Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba

Call for photographers Flash Fest
2024-10-16 08:00 - 2024-11-20 17:00 (America/Winnipeg) | La Maison Des Artistes, 219 boul. Provencher, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R2H 0G4, Canada
Call to Photographers!

FLASH Photographic Festival began as an annual event in 2014, to promote photographic artists through the presentation of multiple shows over one whole month.
FLASH’s vision is to increase the number of artists working in the photographic arts in Manitoba, increase public appreciation, and educate about the techniques and philosophies of photography.
AANM is partnering with La Maison des Artistes Visuels Francophone to mount a juried exhibition in the Flash Photographic Festival. Selected artists will receive $462 CarFac fee to exhibit their artwork in the La Maison Studio Gallery. You must identify as d/Deaf or disabled to apply for this show.
APPLICATION DEADLINE NOV 20, 2024
Send the following to programming@aanm.ca:
-Artist CV
-Photography: up to 6 images, Max size 200MB
If you need any assistance with your application contact Jenel Shaw at info@aanm.ca or (204) 336-2366.

Manitoba Underground Opera: Playtime
2024-08-23 17:00 - 19:00 | 101-329 Cumberland Ave, 101-329 Cumberland Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1T2, Canada
Join Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba for an ASL interpreted opera presented by the Manitoba Underground Opera!

Manitoba Underground Opera: Playtime

All performances are free to attend! ASL interpretation available for this event!

Show description: Anna is SICK of studying and doing homework. Her school subjects are boring, and she’d rather imagine fantastical worlds and stories in her spare time. Luckily, Anna’s moms help her realize that learning is fun! Inspired by their daughter’s talent for creativity, they decide to dress up and create imaginary scenarios to bring Anna’s lessons to life.

Borrowing music from Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, Playtime features brand new English text written by Max Fingerote. Between July and August, chances are the Neighbourhood Opera Tour is coming to your area. And because admission is always free, this show is accessible to all families. Stay tuned for a full list of performance locations and dates.

Venue

C2 Centre for Craft, 101-329 Cumberland Ave.

Tickets

There is limited space in the venue. Order your free tickets now on eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/969243973817?aff=oddtdtcreator

Anti-Ableism Workshop for the Arts Launch
2024-06-27 15:00 - 17:00 | Winnipeg Art Gallery, 300 Memorial BLVD, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 1V1, Canada
Join Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba for the launch of our Anti-Ableism Workshop for the Arts.

At this event, AANM Board Chair Diane Driedger, AANM Executive Director Jenel Shaw, and former Senator and champion of the arts Patricia Bovey will discuss why anti-ableism education, advocacy, and action is crucial in the art world.

You will hear how your organization can book AANM’s full Anti-Ableism Workshop, which covers the history of disability in Canada, the disability rights movement, disability and Deaf language and protocols, notable disability art organizations in Canada, famous artists with disabilities, and practical advice for creating accessible events.

After the one hour presentation snacks and coffee will be available for the audience to network and meet with the presenters.

ASL interpretation provided

If you are unable to join us in person, join us virtually!

Meeting link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82102629547?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meeting ID: 821 0262 9547

Passcode: [REDACTED]

Resonance & Cross-Sensory Translation in Pyrotechnic Arts
2024-05-12 19:00 - 21:30 | Video Pool, 2nd Floor, 100 Arthur St, Winnipge, Manitoba, R3B 1H7, Canada
Resonance & Cross-Sensory Translation in Pyrotechnic Arts

Collin van Uchelen, Ph.D.

Abstract:

Pyrotechnic arts can have an impact that is experienced both in our bodies and in our emotions. We may feel thrilled by the exhilarating intensity at the finale of a firework display and we may also feel tingles or goose-bumps in moments that touch us deeply. I call this visceral experience resonance. In this seminar, we will explore what brings on this tingling energy in the presence of art.

Drawing on my own experience of sight-loss, I will describe how resonance provides a way to feel connected with art. I will also show how words, touch, and sounds can be used to translate the appearance of light across senses – making it accessible in non-visual forms. On a broader level, this presentation invites participants to consider how the low-vision/blind community can be meaningfully included in public displays of art—such as events featuring fireworks.

