July is Disability Pride Month! What better way to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride and Disability Pride with an Accessible Virtual Pride!
Jan 6 2025 was a call to action to celebrate and collaborate with local arts, cultural organizations, and communities to amplify our collective impact. This beautiful event included national theater leaders sharing inspiring ideas and actions. Let us ask ourselves and others: "How are you keeping your light on?
May 2025 Mouthwater Dance will share it's 2024 work and new work on it's youtube channel and via watch parities produced and livestreamed with Calling Up Justice.
Monday Jan 20 2025 we live-streamed a reading of the “I Have Been to the Mountaintop” Martin Luther King’s last speech before his assassination. Then in our digital encampment we gathered with disabled friends and watched the live-stream of the Radical Legacy March and performance with ASL.
We are building digital student encampments for disabled students and others who cannot attend encampments in person for safety reasons.
Dis/Rep (Disability/Representation) is a yearly series of virtual dialogues focused on Disability, accessibility, and culture
Welcome to “WHY MASK?” the thought-provoking art installation by Claudia Alick. By provoking thoughtful consideration and raising awareness, this project transcends political divisions and emphasizes the significance of safeguarding one another during times of crisis.
Trek Talk, Trek Table, AI Experiments, and more
Not everyone can physically attend protests, and this virtual gathering serves as a vital platform to express grief, stand in solidarity, and engage in meaningful action against ongoing humanitarian crises.
we value the act of being in community while we audience for cultural productions. We produce gatherings to enjoy theater, film, and television in a digital space where we can share reactions and comments
Calling Up Justice supports our audience who cannot attend protests in person.
The Every 28 Hours Plays were developed to address the racial justice conversation we need to have.
Calling Up Justice regularly conducts scheduled and impromptu livestreams across multiple platforms, including Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
Calling Up Justice combining streaming video game platforms and social justice content.
Calling Up Justice is producing disability and racial justice in our artificial intelligence and machine learning experiments and projects.
We Charge Genocide TV: QTBIPOC vs the United States Government for the continuing crime of genocide.
Dec 28 2024 Calling Up Justice presented this digital cold reading of. “Istwa A Two Long Table Read,” the afrofuturist devised dance music theater piece from SkyRiver Speaks and directed by Claudia Alick. We were joined by international theater makers, Haitian cultural experts, and disabled community in our our futuristic digital space full of links to Haitian cultural information.
Calling Up Justice Communications Producer, Jesenia @NeuroSpicyNetworking, drove up to Seattle to join MouthWater Festival as their Production Manager. MouthWater Festival is a Disabled Arts Festival centering Black and Indigenous Disabled artists in Seattle, WA SEP 23 – OCT 13, 2024.
October 3 2024 Calling Up Justice held an emergency 3 day livestream in order to raise enough money to save our studio
July 24 2024 This action includes a livestream honoring of Sonya’s life and loss, live reading of selected scripts, this project description, and Links to immediately take action, plus Links to download plays.
July 12 2024 Disability Culture is Here: Virtual Talent Showcase, Panel, and Community Dance Party. Featuring Claudia Alick, Daisy Washington, Antoine Hunter, Lotus Boy, and Gaelyn Lea.
June 21 2024 we participated in digital events and art making in Chicago with the Network of Ensemble Theaters and Theater Communications Group. The conference was in person with limited hybrid and digital options. Network of Ensemble theaters held a hybrid closing dinner with Alisha Tonsic.
July 20 2024 StaceyFest is a project of the Disability Justice Culture Club and fiscally sponsored by the SPM Disability Justice Fund 501(c)(3). StaceyFest is a new disability justice culture festival and an opportunity to celebrate the memory and ongoing legacy of renowned disability justice advocate Stacey Park Milbern.
CUJ advised them on their accessibility and digital engagement. June 9 2024 We embedded the livestream in our LGBQ2S Oasis inside the Digital Encampment. We hung out for around 3 hours chatting, enjoying the acts and doing a digital dance.
Voices on the Ground is an offshoot of Virtual Protesting, where we hear from people who are in or from the countries experiencing ongoing genocides. At these live streams, guest speakers on the ground share firsthand accounts of their experiences, families, and struggles. April 2024
March 1 2024 For Claudia’s birthday we presented content and speech that she can’t share on the platforms. The evening included poetry, stories, and speech she get’s suspended, banned and suppressed for...and karaoke!
Feb 29 2024 presented at La Mama Theater in NYC. Commissioned by Erik Ehn “100K Praises” is a videogame that celebrates self-empowerment and positive self-image. Journey through a series of challenges and collect 100 genuine statements about your own character and achievements. Designed by Maiamama and Claudia Alick. Music from Makenna Lyric.
