November 18 - May 19
For IBPOC opera artists in Canada (and Canadians abroad)
Every 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7:00 pm ET
Each session is accessed by "purchasing a free ticket" on Eventbrite to receive a Zoom link via email from us [info@amplifiedopera.com] on the day of the event.
All sessions will begin at…
November 29 - May 30
Welcome, Sum Theatre friends and family, to the 2020/21 season of The Last Sunday. Please join us on the last Sunday of each month (October – May) for exciting creations in response to the month’s…
January 20 - June 2
VocalEye’s New Year Full of Zoom replaces our live events during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the success of our Summer Full of Zoom and Another Season Full of Zoom, we’ll be presenting a variety…
January 22 - May 7
- Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
- Tangled Art + Disability
Friday, January 22, February 12, March 5, 26, April 16 and May 7 at 11 am
Facebook Live
Spurred by disability justice and the desire for more equitable and intersectional futures, the disability arts…
January 31 - May 30
This winter, Luca Lazylegz Patuelli will offer five virtual creative movement workshops.
Open to any body and any dancer looking to find new ways to move creatively, the workshops will work on dancer…
March 10 - June 9
- Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre (MNjcc)
- ReelAbilities Film Festival Toronto
Join critic, writer, curator, and lecturer Angelo Muredda as he takes a critical look at disability on film in this popular series at the MNjcc. We’ve got evil villains, sci fi superheroes, magical…
- Discounted Tickets Available
March 12 - May 28
This series of workshops is designed to help arts organizations, artists and community creators take a tangible first step towards building accessibility into their practices. By outlining best…
- Captions
- ASL Interpretation
March 25 - April 25
- Toronto Queer Film Festival
- Festival
- Screening
- Artist Talk / Panel
This is a landmark time for humanity. Homebound and with resources dwindling, many of us continue to create art and engage in solidarity practices from within our communities. At Toronto Queer Film…
- ASL Interpretation
- Closed Captions
- Live Stream
March 27 - May 2
- Outsiders and Others
- posAbilities
The “Spirituality, Art & Community” exhibit organized by Outsiders & Others gallery in collaboration with posAbilities and Christ Church Cathedral is now open! A collection of works by self-taught and…
March 27 - April 30
- Conference
- Artist Talk / Panel
The Breadth Of is a free, public symposium that investigates and responds to the living archive of the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC).
This critical inquiry uses the CFMDC collection…
- Captions
- ASL Interpretation
- Free Event
March 31 - June 8
Part 2, covering the topics of Building/Renovating and Managing/Maintaining Creative Spaces and Creative Space Projects, will offer free Virtual Consultations in the areas of Kitchener, and Waterloo…
April 1 - June 30
This spring Cool Arts will present a featured artist exhibition highlighting the themed works of several Cool Arts artists. The artists have been working on developing their portfolios over the fall…
April 2 - April 30
- Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba
AANM proud to present Feminine and Fierce, a solo online exhibition by Charlene du Toit. Charlene du Toit is a mixed media artist that presents healing art through storytelling. She uses paper, paint…
April 3 - April 30
Ikouii brings together an amazing group of artists to showcase their creativity by transforming waste materials and discarded objects into art to raise awareness of environmental protection.
DISCARDED…
April 4 - April 25
Billy Tipton, the influential jazz musician, became more of a sensation when, upon his death, it was revealed that he was a trans man and the late-20th century world was unable to accept his identity…
April 7 - April 28
Join us for Hip Hop with Devon! This class is for individuals ages 14 and up. It's an open level class that is suitable for individuals of all abilities.
