Mission
Kickstart’s mission is to produce and present works by artists with disabilities and to promote artistic excellence among artists with disabilities working in a variety of disciplines.
Mandate
KickStart (the Society for Disability Arts and Culture) was incorporated November 1998 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Our objectives are:
- to produce cross-disciplinary festivals of disability arts and culture,
- to encourage and support artists to create and present authentic interpretations of the disability experience,
- to provide opportunities for the development and advancement of artists with disabilities and
- to promote practices that will make the arts more accessible to all members of the Canadian public.
Board of Directors
Glen Alteen
Linda Chernoff
Debbie Havusha
Avril Orloff
Lenore Riddell
Gina Robinson
Tanya Sather
Tamara Tedesco
Gord Tulloch
Linde Zingaro
