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Promo image for Access ALLways 2024. A digital graphic of a computer monitor with lots of accessible symbols on the screen.

Access ALLways 2024

Access ALLways workshops are Kinetic Light's approach to accessibility & equity training.

Promo image for "The Pulse."

Crip the Script

Joeita speaks to scriptwriter and disabled TV producer Ophira Calof about the Disabled Producers Lab, a new program designed to teach production skills to disabled women and trans creators.

Promo image for "Disability Sociology with Guinevere Chambers."

Disability Sociology with Guinevere Chambers

Sexuality and disability! Invisible illnesses! Airline frustrations! How many of us are disabled?! July is Disability Pride Month, and professor, researcher, activist, and Disability Sociologist Guinevere Chambers joins to bust myths and provide perspective.

Promo image for the 2024 Toronto Disability Pride march.

Toronto Disability Pride March

Toronto’s 13th Annual Disability Pride March is coming up!

Screen capture of Maxime Beauregard (left) and Erin Ball (right).

The Disability Files

The Disability Files | Erin Ball and Maxime Beauregard

Erin and Maxime share what it's like to create an alpha and beta project for FOLDA (Festival of Live Digital Art) in Kingston, ON, including a bit about their process, experimenting, and testing accessible practice.

⏯️ Creative Accessibility Across Canada

Inside: a recording from a recent presentation by Lindsay Fisher on what Creative Connector is and how you can get involved.

Promo image for "Disabled Artists Disrupting The Museum.

Disrupting the museum.

Disabled artists are disrupting museums and galleries.

Illustration of Celestine, a white woman with short hair, riding a three-wheeled mobility scooter through an ocean wave.

Surfing a wave of disability media.

Navigating tensions between art, activism and access.

Francis Majekodunmi as Lady Francesca in Girl Meets Boy, wearing a sequinned gold dress and bright blue eyeshadow.

Don't be a drag, just be a queen.

Inside: With the right support, the arts allow everyone to push the boundaries of what they are capable of, and to get out of their comfort zone.

Jillian wears a yellow dress and lots of silver rings, sitting in a power chair.

Black Disabled Creatives

Inside: the Black Disabled Creatives initiative started in alliance with the disabled community, who are tired of being underrepresented and under-appreciated.

Promo image for "PROGRESSION."

PROGRESSION

Salima Punjani has an online exhibition taking place through our friends over at Arts Accessibility Network Manitoba.

Promo image for Creative Accessibility Across Canada.

Creative Accessibility Across Canada

Creative Connector is teaming up with Creative Manitoba for an online seminar as part of their "Creative Accessibility Across Canada" programming.

A garden with a variety of flowers; colourful blooms of yellow, pink, purple and green.

What’s the story of a garden?

Described Toronto seeks out these answers in a new audio storytelling project and you're invited to join them!

Gaitrie sits in a purple fabric used for aerial swings. The image is mirrored, so you see two Gaitries and two swings.

FOLDA 2024

Inside: The 7th annual Festival of Live Digital Art (FOLDA) returns to this year.

Cripping the Venice Biennale

Cripping the Venice Biennale

The exuberant history of resistance by the Disability Arts Movement gets a historic review in Venice.

Lee, holding up a copy of hir zine "Like This: A Workbook on Consent, Desire, and Logistics" in front of hir face.

Member Highlight: Lee P.

Creative Connector Member Highlight: Meet Lee

Opera Mariposa's Benefit + Awareness Extravaganza

Inside: Join Opera Mariposa for some digital programming featuring musical performances, an art showcase, nearly $4,000 in prizes and more in support of the chronic illness community and the ME | FM Society of BC.

Inflatable bubbles resembling shiny buildings, dubbed as "art-chitecture" by the artist, Atelier Sisu.

2024 Luminato Festival

Inside: this multi-arts festival celebrates the energy of the city and connects people through memorable art experiences.

A screenshot from Andy Slater's guided tour of "Unseen Sound."

Unseen Sound

Spatial audio and reorienting lived experiences of real and virtual space.

A colourful graphic of a knight in a video game, fighting gargoyle villains.

The Future of Accessible Gaming

Designing for disability: how video games become more accessible.

Alex holds her hands in a heart shape atop her stomach.

Disabled people watch porn.

OnlyFans creator and sex worker Alex A. shares her experience of creating adult content with a visible disability.

Screenshot of a tutorial where Cornelius teaches the audience how to create a pattern.

Tailored to Fit 👌

Cornelius Quiring's platform is all about learning how to make and tailor clothing to your body.

Dancers of all abilities are frozen in a dramatic pose, arms stretched wide, on a stage with blue lighting effects.

Crip-Pollination

Cross-Pollination: Sharing Practice in Integrated Dance and Disability Arts is a cross-Canada arts exchange program.

Ashley T. is a Black woman with dark long hair laying upside down on her back. She is holding her face with her right hand.

Member Highlight: Ashley T.

Creative Connector Member Highlight: Meet Ashley

Brianne is wearing a red sweater and purple scarf. A purple hexagon graphic design borders the picture.

No End in Sight

A podcast about chronic illness and the stories from individuals who are living it.