This sessional runs for 4 weeks: April 7, 1…
April 11 - May 16
Join us to move, play and create together! These classes explore contemporary dance, improvisation, and choreography in a fun and creative environment with live music. Experience the joy of moving…
- ASL Interpretation
- Live Stream
April 17 - May 8
Deaf Eyes in ASL Improv Workshops are for d/Deaf or Hard of Hearing Black youth aged 13-18. All sessions will be led by Deaf actors Natasha "Courage" Bacchus and Ebony R. Gooden. This 4 week workshop…
- ASL Interpretation
- Discounted Tickets Available
April 18 - June 13
- Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre (MNjcc)
Disability/Visibility is a free 7-week community arts project presented in partnership with Gallery 44, culminating in a gallery show in Fall 2021. Youth 18-30 who identify with the experience of…
April 19 - April 25
- Screening
- Artist Talk / Panel
LOMAA is to excited to welcome multidisciplinary artist Jess MacCormack for our second event in the Queer Frontiers series! Jess MacCormack’s work will be presented across various social media…
- ASL Interpretation
- Captions
April 21
The View From Inside is an improvised dance score designed to be performed inside our homes. It is an opportunity to witness, perform and be connected to other dancers across the screen. The View from…
- ASL Interpretation
- Live Stream
April 22 - April 29
Living during a pandemic has transformed the way we present cultural programming – revealing both limitations and limitless opportunities. On Day 1 of this 2-day series, Museum, Arts and Culture…
- Live Captions
- ASL Interpretation
- Live Stream
- Discounted Tickets Available
- Free Event
April 22
- Neighbourhood Arts Network
Do you know how to leverage your experience as an artist working in public spaces after the installation and performance ends?
Digitizing your art through photography and sharing your creation process…
- Free Event
- Live Stream
- ASL Interpretation
April 22
Workman Arts seeks an energetic, self-motivated highly organized individual to join our team in the role of Interim Education Manager in a full time, interim capacity for a maximum of 1 year. Under…
April 22
Disrupting Unconscious Bias provides participants with an engaging and interactive opportunity to investigate and unpack their own personal and organizational biases.
This workshop also provides…
- ASL Interpretation
- Live Stream
April 22
- Screening
- Artist Talk / Panel
Travelling, sneezing, writing and tweezing - Postcards from my Balcony follows blind writer Alex Bulmer as she returns from the UK to Canada while a pandemic erupts. She writes postcards under…
April 22
Creating digital theatre has become the main way for artists to create work and reach audiences over the last year, but turning your show into a digital masterpiece, or setting up for a livestream, is…
- Free Event
- Live Stream
- Live Captions
April 23 - May 2
Get ready CUFF Fans – the 18th annual Calgary Underground Film Festival is set to take place this spring! This year there will be two distinct events comprising the 18th edition of the festival. You…
- Closed Captions
- Live Stream
- Subtitles
April 23
Build your career and learn the essential elements of working in the film, TV and digital media industries with online training and hands-on experience
CBC New Indigenous Voices is a full-time, 1…
April 23
rEvolver Festival’s Resident Curator program is an opportunity for an emerging or mid-career performing artist or administrator to receive mentorship and experience from Upintheair Theatre in curation…
April 23
The Grand Theatre Local Arts Residency is a pilot initiative that was developed in response to the impact of COVID-19 on the performing arts. The Residency, which takes place in the Grand Theatre’s…
April 23
If you're a South Asian woman, an Ontario resident between the age of 15-65, and an aspiring writer, this call is for you!
Be a part of OWNING OUR STORIES, a free online Writing Circle led by arts…
April 25
- Performance
- Special Event
- Artist Talk / Panel
Join us in celebration of Earth Day with Propeller Dance on Saturday, April 25 at 2pm on Zoom. Explore how we all experience and embrace natural spaces through dance and our technical selves.
The…
- Live Stream
- Discounted Tickets Available
- Audio Description
- ASL Interpretation
- Closed Captions
April 25
- Artist Talk / Panel
- Receptions / Openings
A launch party for Gordon Hill Press' Spring 2021 titles – Roxanna Bennett's "The Untranslatable I", Khashayar Mohammadi's "Me, You, Then Snow", A. F. Moritz's "The Garden", and Concetta Principe's…
April 25
A cup of tea would restore my normality. ~Douglas Adams
It's been a while! Enjoy a spot of tea online with your CRIPSiE community. RSVP: info@cripsie.ca
April 27
- Critical Distance Centre For Curators (CDCC)
Critical Distance Centre for Curators is currently seeking a Part-time Gallery Assistant!
