Events

  • Into the Light wins Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award!

    We are thrilled to share that “Into the Light: Eugenics and Education in Southern Ontario” has received The Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award! This award celebrates individuals, groups and communities for their exceptional contributions to heritage conservation – cultural and natural, tangible and intangible. The Ontario Heritage Trust is an agency of the Ontario Ministry of…

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  • Into the Light: Eugenics and Education in Southern Ontario

    We invite you and your students to Into the Light: Eugenics and Education in Southern Ontario. The exhibition will be featured at the Guelph Civic Museum from September 14, 2019 to March 1, 2020 and will offer guided tours and Q&A sessions to professors and courses addressing themes of diversity, inclusion, decolonization and reconciliation. You can book these in advance (details below) with the…

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  • Evadne Kelly: Dancing Spirit, Love, and War

    We’re so excited to announce the publication of Evadne Kelly’s Dancing Spirit, Love, and War: Performing the Translocal Realities of Contemporary Fiji! Evadne is one of our brilliant postdoctoral researchers. This text explores meke, a traditional rhythmic dance accompanied by singing, signifies an important piece of identity for Fijians. Despite its complicated history of colonialism, racism,…

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  • Defying Barriers

    Community members, researchers and students are invited to join the McMaster Faculty of Humanities and the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging on May 15th from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. for Defying Barriers, a workshop examining how aging and disability impact engagement with the arts, and how we can enable participation and expression through…

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  • 2019 Digital Arts Services Symposium/Symposium des services d’arts numériques (DASSAN19)

    Building digital arts services for collective impact. March 15-20, 2019 As technology progressively transforms every facet of society, there is a pressing need for the arts and culture sector to jointly take ownership of its own digital futures. From March 15-20, 2019, come to Toronto as the 2019 Digital Arts Services Symposium / Symposium des…

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  • Upcoming: Crip Technoscience for Disabled Cyborgs: Access, Community, Politics

    Thursday March 21st 2019, 11am -1pm Sensorium Loft 4th Floor of Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts York University Kelly Fritsch engages with the emerging field of crip technoscience, exploring what it means for disability politics, community, and access. Taking up Alison Kafer’s provocation that disabled people are cyborgs because of their politics rather than their…

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  • Kelly Fritsch: Crip Commitments: Disability, Theory, Politics

    The New College Disability Studies Speaker Series presents Crip Commitments: Disability, Theory, Politics A Lecture by Prof. Kelly Fritsch (Carleton) In collaboration with York University’s Peripheral Vision Speaker Series Engaging the frictions of crip and disability theory, Kelly Fritsch non-innocently considers the possibilities of radical social change that emerge through knowing and making disability differently.…

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  • Bridging forward: Accessible Arts Festival

    Inclusive Arts London is a regional collective dedicated to developing opportunities for artists and individuals who identify as deaf, disabled and/or mad. From June to July,  Inclusive Arts London’s Bridging Forward: Accessibility Arts Festival is bringing exciting works from local, provincial, and national artists to London Ontario. See upcoming program below! June 8, 7-10 PM:…

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  • Off the Cuff: Mnidoo Infinity Squeezed through Finite Modulations

    Bodies in Translation is pleased to be co-presenting Off the Cuff: Mnidoo Infinity Squeezed through Finite Modulations, a special presentation by Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning (McGill University). In this talk, Dr. Manning will discuss her dissertation on mnidoo-worlding or mnidoo-consciousnessing and its temporal bending interrelational ethics, specifically its implications for disability studies. Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning is…

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  • Flourishing Call for Submissions

    Tangled Art + Disability is currently accepting applications from Canadian Mad, Deaf, & disability identified artists from across Canada to take part in an upcoming series titled Flourishing. Information from Tangled: Tangled is searching for seven (7) artists from across Canada to contribute artistic work centering the experiences of Deaf, Mad and disability-identified folk in…

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  • ODSP Celebration and Brochure Launch

    Good news!! Arts grants are now exempt as income and assets for people on the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) and Ontario Works (OW). With the exception of funds for living costs, grant money will no longer be deducted from monthly benefits. This removes barriers for many artists in Ontario who want to create art…

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  • Phantom Stills & Vibrations

    Lara Kramer’s new work Phantom, stills & vibrations creates an intimacy with the north (Lac Seul, ON) and confronts the brutal and complex relationships between Indigenous peoples and Settler society. For this performance and sound installation, Kramer draws the spectator into an immersive experience of the former Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, where three generations of her family attended.…

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