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Realwheels Productions is focused on breaking down barriers and destigmatizing preconceptions around people with disabilities. They are about normalizing one of the many equity-seeking groups that is still marginalized and prejudged. Race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation are attracting ongoing movements of recognition, yet persons with disabilities are still discriminated against or seen as“ other” despite being one of the largest of these marginalized societal groups. As Artistic Director of Realwheels, Tomas Mureika expressed,“ rather ironic, considering we may all at some time in our lives live with a disability.”
This‘ integrated ' theatre company, located in Vancouver, Canada, includes those living with disability and others who are TABS( temporarily able bodied).“ We see disability on a spectrum, affecting all our lives in different ways and at different points of time,” said Managing Director, Cadence Konopaki.“ Some are born with a disability; some acquire it later in life. Some have large barriers due to systemic inaccessibility in our world, some have smaller barriers. But in some way and at some time, disability is part of all our lives.”