Biographical Information:

Collin van Uchelen, Ph.D., is a Community Psychologist, Conceptual Artist, and Pyrotechnician based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Collin’s appreciation for fireworks is informed by his own experience of sight-loss from a degenerative blinding eye disease. His work in the pyrotechnic arts explores techniques for translating the light of fireworks into non-visual forms, such as descriptive words, sounds, and tactile representations. Currently, he is choreographing a pyro-musical display from his unique position as a designer who is functionally blind.

Venue Information:

Venue is fully accessible with a lift at the entrance, elevators and accessible washrooms.

Accessibility:

To request ASL or any other Accessibility Request/Accommodations please contact Jenel Shaw at info@aanm.ca (204)-336-2366

Book Launch, Wandering Thoughts by John Oross
2023-08-26 09:00 - 20:00 | 329 Cumberland Avenue
Join us to celebrate the launch of author John Oross’s book “Wandering Thoughts”.

Oross will be available to sign books through out the event and there will also be books available to purchase.

Author John Oross is thrilled to announce the publication of his literary masterpiece, “Wandering Thoughts.” Named after his series of writing journals, this collection of poetry, prose, lyrics, short stories, open political letters, and a mini script touching upon a myriad of topics that are written to engage the reader to contemplate.

In “Wandering Thoughts,” Oross opens his soul, explores themes of equality and unity, emphasizing their transformative power to ignite conversations and expand minds to new possibilities. By thoughtfully weaving his experiences into the fabric of his writing, Oross initiates an essential dialogue that resonates with readers of all ages. This literary work serves as the catalyst for change, fostering healing, and inspiring hope in the face of life’s challenges. Throughout his life, he has faced adversity, homelessness, memory loss, divorce, yet has never given into despair.

Based upon his many experiences and born from his opinions, you are taken on a journey whereby together you confront the topics of equality as a human right to slavery through currency differentials used to diminish the lives of entire cultures.

“Change begins within each of us through respecting our cultural differences, forgiving our collective transgressions, and working towards equality and unity of purpose for humanity as a collective, thereby securing our future for generations to come.”

“Wandering Thoughts” is poised to captivate the reader with its depth, emotional resonance, and thought-provoking prose. John Oross invites readers to embrace the universal themes within his work and discover the positive aspect that shines through every cloud. This extraordinary collection promises to leave an impression, reminding readers that amidst adversity, hope prevails. “Life is a journey of the soul.”

Writing Poetry About Disability
2023-06-15 18:00 - 2023-07-27 20:00 | MB
Or How To “Crip” Your Poem

An online workshop with Governor General’s Award Winner Jacob Scheier

Thursday: 6-8pm Central Time: June 15-July 27 (off-week June 29)

In this six-week online workshop-course, participants will learn techniques and devices for writing poetry about disability with a disability (social-political) consciousness, also known as “Crip Poetry: a radical subgenre of poetry focused on self-defining disability against the norms of a society made by and for able-bodied/minded people.

This workshop is open to anyone who identifies as having a disability: this is not limited to physical disability, but includes psychological disability: such as (but not limited to), those who identify as neurodiverse and/or psychiatric survivors.

Writers of all levels of experience are welcome.

Jacob Scheier is the author of three full length poetry collections with ECW Press, including Is This Scary? (2021): a poetic chronicle of mental suffering and chronic illness. His poems have been published in magazines and anthologies across North America, been nominated for a National Magazine Award, and Longlisted for the CBC Poetry.

Jacob has been facilitating poetry workshops on disability since 2019 for a variety of communities and institutions, most recently as the Fall 2022 Writer in Residence at the University of Manitoba

To register or for more information contact Jacob at disabilitypoetry@gmail.com

For more info about Jacob, go to http://jacobscheier.ca

Cost: $250—Sliding Scale for those in financial need

Creative Accessibility: Grant Accessibility
2023-05-10 12:00 - 13:00 | MB
Creative Accessibility: Grant Accessibility

Created in partnership with Creative Manitoba

Register today: https://creativemanitoba.ca/events/creative-accessibility-grant-accessibility/

Applying for grants can be a big step in your journey as an artist. In this workshop, participants will learn more about the resources available to artists to help cover the costs of disability-related services and supports necessary to complete their projects.

