NEWS
New Works
A. Sef & Akeema-Zane’s Void Spa, part of Recess’s Session program, “aims to challenge and subvert the extractive and appropriative use of Black and Brown spirituality within the luxury wellness industry” in 3 zones: Rubble Grid, Noise Bath, and Trash Burial. Through June 17th.
Crip Algebra is a group show of three queer disabled artists, alx velozo (Baltimore, MD), RA Walden (Berlin, GE), and Saar Shemesh (Richmond, VA), “exploring the calculations it requires to cultivate access in an ableist world.” On view at Current Space in Baltimore through June 4th.
On the anniversary of Kinetic Lights’s world premiere of Wired, MCA Chicago is re-releasing the performance videos in 5 different access versions. Available through June 12th.
Disability and literary scholar Clare Mullaney reviews John Lee Clark’s How to Communicate for Public Books.
Over 200 locations in Greece, Italy, and Cyprus will receive solar-powered SeaTrac chairs to increase access to the beach.
Kelly Vincent, a disabled theatre artist and the youngest woman elected to Australian parliament, was recently featured on the ABC’s Songs and Stories.
The Advocate’s Christopher Wiggins recently profiled Ben Trockman’s efforts to get Congressional action on the crisis of safety for disabled airplane passengers in the U.S.
Amel Mukhtar rounds up “21 Of The Best Films, Books And Shows That Spotlight Experiences Of Disability” for British Vogue.
Prosthesis, a group show featuring work by Jillian Mayer, Martha Poggioli, and Fin Simonetti, is on view at Haynes Court in Chicago through June 17th.
The multimedia exhibition My Home, My Rights is up at the Halifax Central Library through May 31st.
CALLS
Sins Invalid is hiring a Finance and Operations Manager.
Tangled Arts is hiring a Young Canada Works Archive Assistant. Apply by May 22nd.
Donate to support Vanessa Hernández Cruz’s Metal, Plastic, Skin, a new Disability contemporary dance solo getting ready to premiere at The Odyssey Theater in Los Angeles this summer.
The Poor, Disabled, and Queer Jewish Archive is seeking submissions of signs you would have carried at Pride, marches, rallies, and queer spaces if they were accessible to you.
The Perelman Performing Arts Center (NYC, programming starting in the second half of 2023) is hiring an Accessibility Manager.
EVENTS
Make It Stim
Wednesday, May 17, 17.00 - 20.000 CET, online
Crip the Curriculum welcomes artists Dagmar Bosma and Sam Metz for an evening around self-stimulatory making. Dagmar Bosma will share a reading of their essay “I know when I can make something by how it feels” on stimming and art making. Sam Metz will introduce their ongoing research project ‘Drawing as Stimming’, and engage participants in a stimmy exercise. What if we approach art from the bodily movements inherent to its becoming, drawing focus to the sensory experience of making?
Tilted Thinking, Wanting Ways, and Our Neurodiverse Future
Wednesday, May 17, 8pm ET, in-person at St. Mark’s Church (NYC) and livestreamed
You are invited to an evening of tilted thinking, hydrated languaging, and trespassing truth. In celebrating braided and liberatory new books, Chris Martin, Adam Wolfond, and Imane Boukaila desire greatly to rally and gather, motion and scatter. Meet us here, where “the ways of threes are partly laking partly iridescent.” Thank you to our chorus of readers for Adam and Imane’s poems: Kaur Alia Ahmed, hannah baer, Joselia Rebekah Hughes, Omotara James, Benjamin Krusling, and Aldrin Valdez.
Access Oriented Lit Community Reading Series
Sunday, May 21st, 3 - 4:30pm ET, on Zoom (sign up for the mailing list above for the Zoom link)
Featured Readers: Ashwini Bhasi, Share Roman, and Dan Schapiro ...and an open mic time permitting!
Mutual Aid Request: Support disabled & homeless artist JJ! If you are attending AOL please consider supporting those we are in community with. This series is for and by disabled folks, we leave none of us behind.
Venmo: pliverpool
Cashapp: jjsweets44
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/jj4444
Paypal: sweetisland312@gmail.com
Ed Yong offers a new review of Long COVID erasure in The Atlantic.
The People’s CDC recently offered guidance on how to invoke the ADA to protect access to safe healthcare in the ongoing COVID pandemic.
A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that about $1.7 million people would lose access to Medicaid under the Republican work requirement plan.