Together with partners from three Faculties (Education, Arts and the Allard School) and several Departments, the student-centered and driven a AMS and Disability Clubs and members of the Wingspan Collaborative, as well as off-campus City partners, such as the Cultural and Arts’ sectors, & disability arts NGO’s (REAL Wheels, KickStart, Gallery Gachet) will stage a high-profile dis/arts and disability studies series which makes make the ordinary and extraordinary lives of artists and scholars with disabilities take centre stage in artistic, accessible and imaginative ways.
We intend to pave the cultural dis/arts, public pedagogy and policy path for full belonging, social citizenship and human rights on our campus and beyond by staging how accessibility is both a political and an aesthetic question. Our project will break through the glass ceiling of artistic accessibility on a universal, scholarly and cultural basis with lasting institutional, pedagogical, curricular, and cultural impact. We will open the doors to the intertwined issues of accessible arts and the art of accessibility at UBC and in the City to create a more just, inclusive, and equitable society.
Research Team: Leslie Roman, Tim Stainton, Kirsty Johnston, Jonas Beadury, Gerald Fallon, Steve Cardwell
Funded by: UBC Inclusion and Equity Office