Safer Spaces

• Learn more about the Not in Our Space ini­ta­tive by CAEA and PACT: CAEA’s, Not in Our Space!, more infor­ma­tion on Not in Our Space! by PACT
• Resource links – from Not in Our Space (cri­sis links and legal sup­port)
• Harass­ment and Dis­crim­i­na­tion in Canada’s Live Enter­tain­ment Indus­try Report – Cana­di­an Actors’ Equi­ty Asso­ca­tion
• A list of resources for sur­vivors, cre­at­ed by Gen­er­a­tor Toron­to
• Coun­selling – Dancer Tran­si­tion Resource Cen­tre
• Artists’ Legal Advise Ser­vices Toron­to
• How to cre­ate pos­i­tive change when work­ing in a dys­func­tion­al team, by Char­i­ty Vil­lage
• REA­son d’etre dance – Doc­u­ment out­lin­ing con­sent cul­ture in Con­tact Impro­vi­sa­tion
• Findhelp.ca, com­mu­ni­ty infor­ma­tion and refer­ral helplines in Ontario
• Juripop, legal aware­ness and afford­able legal ser­vices in Québec
• Aparté, assis­tance for sur­vivors or wit­ness­es of harass­ment or sex­u­al assault in the cul­tur­al sec­tor in Québec. Sup­port avail­able in French and Eng­lish.
• Rais­ing aware­ness: a graph­ic sto­ry of harass­ment in the dance com­mu­ni­ty by the Regroupe­ment québé­cois de la danse.
• Cul­tur­al Human Resources Council’s Respect­ful Work­places in the Arts web­site that includes an HR Man­age­ment Toolk­it
• Cul­tur­al Human Resources Council’s Report­ing and Inves­ti­gat­ing Mech­a­nisms resource
• Trans­form Dance led by Gen­er­a­tor­TO is a project about find­ing ways into heal­ing and trans­for­ma­tion, both at the indi­vid­ual and at the col­lec­tive lev­el, with­in the dance sec­tor in Toron­to with a par­tic­u­lar inter­est in address­ing harass­ment (sex­u­al, gen­der-based and oth­er­wise) and trans­form­ing the cul­ture of the dance sec­tor. Read the ear­ly release of the draft­ed report here or the final find­ing here.
• Rosa Sur­vey – The Change You Want to See In Octo­ber 2020, After­me­too, the Cana­di­an Women’s Foun­da­tion, and Hill Strate­gies Research con­duct­ed the first-ever nation­al sur­vey on work­place sex­u­al harass­ment in the Cana­di­an per­form­ing arts, film, and tele­vi­sion indus­tries. They have start­ed ana­lyz­ing the data and will report back on sur­vey find­ings in 2021.

Please send us the tools you lean on to address inequities in our ongo­ing work so we may add to this list and share with­in our net­work.