Crip News v.229

New works, new honors, other news, calls, and events.

NEWS

New Works

Graphic by Grace Caiazza.

• A recording is now available from last month’s Bob Flanagan Memorial and Marathon Reading curated and produced by Sheree Rose and Mae Howard at Human Resources Los Angeles.

  

  Racheal Crowther, Qualified to Care (2022). Photo by Stephen James.

• Flare-Up, “the first institutional exhibition in London to bring together UK-based and international visual artists whose work engages with the poetics and aesthetics of illness, disability, neurodivergence and Deafness” curated by Natasha Hoare and Mariana Lemos, is up at Goldsmiths CCA (London) through August 16. Featuring works by Angela de la Cruz, Abi Palmer, Avril Corroon, Bella Milroy, Benoît Piéron, Carolyn Lazard, Christine Sun Kim, Constantina Zavitsanos, Derek Jarman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Freestylers, Jamila Prowse, Jesse Darling, JJJJJerome Ellis, Leah Clements, Lizzy Rose, Park McArthur, RA Walden, and Racheal Crowther.

  

  Photo by Ian Willms/The New York Times.

• In The New York Times, journalist and dance critic Sophie Bress recently profiled disabled artist Olivia Book of Ballet West (Salt Lake City), “one of the first professional ballet dancers to have a limb difference.”

New Honors

• The Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA) recently named blind writer and scholar Georgina Kleege as the recipient of the 2026 Clark Prize for Excellence in Writing.

• Among the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s newest class of 223 Fellows are disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport and riel Sturchio.

• The Ride Ahead, by father-son co-directors Samuel Habib and Dan Habib recently won the Outstanding Social Issue Documentary Emmy award.

• Access Living (Chicago) recently announced disability rights activist, Holocaust survivor, and dancer Ginger Lane as the recipient of its 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be celebrated at a gala next week.

• Last month, Easterseals announced the winners of the 2026 Disability Film Challenge, including “Don’t Forget to Dance” by Tim Bartow for Best Film.

In Other News…

• Deaf Arts Leadership, a new pilot program by Urban Jazz Dance Company and Deaf Spotlight aiming to “increase the pool of Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled and Hard of Hearing leaders in the arts and culture sector across the United States,” recently announced its inaugural cohort.

• The National Federation of the Blind has filed a lawsuit after the US Department of Justice delayed a web accessibility regulation just days before its long-awaited deadline. The suit also takes aim at a similar delay of a Department of Health and Human Services regulation meant to bar disability discrimination in health care.

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CALLS

• Project LETS and Yarrow Collective Colorado are seeking applicants for a 6-month Anti-Carceral Mental Health Response Program that will launch 4 autonomous Mad Hubs “meant to unite isolated and un(der)-resourced Mad & disabled care workers and organizers.” Apply by June 30.

• Disability Culture Lab is seeking Expressions of Interest from “multi-marginalized disabled leaders shifting culture and building narrative power through media” for the 2026 Disability Rising Fellowship cohort. Submit by June 28.

• Visual AIDS is hiring a part-time Archive Fellow. Apply by June 21.

• AXIS Dance Company is hiring Bay Area-based ASL interpreters for dance classes.

• Disabled Erotics, a 5-week Zoom-based class at The School of Making Thinking taught by Mae Howard and Fluent, is open for registration. Sessions begin June 25.

• The Center for Independent Living in Berkeley, CA is hiring 2 full-time Vocational & Campus Coordinators.

• The Chicago-based Arts of Life’s Self-Advocacy group is seeking submissions for the 3rd edition of their Zine “Bus of Doom.” They are looking for people “to express their feelings about things going on in the world and how crazy America still is after 250 years.”

• The Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation is building a Disability Tech Index, “the most comprehensive map of the assistive technology that actually works, where it falls short, and what needs to change,” and needs survey respondents to help add to the database.

• The Inevitable Foundation is accepting applications for its Accelerate Fellowship, a 4-month “rewriting sprint” that gives disabled film and television writers $30,000 in funding and mentorship “to develop a spec script to market.”

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EVENTS

• Ticket Lottery: Sensory Adapted ROMEO & JULIET
  Sunday, June 14, 8pm, in-person at The Delacorte Theater (NYC)
  This is an opportunity to enter the ticket lottery for the Sensory Adapted performance of ROMEO & JULIET on Sunday June 14 at 8pm at The Delacorte Theater as part of Free Shakespeare in the Park.

• Host Publications Presents: A Queer Poetry Reading
  Thursday, June 11, 6:30pm ET, in-person at Poets House (NYC)
  Host Publications is honored to present A Queer Poetry Reading and Celebration at Poets House, featuring performances by queer poets and finalists for the LGBTQ+ Poetry Lammy’s. Join us in celebrating Eli Clare, jason b crawford, Qurat Dar, Joshua Garcia, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, and Stacey Waite. Giveaways, light refreshments, and poetic ecstasy ensue! Hosted by Annar Veröld-Miranda.

• Smartwear Revolution Symposium
  Starting TODAY, June 10, 4 - 6pm MT, on Zoom
  How can we create and distribute open calls, artist supports, and opportunities that centre accessibility as a baseline, and not an afterthought? Presentations by Carly Neis, Brooke Leifso, and Aynaz Raoufian, followed by exchanging thoughts and thinking together about what accessibility means to artists.

• Article 31 at 20: Progress and Remaining Gaps on Statistics and Data Collection - COSP19 Side-Event
  TODAY, June 10, 1:15 - 2:30pm ET, on Zoom and, for COSP19 attendees only, in-person

  The United Nations Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities cannot be monitored without statistics and data. Article 31 of the CRPD aims to measure progress of persons with disabilities in the implementation of the Convention, through statistics and data collection and supports evidence-based policies. Featuring Representative, Permanent Mission of Mexico; Ahmed Ghanem, Global Disability Fund; Secretariat (moderator); Elizabeth Lockwood, CBM Global Disability Inclusion; Dulamsuren Jigjid, CBM Global and the Culture Centre of the Deaf Mongolia; Dan Mont, CEO and co-founder of the Center for Inclusive Policy; Bradley Carpenter, South Africa Medical Research Council, Disability Data Initiative; Sophie Mitra, Fordham University, Disability Data Initiative; Juan Ángel De Gouveia, IDA, RIADIS) Representative of the Permanent Mission of Finland.