Situating Ourselves - The Work, The Team

In late spring of 2021, the Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance (“IPAA”) set out to undertake a study on the impacts COVID-19 has had both on Indigenous artists in Toronto, and Indigenous artists on a National scale. To complete this project, IPAA contracted Indigenuity Consulting Group Inc. (“Indigenuity”). The team from Indigenuity included Janis Brooks and Brock Endean.

As an Indigenous owned company, Indigenuity understands the importance of recognizing, respecting, and incorporating Indigenous culture and values into our work. In planning this project, we aligned our process with the IPAA values to ensure our work was focused on amplifying the voices of Indigenous artists to tell their unique stories. The information and experiences shared throughout this report are those of Indigenous artists who have trusted us to ensure their input is carried forward and used in a good way. We take this responsibility seriously and have offered each of the interview participants an opportunity to review this document and provide feedback prior to publication.

To conduct the survey outreach and bring the responses together, Indigenuity partnered with CTRS, the largest and longest-running market intelligence firm in Canada. CTRS is a certified B-Corp, recognized for their commitment to social and community responsibility. Their approach to the work helped integrate and maintain a human lens on the quantitative data of the experiences shared.