Accessible Audiencing: Planting Disabled Futures (VR & Performance)
January 14–16, 2026
Disability Cultural Community Center
Hearst Field Annex D-25, Berkeley, CA 94720
Calling Up Justice is honored to provide Accessible Audiencing for Planting Disabled Futures, in collaboration with DJ1 Crip Reliance Hub and Disability Justice Culture Club.
As part of this collaboration, Claudia Alick is a featured dancer within the VR experience, contributing embodied movement and crip futurist presence to the project’s living, immersive world.
About the Project
Planting Disabled Futures is a queercrip intimacy installation inviting audiences into a multisensory environment of healing plants, plush critters, shared rituals, and virtual worlds shaped by disabled peoples’ embodied ways of knowing.
Through live performance and virtual reality, the project explores crip joy, pain, care, and ongoingness—asking how technology can support non-extractive intimacy, energetic touch, and connection with plant elders in a time of climate emergency and ongoing COVID realities. Rather than fantasies of overcoming or disembodied mobility, this work centers disabled bodymwindspirits exactly as they are.
Public Events & Schedule
Wednesday, January 14 | 5:00–7:00 PM
Public Performance & Dream Journey
A shared performance featuring projections, collective witnessing, and a closing ritual. This event uses minimal VR and is designed as an open invitation into the world of Planting Disabled Futures, encouraging participants to return for deeper, more intimate VR experiences.
Thursday & Friday, January 15–16
Intimate VR “House Parties”
1.5-hour sign-up slots
Up to 6 participants per session
Each participant will have time inside the VR “tree world,” with multiple visual and audio options available. These sessions are designed as low-key, supportive hangouts—gentle, spacious, and relational.
One slot per person.
Access & Care
Multiple access modes are provided. All events are wheelchair accessible.
We invite participants to share access needs in advance so we can support your experience fully.
Accessible Audiencing with Calling Up Justice includes support for local attendees to attend a COVID safe house party
Project Credits
Presented by The Olimpias
Director: Petra Kuppers
Dramaturg: Alexis Riley
Access Doula: Stephanie Heit
Planting Disabled Futures is supported by the Social Science Research Council’s Just Tech Fellowship, with funds from the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Surdna Foundation, and Democracy Fund.
Co-sponsored by the Othering & Belonging Disability Faculty Research Cluster and the Environmental Arts & Humanities Initiative (Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry), Entanglement Series.