Links to all sessions and events will be posted on the Restricted Access – Registered Attendees only webpage. You will receive the access password in your registration confirmation email.
NOTE: All times are listed in Eastern Standard Time (EST), also known as Eastern Time (ET) and Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
For more information about specific presentations and events, follow the links in the schedules below and visit our Event Activities webpage.
Contents
Full Program
January 10 – 31, 2022
Self-guided tours of Gather Town exhibition gallery – 24-hour access
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
| TIME (EST) | EVENT | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Training session – ASL and AD interpreters only | Gather Town |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Gather Town Navigation & Access Support – All presenters and participants welcome | Gather Town |
Thursday, January 20, 2022
| TIME (EST) | EVENT | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|
| 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon – Drop-in editing (ASL provided) Hosted by Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and Tangled Art + Disability | Gather Town |
| 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Gather Town Navigation & Access Support – All presenters and participants welcome | Gather Town |
| 5:30 PM – 5:45 PM | BREAK | |
| 5:45 PM – 6:00 PM | Zoom opens | Zoom |
| 6:00 PM – 6:15 PM | Carla Rice & Ingrid Mundel – Welcome to Practicing the Social – | Zoom |
| 6:15 PM – 6:30 PM | Shawn Van Sluys, Musagetes – Introduction to Opening Presentation – | Zoom |
| 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Opening Presentation: Kim Tallbear & Simon(e) van Saarloos – A Non-monogamous Exchange – | Zoom |
| 7:30 PM – 7:45 PM | BREAK | |
| 7:45 PM – 8:30 PM | Live from Tangled Art + Disability – Gallery Tour and Introduction to Crip Rituals Exhibition | Zoom |
| 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM | Disability Performances and Q&A Hosted by Sean Lee, Tangled Art + Disability | Zoom |
Friday, January 21, 2022
| TIME (EST) | EVENT | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|
| 8:45 AM – 9:30 AM | Mona Stonefish, Anishinaabe Onkwehón:we Elder – Welcome & Opening – | Zoom |
| 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM | Syrus Marcus Ware – Black Crip Justice: Building Towards an Accessible Abolitionist Future Through Creative Practice and Praxis – | Zoom |
| 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM | BREAK | |
| 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM | CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS: Setting the Scene: Histories • Materialities • Theories | Zoom |
| 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Allyson Mitchell & Deirdre Logue – Build Spaces Embody Them – | Zoom |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | BREAK | |
| 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM | Vanessa Dion Fletcher – The Language of Quillwork – | Zoom |
| 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM | CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS: Limits and Thresholds, Un/Bounding the Social | Zoom |
| 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM | BREAK | |
| 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM | CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS: Micro-Activisms | Zoom |
| 4:00 PM – 4:45 PM | Karen Yoshida, Fady Shanouda, Alex Bulmer, Jeff Thomas, Sean Lee, & nancy viva davis halifax – Developing Oral History Interview Processes that Reflect Embodied Differences and Social Justice – | Zoom |
| 4:45 PM – 6:00 PM | BREAK | |
| 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM | The Aging/Disability Nexus – Book Launch | Gather Town |
| 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon – Drop-in Q&A (ASL provided) Hosted by Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and Tangled Art & Disability | Gather Town |
| 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM | Remote Access + Arts Everywhere Festival Online Nightlife & Dance Party + self-guided tours of Gather Town galleries | Gather Town |
Saturday, January 22, 2022
| TIME (EST) | EVENT | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Taqralik Partridge, Jocelyn Piirainen, Anna Hudson, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Koomuatuk Sapa Curley, & Georgiana Uhlyarik – This Conversation Attempts to Reveal This Magic from the Perspective of Its Seven Key Actors – | Zoom |
| 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM | BREAK | |
| 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM | Arseli Dokumaci – Activist Affordances: How Do Disabled People Improvise Survival Within Shrinkage? – | Zoom |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS: Re-Storying and Re-Worlding | Zoom |
| 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM | Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor – Theatre for Agency, Activism, and Acting Up with Language in TESOL Teacher Education – | Zoom |
| 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | BREAK | |
| 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM | Carmen Papalia – Open Access: Setting a New Cultural Standard for Accessibility – | Zoom |
| 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM | CONCURRENT PRESENTATIONS: Translations, Transitions, Transformations | Zoom |
| 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM | BREAK | |
| 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Ajay Heble – Alternative Models of Community and Social Cooperation: Festivals, Pedagogy, Social Practice – | Zoom |
| 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM | Presentation and Film Screening: May Friedman, Sonia Meerai, E. Adjei-Manu, Casandra Fullwood, Claudia Jones, Ashana Persaud, and Verlia Stephens – “Our Bodies are More Than Our Bodies”: Exploring Weight Stigma and Race – | Zoom |
