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Who We Are
Abilities Arts Festival is a disability arts organization
that showcases artistic excellence by artists with disabilities. Abilities
Arts Festival uses art as a vehicle for transforming public perceptions
about people with disabilities.
Abilities Arts Festival produces multidisciplinary arts festivals that include art
exhibitions, the performing arts, films, workshops, panels and networking opportunities,
as well as programming designed primarily for children with disabilities. The festival
uses dynamic and powerful artistic presentations to positively impact mainstream attitudes
so that people with disabilities are seen not as passive receivers of services, but as
individuals who make significant economic, artistic and social contributions. Abilities
Arts Festival promotes a culturally rich, diverse arts sector that is inclusive of people
with disabilities; one that is enhanced through their participation.
From its proud beginnings as a project of the Canadian Abilities Foundation, to its 2006
incorporation as an separate and independent not-for profit organization and its new
relationship with Agora Foundation, Abilities Arts Festival has been providing the stages
and exhibition venues that artists with disabilities must have access to in order for their
work to be seen and for their talents to be recognized. The festival has been providing
artists and aspiring artists with disabilities unique networking, learning and mentoring
opportunities and has helped ensure children with disabilities have the concrete
opportunities to see that the dreams they dream can and indeed do come true. Since 2004, Abilities Arts Festival has been promoting innovation, excellence and participation in the arts by people with disabilities. Abilities Arts Festival has helped open doors and ensures a dynamic and accessible environment where all can participate, experience and enjoy art at its best. |
Featured Artist:Kong HoLife is full of contradictions and so is art. Just as with everything else in life, the images in Ho’s art appear to have fluid meanings and even to take on different physical characteristics when one looks carefully at the structure of the work and contemplates the image as a whole. In other words, "things are not what they appear to be." This is because Ho’s work follows the ancient Chinese philosophical belief of Taoism, which is about the balance of Yin-Yang–the order of nature. <Read More> |
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