Jan 15 2024 We attended Anti Police-Terror Project’s 10th Annual Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy March and Week of Action. We attended the livestream during Maiamama’s Make-up Monday and then Claudia read the Letter from Birmingham Jail. Below is the full text from the speech.
November 29 2023 Calling Up Justice Produced a disability justice informed digital production of The Gaza Monologues written by children from Ashtar Theater Palestine. We are among many different productions producing The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
In a hat tip to the late, great Shirley Chisholm, the theme for WOCA‘s 13th Annual Membership Meeting is “Unbothered and Unbossed” 2023
Experiments in Art, Access & Technology, or E.A.A.T. chronicles the emergence of access as an animating principle of art, science, and technology. 2023
WE BEEN HERE! Celebrating the International Movement of Disabled Hip Hop Artists. 2022
2022 year-long digital performance and social experiment around arts fundraising. Experience a liberating artistic exploration of decolonizing wealth and deconstructing our relationship to philanthropy.
2021 Electra, performed by groundbreaking, fully virtual theater production company Access Classics, and co-produced by Calling Up Justice.
August 2020 with LA COMMONS AND THE LEIMERT PARK ARTWALK
September 2020 with Fools Fury
I Left Neither my Bed Nor my Room Terri Lynne Hudson multimedia piece December 12 2024. Her 3Arts Fellowship culminated in an asynchronous multimedia experience. Claudia Alick directing and co-designed her devised piece that includes original music, art, movement, and text.
Nov 6 2024 We designed special spaces and performative scores to experience the production of election night. Part Watch Party, part disassociation party, part design jam.
October 2024 The [Di]Vergent unconference in San Pedro Laguna, Guatemala was produced by Jesenia and others from The Justice Producers Collaborative.
Calling Up Justice is mourning the loss of our dear artistic partner and powerful advocate, Tinu Abayomi-Paul, who passed away on September 26, 2024. We supported the digital memorial session for Tinu produced by family and friends.
Aug 25 2024—Portland Playhouse and Online. a hybrid pro-masking disability justice pop-up art exhibition and open mic, organized to raise awareness about the critical need for masking to protect disabled community members.
This 24-hour online event featuring 100+ Global Artists and Activists for a Free Palestine, including performances and presentations honoring the Palestinian people and their steadfastness in the face of genocide. CUJ created a digital theater space and arranged hosts for a 24 watch party.
June 22 2024 Claudia Alick printed stickers to a location in Chicago for a Why Mask installation performance at the TCG Conference. Jesse Alick picked up the stickers and shared them to other people at the conference.
June 17 2024 NERO is a Shakespearean, five-act “streamplay” theatricalizing the history from George W. Bush’s War on Terror to our present day as the rise and fall of Nero’s Roman Empire. Claudia acted as access doula and host for the watch party
De La Projects and Calling Up Justice joined with The Geekish Network to produce this final season. Reflecting on Star Trek Discovery's final season on a new channel.
Claudia hosted M Elio’s Art Museum from Bed from Feb 21-March 11. She featured the artwork in the background of several of her online performances and events.
Jan. 13, 2024 Members of One Free Community and Calling Up Justice attended the rally and march in DC on Saturday January 13th where over 400,000 people came out in support of a permanent ceasefire and the liberation of the people in Palestine via our virtual protests
Calling Up Justice Producer Jesenia @NeuroSpicyNetworking attended this Disability Justice Convening hosted by Women Enabled International.
We collaborated on access design with Gray Area Festival Oct 19-22 2023 Plural Prototypes. We started with supporting artists and process with the Viverse Metaverse CripTech collab.
Calling Up Justice and One Free Community were so happy to work with the Inclusive Theatre Festival Oct 11-12 2023 with Seesaw Theater at Northwestern University in Chicago lL.
2021 Collaboration with Babmbd Fest
Begun in March of 2020 by producer/directors Claudia Alick and Kholoud Sawaf, is an international peer exchange gathering and non-prescriptive incubation space.
Our Million Mask March is to protest ending mask mandates. We invite everyone to post a photo or video to our digital March since we can’t meet in person safely without mask mandates. Our Digital March is an online protest to the eugenics filled policies of COVID denial. We can’t march outside together safely because not enough people are masking. Help us reach 1 million masks. This project was conceived by Tinu, produced by Claudia, and graphic designed by Maia. 2022
2020 with Sikivu Hutchinson and MOAD the Museum of African Diaspora
2019-2020
2020-2021 with Black Girl Magic Creative Series and Ella Tureen
Copyright © 2023 Calling Up! • Site Design by MULTO.com
Calling Up Justice is fiscally sponsored by Intersection for the Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, which allows us to offer you tax deductions for your contributions. Please make checks payable to Intersection for the Arts, and write “Calling Up Justice” in the memo line. This ensures that you’ll receive an acknowledgement letter for tax purposes, and your donation will be available for our project.