| 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM | Closing | Zoom |
Events held in Gather Town
TUESDAY, January 18, 2022
| TIME (EST) | EVENT | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Practice Session for all participants (drop-in hour) • gain familiarity with navigation • test technology and accessibility • meet ASL and AD interpreters and volunteer ushers | Entrance – Information & Ushers Booth |
THURSDAY, January 20, 2022
| TIME (EST) | EVENT | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Volunteer Ushers available to greet and escort you to the Wikipedia Room, located within the Main Gallery | Entrance – Information & Ushers Booth |
| 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Wikipedia Edit-a-thon – Editing session Hosted by Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and Tangled Art & Disability | Wiki Room – Main Gallery |
| 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Practice Session & Access Tech Support for Gather Town • gain familiarity with navigation • test technology and accessibility • meet ASL and AD interpreters and volunteer ushers | Entrance – Information & Ushers Booth |
FRIDAY, January 21, 2022
| TIME (EST) | EVENT | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|
| 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Volunteer Ushers available to greet and escort you to the Theatre NOTE: Volunteer Ushers are available between 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM | Entrance – Information & Ushers Booth |
| 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM | The Aging/Disability Nexus Book Launch • Live Presentation • Meet the Contributors | Theatre + Zoom (view livestream only) option |
| 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Wikipedia Edit-a-thon – Editing Q&A Hosted by Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and Tangled Art & Disability | Wiki Room – Main Gallery |
| 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM | Remote Access Online Nightlife & Dance Party – Co-hosted by Arts Everywhere Festival | Theatre + Zoom (view livestream only) option |
Concurrent Panel Presentations
FRIDAY, January 21, 2022
Setting the Scene: Histories • Materialities • Theories
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM EST
| Session 1A | 1. Generative Meetings Through Non-Assimilative Dance? – Evadne Kelly 2. Intersectional Feminism as Pedagogy: Navigating an Ethics of Care in Research – Jessica Watkin & Sarah Robbins 3. Detangling Embodiment and Difference – Romana B. Mirza | Zoom |
| Session 1B | 1. Enacting (Disability) Justice in Arts-Based Research – Lauren Munro & Ciann Wilson 2. Activist Modes of Communication in Curriculum – Stephanie Springgay & Priya Thomas 3. Arts‐Based Research: Critically Enhancing the Possibilities for Participation, Relationship, Action – Trish Van Katwyk | Zoom |
Limits and Thresholds, Un/Bounding the Social
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM EST
| Session 2A | 1. Knot Just Body – Suzanne Cowan 2. Sizing Up Gender: Gender, Weight and Representation – May Friedman, Ben Barry, & Calla Evans 3. “Self in Response”: Reflections on a Collaborative Youth Arts Workshop Facilitation as Research Site – Miranda Campbell, Calla Evans, & Johannes Valdes | Zoom |
| Session 2B | 1. Getting There: Methods of Mess, Mobility, and Multimodality – Scott Lunsford 2. The Street Belongs to Us: Eco-Social Pedagogies presented through a Children’s Novel – Karleen Pendleton Jiménez | Zoom |
Micro-Activisms
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST
| Session 3A | 1. Indigenous Students Telling Stories, Theorizing and Being Well – Susan Dion, Carla Rice, & Tanya Senk 2. Art of Relationship: Reflections on Healing, Friendship, Reconciliation & Resilience – Peter Morin & Emma Lind 3. Fatness and/as Disability: Using Arts-Based Methodologies to Explore Lived Experiences of Disability and Weight Discrimination – Allison Taylor | Zoom |
| Session 3B | 1. That We are Not – Cyn Rozeboom 2. Embodying Accountability: Rethinking Measurement Tools for Disability, Mad and d/Deaf Art – Jen Sebring, Christine Kelly, & Michael Orsini 3. Eco Soma Performances: Turtle Disco – Petra Kuppers | Zoom |
SATURDAY, January 22, 2022
Re-Storying and Re-Worlding
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
| Session 4A | 1. Body Work, On-Body Work: Social Skin Revealing Caring Labour – Kimberly J. Lopez 2. Imagining Audiences as “Accomplices” in Performance Research – Julia Gray 3. Critical Arts-Based Research in the Context of Social Change: Reflecting on Possibilities for Becoming with Women and Girls with Disabilities in the Global South – Xuan Thuy Nguyen & Marnina Gonick | Zoom |
| Session 4B | 1. A Taste of Queer Survival: Critical Reflections on the Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency – Ailsa Craig & Tobaron Waxman 2. Art and Decoloniality in the Autobiographical Space – Manoela Dos Anjos Afonso Rodrigues 3. Re•storying Autism by Attending to the ‘Methodologically Unexpected’: A Research Creation Approach – Patty Douglas, Carla Rice, Katherine Runswick-Cole, Meg Gibson, & Raya Shields | Zoom |
Translations, Transitions, Transformations
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM EST
| Session 5A | 1. Bodies in Translations: Reflections on Age, Disability, and Bodily Transitions in the Social – Katie Aubrecht, Carla Rice, Eliza Chandler, & Janice Keefe 2. Rethinking Intersectionality in Complex Body Becomings of New Materialities: What Artistic Creative Accounts Offer Us – Nadine Changfoot, Carla Rice, Eliza Chandler, & Susan Dion 3. Describing Diversity: Audio Description and The Ethics of Unmarked Normativity – Hannah Thompson | Zoom |
| Session 5B | 1. Facing the Music: ‘Captain Cupcake and the Cambie Hotel,’ Transmisogyny, and the Ethics of Representation – Kate Reid 2. Textile: Re-imagining Community-Engaged Arts through Hyper-Local Storytelling – Fitsum Areguy & Shalaka Jadhav | Zoom |
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