hey’all,
we are just eight issues away from the 1 year anniversary of crip news. what?!
i’m dreaming up some ways to mark the occasion. if you have an idea, feel free to reply directly to this email or leave a comment on this post and we can scheme together.
-kevin
NEWS
Support for Alice Wong
Alice is everything that makes disability organizing the world-changing thing that it is. She is crip excellence. She is kindness incarnate. I feel like there’s a very good chance you already know this.
Right now Alice needs support following several medical crises this summer. In the words of her friend Yomi Wrong, it’s time to return every single flower Alice has planted.
Let’s keep her trending on Twitter! Also, pre-order her next book!
New Works
House of Voltaire has released a monograph on the work of William Scott, following Studio Voltaire’s 2021 survey exhibition of the artist’s work.
Eli Clare’s poem “The Art of Disassociation” was published on Split This Rock.
SENSORIA: Access & Agency is the current issue of Artlink. It “platforms a range of contemporary art practices and debates written by and with artists who identify as part of the disabled, d/Deaf, vision impaired or neurodiverse communities” in the art worlds of Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the UK.
Imagining America has published a video by and about the REMOTE ACCESS Nightlife series as part of their “Stories of Change” multimedia documentary project.
Disabled dancer and performer Rodney Bell (Ngāti Maniapoto) recently premiered his autobiographical work Meremere at Q Theatre in Auckland. Next it will travel to Darwin and then the Sydney Opera House.
Walt Disney Pictures is developing Grace, a film about a young wheelchair user who becomes the star of a “premiere dance company.” Disabled artist Kiera Allen will co-write the screenplay and it will be produced by Chelsie Hill, founder of LA’s wheelchair dance team, the Rollettes.
James Castle, Untitled, ca. 1931-1977 The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s show We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection features disabled artist Judith Scott and deaf artist James Castle. On view until March 26th, 2023.
Creative! Growth! at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI is “the first exhibition to consider the history of Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California.” On view through May 2023.
The Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition recently launched the Urban Discoveries program that plans one-day excursions for disabled Denverites who have had difficulty getting outside during the COVID-19 pandemic.
NPR recently profiled some of the artists and organizers in Dance Mobility's Adapted Ballroom Dance Competition.
Pat Rix, the founder of disability arts organization Tutti Inc. has won the Australia Council’s Ros Bower Award for Community Arts and Cultural Development.
The Accessible Arts and Bundanon Trust Artist-In-Residence Program will support 5 disabled and/or d/Deaf in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory at the rural Bundanon Trust estate.
Infrastructure News
The U.K. is raising the minimum standard for accessible housing, requiring “all new homes to have step-free access to all entrance level rooms and facilities as well as further features to make homes more easily adaptable over time, supporting people to live independent lives.”
The Biden administration is releasing $36 million to housing agencies across 46 states through “mainstream vouchers” that allow disabled people to avoid living in institutions.
It’s also spending $1.7 billion on the “All Stations Accessibility Program” (ASAP) to make hundreds of old subway and commuter rail stations more accessible.
A new poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health finds that 35% of American Indian and Alaska Native households and 24% of Black households had trouble accessing care for serious illness since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
CALLS
HEARD, a cross-disability abolitionist organization, is inviting ASL interpreters into a Giving Circle by donating at least 1 hour of interpreting wages each month to support the organization’s work.
The Social Audio Description collective is inviting applications for new team members. Apply here.
An Instagram post from @IDHA_NYC: A gray background, transitioning to a pastel blue textured paint, as if on a canvas. Next to the blue on the easel there is also green, orange and brown dried paint. On top of the dried paint is a paint brush, the brush is on the left of the photo, facing the viewer with the text in white: Liberatory Art-Making: Reimagining Community Care. The IDHA logo is at the top, and at the bottom small text reads: “Crisis as Catalyst course series.”
Applications are still open for the full-time Director of ReelAbilities International, Associate Director ReelAbilities NY position.
Heidi Latsky Dance is still looking for an Executive Director. If you are interested please email amelia@heidilatskydance.org for more information.
The British organization Disability Arts in Shropshire (DASH) is raising funds for its BEAST (Business Education and Skills Training) program for disabled artists. Donate here.
EVENTS
HERE (NYC) will present high functioning x.0 by x from August 20th-21st. More info + tickets here.
Activating Change will present “Centering Survivors with Disabilities in Your Organizational Policies” on Zoom, August 30th at 2pm ET. Register here.
Dark Room Ballet, a “specialized introductory dance curriculum for blind and visually impaired dancers,” has opened new classes and workshops for the fall. More info here.