New Project Funding: We All Need a Home
We are a proud partner recipient of the 2025 UBC Community-University Engagement Support (CUES) Fund. The CUES Fund helps UBC faculty, staff and students work in partnership with communities by supporting community-engaged scholarship and learning. Unlike traditional funding models, CUES funds are paid directly to community partners, ensuring that historically, persistently and systemically marginalized communities can access the resources they need to collaborate meaningfully with UBC. By prioritizing reciprocity, inclusion, and shared leadership, these projects reflect UBC’s commitment to ethical and engaged research.
- Community Partners: Janice Barr, Community Living Society, Jessica Schneider, Massey Theatre Society
- UBC Partner: Rachelle Hole & Leyton Schnellert, UBC Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship
Since 2018, the UBC Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship (CIIC), the Community Living Society, and the Massey Theatre have collaborated on devising, producing, and researching two critical participatory theatre projects: the first production was Romance, Relationships and Rights (RRR), and the second production was We Deserve to Work! Spurred by the learning, growth and impact of these two successful disability theatre for social change productions, and upon the urging of the theatre company comprised of a diverse group of actors and co-creators with intellectual disabilities (subsequently referred to as self-advocates), we are embarking on a third disability theatre project focused on self-advocates’ right to inclusive housing.