The Gallery Assistant will work both independently and collaboratively with the CDCC Team, Board of Directors…
April 27
Tune in to see some of the hottest poetic talent take the virtual mic by storm. Two rounds. Three-minute time limit. Endless bars.
The best part - the winner takes home $300 and all other competitors…
April 28
- Aluna Theatre
- Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
The Body Love workshop program created by Dainty Smith and multidisciplinary artist Ravyn Wnzg. Body Love is a burlesque and storytelling program designed to empower women, femmes, persons and Queer…
April 29 - May 9
The 2021 Hot Docs Festival will be available for audiences across Canada to stream April 29 to May 9.
- Closed Captions
- Live Captions
- Subtitles
April 29
Learning financial literacy will enable you to better understand your lifestyle as an artist and set you up for success. Take part in this discussion to learn the tips and tools to help better…
April 29
Becoming more aware of equitable practices in relation to community-based work. Engaging in conversations around language and terms aligned with anti-oppression, anti-ableism, and anti-sanism…
April 29
We are pleased to host a talk by Kama LaMackerel (they/them), a Mauritian multidisciplinary artist, educator, cultural mediator, writer, and literary translator who lives and loves in tio’tia:ke…
- ASL Interpretation
- Live Captions
- Free Event
April 29
Workman Arts runs an interdisciplinary art training program for artists who identify as having lived experience of mental health and/or addiction issues. We are accepting applications for an Art…
April 30 - May 7
- Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Have the last 10 months made you feel like you’re in a time warp? Has the ‘new normal’ shifted your sense of self and time entirely? A response to the ongoing strange time of the pandemic, this year’s…
April 30
The spring intake for our Project Assistance Programs is now open. The deadline for applications this year is April 30, 2021.
Included in the spring intake are the following:
- Project Assistance: Arts Periodicals
- Project Assistance: Professional Arts Training Organizations
- Project Assistance: Professional Literary Arts
- …
April 30
Seeking Writers with Disabilities and/or Lived Experience of Facing Barriers for PAID articles.
Seeking Writers & Thought Leaders!
Do you have lived experience facing barriers to full and equal…
April 30
Persephone Theatre’s Open Stage is a virtual performance platform where Saskatoon’s performing artists will shine! During these bizarre times Persephone wants to open up a performance space where…
April 30
Explore your literary voice in Black Pen, a 4-month intensive creative writing program emerging Black writers between the ages of 16-29. Facilitated by Whitney French, scholarly writer & editor…
April 30
H’art Centre invites Kingston’s artists and arts educators to apply to attend the upcoming round of MixAbilities inclusive arts training. We designed MixAbilities to help local artists/educators learn…
April 30 - May 2
Nia is a movement practice combining elements dance, martial arts and mindfulness. It is adaptable to every body, and aims to bring pleasure and joy to the movement experience.
Nia Diversity Weekend…
April 30
We want to celebrate International UFO Day with an exhibition featuring works that celebrate UFOs, aliens, other worldly beings, and outer space. July 2nd is recognized as International UFO Day and…
April 30
April 30
Upintheair Theatre is looking for an access coordinator with experience in community outreach and strong access competencies. They will be supporting rEvolver artists, staff, consultants and guests…
April 30
Embrace’s “Artist to Facilitator” is a training cohort for local artists who self identify as disabled or neurodivergent. Four local artists will be selected to take part in a training artist over the…
May 1
Unfolding Shrines is the 2021 Adam Reynolds Award shortlist exhibition. The augmented reality exhibition features the work of Jason Wilsher-Mills, Sophie Helf, Rebekah Ubuntu, and Uma Breakdown and…
April 30
As part of Generator’s ongoing work to expand our network, deepen our knowledge base, and bring new minds and perspectives to our programming, we are inviting submissions to our new database of Arts…
April 30
The Resident Artist Program at the Living Arts Centre is designed to support emerging and mid-career artist and artisans in developing and maintaining their art and design practice.
