Crip News v.98
An issue of lots! Make sure to click through at the bottom if your mail client clips the events at the end.
NEWS
New Works
As part of Berlin Art Week, Frances Breden and RA Walden are curating PRESENTS:2023 at HAU4, an online exhibition featuring video works by thirteen sick, disabled, d/Deaf, and care-giving artists that “expand the idea of performing arts.” Featuring works by Saioa Alvarez Ruiz & Katrin Bittl, Khairani Barokka, Zinzi Buchanan, Brothers Sick, Chloe Pascal Crawford, Venesse Guy, April Lin 林森, Seo Hye Lee, Laura Lulika & Hang Linton, RA Walden, and Misra Walker.
Mindscapes Unveiled by Chanika Svetvilas will be on view at the Hurley Gallery at the Lewis Arts complex at Princeton University as part of Svetvilas’s artist residency at the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab. Up through Sept. 28th.
Creative Connector, led by artist Lindsay Fisher, is a new “go-to source for accessible opportunities and disability arts community.” The project includes a directory of artists and creatives in disability communities in Canada and across the world.
#CripRitual, a collaborative exhibition from 2022, has published “educational modules that provide guiding questions, activities, and additional resources” for use in university classrooms and other spaces of learning.
Rodney Bell and Chloe Loftus recently performed The Air Between Us at the Greenwich + Docklands International Festival.
The View From Down Here: Life as a young disabled woman by Lucy Webster is out now from DK Press.
In a new edition of Disability Debrief, Peter Torres Fremlin interviews photographer Christian Tasso about his work to document disability around the world beyond the limits of categorial disability identity.
Art et al. has published a catalogue highlighting their year-long collaboration between the U.K. and Indonesia, Art et al. X Ketemu, that funded six “unique, international, digital collaborative projects between artists and arts professionals that identify with and without disabilities.”
On Saturday, AXIS Dance performed in Düsseldorf, Germany fr the opening ceremony of the Invictus Games, founded by Prince Harry “to give soldiers who are wounded, injured or ill in body and soul a greater awareness and recognition in society and to support their path in rehabilitation.”
Museums Association published several articles about “anti-ableist museums” in the “In Practice” section of the Museums Journal (available only to members).
Awards
Acting Without Boundaries, a Philadelphia-based disability arts organization, is one of 7 recipients of NBCUniversal Local Impact Grants.
Video and sound artist Gabby Da Silva has received the 2023 Justin Robin Grant Society for the Arts Emerging Artist Award for Canadian disabled artists. The 10 other finalists were Kamila Rina, Ash Maxine O’Gorman, Therese Estacion, Naomi Jichita, Olivia Dreisinger, Becca Willow Moss, Margaux Wosk, Gizelle De Guzman, Riley Reign, and Jeff Kearns.
In Other News…
The city of Minneapolis has hired Guthrie Byard, its first full-time community specialist for people with disabilities.
New research published by University of Washington’s Sara Kover and UC Davis MIND Institute Director Leonard Abbeduto calls for an overhaul of research on intellectual and developmental disabilities, including minimizing the role of diagnostic categories. The special issue of the journal that published this work also published commentaries, including from the National Institutes of Health. The Mirage recently published an interview with Abbeduto about their adovacy.
Following last fall’s news that the Biden administration was beginning plans for a federal minimum staffing requirement for the U.S.’s 15,500 nursing facilities, the full plan is out. [Corrected link]
As Justice in Aging stressed following the announcement, the proposed CMS rules on staffing are not enough: “Under the proposed regulations, nursing facilities would be required to provide 3 hours of direct care per resident per day, comprised of at least 2.45 hours from nurse aides and .55 hours from registered nurses.”
Anyone concerned with nursing facility quality is encouraged to submit comments at the regulations.gov portal for the next 60 days.
Separately, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has proposed regulation to prohibit disability discrimination in medical care and treatment, which was quickly applauded by AAPD.
