Jun 8th 2021
Building Intersectional Disability Communities Through Art + Conversation Series
@ Disability Culture Activism Lab
Online
Opening Tuesday, June 8th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Building Intersectional Disability Communities through Art and Conversations Series
Join us for our Healing IL series to advance racial equity and build community through conversation and art for disabled people of color.
This series features virtual conversations and art workshops with disabled artists of color reflecting on three themes.
— Remembering People We Lost due to Police Violence and Racism/Ableism
— Intersectionality of Race, Disability, and LGBTQ+
— Freedom and Celebration of Intersectional Identities
— Intersectionality of Race, Disability, and LGBTQ+
— Freedom and Celebration of Intersectional Identities
Conversation Series Dates:
June 1st: Register at https://tinyurl.com/healingilconvo1
June 1st: Register at https://tinyurl.com/healingilconvo1
Presenting artists:
Cherlnell Lane
Jay Cornejo
Cherlnell Lane
Jay Cornejo
June 8th: Register at https://tinyurl.com/healingilconvo2
Presenting artists:
Jade T. Perry
Barak ade soleil
Jade T. Perry
Barak ade soleil
June 15th: Register at https://tinyurl.com/healingilconvo3
Presenting artists:
Washieka Torres
Cathy Saunders
Washieka Torres
Cathy Saunders
All conversations are from 6 to 7:30pm
Join us for Creative Advocacy Art Workshop Series! Please check out this link
All Creative Advocacy Art Workshops are from 1:30pm to 3pm
Limit to 10 participants.
Limit to 10 participants.
Accessibility Information:
ASL Interpreters and live captioning will be provided. If there are additional accommodations that you would like for us to address, email Timotheus at tgordo7@uic.edu or Kelly at hsieh@uic.edu.
ASL Interpreters and live captioning will be provided. If there are additional accommodations that you would like for us to address, email Timotheus at tgordo7@uic.edu or Kelly at hsieh@uic.edu.
Organizers:
University of IL Chicago Institute on Disability and Human Development (UIC IDHD), Chicagoland Disabled People of Color Coalition (Chicagoland DPOCC), Access Living, and Disability Culture Activism Lab (DCAL), Department of Art Therapy and Counseling at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
Generous funding from the Healing IL.
Funded by the Illinois Department of Human Services in partnership with the Chicago Community Trust
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