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Aesthetica Magazine
Aesthetica engages with contemporary art, contextualising it within the larger cultural framework. Founded in 2002, Aesthetica Magazine is one of Britain's leading art publications.
Exploring the varied nature of the arts and recognising the dynamics of contemporary culture, Aesthetica pushes the boundaries and evokes debate around today's most important topics. Bringing a fresh perspective to the national forum, Aesthetica is at the forefront of contemporary arts by critically engaging with visual art, film, music, literature and theatre.
Aesthetica will be available in stores across Canada from the beginning of December so keep an eye out for it in a store near you!
http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/
Balancing Acts: Calgary's Annual Disability Arts Festival (Calgary, Alberta)
Balancing Acts: Calgary's Annual Disability Arts Festival (DAF) is a celebration of creative self-expression by people with developmental, physical or sensory disability, mental illness, brain injury, and/or chronic illness. Balancing Acts articulates distinct explorations, representations, and declarations of disability identity, highlighting the creativity of disabled performers, and offering artistic expressions that celebrate and challenge both the ethos and the perception of disability culture. Balancing Acts is produced by Stage Left Productions; a grass-roots, arts-based community development and social action company.
http://www.stage-left.org
Creative
Spirit Art Centre (Toronto, Ontario) Creative Spirit Art Centre /VSA Arts Ontario is an International Affiliate of VSA
Arts. The Creative Spirit Art Centre’s goal is to provide art education and studio
space to people with disabilities. The art centre is an environment where the
disabled can create, exhibit and sell their art. Proceeds go to the centre and
the artists.
http://www.creativespirit.on.ca
Deaf Planet
The first TV show and website in American Sign Language
http://www.deafplanet.com
Gallery Gachet
(Vancouver, British Columbia)
Gallery Gachet is a unique artistic institution founded in Vancouver in 1992 that
was named after Vincent Van Gogh's homeopathic doctor, Paul Gachet. The gallery aims
to use the canvas of the outside work to educate and demystify the public on issues
related to mental health and to advance the artistic discourse around these issues.
The gallery provides artists informed by mental health issues with opportunities to
exhibit, curate, perform, read, teach and to develop their leadership skills.
http://www.gachet.org
Innoversity
Summit (Toronto, Ontario)
The annual Innoversity Summit held each fall in Toronto is a marketplace and
a meeting place for those who work in the media and cultural sector (and those
who would like to). With practical and creative workshops, panels and showcases,
thought-provoking guest speakers, and many opportunities to pitch ideas or
talents, Innoversity presents innovative ways to approach diversity as well as
opportunities for creative professionals.
http://www.innoversity.com
Lights Camera Access: Advancing people with disabilities in entertainment, arts and new media
Lights, Camera, Access! is a Canadian organization that helps connect talent with jobs. They offer online resources to help you get started, develop your skill set and knowledge. They also have a job board to help you find jobs and a talent database to post or search for artists.
For more information please visit:
http://lightscameraaccess.ca/
Manitoba Alliance of Artists With Disabilities (MAAWD) (Manitoba, Canada)
MAAWD works to combine the educational, social and cultural benefits of the arts
to promote the personal, academic and professional growth of people with disabilities.
It seeks to promote, educate and advocate for greater inclusions of artists with
disabilities into Manitoba's society and art community, to foster and develop
creative excellence among artists with disabilities and to promote awareness of
and appreciation for art created by persons with disabilities. http://disability.cimnet.ca/cim/65C100_338T28881.dhtm
Media Access and Participation Initiative (MAP)
The Media Access and Participation (MAP) initiative is a partnership between the
Government of Ontario and Innoversity, a non-profit organization that connects
the mainstream Canadian media with minority communities in an effort to foster a
more diverse media landscape. The goal of the MAP initiative is to make the film
and television industry more accessible for people with disabilities. Working
together, representatives of the media industry, Ontario’s Accessibility Directorate,
and Innoversity, will develop learning tools to help broadcasters and producers make
the media industry more inclusive and accessible for people with disabilities – both
behind the camera, and in front of it.
http://www.innoversity.com/index.php/events_and_projects
Picasso PRO (Toronto, Ontario)
Picasso PRO is a two-year project designed to provide a vital bridge between
'beginnings' and real integration for artists with disability and Deaf artists
in the performing arts. Picasso PRO’s goal is to help enhance and expand the
choices currently available to performers, playwrights, directors, choreographers,
designers and other aspiring and experienced arts practitioners. Picasso PRO
offers stage related training and a program of workshops, presentations, and
professional development opportunities provided in accessible venues.
http://www.picassopro.org
Picture this...
Film Festival (Calgary, Alberta)
This five day international disability film festival presents films and videos that focus
on some area of disability culture, and productions on any subject that are produced,
directed and/or written by a person(s) with a disability are the theme of this festival!
http://www.picturethisfestival.org/a/mainframe2.htm
PRIDE Week
(Toronto, Ontario)
Pride Week is the fun and fabulous arts and culture festival that happens each year in Toronto.
