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Ruby Slippers Theatre Will Do More
In addition to ongoing, current efforts that reflect our vision and mission to champion and celebrate diversity in the playwrights, directors, and actors we work with, RST is committed to doing more.
Listening, learning, supporting, and sharing:
- Conducting interviews with BIPOC artists in Canada about their lived experience of systemic racism within our industry; what needs to happen to create lasting change; and ways that allies can and must do more, then amplifying and featuring these voices on our communications channels and online platforms, including our website.
- Supporting anti-racism initiatives and organizations directly through donorship, promotion, or collaboration.
Prioritizing diversity and inclusion in our artistic direction and programming, and organizational oversight and operations:
- Diversifying our staff and board further.
- Diversifying our production teams further.
- Diversifying our performers further, featuring more BIPOC artists in all roles and particularly leading roles.
- Deepen our commitment to BIPOC playwrights and directors.
- Prioritizing BIPOC voices for our Crucial Voices from Quebec series.
Continuing to do the work to expand and deepen our allyship, and continuing to strive in solidarity to change systems of oppression towards shared liberation and reconciliation.
For the RST 2020/21 Season:
We will feature six female-identifying Indigenous playwrights and six female-identifying Indigenous directors, with full Indigenous production/design teams.
We at Ruby Slippers Theatre support the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee’s calls to action.
Resources:
We will update this resource list on an ongoing basis.
Diversity/Inclusivity online statement/policy examples
- Montreal Indigenous Community Network – Indigenous Allyship Toolkit: http://reseaumtlnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Ally_March.pdf
- Living Hyphen – In Solidarity: https://livinghyphen.ca/solidarity
- Vancouver Fringe Festival: https://www.vancouverfringe.com/edi-fringe/
Toolkit
Intersectional
- Living Hyphen: https://livinghyphen.ca/antiracism-resources
BLM
- Pivot Legal Society – supporting Black-led organizations (the reading list at the bottom of this page is a good one, especially because it includes work from local writers as well): https://www.pivotlegal.org/support_local_black_led_organizations?fbclid=IwAR26YpAjhjdYLhkrAl75gQJikOjrESBkMzhzO7k4guHENnWANNrVT_gKLBs
- Georgia Straight: https://www.straight.com/living/black-organizations-and-fundraisers-you-can-support-in-vancouver-and-british-columbia
- Letters for Black Lives: https://lettersforblacklives.com/
- The Canadian version of the original crowdsourced letter: https://lettersforblacklives.com/canadian-version-dear-mom-dad-uncle-auntie-black-lives-matter-to-us-too-da04d08f2c2e
Indigenous
- Montreal Indigenous Community Network – Indigenous Allyship Toolkit: http://reseaumtlnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Ally_March.pdf
- Living Hyphen: https://livinghyphen.ca/indigenous-allyship
- Indigenous People’s Atlas of Canada: https://indigenouspeoplesatlasofcanada.ca/section/truth-and-reconciliation/
Asian
- Vancouver Asian Film Festival – #Elimin8hate: https://www.elimin8hate.org/
- #HealthNotHate campaign: https://www.healthnothate.com/
- Project 1907: https://www.project1907.org/
- Fight COVID Racism campaign: https://www.covidracism.ca/
