncil
Uploaded December 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Our 2019 Expanding the Arts strategy aims to support the expression and engagement of artists who are Deaf or have disabilities, as well as the arts organizations across Canada that work with them.


Read more about our commitment to equity:

canadacouncil.ca/commitments/equity

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Photo Credits



flicker doll, 2016, Persimmon Blackbridge

Constructed Identities exhibition Curator: Tangled Art + Disability Photo: Della McCreary



Demerara 1823 deconstruct

Video performance, installation

Afuwa (with cultural tattoo practitioner Dion Kaszas, and media artists Tia Taurere-Clearsky and Aerlyn Weissman

Photo: Tia Taurere-Clearsky



Ultrasound, a play by Adam Pottle, co-production Cahoots Theatre and Theatre Passe Muraille, 2016. Featuring: Elizabeth Morris and Christopher Dodd

Photo: Dahlia Katz Photography



DysfunctionED tools # 65, sculpture series, Mohsen Khalili, 2017. Medium bronze

The Walls are Alive with the Sounds of Mad People, directed by Ruth Ruth Stackhouse, Artistic Director of the Friendly Spike Theatre Band

Photo: Rob Saunders



je ne veux pas marcher seul (performance), 2015. Production: Joe Jack et John

Performers : Étienne Thibeault, Edon Descollines and Francis Ducharme

Photo: Adrienne Surprenant



je ne veux pas marcher seul (performance), 2015. Production: Joe Jack et John

Performer: Edon Descollines

Photo: Adrienne Surprenant



Gabrielle, a film by Louise Archambault, 2013. Featuring: Gabrielle Marion-Rivard and Alexandre Landry.

Photo: Philippe Bossé, courtesy of micro_scope



Jess Thom, performer and co-founder of Touretteshero

Photo: James Lyndsay


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