May 1 - May 15
- The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD)
The Festival of Literary Diversity is Canada’s first festival devoted to the work of marginalized and underrepresented authors and storytellers and takes place annually in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
…
April 30
Project Assistance: Professional Music supports initiatives in the development, creation, production, realization and/or live performance of classical, experimental, original, traditional and…
May 1
OSAC’s Arts on the Move touring program is now accepting submissions. Professional and emerging artists are invited to submit exhibition proposals for a solo, two-person, or group touring exhibition…
May 1 - May 8
- Playwrights Theatre Centre (PTC)
Learn to work from archival documents, family history, personal memoir, and other “real” texts in this workshop with Joanna Garfinkel. Two 2-hour sessions, offered digitally with some options for on…
- Discounted Tickets Available
May 1
The Disability & Intersectionality Summit (DIS) is a biennial national conference that centres the multiple oppressions that shape the lived experiences of disabled individuals, as told by disabled…
May 1
We have been working with two of our project collaborators, Alise de Bie (Canada) and Lieve Carette (Belgium), to help formulate this new Call for Contributions for a Mad Students Zine.
This zine invites submissions from Mad* and neurodivergent students that offer creative and critical alternatives to typical approaches to ‘student mental…
May 2
- Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture
The deadline has been extended to May 3rd!
To kick off the beginning of our 23rd year, we are having a group exhibition of younger emerging artists with disabilities and calling it New Wave!
We want…
May 3
Factory Media Centre (FMC) is seeking submissions from media and experimental film artists for Spring/Summer monthly Window Exhibitions.
FMC welcomes submissions by artists in all levels of their…
May 4
- Eden Mills Writers’ Festival
Jon Klassen joins us for a special event for school groups, online learners, and families during Canadian Children’s Book Week.
Here comes The Rock from the Sky, a hilarious meditation on the workings…
- ASL Interpretation
- Live Stream
May 5
We invite you to pivot along with us from live creation to virtual collaboration!
Wheel Voices: Tune In! is a mashup of original scenes, rap, spoken word, and choral pieces. Featuring a cast of…
- ASL Interpretation
- Audio Description
- Captions
- Live Stream
- Discounted Tickets Available
May 6 - May 9
Based on Canadian journalist Ian Brown’s memoir of life with his son, The Boy in the Moon tells a deeply moving story about a family’s struggle to raise a child with a severe disability.
Ian and…
- Captions
- Live Stream
- ASL Interpretation
May 6
cause to become artist Mariana Muñoz Gomez will launch her new artist book, "mapping elsewhere" and provide a live reading of the book in full.
In mapping elsewhere, Mariana Muñoz Gomez thinks through…
- Live Captions
- ASL Interpretation
May 6
The View From Inside is an improvised dance score designed to be performed inside our homes. It is an opportunity to witness, perform and be connected to other dancers across the screen. The View from…
- ASL Interpretation
- Live Stream
May 7
- Tangled Art + Disability
- Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
Spurred by calls for disability justice and the desire for a more equitable and intersectional future, the disability arts movement is pushing forward with renewed political intention to disrupt…
May 7 - May 16
Wrapping up Geordie’s 40th milestone season is the anticipated world premiere of Virginia Wolf by the accomplished and multifaceted playwright Cole Lewis. Adapted from the Governor-General award…
- ASL Interpretation
- Live Stream
May 7
Evacuation minus extraction plus exaltation minus exsanguination plus.
