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[Image Description: The Disability Artisan Market graphic, featuring a light blue background with white clouds. At the top are the words “The Disability Artisan Market” in a cursive blue font. At the top left and right corners are multicoloured tassel banners. At the bottom left and right corners are green trees, and at the bottom is grass. In the centre of the grass is a light pink booth with a multicoloured tassel banner on top. In the centre of the booth are various crafts, and underneath is a string of lights. Below are The Disability Collective and the Wagner-Green Centre for Access and Inclusion logos. To the left and right of the booths are several shopping bags in pink, blue, and purple]
Sunday, August 25
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Dufferin Grove Park
875 Dufferin Street, Toronto
Join us for the second annual Disability Artisan Market, presented by The Disability Collective and the Wagner-Green Centre for Access and Inclusion! The Market will feature work created solely by disabled artists. Stop by to shop arts and crafts made by local disabled artists, participate in community-building events, listen to live music from disabled musicians, and enjoy food & drinks from community vendors!
The Disability Artisan Market will allow disabled artists to showcase and sell their work in a fun and community-driven environment. This family-friendly event will be a fun and exciting opportunity for the community to come together to experience and engage in art.
Join us for FREE on Sunday, August 25 at Dufferin Grove Park!
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October 4-6, 2024
2:00 PM & 7:30 PM EDT
Betty Oliphant Theatre
404 Jarvis Street, Toronto
[Image Description: The Waiting in the Wings No More graphic, featuring an image of five dancers (Rob Chartier, Moni Hoffman, Siôned Watkins, Amelia Rose Griffin, and Liz Winkelaar) performing in 'Living the u̶n̶Desirable Life'. Three dancers are standing and two dancers are seated in wheelchairs. They wear light blue tops with red and blue patterned accents and black bottoms. The two wheelchair dancers, who are at the front left and back right, are leaning forward. The dancer in the centre is leaning forward to their left, holding the hand of the wheelchair dancer at the front left. Another dancer stands behind the dancer in the centre, with one of their hands on the face of the dancer in front of them. The dancer at the back left has one hand on a wheelchair handle, and their other hand on the back of the dancer in the centre back. The stage is quite dim with blue lighting. There are shadows of the two wheelchair dancers on the stage to their right. At the top left corner are The Disability Collective, Propeller Dance, and Fall for Dance logos in white. At the top right corner are the words “Waiting in the Wings No More”, “October 4-6, 2024”, and “Betty Oliphant Theatre” in white font. At the bottom left corners are the ASL interpretation and audio description symbols in white]
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In Waiting in the Wings No More, two distinct but connected worlds emerge from two internationally recognized inclusive dance choreographers Lucy Bennett (Artistic Director, Stopgap Dance Company) and Renata Soutter (Former Artistic and Executive Director, Propeller Dance). A ground-breaking moment in the Canadian dance landscape, witness reflections on experiences of disability, musings on the beauty of disabled bodyminds taking space, and the pride that comes through pushing back against society’s standards and expectations of disability and dance through the lens of Disability Pride, joy, and culture.
Bennett's creation Stage Door is a site-generic work of immersive dance conversations and revealing vignettes, conceived by Bennett and Hannah Sampson from Stopgap Dance Company. It is a commentary on why artists with disabilities are still 'waiting in the wings'. The piece blends harmoniously with Soutter's Living the u̶n̶Desireable Life, that is about questions and the possibility of answers, the right to a voice, loving our bodies, rejection and belonging, and the risk of applying binaries (disabled/non disabled, woman/man, queer/straight, valuable/worthless) to ourselves and to others.
As complex human animals, we all share many things, including the desire to live our lives fully and how we wish.
Waiting in the Wings No More is presented by The Disability Collective, within Fall for Dance North's 2024 annual festival program, with support from Fall for Dance North.
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