Links to Resources
A basic guide to sites and groups actively linked to disability culture, disability arts, training, access services, arts services and the performing & media arts.
Professional Arts Service Organizations:
Creative Trust www.creativetrust.ca
Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) www.tapa.ca
Theatre Ontario www.theatreontarioorg
Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) www.pact.ca
Playwrights Guild of Canada www.playwrightsguild.com
Small Theatre Administrative Facility (STAF) www.theatreadmin.com
Dance Umbrella of Ontario (DUO) www.danceumbrella.net
Canadian Actors Equity Association (CAEA) www.caea.com
Canadian Artists Presenting Association (CAPACOA) www.capacoa.ca
Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) www.actra.ca
Toronto Association of Acting Studios (TASS) www.torontoactingatudios.com
Canadian Actors Online (Talent Agents) www.canadianactor.com
The Artists’ Health Care Centre Foundation (AHCI) www.ahcf.ca
Film including International Organizations/Festivals
Trinity Square Video www.trinitysquarevideo.com
Toronto International Deaf Film and Arts Festival
FilmPRO: Film PRO links with 90% of the international disability arts film festivals in operation see: www.filmpro.net
Deaffest (UK) from across the UK and overseas. www.deaffest.co.uk/Deaffest/HOME.html
Emotion Pictures (Greece), the 1st International Documentary Festival on Disability Athens. www.ameamedia.gr/en/festival
Brazil’s International Disability Film Festival www.assimvivemos.com.br
Key Arts Funding Agencies
Toronto Arts Council (TAC) www.torontoartscouncil.org
Ontario Arts Council (OAC) www.arts.on.ca
Canada Council for the Arts www.canadacouncil.ca
Ontario Trillium Foundation www.trilliumfoundation.org
Laidlaw Foundation www.laidlawfdn.org
Metcalf Foundation www.metcalffoundation.com
Department of Canadian Heritage www.canadianheritage.gc.ca
Key Peforming Arts Festivals/Presenters
The Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival www.fringetoronto.com
SummerWorks Festival www.summerworks.ca
Harbourfront Centre/HATCH www.harbourfrontcentre.com
CANDANCE (the Canadian Network of Dance Presenters / le réseau canadien des diffuseurs de danse) www.candance.ca
Fado Performamce Inc ccca.finearts.yorku.ca/fado
PCC (Performance Creation Canada) www.performancecreationcanada.ca
Association of Performing Arts Presenters www.artspresenters.org
APASO www.americaperforms.com/aboutapaso.html
Disability-Related Services
Christine Karcza Consulting, ’I Can Do This” www.icandothis.ca
Voiceprint Canada www.voicprintcanada.com
Panorama Captioning Services carrie.oneill@panoramacaptioning.com
George Brown College ASL Training Programs www.gbrownc.on.ca
The Canadian Hearing Society www.chs.ca
CNIB www.cnib.ca
Canadian Abilities Foundation/STRETCH www.abilities.ca
Eyes on Camera (EOC) email: eyesoncamera@yahoo.ca
Disability Arts & Culture Programming
Abilities Festival www.abilities.ca
Workman Arts www.workmanarts.com
The Glenvale Players www.glenvaleplayers.org
Fireweed Media Productions Inc. peuromaki@aol.com
Ryerson School of Disability Studies www.ryerson.ca/ds
Ryerson RBC Institute for Disability Studies, Research and Education www.ryerson.ca/ds
Creative Spirit Arts Centre www.creativespirit.on.ca
Society for Disability Arts and Culture, Vancouver ( S4DAC) www.s4dac.org
Canadian Disability Arts and Culture Network, Calgary www.stage-left.org
Anna MacLean, dance/theatre/healing practices www.dancefoodforthesoul.com
Links to International Organizations
United Kingdom
SHAPE Arts www.shapearts.org.uk
Graeae Theatre www.graeae.org
Artsline www.artsline.org.uk
London Disability Arts Forum (LDAF) www.ldaf.org
USA
VSA Arts (originally Very Special Arts www.vsarts.org
The National Endowment for the Arts http://arts.endow.gov/index.html
National Arts and Disability Center http://nadc.ucla.edu
The International Center on Deafness and the Arts (ICODA) www.icodaarts.org
Theatre Development Fund, New York www.tdf.org
Australia
Arts Access SA www.artsaccess-sa.org.au
Disability Arts Advocacy Project 2007 www.artsaccess-sa.org.au/projects.htm
High Beam Festival www.artsaccessaustralia.org/highbeam.htm
Back to Back Theatre www.backtobacktheatre.com
The Adelaide Festival Centre www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au
Club Cool www.artsaccess-sa.org.au/clubcool.htm
Sweden
Tyst Teater of the Deaf, Sweden www.tystteater.riksteatern.se