Pride Week celebrates our diverse sexual and gender identities, histories, cultures, families,
friends and lives. Pride Toronto is committed to ensuring accessibility to all Pride Week events
for information on Dis/Ability Resources http://www.pridetoronto.com/disabilities/index.htm.
For individuals who want to get involved and volunteer at Pride send an email. For general
Pride Week information visit the Pride Toronto website.
http://www.pridetoronto.com/
ReelWorld Film Festival
(Toronto, Ontario)
The mandate of ReelWorld is to recognize the excellence and achievement of emerging diversity
in film, video, and new media. This is accomplished by meeting four main objectives: To showcase
and promote the work of diverse film and video makers and film artists to Canadian and international
audiences; To facilitate a forum where film and video makers and other film artists can interact and
pitch their ideas to producers and investors; To bring together film artists from diverse Canadian
communities to network, dialogue, share, critique, and support each other's work and relevant
works from the international community; To provide training through seminars, workshops, and
special events aimed at the racially and culturally diverse Canadian film and video making community.
http://www.reelworld.ca
Rendezvous
with Madness Film Festival (Toronto, Ontario)
Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival is an annual film festival that presents features
and shorts touching upon the facts and mythology surrounding mental health and addiction.
Each program focuses on a different theme. Post-screening panel discussions involve
filmmakers, artists and people with professional and personal experience with mental
illness and addiction. Rendezvous with Madness is produced by Workman Arts.
http://www.rendezvouswithmadness.com
The Society for
Disability Arts and Culture (Vancouver, BC)
The Society for Disability Arts and Culture presents and produces works by artists
with disabilities and promotes artistic excellence among artists with disabilities
working in a variety of disciplines. The Society for Disability Arts and Culture
are the producers of kickstART - a ground breaking disability arts festival held
in Vancouver.
http://www.s4dac.org
Stage Left Productions (Calgary Alberta)
Stage Left Productions is a performance company exclusively engaging in professional
artist-community collaboration. As a grass-roots arts-based community development
and social action company, Stage Left’s uses interdisciplinary performing arts to
integrate marginalized people into the creative, artistic, and social life of our
community. This is accomplished by providing safe and accessible space in which
they can explore, define, and celebrate their culture; develop confidence,
imagination, and artistic expression; contribute to the culture of our community in
meaningful ways; and express both individual and collective identity.
http://www.stage-left.org
Toronto International
Deaf Film and Arts Festival (Toronto, Ontario)
International 4-day festival of films, visual arts exhibits, panel discussions bridging
the gap between Canada's Deaf Culture and our neighbours across the globe.
http://www.tidfaf.ca
WIFT –T (Women in
Women in Film and Television (Toronto, Ontario)
(WIFT-T) is a leading internationally affiliated professional organization that
recognizes, trains and advances women in screen-based media. It is dedicated to
the advancement of women and underrepresented groups in screen-based media. WIFT-T
offers a year-round slate of skills development, networking events and industry
awards, providing the tools to succeed in Canada's global entertainment industry.
http://www.wift.com
Workman Arts
Workman Arts (formally known as the Workman Theatre Project) is guided by the
principle that the creative process is integral to the quest for personal and
spiritual development. Workman Arts’ (WA) aim is to promote a greater
understanding of mental illness and addiction through the arts, and support
individuals with mental illness and addiction in their artistic pursuits. In
the various artistic media, WA has produced more than sixteen original new
Canadian plays, 13 Rendezvous with Madness Film Festivals, 7 Annual Being
Scene Art Exhibitions, 4 multidisciplinary festivals and 1 international festival.
http://www.workmanarts.com
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Abilities Talent International (Los Angeles, California)
Abilities Talent Internationalis a non profit company started in 2009, with a basic objective of recognizing and promoting talented artists' with disability in entertainment industry and provides opportunites in international talent shows.
http://www.abilitiestalentint.com
Caregiver Guide to Senior Health Issues-Care.com
Care.com offers helpful resources and available caregivers for Child Care and Senior Care
You may also view listings of qualified caregivers in the greater Toronto, ON area, please visit: Toronto child care and senior care
Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival (Austin, Texas)
Annual film festival held in October in Austin, Texas that celebrates films for, by and about people with disabilities. Each evening of the festival features a full length film, official selections from their short film competition, a short series, art exhibits and guest speakers. For more information about this festival and competition please visit: http://www.ctdfilmfest.org
Deaf Planet
The first TV show and website in American Sign Language
http://www.deafplanet.com
disTHIS! Film Series (New York, New York)
The disTHIS! Film Series showcases quality narrative, shorts, docmentary and feature films with
disability themes beyond clichés. It is a monthly film series showcasing quality narrative,
shorts, documentary and feature films with disability themes beyond the tragic/heroic trap
moviegoers have come to expect.
http://www.disthis.org
LACDA "TOP 40" : Los Angeles Center For Digital
Art (Los Angeles, California)
LACDA "Top 40" is a juried competition featuring digital art and photography.
