The goal of the MEP is to empower the community with the skills to create safer workplaces and reduce harm in the English Theatre sector in Quebec.  This is a multi-year and multi-phase project.

In order to create systems where artists are empowered to reduce and disclose harm, QDF needs to deepen its anti-colonial, anti-racist, anti-sexist and anti-ableist practices, ensuring that the organization has the skills to elevate all artists’ voices. QDF serves some of the most vulnerable artists in the theatre sector: minority-language artists that are non-unionized. Many of these artists come from Equity-Priority groups and face further barriers in workplaces. After membership consultations, meetings with other organizations and discussions with consultants, QDF decided to lean on the expertise of professionals and community members to design strategies that go beyond written policies and build holistic pathways that are multi-faceted, focusing on community well being, education and restorative justice efforts.

First, in order to build a foundation for the projects, the following steps are required:

The Community Consultations are now complete!

The Community Consultations achieved to:

  • Provide a tool in learning more about the barriers faced by artists in the areas of accessibility, equity, diversity, social justice and decolonization

  • Provide an opportunity to brainstorm solutions and share experiences as a community

  • Encourage artists to voice their needs

  • Offer artists and companies a channel in which to be heard and validated

  • Provide an avenue to disseminate data and ideas to the community.

  • Create opportunity to share findings and new knowledge with the community, post-consultation

  • Provide context and guidelines for Step 2: Industry Research

  • Inspire QDF’s future programming

Consult the MEP Phase 1 Report:

Listen to the Audio of the Report:

COMING SOON

Thank you to Canada Council for the Arts for funding Phase 1 of the MEP and to our Project Facilitator, Crystal Harrison, and Project Coordinator, Megan Schroeder. For more info about them, click here.