Crip News v.90
Lots of new works, lots of events. Thanks for being here.
NEWS
New Works
Pink On the Spectrum, a project of various exhibitions, performances and events at the No Limits! Art Castle in Amsterdam, is open through August 27th.
Georgina Kleege reflects on Randolph Rogers’s Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii (1853–54; carved 1859) as part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Access series.
Caedra Scott-Flaherty interviews Mark Travis Rivera for the Observer on occasion of his participation in Ballet Hispánico’s prestigious Instituto Coreográfico.
The Secret Within: The Art of Judith Scott is on view through July 30th at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. WYPR aired an interview with Gage Branda, the museum’s Curatorial and Development Coordinator, in addition to a feature about Make Studio’s recent Disability Pride Arts Fest.
Head Above Water by Shahd Alshammari, a “hybrid memoir” that “revisits personal journals to slowly piece together a narrative of chronic illness,” is out now from The Feminist Press.
Oscar-nominated Jim LeBrecht, co-director of Crip Camp, hosts a 6-episode series from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on “The Art of Documentary.” LeBrecht talked with The Hollywood Reporter about the project.
AXIS Dance performed at Jacob’s Pillow this past weekend. On July 26, the festival will present Resident Island Dance Theatre, a “physically inclusive company based in Taiwan’s rural south.”
Tobin Ng writes about the Cripping Masculinity project for This Magazine and interviews participants Sean Lee, Pree Rehal, and CX.
The first volume of the Psych Survivor Zine is out now.
Abilities Dance Boston recently premiered Branches, a “virtual only production highlighting the intersections of disability justice and climate justice” featuring choreographers Dara Capley, Leslie Freeman, Kylie Kean, Claire Lane, Lauren Sava, Krishna Washburn, and Ellice Patterson with composter Erin Rogers.
Daniel’s Music Foundation has announced Just Call Me By My Name, a music label for disabled musicians.
Naheen Ahmed published a comic essay about art and chaos of disability experience in the CBC’s First Person series.
In Other News…
The XIX World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf, a once-every-4-years gathering, recently concluded in Jeju, South Korea. The 2027 Congress will take place in U.A.E., drawing criticism from some Deaf associations.
10 year-old Keivonn Montreal Woodward is the first Black Deaf actor to receive an Emmy nomination for his guest role in The Last of Us (HBO).
CALLS
Frame by Frame, with Tangled Arts + Disability, is initiating a community-based collaborative project, inviting five emerging to mid-career artists from the Disabled community to explore the potential of stop motion animation. Apply by July 20th. More here.
Nominations are open through Oct. 15th for the Wynn Newhouse Awards. More here.
EVENTS
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SiQ’s HideAway
Sunday, July 23, 3 - 6pm ET, on Zoom
Our Zoom programming will involve time for sick and disabled folks to optionally share their pandemic experiences, a collective recalibration through a new SiQ sanctum thought-sharing activity, and a Serenity Sphere sound set offering compiled by our SiQ-o’s. In this event, we will be offering a disabled-led safer space for our community to share our grief, rage, love– everything in between and beyond together. In this gathering and all of our spaces, we prioritize the experiences of 2STLGBQIA+ Black and Indigenous People and People of the Global Majority. We welcome members of our community who have been with us for some time, and those who are just joining us. We also welcome family, friends, and care pods of disabled people, and anyone who is newly processing internalized ableism. Those who presume that they are non/pre-disabled are encouraged to attend quietly and respectfully as a generously offered learning opportunity.
The Met: Conversations with…Simi Linton
Thursday, July 20, 3 - 3:30pm ET, in-person at the Met Museum (NYC)
In this talk, author, filmmaker, and founder of Disability/Arts Consultancy Simi Linton first considers the historical and physical significance of the Great Hall stairs. She then continues in the Patio from the Castle of Vélez Blanco, where she shares additional perspectives on Siren, a near-lifesize bronze figure resembling a mermaid. This talk is presented in celebration of Disability Pride Month.
Disability Poetics Town Hall
Wednesday, July 19, 5 - 6:30pm ET, on Zoom
The Disability Poetics Town Hall, offered by Tangled Arts + Disability, is a space where folks from across our extended community can drop in and start conversations and share questions about what sort of events and spaces they might be interested in for the coming year. You’ll get an introduction to Tangled’s first Poet in Residence, Rob Colgate, and hear about his role and visions for disability poetics at Tangled. Rob has lots of ideas and examples to share during the meeting, but this time is also about sharing your thoughts, perspectives and visions so that Rob’s role and the programming they create can reflect the desires of the community.
Sharing Dance & Crip Knowledge
Sunday, July 23, 17.00 - 19.00 CET, in-person at Uferstudios 5, Berlin
Following Claire Cunningham’s Invitation to Attend workshops, this conversation will deal with questions of sharing practices around dance, choreography and movement. Moderated by Noa Winter, featuring Claire Cunningham, Carolin Hartmann, Tanja Erhart, Anajara Amarante. What can mediation in dance look like that softens the hierarchy of learning and teaching while creating spaces for knowledge production through sharing? How can anti-ableist, feminist and decolonial spaces of sharing emerge? And what role does individually embodied and collectively experienced crip knowledge play in the creation of these spaces (whether in the form of workshops, performances, lectures or other formats)?
Kinetic Light LAB Hangout
Thursday, July 20, 2 - 3:30pm ET, on Zoom
LAB hangouts are specifically for artists and creatives who identity with or who have personal experience with disability, including but not limited to those who identify as chronically ill, neurodiverse, someone with learning or intellectual disabilities, MAD, Deaf/deaf/HOH, Blind, low vision, and on. This cross-disability space welcomes all who are unsure or who might not yet identify with disability identity and culture.
DisFest 2023
Saturday, July 22, 11am - 6pm CT, in-person at the Chicago Cultural Center
A free and accessible celebration of artists and performers with disabilities, including visual art, interactive activities, short films, and pop-up performances.
Really loved (and related to!) the comic by Naheen Ahmed