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…
December 16 - March 16
LUX is delighted to present two D/deaf Artists’ Film Commissions, Captioning on Captioning (2020) by Louise Hickman and Shannon Finnegan and Silence (2020) by Nina Thomas.
In Captioning on Captioning…
January 6 - March 24
The Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series seeks to bring together scholars, creators, and people in industry working at the intersections of…
January 20 - April 30
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…
February 1 - March 26
We are excited to announce that our Community Access Program (CAP) is coming back from February 1 - March 26, 2021! CAP is for youth with disabilities ages 18 - 24 who live within the Halifax Regional…
February 16 - March 16
Sam (Academy Award winner Colin Firth) and Tusker (Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci) are traveling across England in their old RV to visit friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker…
February 16 - March 16
Indigenous Culture & Media Innovation and Knot Project Space are pleased to invite you to Anishnabe Azejicigan, a monthly gathering with Indigenous artists & thinkers. Join us on zoom at 7pm every…
February 18 - March 18
- Screening
- Artist Talk / Panel
The documentary Woubi Chéri explores the love life of a few homosexuals in Ivory Coast. The Woubi and the Yossis (the crazy women and their men in the local gay dialect) of the Ivory Coast tell their…
February 19 - March 12
Join Blissful Dance for 4 classes featuring African, Contemporary, Hip-Hop and Ballet for All Bodies Dance! These classes are for people with and without disabilities. These classes are appropriate…
February 21 - March 31
- Exhibition
- Performance
- Workshop / Course
Starting January 16th, 2021 and running to March 2021, Manitoba Arts Network (MAN) will be offering a new free online event every week: 12 Livestream performances followed by artist conversations,…
February 23 - March 16
Get vocal with Nightwood’s digital Community Choir! Led by the incomparable multi-disciplinary artist and celebrated soprano Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野, this weekly choir will run Tuesdays from 5:30pm to 7pm…
February 24 - March 24
Performance Art: the human body, intimacy and taboo is a Zoom-based online, studio course co-presented by Indigenous and queer artist Vanessa Dion Fletcher and queer artist Kate Barry. It explores…
March 3 - March 4
On March 3 & 4, the Arts Management Students at Centennial College will be hosting the first ever DIGITAL Arts Ahead Symposium. The two-day event will explore the topic of wellness in the arts and…
March 4
The forced shift to digital content delivery in the arts challenged ongoing efforts to address equity in the sector. In our first session, our panelists will discuss equity in light of the shift to…
March 4
- Exhibition
- Workshop / Course
- Artist Talk / Panel
Workman Arts’ annual Being Scene exhibition is back for its 20th anniversary! Going digital for the first time, Being Scene 2021 will be offered virtually and includes three exhibitions in one: a…
- Free Event
- Live Stream
- ASL Interpretation
March 4
Do you have a creative project you’re working on that you’d like to get feedback on? Would you like the chance to get some feedback from other artists and give some feedback yourself in a supportive…
March 4
Carmen Galvan and and Kayla Carter will be holding a discussion group about grief related to chronic illness, disability, diagnosis and a change in our capacities as people.
We live in a society that…
March 4
- The Disability Collective
The Disability Collective is thrilled to announce our first event, ART IS MOVEMENT: A Virtual Showcase and Fundraiser!
This free livestream event will celebrate disabled artists and creators through a…
- ASL Interpretation
- Live Stream
- Captions
March 5 - March 31
- Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba
The photographs in this exhibition remind us of the past and its golden quality. Our past is a blend of days, and our perception and memory of those days can change over time. During happy times we…
March 5
This conversation will draw from artist’s materials that survived a fire in 2020, at Green Papaya Art Projects, the longest running artist-run space in Quezon City, Philippines. Under lockdown and…
March 5
- 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? Well, QueerCab’s Past // Present // Futures cabaret series is here…
March 5
- Deaf Spectrum
- SOUND OFF: A Deaf Theatre Festival
SOUND OFF: A Deaf Theatre Festival and Deaf Spectrum are proud to announce an open call for performers for our closing night event!
Taking place on Sunday April 4th, 2021 at 9 p.m. EST, SOUND OFF will…
March 5
The Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre is now taking submissions for the Emerging Dramaturg position for the MSG Lab, a new play development program for Asian Canadian playwrights produced in…
March 6 - March 27
Make a digital story with us! We're hosting an online digital storytelling workshop in March 2021 as part of our project on experiences of fluctuating disability and work.
