Author: Claudia Alick

Disability Futures Fellows

Calling Up Justice explores funding opportunities for artists, social justice practitioners, and entrepreneurs in our Open Development meeting. This post is highlighting a funder who is supporting work that is alignment with our values. Read more about Disability Futures Fellows below.

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Nothing About Us Without Us

Nothing About Us Without Us: A platform to discuss cultures, controversies, and dreams for justice and ‘allyship’ from individual perspectives to further cross-disability solidarity and challenge a Disability Essentialism. A 60 minute workshop at SDS with Deanna Yadollahi and Claudia Alick

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Disability Justice and Anti-racism Creating Fully Inclusive Spaces workshop

Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright and performer Nikkole Salter (“In The Continuum,” “New Amsterdam”) will offer one of the event’s keynote speeches. It is important for everyone to hold themselves accountable in change-making, she said.

Nikkole Salter is a keynote speaker for “Creating Change.”
“I think everyone thinks of making a difference as though it’s some epic thing and that if you’re not Martin Luther King, then you’re not making a difference,” she said. “I think the difference that you can make can start in your sphere of influence, whether that’s your individual home and close relationships or your workplace or wherever that is.”

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WELCOME TO OUR SPACE!

Following up on our pre-pandemic town hall on microaggressions in public spaces, Aurora Theatre Company, Z Space, Shotgun Players, Theatre Bay Area, and Calling Up Justice return for an exclusively discussion and story circle focusing on the way we experience virtual spaces, and on how participants and organizers can make these experiences more welcoming. Claudia Alick and Leigh Rondon-Davis return as facilitators, joined by a variety of theatre practitioners and audience members.

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American Theater Magazine Disability And Theatre 2021

This package of stories about Deaf and disabled theatre workers was only possible thanks to a deep and intentional collaboration with TCG’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion department, whose director, Elena Chang, and associate, Sarah Machiko Haber, recruited an extraordinary advisory panel of leaders from the Deaf and disabled community. These five folks will be talking live about this issue—and, in another sense, about many issues facing the field, March 26, at 3 p.m. ET on American Theatre‘s Offscript on Facebook.
Advisors: Claudia Alick, Ava X. Rigelhaupt,Brian Balcom, David Kurs, Regan Linton

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