All styles of 2D artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind
were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable.
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=124247
The National Arts and Disability Center (Los Angeles, California)
The NADC mission is to promote the full inclusion of audiences and artists with disabilities
into all facets of the arts community. The NADC is a leading consultant in the arts and
disability community and provides information aimed at artists with disabilities, arts
organizations, museums, arts administrators, disability organizations and agencies,
performing arts organizations, art centers, universities, arts educators, and students.
This includes resource directories, annotated bibliographies, and related links and
conferences serve to advance artists with disabilities and accessibility to the arts.
http://nadc.ucla.edu
The Reach Film Fellowship
The Reach Film Fellowship is a granting program supporting filmmakers who have recently completed a film studies program and are producing socially relevant short films. Deadline July 15th 2009.
http://www.cinereach.org/the-reach-film-fellowship/
The Sprout
Film Festival (New York, NY)
People with developmental disabilities as subjects and performers remain marginalized in
the media. The Sprout Film Festival aims to raise their profile by showcasing works of
all genres featuring this population.
http://www.gosprout.org/film
SUPERFEST (San Francisco, California)
SUPERFEST, International Disability Film Festival, is a two-day showcase of juried films,
videos, television shows and DVDs held in the San Francisco Bay Area. This annual
competition showcasing cutting-edge films that portray disability culture in all its
diverse, complex, and empowering facets, is the longest running festival of its kind
in the world.
http://www.culturedisabilitytalent.org/superfest
VSA Arts (Washington, DC)
VSA Arts is an international organization that creates learning opportunities through
the arts for people with disabilities and is an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts. Through its Arts in Acton program, VSA Arts showcases the
accomplishments of artists with disabilities and promotes increased access to the arts
for people with disabilities. Through its Education Programs VSA arts provides educators,
parents, and artists with resources and the tools to support arts programming in schools
and communities. Arts-based programs in creative writing, dance, drama, music and the
visual arts implemented primarily through their affiliates located throughout the U.S.
and internationally.
http://www.vsarts.org
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EUROPE
Arts & Disability Ireland
(Dublin, Ireland)
Arts & Disability Ireland strives to promote the engagement of people with disabilities
in the arts at the highest level; as audience members, artists, performers, participants,
advisors and employees. Some of the stated objectives of Arts and Disability Ireland are:
To provide an artistic programme that includes performances and exhibitions; to promote
disability interests in arts organisations and arts interests in disability organisations;
to provide training opportunities for career development and workshops on artistic skills
enrichment.
http://www.adiarts.ie
Breaking Down the Barriers (Moscow, Russia)
Breaking Down the Barriers Disability Film Festival is organized by Perpektiva, a Russian
non-governmental organization (NGO) that for nearly a decade has provided support to help
people with disabilities live full and fulfilling lives. This juried festival showcases
an international selection of films: feature, documentary, short and long forms, public
service announcements and animation.
http://festival-eng.perspektiva-inva.ru
Festival Clin d'oeil (Riems, France)
Festival Clin d'oeil is a European-wide multidisciplinary festival on deaf arts held over
3 days. It includes shows, screenings, exhibitions and workshops that bring together deaf
artists from all over Europe.
http://www.clin-doeil.eu
Deaf Arts Now (Stockholm, Sweden)
Deaf Arts Now is a festival held every 3 years where deaf and hearing can meet, interact and take
part of a big and eclectic deaf cultural event. Deaf Arts Now is also a workshop for deaf
professional artists in Europe.
http://deafartsnow.com
EMOTION
PICTURES Documentary and Disability - 1st International Festival, Athens 2007
(Athens, Greece)
The Emotion Pictures Festival is organized by the Secretariat General of Communication - Secretariat General of Information in collaboration with the Greek Film Centre. The relationship between Documentary films and Disability is multidimensional and constantly evolving. This festival aims to increase public awareness and pave the way towards achieving full inclusion of disabled people in all aspects of society. Furthermore, it aims to encourage film-makers, either disabled or not, to take a keen interest in the field and address the widest possible public.
http://www.ameamedia.gr/en/festival
kynnysKINO (Helsinki, Finland)
KynnysKINO is a Disability Film Festival that is part of project TARU, which works to
develop possibilities for the disabled, immigrants and young artists. http://www.kynnys.fi/content/view/173/173/
Liberty (London, England)
Liberty is the largest disability rights festival, with street arts, theatre, music
and dance that is aimed at everyone. This one-day event in Trafalgar Square showcases
the talents of disabled artists, musicians, dancers and performers. There is also a
variety of stalls and displays. Liberty is organised by the Mayor of London working
together with deaf and disabled Londoners. Groups contributing to the development of
the event include: Attitude is Everything, Shape, People First, Creative Routes,
Greater London Deaf Association, GLAD, Regard and London Disability Arts Forum. http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/equalities/liberty/
Okkupation!