"Invisibility to Inclusion…
March 8
The Art Encounters program provides a select group of artists or makers assistance to offset the costs and pressure of participating in the Fair. Through this program, we provide an in-depth…
March 9 - March 22
With sold out runs across the world, A Brimful of Asha is a critically acclaimed hit and an instant favorite with audiences everywhere. Real-life mother and son, Asha and Ravi Jain, share the stage…
- ASL Interpretation
- Captions
March 9
Have you been financially impacted by the pandemic? Stumped about where to begin with your taxes? Intrepid Theatre is hosting a workshop with Jen Braem, a Chartered Professional Accountant with a…
- Free Event
- Live Captions
- Live Stream
March 10 - March 20
This winter festival, produced by Ottawa Fringe, shows the best original, contemporary theatre being created by Ottawa performers and visiting artists.
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 11
The pandemic is challenging us to re-think the ways we understand “success.” From artistic vision to statistical metrics, in this panel we discuss how the sector is grappling with articulating impact…
March 11
Teenage years are often thought of as a time for exploration, rebellion, and asserting individuality. This program explores that pivotal period of life through the lens of Disability.
Making Space…
- ASL Interpretation
- Live Captions
March 11 - April 16
- Exhibition
- Artist Talk / Panel
Martha Street Studio is pleased to present Futures Barren/Futures Abundant, a solo exhibition of work by April Dean.
Futures Barren/Futures Abundant builds a connection between the regenerative…
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 12
Culture Days is looking for contributors and writers with fresh perspectives and unique stories to share.
The arts emerged as a lifeline of joy, hope and reprieve needed to make it through this past…
March 12
Arts Assembly & Access Gallery invite remotely-situated artists to apply to the Remote Research Residency (RRR).** **We're using the word remote to refer to a broader understanding of isolation—see…
March 12
Silent Stories 2021 is an online juried exhibition featuring the work of artists with marginalized identities. We aim to feature artwork that challenges the dominant privileged culture. This show is…
March 12
Attention Deaf, disabled, mad, crip and allied scholars, artists, theatre-makers and theorists.
We invite you to submit an abstract or expression of interest to take part in our 2021 Disability Performance and Pedagogies Working Group (DPPWG) gathering as a part of the …
March 12
- Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Are you a student, alumni, drop-out, staff, non-regular, or regular faculty member of ECUAD who self-identifies as Disabled* or Neuro-Divergent? Or in solidarity with?
Are you interested in expanding…
March 13 - March 20
VocalEye is hosting a series of Professional Development workshops for audio describers of all levels via Zoom. This month, we focus on audio description for young people with guest instructors Anne…
March 15
The New Frontiers in Research funded project Frictions of Futurity and Cure in Transplant Medicine: Re-Thinking Central Challenges Through Feminist/Crip Science and Technology Studies seeks a…
March 15
The Long-Term Dance Projects program provides mid-career and established professional choreographers, organizations and collectives with the opportunity to take an extended period of time to develop…
March 17
The City of Victoria seeks to commission a professional artist/artist team to create an original public artwork to be integrated into a new skateboard park at Topaz Park. This call is open to…
March 17 - March 20
In Speculation, Leslie Ting, a former optometrist and now a professional violinist, presents a digital re-imagining of this theatrical concert, taking the audience through witnessing her mother’s loss…
- Audio Description
- Relaxed Performance
- ASL Interpretation
- Discounted Tickets Available
March 18
Many parts of the arts sector have struggled with the ever-changing landscape of digital technology, and COVID-19 forced many of us to confront technology in news ways. In this session, artists…
March 18
Teenage years are often thought of as a time for exploration, rebellion, and asserting individuality. This program explores that pivotal period of life through the lens of Disability.
Making Space…
- ASL Interpretation
- Live Captions
March 18
- Listen to Dis' Community Arts Organization
Do you think you’re funny? Do you know you’re funny? Do you want to try stand-up/sit-down comedy in a comfortable and supportive work environment? This is the workshop for you! Let’s get you on your…
- ASL Interpretation
- Free Event
- Live Stream
March 18 - March 21
A visionary new online experience from Montreal’s ground-breaking contemporary circus collective!
In September 2020, against all odds, The 7 Fingers embarked on a new adventure. Taking into account…
March 19
- Listen to Dis' Community Arts Organization
From her first chapbook, Obtain No Proof, with the Dis/Ability Series of Frog Hollow Press, Regina, Saskatchewan based writer Carla Harris will share the evening with special guests, Tara Dawn Solheim…
- Closed Captions
- Free Event
- Live Stream
March 19
Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism and Black Lives Matter - Canada (BLM-CA) are seeking a Part-Time Social Media Coordinator.