Join us in conversation with representatives from The Manitoba Arts Council, and The Winnipeg Arts Council Granting programs to talk about grants accessibility for Deaf and disabled artists.

Creative Accessibility is a series of workshops that will explore disability art, the experiences of artists with disabilities and how to make art accessible. These workshops will be beneficial not only for emerging artists with disabilities, but artists at all levels of their career with and without disabilities.

Facilitators

Sacha Kopelow was born and raised in rural Manitoba. She holds degrees from University of Winnipeg in International Development and Environmental Studies, and a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Sacha has worked in social and environmental justice for most of her career and is a practising artist, primarily working in cast glass, metalsmithing, and oil painting. To learn more about Sacha’s art, visit her website at https://sachakopelow.wordpress.com. Alt Text is provided on most images for the blind and those with low vision.

About the Speakers

Dominic Lloyd is originally from the Yukon Territory where he worked with numerous arts organizations including the Dawson City Music Festival, the Yukon International Storytelling Festival, the Dawson City International Short Film Festival, and the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture. In 2004 he became Artistic Director of Winnipeg’s West End Cultural Centre, a position he held for nearly six years before taking on the role of Project Manager for Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada 2010. He has been in his current role overseeing WAC’s grant programs and Arts Development activities since 2011.

Throughout his career, Dominic has served on numerous arts and community boards, been a juror and advisor for agencies across the country, and presented at conferences in Canada and Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Canadian History and Political Science from Simon Fraser University. In his spare time he enjoys four seasons in the prairie wilderness with his family, and obsesses over baseball statistics.

Martine Friesen (she/her) is a program consultant at the Manitoba Arts Council where she has worked for the last 15 years. Prior to joining the MAC team, she studied classical piano and worked as a professional actor, producer, writer, and teacher. As MAC’s accessibility coordinator, Martine works to make sure all Manitobans can access MAC’s grants and services.”

AANM AGM and Artist Talk with Jacob Scheier
2022-11-08 18:00 - 20:00 | MAWA (Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, 611 Main St, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1E1, Canada
Join AANM for its annual general meeting and artist talk with Canadian poet Jacob Scheier

Jacob Scheier is a Canadian poet, essayist and journalist. He is the author of three full length poetry collections with ECW Press, including the Governor General’s Award winning More to Keep Us Warm (2007). His most recent collection Is This Scary? (2021), explores the radical subjectivity of chronic mental and physical illness. His poems have been published in numerous magazines, journals and anthologies, as well as nominated for a National Magazine Award and longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. Jacob is also the author of My Never-Ending Acid Trip, a hybrid work of literary journalism and memoir, published as an ebook with the Toronto Star, and his personal essays have appeared in a number of publications, including Brick and the Globe and Mail. He is currently Writer-In-Residence at The Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture (CCWOC) at the University of Manitoba.

The “Mad” Artist in the 21st Century

One of the roles and expectations of an artist in our culture is to present a unique “vision”—a perception of and into reality that is both distinct but resonate. When it comes to artistically presenting experiences of mental health struggles, this expectation can lend itself to the romanticizing trope of “the mad genius” or visionary—which actually impedes authentic rendering of such experiences. For example, to write a poem that renders the mundaneness of psychiatric institution is to disappoint such a cultural expectation. And in this respect, the “mad genius” or visionary trope is as stifling a cultural script as the medical model—with its clinical categorization of symptoms that treat mental suffering as particular kinds of diseases in need of a “cure.” The challenge for the “mad” artist today then is to render the radical subjectivity of mental suffering while not falling prey to the trope of the “mad genius/visionary” or conforming to the medical model’s attempt to narrowly define and pathologize our experiences. This presentation, through the medium of poetry, will suggest some ways we, as artists, might begin to accomplish this difficult task.

Reserve your tickets now!

For tickets for the online event: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/444753428477

For tickets for the in-person event: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/444751934007

Crip Strength: Art + Body + Mind
2022-10-29 13:00 - 16:00 | MB
This free event will be held at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights and presented on Zoom.

In-person tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/crip-strength-art-body-mind-tickets-432710658227

Zoom tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/crip-strength-art-body-mind-tickets-432736014067

Crip Strength: Art + Body + Mind, is a one-day event held at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR). Crip Strength will also be presented virtually to reach rural artists who may not be able to travel to attend in-person, as well as for those in the Deaf and disability art community who are home-bound. There will be a juried exhibition of visual art and programmed dance, theater, musical, and literary performances, as well as speakers.

