About Us
CRIPSiE, The Collaborative Radically Integrated Performers Society in Edmonton, is committed to fostering high quality, creative, anti-oppressive and inclusive art practices and performances. CRIPSiE builds upon over a decade of vibrant integrated dance experience in Edmonton. We are a charitable arts organization run by artists who experience disability or other forms of oppression, and by their artistic and political allies.
We run three programs:
We run three programs:
- We create and produce high-quality integrated dance, and performances
- We create and show high-quality video
- We run workshops, classes, and do consulting to support and encourage more accessible arts and communities
High Quality Crip and Mad Art
CRIPSiE strives for crip and mad aesthetics in our work. Crip and mad aesthetics involve celebrating and exploring the generative possibilities of 'disability' and 'mental illness,' in terms of how these experiences can offer important alternative perspectives on art processes, form, and content.
Supporting Accessible Arts in Edmonton
Through our own artistic practices, and through our workshops, classes, and consulting we strive to support the accessibility and inclusivity of high-quality performing arts in Edmonton more broadly. If you are interested in accessible or integrated arts contact us to:
CRIPSiE strives for crip and mad aesthetics in our work. Crip and mad aesthetics involve celebrating and exploring the generative possibilities of 'disability' and 'mental illness,' in terms of how these experiences can offer important alternative perspectives on art processes, form, and content.
Supporting Accessible Arts in Edmonton
Through our own artistic practices, and through our workshops, classes, and consulting we strive to support the accessibility and inclusivity of high-quality performing arts in Edmonton more broadly. If you are interested in accessible or integrated arts contact us to:
- Join our company classes (run every fall)
- Join our choreography and composition program (run from fall to spring)
- Book us for a public performance or workshop on integrated arts and creative processes
- Book a consultation, workshop or venue audit to help make your organization's art practices more accessible and inclusive
Our Mission, Mandate and Values
Mission
CRIPSiE, the Collaborative Radically Integrated Performers Society in Edmonton, is committed to generating high quality, creative, anti-oppressive and inclusive art practices and performances.
Mandate
CRIPSiE strives to develop a more equitable, accessible, vibrant and engaged artistic community in Edmonton.
Values
We are committed to developing the artistic and leadership capacities of individuals or groups of artists who experience disability as well as other forms of oppression or marginalization.
We are committed to supporting the development and promotion of amateur and professional performance, video and dance-based art.
We strive to recognize and change artistic and organizational practices that contribute to social inequality and oppression.
We strive to support relationships and practices of interdependence, and to engage these relationships and practices to create revelatory, moving and provocative art.
CRIPSiE, the Collaborative Radically Integrated Performers Society in Edmonton, is committed to generating high quality, creative, anti-oppressive and inclusive art practices and performances.
Mandate
CRIPSiE strives to develop a more equitable, accessible, vibrant and engaged artistic community in Edmonton.
Values
We are committed to developing the artistic and leadership capacities of individuals or groups of artists who experience disability as well as other forms of oppression or marginalization.
We are committed to supporting the development and promotion of amateur and professional performance, video and dance-based art.
We strive to recognize and change artistic and organizational practices that contribute to social inequality and oppression.
We strive to support relationships and practices of interdependence, and to engage these relationships and practices to create revelatory, moving and provocative art.
Our Objectives
1. To advance the public’s appreciation of the arts by producing public art exhibitions, presentations, and performance art(s) events, and by providing a forum for qualified artists to exhibit, present, or perform their artistic works through participation in such events.
2. To advance education by providing structured learning activities such as courses, instructional seminars, and workshops about performing and visual arts, and by providing opportunities for artists to publicly exhibit, present, or perform their works, or develop their crafts or skills in conjunction with these learning activities.
CRIPSiE is a registered charity with Canada Revenue Agency: Charitable #83202 7783 RR001
2. To advance education by providing structured learning activities such as courses, instructional seminars, and workshops about performing and visual arts, and by providing opportunities for artists to publicly exhibit, present, or perform their works, or develop their crafts or skills in conjunction with these learning activities.
CRIPSiE is a registered charity with Canada Revenue Agency: Charitable #83202 7783 RR001
Our Artists
CRIPSiE includes artists who experience disability and other forms of social oppression. We also include artists who are allies, and who are wanting to work towards more socially just communities.
Link to artist bios
Link to artist bios
Our Leadership
CRIPSiE's artistic and daily organization business is run by a group of Artistic Associates who are active CRIPSiE artists voted in annually. CRIPSiE is governed by a non-profit arms-length board of directors voted in annually by the society's members. The Artistic Director is named by the membership, leads the artistic associates, and works with the board to run a thriving arts organization.
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Co-Artistic Directors: Lindsay Eales & Kelsie Acton Link to full bios
Artistic Associates: Kaylee Borgstrom Alison Neuman Kasia Niewinska Danielle Peers Board of Directors: Krista Posyniak (Treasurer) Ainsley Hillyard (Chair) Alexis Hillyard Wendy Marusin Molly Staley |
Research in Our Community
Nothing about us without us
Researchers seeking to work with the CRIPSiE community must submit a research proposal to the artistic associates board (submit here) . The research request must answer the following questions:
- Tell us about the project in 250 words or less: for example: what are the research question(s), theoretical approaches, and inclusion criteria
- How much time will be required of community members?
- Will members be paid for their time and expertise? How will this research benefit the community? [1]
- What kinds of ethical guidelines are you considering?
- Have you ever danced or participated in this community? Other communities like it?
- How will the results be made accessible to the community?
After reviewing the proposal the Artistic Assocaites will contact you either with the results of their decision or a request for further information. If research is approved, initial recruitment contact will be made through the Artistic Associates.
[1] Given the history of exploitation of people experiencing disability by researchers and the societal expectation that people experiencing disability volunteer without compensation for their time or expertise, projects that do not directly benefit members or the community are unlikely to be approved.