Access Visual Art

Sneak peak at Valentin Brown’s show Body Farm opening Friday November 8, 6-8pm at Tangled Art Gallery Toronto. Tangled Art + Disability

Sneak peak at Valentin Browns show Body Farm opening Friday November 8, 6-8pm at Tangled Art Gallery Toronto. Tangled Art + Disability

ACCESS IS LOVE and LOVE IS COMPLICATED opens October 3 at Critical Distance in Toronto!

Please support the 27 arists who lost their studios in a fire this past Monday. https://www.gofundme.com/f/aduffw-274-jarvis-ave-artist-rel

A super great small film festival in the town of Durham and at Saugeen First Nation includes a program of short films titled Love and Disability, curated by Joschi Shea this Saturday (July 20) night. http://fabfilmfest.ca/schedule.pdf https://akimbo.ca//fabulous-festival-of-fringe-film-july-/

Just received this email from the Fringe Festival about their accessibility: The Toronto Fringe Theatre Festival is coming up very soon at venues around the city. We have put together an Assisted Performance Supplement which lists all of our ASL/Deaf Interpreted performance, Relaxed, and Audio Described performances along with dates, times, location, and brief descriptions. It can be downloaded here (https://fringetoronto.com//TFF2019_Assisted_Performances_S). We do our b...est to ensure that ASL fluent front of house volunteers are present at all ASL interpreted performances to greet patrons at the door. For ASL and Deaf interpreted performances, patrons are asked to arrive at least 25 minutes and no later than fifteen minutes before the performance start time. To ensure priority seating with good sight lines we ask patrons to identify themselves to Front of House upon arrival. Front of house ushers will indicate the best seating. Our accessible offerings also include audio described performances and Relaxed performances where regular theatre conventions like a darkened theatre and staying seated are put aside in favour of a more welcoming atmosphere. Finally, patrons can join us for fun, sun and free performances at the Fringe patio, PostScript, during the Festival. On Monday, July 8th at 9 pm, there will be a performance by the fabulous POC Deaf feminist artist, Tamyka Bullen. A number of our other patio events are also ASL interpreted. For details go to pspatio.com. If you have any questions please get in touch, [email protected]. For group bookings please contact Isabela at [email protected]. For further details on events, performances, and up to date information on all things Fringe, please go to www.fringetoronto.com

Accessibility in Creative Spaces: A Toolkit for Ontario Arts Organizations, is now avaiiable! ArtsBuild Ontario's new toolkit provides resources on accessibility legislation in Ontario, including the AODA and Design of Public Spaces Standards, Ontario Building Code and Human Rights Code. While it features resources for best practices in the built environment, it also focuses on experiential accessibility including how arts organizations are going beyond the built environment ...to offer inclusive space. Download it as an accessible PDF or as Microsoft Word at ArtsBuild Ontario: https://www.artsbuildontario.ca/announcing-the-release-of-/

JOB! The Toronto Art Biennale is looking for: Accessibility & Event Coordinator Position: Contract, Full-Time... Dates: July 2t o December 20, 2019 DEADLINE: June 17, 2019 https://torontobiennial.org//MB_TBA_EventAccessCoordinator https://torontobiennial.org/#partners

This 5-day exhibition focuses on JoAnn Purcell's daily 4-panel comic drawn alongside her thirteen-year-old daughter, Simone, born with the genetic difference Down syndrome.

Totally amazing and cool. What an innovative, generous guy!

A weekend of film left!

Coming up next week.

Opening this Friday, May 3 in Toronto at Tangled Art + Disability.

Job posting: Outreach Coordinator at Tangled Art + Disability!

The Images Festival opens this Thursday at the Royal Cinema which is wheelchair accessible. Most of the venues during this week long festival are accessible too.

One of the new features is a blog series called The Cripsters. Read the first blog, an article by Sean Lee on Velvet Buzzsaw.

#Exciting Announcement #1! Shay and Jen alongside StopGap Foundation Luke Anderson and @reasondetredance Kathleen Rea will be facilitating an inclusive contact ...improvisation #class at the Ontario Regional Contact Jam this Easter weekend! Come out and join us for a two hour class that covers some tips and tricks for making your movement practice more accessible and learn how to more easily work with disabled dancers. This workshop is being offered first off in the festival programming to ensure that disabled dancers are more fully included in the weekend. Come by and check it out if you are interested in working with disabled dancers and want to know more or if you are a disabled person interested in or new to dance. It will be a great workshop to set everyone up for success! Registration for the weekend and more information can be found https://orcj.yapsody.com//ontario-regional-contact-jam-2019 link will also be added to the comments. #dance #danceTo #contactimprov #disabilitydance #wheelchairdance #ontarioregionalcontactjam #toronto #upcomingevent #torontoarts #torontoevents #teaching #dancelife #dancerlife #announcements #butwaittheresmore See more

Call for exhibition and curatorial submissions. Deadline extended to February 15.

Sneak peak at Bruce Horak's show opening tonight, 6-8pm at Tangled Art + Disability. "Culminating a month long residency at Tangled Art + Disability, Through A Tired Eye premieres new works from Horak, and features portraits from multiple sessions Horak hosted in the gallery space for his residency. Fascinated by conversations and connection, Horak has invited friends and strangers to have their portraits painted and their conversations recorded for an audio component of the ...exhibition. Horak notes that due to his visual impairment, eye contact, facial expression, and body language can sometimes be lost, but the power of dialog and physical presence are always present. " More info: http://tangledarts.org/exhibits/through-a-tired-eye/ Tangled Art + Disability

Hey folks, help support StopGap Foundation by going to this great funraiser November 30. They build custom ramps that help people who use wheelchairs and other mobility devices get into more places. Raises awareness too.

We had a great time in Waterloo yesterday delivering a workshop on accessibility in the region's creative spaces in partnership with ArtsBuild Ontario. Twenty-five of us packed into this wee building and had two hours of fantastic animated discussion about access projects underway and planned for, the AODA and going beyond compliance toward a more accessible and inclusive environment.