Crip Strength will explore the concept of what is “normal” when it comes to disability. Through art, many artists who are Deaf and/or disabled are questioning assumptions of normality in how the mind and body perform. Deaf and/or disabled artists have much to share and teach the larger art community about access, creative problem solving and adaptation. These concepts have long been necessary for Deaf and/or disabled artists to participate in the larger arts community and have become even more relevant to the larger society as we live through a pandemic that requires us to self-isolate and find creative solutions to reach one another through alternative means.

Crip Strength will be a very important and timely event for the Deaf and/or disabled artists. It has been almost ten years since the last disability and arts festival was held in Manitoba. Crip Strength will emphasize the ways that Deaf and disability culture is changing how we see ourselves and how we have impacted the world around us. This event will allow the Deaf and disability community to share with their peers and colleagues the excellent work they have been creating over the past decade. Those who attend Crip Strength will leave with a better understanding of disability art and culture and its importance.

This event will include performers of excellence: comedian Adam Schwartz, poet Kathy Arnold, dancers Natalie Sluis and Anne Nordorf, and burlesque dancer Emily Farraige.

To ensure accessibility and ease of access at Crip Strength, an Access Guide has been created which includes information of the venue (Canadian Museum of Human Rights), how to travel to the event, available accessibility accommodation, who to contact for assistance, how to access the event virtually, details about the festival performers and what to expect, glossary of terms, and other pertinent information for those attending the event.

crip strength gallery guide interactive accessibleDownload

ASL Version of Guide:

Table of Contents

Introduction and Accessibility Statement

Quick Guide

What is an Arts Festival? What is Crip Strength?

What is a Land Acknowledgment?

Why was the CMHR Selected to host Crip Strength?

How Do I Get There?

What Are Some Accessibility Features?

How to Use Zoom

How to Can I Make Crip Strength Safe and Inclusive? Who Can I Contact for Assistance?

What are Some Words the Will be Used, A-C

What are Some Words the Will be Used, D-I

What are Some Words the Will be Used, L-N

What are Some Words the Will be Used, P-R

What are Some Words the Will be Used, T-W

Schedule

Speakers, Emcee Lara Rae

Speakers, Diane Driedger

Speakers, The Hon. Patrica Bovey, FRSA, FCMA

Performers, Adam Schwartz

Performers, Emily Farriage

Performers, Kathy Arnold

Performers, Natalie Sluis and Anne Neudorf

Visual Artists, Candace Lipischak

Visual Artists, Carla Sierra Suarez

Visual Artists, Marie LeBlanc

Visual Artists, Meagan Hoskins

Visual Artists, Ryan Smoluk

Visual Artists, Sacha Kopelow

Visual Artists, Susan Aydan Abbott

Visual Artists, Yvette Cenerini

Acknowledgments

Boreal Shores Art Tour
2022-08-21 12:00 | MB
Life Goes on…Art is alive and well in Eastman!

The Boreal Shores Art Tour will return this summer after a two year closure due to COVID, on Saturday, Aug. 20 and Sunday, 21, 2022.

This is a popular, free, road-trip worthy, self-guided art tour, with a chance to visit 38 artists at 21 locations scattered throughout the boreal forest and shore regions of Eastern Manitoba. We have new artists and returning artists with some new mediums and new locations. It’s a perfect weekend road trip to take with friends and/or family. Combine viewing art with a day trip and stop at one of the many great eateries in this part of the province. A highlight of this art tour has been the chance to see many of the artists in their studios and view many diverse forms of art, including paintings, ceramics, sculpture, photography, wood turning and fabric art. Other locations will feature groups of artists displaying their work together. Brochures with maps to every site will be available and drivers will also see special road signs to help on their journey.

The Boreal Shores Art Tour will follow all COVID guidelines and orders at the time. Masks and hand sanitizers will be available at every stop.

Every effort will be made to keep everyone safe.!

To learn more visit borealshoresarttour.ca or find us on Facebook!

For interview requests, contact Mary Louise Chown at:mlchown@shaw.ca

Or 204-348-7540
