Welcome to SBF/MSMA!

Staging Better Futures/Mettre en scène de meilleurs avenirs (SBF/MSMA) is a Canada-wide research partnership of universities, colleges, theatre companies, arts services organizations, and individuals.

SBF/MSMA members co-create and share “wise practices” that foster and sustain decolonization, anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and access (DC/AR/EDIA) in post-secondary theatre education.

SBF/MSMA responds to decades-long calls, from within and beyond the postsecondary sector, for improved teaching and learning conditions for minoritized theatre students and educators: those who experience systemic barriers to participation and agency because of their Indigeneity, racialization, gender/sexuality, bodymind difference, first language, class, or other factors.

Welcome to this living archive of SBF/MSMA’s evolving work!

ABOUT

SBF/MSMA project members are working on a variety of activities to improve teaching and learning conditions for minoritized post-secondary theatre students and educators across Canada.

Digital Archive
Digital Archive

We are creating a sustainable digital archive of existing and new approaches to teaching, learning, governance, and administration that further the work of the Partnership.

Cross-Sector Knowledge
Pilot Projects

We are conducting 13 cross-sector knowledge co-creation pilot research projects addressing particular barriers to EDIA within individual partner universities and colleges, and across the post-secondary theatre sector as a whole.

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Governance

We are developing new approaches to research methodologies and research project governance.

PEOPLE

SBF/MSMA is led by Dr. Jennifer Roberts-Smith (Brock University) and Nicole Nolette (University of Waterloo).

The Partnership includes students, part-time instructors, freelance artist-educators, and full-time faculty from universities, colleges, professional theatre companies, and arts organizations across Canada.

Team members contribute professional experience or research expertise in AR/DC/EDIA-focused theatre education, as well as lived experience as Indigenous, racialized, diversely gendered, disabled, and Deaf people, or people facing other barriers to participation in post-secondary theatre education.

We work primarily in French and English, with interpretation in American Sign Language and Langue des signes québecoise.

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Individual Members

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Universities & Colleges

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Professional Theatres
& Arts Organizations

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Provinces

This project is made possible
with financial support from SSHRC