CNBC’s Isabel Engel interviewed Mia Ives-Rublee, Director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress, to answer some questions about data and disclosure of disability in job applications.
CALLS
Applications are open for the 2023-2024 Protactile Language Interpreting Intensive Cohort. Apply by Sept. 22nd. More here.
The deadline to apply to the Undoing Internalized Ableism cohort with PeoplesHub has been extended to tomorrow, Sept. 12th. More here.
Monument Lab is inviting applications for its Re: Generation initiative, which supports teams of two or more individuals working together to create a new or expand an existing public-facing project, with each selected team receiving a total of $100,000 in unrestricted funding towards their commemorative campaign or project. Applications due Oct. 2nd. More here.
Inclusive Arts Vermont is running an open call for artists for a biennial exhibition, CYCLES. Applications due Sept. 22nd. More here.
Inclusive Arts Vermont is also seeking new members of its Board of Directors. More here.
The new Perelman Performing Arts Center in lower Manhattan is hiring a full-time Accessibility Manager. More here.
Morgaine de Leonardis is seeking Jersey City based collaborators for the research & development of a new dance-theater/physical theater work. More here.
Jazelle Griffin, a palliative care nurse, needs support to get her access needs met as she returns home after a hospitalization. Donate here.
EVENTS
Burnout Survival Guide Workshop by Oumou Sylla, hosted by SiQ
Sunday, Sept. 17, 3 - 5pm ET, on Zoom
This workshop will involve content and skill-building around stress, burnout, vicarious trauma, and building personal and collective toolkits for navigating this.
The Disability Carceral State Institute facilitated by The Disability Project
Oct. 3 - 4, 12 - 2:30pm ET, on Zoom
This 2-part series uses small group break outs, informal political education conversations, and stakeholder stories, to engage participants around the following key themes:
A top-level overview of how Ableism operates as a hub of multiple supremacy systems; anti – Black racism, misogyny, the hated of the poor, and transphobia as examples, working to underpin and feed mass incarceration, state, population control and violence.
An examination of the core elements, political analysis and identification that make up the “Disability Carceral State” and how a DJ informed Prison Industrial Complex Abolition movement will create more holistic analysis, more robust strategy and campaigns.
How DJ aligned philanthropic commitments are needed to resource the strategic opportunities, narrative shifts, leadership development and organizing potential in support of disability informed Prison Industrial Complex Abolition work.
Rural Disability Justice: The role of mutual aid, power building and connecting across community
Tuesday, Sept. 12, 1 - 2pm ET, on Zoom
Hosted by Neighborhood Funder Group's Integrated Rural Strategies Group, in collaboration with Ceres Trust and Borealis Philanthropy's Disability Inclusion Fund. This webinar promises to shed light to the critically important and often overlooked topic of Rural Disability Justice in a way that will appeal to funders working on health, arts, community organizing, worker justice, and place-based grantmaking.
The Theater of Wellness with Gwynneth VanLaven
Wednesday, Sept. 13, 12pm ET, on Zoom
Once you “get there,” to a state of health or wellness, what does “there” look like? Are you frolicking alone, swallowed up in a field of yellow flowers? Caressing whisps of cattails on a sandy beach path? Are you are flying a kite with your forever-mate pressed beside, smiling through impossibly white teeth? What are the implications of this imagery for our *actual* health and wellbeing? Since becoming a wheelchair user, when “frolicking” in flower fields became less feasible, Gwynneth VanLaven began to question these idealized, norm-(re)enforcing, and surrealized images. Her work challenges some ways our cultural conception of wellness and health is proscribed, exposing theatricalities and disrupting them through art interventions. In so doing, VanLaven has begun to imagine new possibilities to embrace health. In this workshop, Gwynneth will use some forms from InterPlay, a mind-body connecting method of playful exploration, to together poke holes in these cultural discourses around health and wellness, and to reimagine them through disruption and (re)invention. Bring an open mind for an incrementally led journey into the “newly possible.”