Guest curator Mikiki collaborates with Mile Zero Dance in inviting you to consider and submit a project for our upcoming June 1…
May 7
Urban Ink is delighted to announce an open call for submissions from storytellers with interest in digital creation across any of the following: short film, web-series, virtual reality, podcast…
May 7
The world’s first and largest arts and mental health festival and discussion forum returns to Toronto in October 2021 for its 29th edition and is seeking submissions for programming this fall.
*NOTE*…
May 9
- National AccessArts Centre (NaAC)
QAAC: A year of building a Queer Accessible Arts Cabaret in Calgary
Calgary-based drag personality and multidisciplinary artist, Devery Bess has curated a year's worth of accessible arts programming…
- ASL Interpretation
- Captions
- Live Stream
May 9
The Labour Arts Catalyst is a new initiative that pairs four artists from the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area to work with four local labour organizations in a collaborative art-making process that…
May 13
Together with Inspirit Foundation, Hot Docs is thrilled to announce the launch of a new year-round Podcast Development Lab serving BIPOC creators based in Canada.
The lab will offer five fellowships…
May 15
Are you a writer or artist living on Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii, Bella Coola, or the Gulf Islands?
Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) is currently seeking literature and art submissions for…
May 16
- Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture
Join us to practice your creative writing skills and re-claim your voice as we explore creative writing as a tool for self-expression. This two hour class, led by author Emily Gillespie, will include…
- Live Stream
- ASL Interpretation
- Closed Captions
May 17 - May 31
The Black Arts Development (BAD) Program is centered around cultivating an environment in which our community of Black artists can tell their stories, and allow the African, Caribbean and Black…
May 18
With physical travel for artists still at a standstill, it’s time to reimagine international ways of working. We know that even to meet up online and dream takes capacity, so today we launch a new…
May 21
The Reelworld Film Festival showcases a wide variety of genres in narrative and documentary features, narrative and documentary shorts, music videos, animation, episodic content for web and television…
May 28 - May 30
Written and performed by Tetsuro Shigematsu (creator of the hit show Empire of the Son), 1 Hour Photo is the story of Mas Yamamoto, a man whose life was swept up by the major currents of the 20th…
May 28
- Tangled Art + Disability
- Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
Spurred by calls for disability justice and the desire for a more equitable and intersectional future, the disability arts movement is pushing forward with renewed political intention to disrupt…
May 30
This concert will come with a program booklet available for download on April 17th. There will also be a Q&A at the end of the concert – audience members can ask the artist questions by typing them…
May 30
The Ikouii Open is an annual online group exhibition of artwork created by both disabled and non-disabled artists worldwide. The goal of the open is to activate social movements, educate, inspire, and…
May 31
- Community Arts Council of Vancouver
Are you an artist or performer 19 years and older residing in the Metro Vancouver* area?
Do you face internal or external barriers to sharing what you do?
Want to learn more about being a working…
May 31
- ELAN Quebec (English Language Arts Network)
Call for Submissions especially geared to BIPOC, LGBTQ2 and Regional Artists.
ELAN ArED program is excited to announce that we are recruiting Artists to be profiled on our website, artistsinspire.ca.
…
May 31
- imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
We are proud to announce that our Call for Submissions for the 2021 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is now open! We are accepting Film + Video, Digital + Interactive, and Audio works for our…
May 31
Photophobia is the 15th annual festival of short-format contemporary media, film, video and moving image hosted in partnership between the Art Gallery of Hamilton and Hamilton Artists Inc. Established…
June 18
- Tangled Art + Disability
- Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
Spurred by calls for disability justice and the desire for a more equitable and intersectional future, the disability arts movement is pushing forward with renewed political intention to disrupt…
June 30
Realwheels Acting Academy is a unique professional training program, specifically tailored to anybody that self-identifies with the disability community and/or who is D/deaf, including but not limited…
July 31
Since we are finally seeing a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel (and it doesn't seem to be a train), it’s time to update the theme of Opulent Mobility 2021. We want you to re-imagine disability…