Crip News v.109
Giving Tuesday, streaming news, new works, calls, events. Thanks for being here.
Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday, a fraught annual tradition for disability organizing. If you’re looking for ways to get some coin into disability worlds, you might consider…
Feel free to drop links to other suggestions in the comments.
NEWS
Late-Breaking on Streaming
The UK Parliament recently debated a new bill which would require the first-ever minimum quotas on media access features for streaming platforms, like captions, audio description, and BSL interpretation.
Disabled actor Ryan J. Haddad plays Oliver, “a disabled child of immigrants” who forms “a unique bond with a toy robot that mimicked his own gait” in FX’s A Murder at the End of the World now streaming on Hulu.
Netflix, in partnership with a "disabled and women-led team from Intuition Films and Making Space Media, is offering a new tutorial program to “expand education and career access for current and aspiring graphic designers with disabilities interested in pursuing roles in the film and entertainment industry.”
New Works
Today’s featured poem on Poetry Daily is “Split/Screen” by Petra Kuppers.
As part of the International Indigenous Disability Research Symposium recently hosted at the University of Sydney, the collected works of Prof. John Gilroy were on display in the exhibition People’s experience of the NDIS.
Emily Peters recently spoke to NPR about her new edited volume Artists Remaking Medicine: The Practice of Imagination and the Power to Create a Better Healthcare Future.
Disabled artist Ashokkumar D .Mistry will present “Reclaiming Nonchalance,” a lecture “challenging art world values to envisage the worth of Deaf Disabled and Neurodivergent artists working in their essential state” for the Liverpool-based disability arts organization DaDa’s annual social justice lecture on Sunday, Dec. 3rd, named for poet, activist, abolitionist, and disabled man Edward Rushton.
This year’s Day With(out) Art video program presented by Visual AIDS is called Everyone I Know is Sick, featuring newly commissioned work by Dorothy Cheung (Hong Kong), Hiura Fernandes & Lili Nascimento (Brazil), Beau Gomez (Canada/Philippines), Dolissa Medina & Ananias P. Soria (USA), and Kurt Weston (USA). Streaming available starting Friday, Dec. 1st.
ArtScreen, a “prestigious program supporting artists with disability or who are d/Deaf to develop their creativity and careers through producing new video artworks,” will present a program by artists Sofya Gollan and Guy Morgan to be screened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney in celebration of International Day of People with Disability.
The Together! Disability Film Festival will take place this weekend, Dec. 2nd & 3rd, featuring “Animation, Artists Films, Dance, Short Docs, Short Dramas, and a special programme to mark the Covid inquiries taking place in the UK and elsewhere.”
The Lyric Opera of Chicago is piloting the SoundShirt, “a jacketlike garment equipped with 16 haptic actuators that transmit sound from the orchestra and stage into pulses, vibrations and other forms of haptic feedback in the shirt itself.”
Leroy Moore, aka The Black Kripple, recently released a new poem called “Who Killed Disability Justice?!!”
CALLS
Emerge, an initiative that “seeks to promote scholar-activism, the bridges and relationships that allow academics, activists, and artists to better support each other in the shared pursuit of social change,” is accepting applications for its new cohort. Deadline is Jan. 5th at 12pm PT. More here.
UK-based CRIPtic Arts has re-launched its CRIPtic Cultivate artist development programs for 2024. Applications are open through Jan. 5, 2024. More here.
National Ramp is looking to partner with artists that can help to get their ramps installed at venues/stages. If National Ramp gets a ramp installed there, they will be happy to reward you with an incentive/compensation for your assistance and referral. For more details contact Adel and adel.brihmat@nationalramp.com.
EVENTS
Speculative Crip Ecologies + Rituals in the Age of Multispecies Disability
Sunday, Dec. 3, 6:30 - 8 pm ET, on Zoom
Disability and Environmental Justice, are words that are rarely in a conversation or the same sentence. Yet, Disability and Environmental Justice are in constant conversation and closely woven together in our Crip lived experiences. During our time together we’ll discuss poems, essays, performances and chapters as a group. The selected readings consider being with, rituals and reciprocity as continual and in process connections between land, languages, and body mind spirits that bring together Disabled, Indigenous, Black and LGBTQIIA+ ways of being and knowledges. The readings offer often overlooked perspectives on moving at the edges, climate-grief, interdependence, plastic, embodied memory and practices of ritual and abundance that are woven into disability cultures. Speculative Crip Ecologies and Rituals in the the Age of Multispecies Disability invites disabled people to invoke, share and reflect on the selected readings, our lived experiences and our eco rituals that allow us to adapt to a world that is ever changing and often moves without considering us.
Nursing Homes Lives Matter Gala
Wednesday, Nov. 29, 5 pm ET, Tata Innovation Center (NYC)
Featuring performances by the Reality Poets and our community, join us for an evening of poetry, mingling, and celebration as we look to the future of #NursingHomeLivesMatter! There will be light snacks and drinks, and the Reality Poets and featured guests will perform between presentations. NHLM Gala is free to attend. However, we encourage attendees with financial means to consider making a donation to OPEN DOORS to help us offset cost of the event and continue to provide support for the Reality Poets, educational workshops, and community activism. Even if you cannot attend, you are still welcome to make a donation!
Dance, Film, and Disability
Friday, Dec. 1, 7:30 - 9 pm ET, The Dance Complex (Cambridge, MA)
Join us for an event that explores how screen dance empowers artists with disabilities and promotes inclusivity in the film industry. Discover the pathways to providing equal employment opportunities for disabled artists as we engage in a captivating conversation with Margot Greenlee, the founding director of BodyWise Dance Company based in Washington, DC. The spotlight of the evening is the premieres of two remarkable screen dance films: "Traveling Light" and "Dance Out Loud," each of which explores the powerful connection between movement, emotions, and life experiences.