mission
DAM's mission is to:
- Promote cultural diversity in the arts and culture; and
- Maintain an active and critical watch over the policies and actions of arts and culture authorities.
To accomplish this mission, the members of DAM have adopted the following objectives:
- To foster closer relations between artists of diversity and Montreal's cultural institutions;
- To build connections between artists through networking and mentoring;
- To sensitize the cultural milieu to the systemic barriers present in the equitable development of artists and organizations of cultural diversity;
- To promote the needs of these artists and organizations to governments, cultural promoters (public and private) and the media;
- To encourage professional associations, cultural institutions and public bodies to diversify the composition of their members and personnel;
- To encourage producers, presenters and broadcasters to diversify their programming, their casting and their public.