Internationales Theaterfestival (Zürich, Switzerland)
Under the title Occupation!, Theater HORA organizes an international theatrical festival
in Zurich. Artists with disabilities, integrated artists' groups and internationally renown
ensembles from Switzerland and eight other European countries are involved in this
unique cultural project.
http://www.hora-okkupation.ch
Shape Arts (London, England)
For almost 30 years Shape has been at the forefront of change, aiming to achieve access to the
arts for disabled and deaf people; empowering people to enrich their lives through enjoyment
of the arts and active participation. Shape is the country;s leading disability arts organisation,
we aim to improve access to the arts for deaf and disabled people whilst supporting deaf and
disabled artists to challenge perceptions and promote Deaf and Disability Culture.
www.shapearts.org.uk
The Way We Live
International Film Festival (Munich, Germany)
The University of Victoria is sponsoring Engaging Disability 2007 (ED) a disability institute
gathering community members, community organizations, government employees, students and
university faculty to think about, discuss, learn and re-vision the meaning of disability.
Engaging Disability comprises an opening panel session (March 12th, 2007), a seven-week
lecture series (March 19 - May 7, 2007), a two-week Summer Institute (June 2007), a fall
session university course for graduate and senior undergraduate students (September -
December 2007), an ongoing film/performance encounters series (April - November 2007), a
community book club (April - November 2007), and an art encounters series in local venues (
March - December 2007).
http://www.abm-festival.de/reg07_e.htm
http://www.abm-festival.de/fest07.htm
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OTHER
AbilityFEST
2009 A Celebration on Celluloid (Chennai, India)
India International Disability Film Festival, held in Chennai, is organized on the lines of Disability
Film Festivals held around the world including in London, Melbourne, Paris, Munich, Moscow,
Calgary, Toronto & Beirut. This film festival was first celebrated in 2005. The second scheduled
for October 2007. AbilityFEST is a unique and inspiring showcase of extraordinary films from
around the world – films by, with and about people with disabilities. The All India One Minute
Film Competition is open to film enthusiasts from all walks of life.
http://www.abilityfoundation.org/ability_fest_2009.html
Accessible
Arts (Walsh Bay, NSW, Australia)
The mission of Accessible Arts is to promote full inclusion, access and cultural
opportunities in the arts for people with disabilities through advocacy, education
and information. Some of the services provided include: Supporting people with
disabilities who want to become professional artists by creating supportive
environments in which artists can develop their arts practice and gain business
skills; Training arts workers who wish to work with artists with disabilities;
Developing opportunities for people with disabilities to express their creativity;
Giving voice to the lived experience of disability by providing a forum for work
produced for and by people with disabilities and about disability.
http://www.aarts.net.au
Arts Access
Aotearoa (Wellington, New Zealand)
Arts Access Aotearoa is a Charitable Trust whose objectives are to ensure that
people and communities of New Zealand have unhindered access to the arts, and
opportunities to create, perform and develop their own arts. Arts Access Aotearoa
works with organisations and communities of people with limited access to the
arts, to stimulate them to undertake arts projects, develop their own arts
activities independently and develop partnerships with funding organisations
and art groups.
http://www.artsaccess.org.nz
Awakenings Festival: (Horsham, Victoria, Australia)
The Awakenings Festival is much more than Australia's only regional disability arts festival!
This dynamic, inclusive 10-day event draws performers and participants from around Australia
to Western Australia every October. The festival welcomes and encompasses all levels of performance experience from grass roots to professional, featuring performing and visual arts that showcase
the work of artists with disabilities.
http://awakeningsfestival.com.au
International Guild
of Disabled Artists and Performers (Auckland, New Zealand)
The International Guild of Disabled Artists and Performers (IGODAP) is a collective
of artists and performers who identify with impairment and/or disability. It seeks
to inform members of ways to be more involved in disability and mainstream arts –
rehearsals, seminars, training, media opportunities and articles to name a few. It
also provides members with access to over 300 disabled artists around the world,
with whom to discuss ideas, problems and strategies. http://www.igodap.org
SPOTLIGHT: An Asian Network of Inclusive Arts
SPOTLIGHT – bringing together artists with disabilities and arts managers working in the field of inclusive arts across Asia. To discover inclusive arts in Asia, please click...
www.spotlight-inclusiveartsasia.org
The Other Film Festival (Melbourne Australia)
The Other Film Festival screens new cinema by, with and about people with a disability.
http://www.otherfilmfestival.com
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