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Programs for performing and visual artists

The NADC would like to make you aware of some of the programs that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Office of VSA & Accessibility offers for both performing and visual arts students in grades K-12, as well as emerging professional artists at the college and graduate levels. Please feel free to share.

 

VSA Playwright Discovery Competition — open to middle and

high school writers with and without disabilities. Deadline: June 1,

2013. http://www.kennedy-center.org/PDP

VSA/Volkswagon Group of America Emerging Artists program –

open to visual artists with disabilities age 16-25. Deadline: June 9,

2013. http://tinyurl.com/infiniteearth

VSA International Art Program for Children with Disabilities

open to student-artists with disabilities ages 5-18. Deadline: July

1, 2013. http://www.artsonia.com/yosoy/express

VSA International Young Soloists Competition – open to

individual musicians with disabilities, age 14-25, and ensembles.

Currently closed –call for entries in fall 2013.

http://www.kennedy-center.org/IYS

If you have questions about any of our programs or would like for us to send you hard copy materials, please feel free to contact us. We are also always looking for best practices in arts education for students with disabilities. We would be happy to hear from you about any programming in this area that you find particularly strong and innovative.

McKenzie Midock

VSA Program Coordinator, Office of VSA and Accessibility The John F.

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

202-416-8833 (direct line)

mcmidock@kennedy-center.org

# DISABILITY DISABILITY RIGHTS ART COMPETITION PLAYWRIGHT VISUAL ARTS STUDENTS MUSICIANS

Posted 1 month ago 2 notes

New York Reel Abilities. →

ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival is the largest festival in the country dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different disabilities. Initiated in NY in 2007, the festival presents award winning films by and about people with disabilities in multiple locations throughout each hosting city. Post-screening discussions and other engaging programs bring together the community to explore, discuss, embrace, and celebrate the diversity of our shared human experience.

# disability disability rights film nyc

Posted 2 months ago 3 notes
It is often assumed that sexuality is a concept that simply doesn’t apply to people with disabilities. I wasn’t asked by a doctor if I was sexually active until I was 27. I always had to volunteer that information. Some doctors even responded with blatant surprise. This isn’t exactly encouraging from some of the most highly educated members of our communities, is it?

— Don’t look past my disabled body - love it by Stella Young

(Source: theage.com.au)

# Stella Young australia disability sexuality medicalization disability rights

Posted 10 months ago 3 notes
righteouswind: Several years back I began reading and learning about disability rights issues. As is the case with my interest in LGBT, women’s, people of color, social justice, youth, and other issues, I was particularly drawn to the highly theoretical critical work that many disability rights theorists have been producing since the late twentieth century. One viewpoint I found repeatedly represented in this body of work (and which I have also heard expressed multiple times by my friends with disabilities) is that one of the primary pillars of disability oppression is the way in which people with disabilities, regardless of age, are treated as if they were forever children. My friend and fellow youth and disability rights advocate Matt Stafford has written about the ways in which parents and others use the institution of guardianship in order to exert undue influence in the lives of people with disabilities who have passed the age of majority. Another friend who is a youth and disability rights advocate has spoken with me about how the doctors they work with will refuse to talk respectfully and directly to them about their medical issues despite the fact that my friend has no cognitive impairments and even recently graduated from law school… View Larger

righteouswind:

Several years back I began reading and learning about disability rights issues. As is the case with my interest in LGBT, women’s, people of color, social justice, youth, and other issues, I was particularly drawn to the highly theoretical critical work that many disability rights theorists have been producing since the late twentieth century. One viewpoint I found repeatedly represented in this body of work (and which I have also heard expressed multiple times by my friends with disabilities) is that one of the primary pillars of disability oppression is the way in which people with disabilities, regardless of age, are treated as if they were forever children. My friend and fellow youth and disability rights advocate Matt Stafford has written about the ways in which parents and others use the institution of guardianship in order to exert undue influence in the lives of people with disabilities who have passed the age of majority. Another friend who is a youth and disability rights advocate has spoken with me about how the doctors they work with will refuse to talk respectfully and directly to them about their medical issues despite the fact that my friend has no cognitive impairments and even recently graduated from law school…

# youth choice eopwerment disability

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Allied Media Conference - Disabled Group →

soilrockslove:

This is a link to the funding page for “Creating Collective Access” - the disability group in the Allied Media Conference.

The Allied Media Conference is a conference of people getting together and teaching eachother how to use various media (Photoshop, video, theater, dance, writing, etc.) to get their ideas across and create social change.

Please consider helping.  There’s only 5 days left to donate.

# media disability collective

Reblogged 1 year ago from soilrockslove 3 notes

Disability Zine Callout for Submissions: I WANT YOUR ART!

burrowklown:

So I’m getting a lot of submissions (YAY!) and a lot of interest in the finished product from ables.  FUCK YEAH.  But what I’m missing is photos, drawings, artwork in general. So basically what I’m asking is:

Got artwork?  It doesn’t have to be disability related b/c this is a zine by people with disabilities so all it has to be is *by* someone with a disability, though art ABOUT disabilities is a SUPER PLUS!

Email dontdismyability AT riseup DOT net

what about poetry?

# submission zine disability art

Reblogged 1 year ago from burrowklown 40 notes

The Green Wolf: Help me find a particular disability advocacy blog post/essay, please? →

thegreenwolf:

In the past few days, I ran across an essay or blog post criticizing the tendency to hold (usually physically) disabled people up as INSPIRATIONS!!! for able-bodied people—like a picture of a guy with no arms painting with his feet and a caption that essentially boils down to “if THIS guy can do…

this post is awesome.

http://gimpunk.tumblr.com/post/20089966356/insporational-porn-how-you-can-stop-offending-cripples

# inspirational porn disability

Reblogged 1 year ago from thegreenwolf 7 notes
I however, am not naïve enough to think that somewhere on Capitol Hill, Republicans in finely
Pressed three piece suits with schedules hand written by secretaries are NOT thinking about me;
Pouring over my case file, analyzing every pen scratch of a doctor’s note, every medication
Record, I imagine them asking why my six month narrative is typed, and never handwritten.
I imagine their pens breaking one day, their hands folding the case file shut, throwing it in the
Circular file.

—

Nathan Say

DONATE AND HELP THIS AMAZING POET REACH THEIR GOAL!

# NATHAN SAY DISABILITY POETRY EMPOWERMENT KICKSTART DONATE

Posted 1 year ago
wheeliewifee: This is a collage I did for my Study of Disabilities class.   The assignment was to do a piece of art which depicted the struggle of individuals with disabilities.  Of course I took it pretty personally…  I included the picture of me in the chair, as well as pieces of some of my medical bills.   It ended up being quite therapeutic… I have to write a paper now about the piece, and why I chose to create what I did.  I’m afraid it is going to turn into a journal entry, lol! art is so cathartic  View Larger

wheeliewifee:

This is a collage I did for my Study of Disabilities class.  

The assignment was to do a piece of art which depicted the struggle of individuals with disabilities.  Of course I took it pretty personally…  I included the picture of me in the chair, as well as pieces of some of my medical bills.  

It ended up being quite therapeutic…

I have to write a paper now about the piece, and why I chose to create what I did.  I’m afraid it is going to turn into a journal entry, lol!

art is so cathartic 

# cathartic art disability

Reblogged 1 year ago from wheeliewifee 18 notes