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THE SCHEDULE
9:30-10:30am
Coffee, Tea, and Light Bites | In-Person
Start your day with free coffee, tea, and light bites. Gluten-free and vegan options available.
10:30-11:30am
Artist & Curator Tour | In-Person
With Brothers Sick, Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草, danilo machado, Finnegan Shannon, Maria McCarthy, and Steven Anthony Johnson II
Experience to hold a we and learn more about the artistic, curatorial, and community processes that made the exhibition possible.
Video Art Screening | Virtual
By A. Sef, Isabella Vargas, Linda Ryan, OlaRonke Akinmowo, and Yasi Ghanbari
Enjoy a selection of video works featured in to hold a we. The open-captioned videos collage text, sound, and movement to explore individuality and collectivity in disability communities.
11:30 -11:45am
Break
11:45am -1:00pm
Fishbowl Discussion | In-Person & Virtual
With Alex Dolores Salerno, Brothers Sick (Ezra and Noah Benus), Dominic Bradley, Isabella Vargas, Joselia Rebekah Hughes, Linda Ryan, OlaRonke Akinmowo, Stephanie Alvarado, Steven Anthony Johnson II, and Yasi Ghanbari
Artists and writers gather to reflect on care, equity, and access in residency programs. How can residency programs embrace principles of disability justice to better support artists and art workers?
2:00-3:00pm
Asking for Access: all about access riders | In-Person & Virtual
With Alex Dolores Salerno and Francisco echo Eraso
This workshop for disabled and non-disabled artists and arts organizations and institutions to learn about writing, sending, and receiving access riders. An access rider is typically a document used to communicate access needs and accommodations to employers or colleagues. Artists and access workers, Alex Dolores Salerno and Francisco echo Eraso, will show examples of access riders, provide resources, and reflect on their own experiences using an access rider. Then we will open up the space to ask each other questions and give and receive advice. Together we will be brainstorming: What are the benefits and limits of an access rider? Should they be included alongside contracts? How do we want to see access riders being used in the arts and cultural sphere?
Black Madness: Mad Blackness | In-Person
With OlaRonke Akinmowo
How can writing help us embody and employ strategies for survival? In this literary workshop, participants are invited to read, think, write, and share with one another, responding to the artist’s 2023 film, The Myth of Sanity, and writers like Audre Lorde, Therí Alyce Pickens, and Saidiya Hartman.
Food/Memory/We: Virtual Collective Writing Workshop | Virtual
With Chinese Artists and Organizers (CAO) Collective 离离草
What are the smells, tastes, and textures of food that brings you comfort? Who prepares and shares the food, and what remains after its consumption? Join CAO Collective for Food/Memory/We, a virtual workshop weaving the processes of collective writing and food making central to CAO’s The (Ruins of) Ciba Shrine 糍粑庙 installation in to hold a we. Inviting reflections on food as a radical site for memory work and queer/feminist kinship building, the workshop facilitates embodied conversations and provides guided individual and collective writing prompts for participants. Please be prepared with writing materials such as paper, pen, or digital writing softwares to facilitate full participation in the workshop.
Poster Making | In-Person
With Brothers Sick (Ezra and Noah Benus)
Brothers Sick will discuss the creation of their work that draws on political art from the last half-century. Participants can make their own posters using the provided materials, including felt, paper, cardboard, stamps, scissors, markers, glue, needle, thread and yarn.
3:30-3:45pm
Break
3:45-5:15pm
bodies & bodies of work: somatics of the residency model | In-Person & Virtual
With Linda Ryan and amita
This movement-based workshop is oriented around autonomy and embodiment as they relate to (and clash with) the arts residency model. In a labor framework whose central tenet is the removal of the artist from their usual surroundings to one where they are living at work (“in residence”), how do we maintain ownership over our bodies and our art? Residencies that presume an artist’s ability to separate themselves from their communities and support systems at will, even those that do not require physical relocation, are often not only ableist but also broadly alienating to anyone engaged in collectivist artmaking. Participants will be invited to engage with these ideas through accessible, inclusive movement that draws from several forms of postmodern dance.
Body as Archive: A Drawing Workshop | In-Person
With Steven Anthony Johnson II
This drawing, attention, and archivism activity aims to encompass the whole self—that is, the past, present, and past stewardship of ourselves—in order to process, metabolize, and make space for our inherited racial and colonial trauma. Throughout these 90 minutes, our goal is to not only examine ourselves, but also the ways we interact with the spaces we inhabit, the histories of these spaces, and the ways these histories affect those interactions. In doing so, we are Counter-Mapping the unseen, unspoken, and unheard pain we carry with ourselves. While this activity centers those who self-identify as Black, Native, and/or BIPOC; AAPI; Latinae/Latinx; and/or Disabled, participation is encouraged for anyone of any cultural or ethnic background with an inherited history of colonization and/or who is willing to process and metabolize inherited trauma.
Stop-Motion Animations | In-Person
With Isabella Vargas
Using the Stop Motion Studio app, learn the basics of documentary-style stop-motion animation and experiment with colors, sounds, and textures to create your own 90-second clip.
5:15-5:30pm
Break
5:30-7:00pm
Remote Access Party | In-Person & Virtual
Presented in collaboration with Crip Rave Collective, featuring DJ Crip Time and Ceremonies
Zine Making | In-Person
With Dominic Bradley
About the Participants
ACCESSIBILITY
BRIC is committed to advancing accessibility for disabled artists, audiences, and staff members. We understand disability as a spectrum, inclusive of neurodiversity, chronic illness, mental health disabilities, and invisible disabilities, as well as disabilities that affect mobility, sight, hearing, and other senses.
The main floor of BRIC House has an accessible entrance on Rockwell Place. There is an accessible, all-gender bathroom on the main level. The Main Gallery and Stoop is accessible via wheelchair lift. The Ballroom and Project Room are on the main level and are wheelchair accessible. The event will have a sensory-friendly, low-stim room.
In-person offerings at this event are mask-required. Masks will be provided. All programs include CART. ASL interpretation upon request. Please note that all requests for ASL interpretation must be made before Saturday, November 23 in order to be processed in time, and we will try our best to accommodate you. Requests can be made by selecting that you need an ASL interpreter while RSVPing, or by emailing [email protected].
For more information about accessibility at BRIC, visit bricartsmedia.org/accessibility-bric.
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