Crafting Care
An afternoon of crafting care objects and chatting about care practices for disabled crafters and their communities. Bring whatever project you’re working on or choose from a few small projects that you can complete during your visit. We’ll craft, we’ll talk about how we care for ourselves, others, and our community and we’ll think about how that care appears in our artistic practices.
Access as Choreographic Method
A movement workshop exploring the use of integrated access tools like audio description as choreographic material led by practitioners and access workers, Maggie Bridger and Alison Kopit.
Participants will be guided through creative movement exercises that focus on audio description not just as an access tool to be applied after the fact, but as a core part of the choreographic process. This workshop is for all who are interested in movement and access practices. All bodies, minds, and experience levels welcome.
Radiate
An ongoing, iterative process and project, Radiate explores the mundanity, humor and time-bending experience of pain and care. Working across video, craft and movement, this piece invites audiences to make themselves comfortable in the artist's home as she continually traces deeply worn pathways, seeking warmth and relief. Radiate centers access through the open use of tools like captions, Artistic Sign Language and audio description, as well as various types of seating, blanket, pillows and other tools that allow audiences to attend to and curate their embodied experience of the work.