Disability Arts & Culture: Open Mic Night and Art Exhibition
When: Wednesday, January 18th at 4:30-6pm
Where: D Center
Join the The D Center in celebrating disability arts and culture. Featuring an open mic night and art viewing in celebration of disability, D/deafness, neurodiversity and intersectional identities.
We would love to hear from you if you are interested in participating as either a spoken word/poet/storyteller or having your art displayed for attendees to view.
Please e-mail dcenter@uw.edu if you would like to contribute to this celebration of disability and diversity.
Deadline for artists to confirm participation: Jan 13, 2017
Study Abroad and Disability
When: Thursday, January 26th
Where: The D Center
Mobility International and UW’s Law, Societies and Justice department host a one hour workshop on studying abroad with a disability.
Dance Event: “So You Think you Can’t Dance!”
When: March 10th 5-7pm
Location: Intellectual House
Leader: Neve Be AKA Lyric Seal
A physically integrated introduction to partnering in contemporary dance is a welcoming, warming, grounding, and invigorating dance learning experience for ALL bodies. Participants will learn how dance was really always meant for everyone, and it is the love of it and our own bodies doing it that can make us shake and shine. Through a thorough warm up, low impact/high consent/high reward partner exercises, improvisation games, and experiments in duet composition (making dances!), participants will gain new recognition of themselves as beautiful and capable movers, and new trust and comfort with moving with a partner (potentially with a body different from theirs).
D Month Central Events – April 2017
Speaker: Dominick Evans
When: April 6th 5-6:30pm
Where: HUB 332
Topic: Hollywood, the media and Disability
Bio: Dominick is an avid filmmaker, whose primary focus is directing, though he also is active in developing film and media content. He completed his first film, trip in 2014. He is in pre-production for his next film and has feature film scripts and television show concepts in development. Dominick is a passionate human rights activist who has extensive experience fighting for the rights of the disability and LGBT communities. He speaks on issues related to disability representation in film and media
Speaker: Lydia X. Z. Brown
When: Friday, April 21st 7 – 8pm
Where: HUB 332
Topic: Disability as part of social justice/diversity movements/work
Co-presented by Disability Commission and The D Center
Bio: Lydia X. Z. Brown (they/them)is a gender/queer and transracially/transnationally adopted east asian autistic activist, writer, and speaker whose work has largely focused on violence against multiply-marginalized disabled people, especially institutionalization, incarceration, and policing. They have worked to advance transformative change through organizing in the streets, writing legislation, conducting anti-ableism workshops, testifying at regulatory and policy hearings, and disrupting institutional complacency everywhere from the academy to state agencies and the nonprofit-industrial complex. They have also advocated around radical inclusion, access, and participation for disabled people in the academy as well as the implementation of the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services regulations.
In Addition: Coffee/Tea Meet and Greet with Lydia X.Z Brown
When: Friday, April 21st 11-12pm
Where: The D Center
Casual event for students, community members and staff to meet Lydia, talk about activism, disability etc.
