NEWS
New Works
Disabled dancer Joe Powell-Main will join the British Royal Ballet to take part in a duet at Greenwich + Docklands international festival.
Writing for Inverse, Jen Glennon explores some of the subtle access innovations by the developers of the game The Last of Us 2.
Kinetic Light’s Michael Maag and Alice Sheppard discuss their creative process behind Wired, which opened at The Shed in Manhattan this past weekend.
Artwork by Ashanti Fortson. Community As Home is a collaboration between Alice Wong and artist Ashanti Fortson, featuring 14 digital portraits “centered on the joy, culture, and love of disabled people and how we create communities and homes for one another.”
For Sixty Inches from Center, Livy Snyder has compiled resources that offer Open Access Cultural Materials for art researchers.
The Stimpunks Foundation has an amazing compendium of resources about neurodiversity and gender.
Martyna Majok’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Cost of Living will open on Broadway next month, featuring Kara Young, David Zayas, Gregg Mozgala and Katy Sullivan, directed by Jo Bonney. Tickets are on sale now.
Tickets are on sale now for the Broadway production of the Pulitzer Prize winning play by @martyna_majok presented by the fine folx @mtc_nyc
Other News
Tammy La Gorce for The New York Times reports on the ongoing struggle for disability marriage equality.
Amanda Morris, a hard-of-hearing, CODA, 2021-2022 disability reporting fellow for the National desk at The New York Times, is now at The Washington Post.
COVID Safe Campus has released a list of higher education institutions requiring masks.
Bonnielin Swenor published an op-ed in Health Line calling for disability data justice.
The slide decks from the 2022 Plain Language Summit are available for download.
The People’s CDC - “a coalition of public health practitioners, scientists, healthcare workers, educators, advocates and people from all walks of life working to reduce the harmful impacts of COVID-19” - releases weekly “Weather Reports” with excellent data analyses and information.
CALLS
Applications for The Queens Theatre’s Threatre for All Actor Training Program are due Sept. 9th at 5pm ET. More here.
Southerly is seeking 5 fellows for its paid Community Reporting Fellowship focused on disaster reporting. This looks like an excellent opportunity to expand coverage about disability in disaster preparedness and recovery. More here.
Brooklyn Justice Initiatives is seeking a Senior Facilitator for Restorative Justice. More here.
Caring Across Generations is seeking respondents to its 2022 survey about caregiving and inflation. More here.
EVENTS
Art Papers x REMOTE ACCESS
Join Art Papers and the REMOTE ACCESS party collective to celebrate the launch of ART PAPERS Summer 2022 on Thursday, September 8, 8:00–9:30 pm Eastern Time. This is a Zoom-based gathering, featuring sets by DJ Queer Shoulders, a conversation between Levani & Kevin Gotkin, and an introduction to the issue.
In their essay from this issue, and we were dancing, danilo machado considers “living tools for sharing many kinds of space” used in the disability-centric REMOTE ACCESS series. This ongoing series of parties models and extends ART PAPERS issue’s theme of The New Commons.
The event will feature an access ecology that includes ASL song-signing, captions, audio description, sound description, and access doula-ing.
SOLO FLIGHT
A one month outdoor installation of movement portraits featuring five new short films
Films by Heidi Latsky, exhibition co-produced by Ben Levine Productions and CulturalDC
This project was supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
Washington DC, September 10th to October 30th.