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Crip Rave is a Toronto-based event platform and consulting hub showcasing and prioritizing Crip, Disabled, Deaf, Mad and Sick party-goers and talent within safer and more accessible rave spaces. It was co-founded by Mad and Crip organizers Renee Dumaresque and Stefana Fratila, who are passionate about electronic music and envision a world where raves sites are accessible to everyone. Together, they have hosted parties and workshops, participated on panels at MUTEK (Montréal) and Nowadays (New York), and consulted with festivals and event promoters to enhance accessibility. Crip Rave draws on lineages of electronic music, rave and club culture, as well as Disability Justice and Crip community wisdom in their work.

Renee Dumaresque lives in between St. John’s and Toronto, and is community organizer, psychotherapist and PhD candidate practicing at the intersection of creative, critical, and chaotic thought. They are a co-founder of Crip Rave, a long-time organizer of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Toronto, and a Board member of the Social Justice Co-Operative of Newfoundland and Labrador. Their writing on music and sound, queerness, disability justice, race, and colonization can be found in open-source publications including, Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice, Journal of Feminist Scholarship, and New Sociology: Journal of Critical Praxis.

Stefana Fratila is a Romanian-born artist, composer and sound designer based in Toronto, Canada. She is also a DJ and co-founder of Crip Rave, an event platform and consulting hub showcasing and prioritizing Crip, Disabled, Deaf, Mad, and Sick body-minds within safer and more accessible rave spaces. She created Sononaut, 8 open-source VST plug-ins that emulate the atmospheric conditions of the planets in our solar system in collaboration with NASA scientists and Jen Kutler. She has exhibited and performed her work internationally, including at MoMA and e-flux (New York, USA), Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), and the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Paris, France).

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We respectfully acknowledge the land on which we gather as the ancestral homelands of the Beothuk, whose culture has now been erased forever. We also acknowledge the island of Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland) as the unceded, traditional territory of the Beothuk and the Mi'kmaq. And we acknowledge Labrador as the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Innu of Nitassinan, the Inuit of Nunatsiavut, and the Inuit of NunatuKavut. We recognize all First Peoples who were here before us, those who live with us now, and the seven generations to come. As First Peoples have done since time immemorial, we strive to be responsible stewards of the land and to respect the cultures, ceremonies, and traditions of all who call it home. As we open our hearts and minds to the past, we commit ourselves to working in a spirit of truth and reconciliation to make a better future for all.

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