Wildseed is an artist-run centre and community space providing…
March 19
This contest challenges new and experienced writers to create a script in 24 hours while incorporating four secret elements that will be announced shortly before the contest begins. New this year, we…
March 19
Singing and Zoom – they don’t always go well together. But what if they could? What if you’re the person to solve this riddle? We want to hear from the aspiring Lin Manuel Mirandas in our community…
March 19
Do you have an idea for how to make a digital space come to life? Can you imagine a way to use a digital platform (Zoom, etc.) to bring people together for a live theatrical experience? At a time when…
March 21
THIRD SHIFT is an annual festival of public contemporary artworks that takes place in Saint John, New Brunswick and online. THIRD SHIFT 2021 will take place from August 19 – 22, 2021
.Theme: TRAVERSE
…
March 22
Mamanaw Pekiskwewina | Mother Tongues Assistant Curator
Eyelevel is seeking applications from Indigenous artists and arts-workers from across Mi'kma'ki to work in collaboration with Truck Contemporary…
March 24
Please join us as Dr. Ricky Varghese, the Tanis Doe Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Disability Studies, hosts Dr. Robert McRuer for a talk on Disability Art.
"Disability Art on Lockdown"" attends…
- ASL Interpretation
- Live Captions
- Live Stream
March 25
Artists, like entrepreneurs, have a product or idea to sell, and they need to get out into the marketplace. To do this, artists need basic business skills and a willingness to approach selling art as…
March 25
Establishing and maintaining a career as an artist is no easy feat. In this final session of Arts Chats, we turn to established artists to discuss their roles in our community, how they have navigated…
March 25
This introductory access in the arts class, presented by acclaimed disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light, is a three hour, online, hands-on workshop for arts organizations, administrators and event…
- ASL Interpretation
- Live Captions
- Audio Description
- Discounted Tickets Available
March 30 - March 31
- Screening
- Artist Talk / Panel
Join us for a special presentation of "What Walaa Wants," followed by a Q&A with director Christy Garland.
Content warning: mentions of anti-Palestinian and anti-Israeli violence, childhood trauma…
- Open Captions
- ASL Interpretation
- Free Event
- Live Stream
- Active Listener
March 31 - April 4
- SOUND OFF: A Deaf Theatre Festival
SOUND OFF, in collaboration with Fringe Theatre Adventures and Edmonton’s Chinook Series, is proud to announce the 5th annual SOUND OFF: A Deaf Theatre Festival.
SOUND OFF is Canada’s national…
March 31
Current and former McMaster students with lived experiences of disability, disablement, inaccessibility, and/or ableism are invited to contribute to a zine on Disability, Accessibility & Teaching and…
March 31
- National AccessArts Centre (NaAC)
The National accessArts Centre is a fun, fast-paced, dynamic work environment where we all collaborate to provide artistic training,
creation, exhibition, and present opportunities for artists with…
April 1
Matchstick is looking for an actor who self-identifies within the neurodivergent community to play Jhana in its upcoming workshop of Joan MacLeod’s play Toronto, Mississippi.
This is a paid…
April 1
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
BC Health regulations permitting, we are planning to host a small number of artists on AGGV grounds during each of the five Saturdays in July. The selection of artists for live demonstrations will be…
April 1
- Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture
Extended deadline: April 1
Geoff McMurchy (1955–2015), Kickstarts founding Artistic Director, was a pioneer in the local and international disability arts community. Anyone who knew him will tell you…
April 6
- Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture
The deadline has been extended to April 6th!
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…
April 9 - April 11
Deaf Spotlight will present their biennial Short Play Festival featuring six new stories by Deaf playwrights from all over the United States. The virtual festival will take place April 9 - 11, 2021.
…
- ASL Interpretation
- Captions
- Live Stream
- Transcripts
April 9
- Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts
This exciting opportunity is available to artists transitioning from a senior artistic program to a professional artistic career. Four to six apprenticeship opportunities will be awarded to emerging…
April 14
In this presentation, Disability Awareness Consultant Drew Gurza will talk to you about sex and disability. The presentation will go past the basics of “How Do You Have Sex and Disability?” and…
April 15
The Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto invites all qualified applicants to apply be our artist-in-residence for the 2021-22 school year. The Bonham Centre…
April 15
- Eden Mills Writers’ Festival
Sign up for the EMWF Book Club and enjoy conversation with fellow readers in the lead up to our main event: a live discussion between bestselling author Eden Robinson, and CBC’s Rosanna Deerchild…
- Closed Captions
- Live Stream
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…
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 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 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…