This on-demand video webinar features artists, arts instructors, and allies to the D/deaf and Disability arts community.
In this video, H’art Centre in Kingston, Ontario shares stories of local professional artists and their experiences working on arts projects with D/deaf artists and artists with disabilities. This webinar will introduce H’art’s award-winning MixAbilities Inclusive Arts Training Program that benefited from consolidating those years of experiences and current best practices.
In short interviews, the artists will discuss – from an ally perspective – some of the existing barriers that prevent full participation in the arts, arts training, and arts opportunities for people with disabilities and the D/deaf.
In addition, as our nation ages, artists will speak to the reality that more and more people are experiencing barriers to participation in the arts.
Collectively, we recognize this video is from the perspective of allied artists and arts instructors. Its intention is to encourage the wider arts community to move beyond current practices towards a spirit of full inclusion.
Overall, H’art Centre hopes that this video will inspire you to learn more, collaborate more and start incorporating what you’ve learned into your next workshop or class to make way for the D/deaf artists and artists with disabilities.
H’art Centre is an award-winning, registered not-for-profit, charitable community arts hub that provides artists with disabilities and those facing barriers with opportunities to create, study and produce works in the arts and collaborate with qualified, trained community artists in Kingston, Ontario.
For nearly 25 years, H’art Centre has nurtured a vibrant, exciting and supportive culture that encourages artists, staff, volunteers and audiences to reach beyond limiting beliefs and expectations. To value and recognize artists individually for their abilities, and to share this understanding with the world.
Le H’art Centre est un centre artistique communautaire enregistré à but non lucratif qui offre aux artistes en situation en handicap et aux personnes exclues du secteur artistique des occasions de créer et de produire des œuvres d’art et d’apprendre aux côtés d’artistes qualifié·e·s et formé·e·s, à Kingston (Ontario).
Depuis près de 25 ans, le H’art Centre s’efforce d’instaurer une culture dynamique axée sur le soutien qui encourage les artistes, le personnel, les bénévoles et le public à mettre de côté leurs attentes et leurs croyances au profit d’une reconnaissance à part entière des artistes et à diffuser cette approche.
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