A professional actor with over 10 years experience in TV, theatre, radio and film – recent TV credits include ‘Upstairs Downstairs’ (Series 1 & 2), Doctors and Holby City. Sarah is also a Trustee of The Oyster Project a charity led and run by disabled people. She has Downs Syndrome but does not believe labels should define or limit what you can achieve. Currently, with the support of Arts Council…
Dear Friends, Since 2004 the Laser Eagles Art Guild has been providing support and opportunities to artists with limited speech and/mobility to produce and exhibit their artwork. As a community based arts guild we depend on the generous contributions of our supporters. We have assembled a great team and now operate 3 weekly sessions across the Greater Toronto Area. Virtually all funds raised by the Laser Eagles Art Guild go…
Monday, July 8 to Sunday, July 14 www.madprideto.com Mad Pride is an arts, culture, and heritage festival created by psychiatric survivors, consumers, mad people, folks the world has labeled “mentally ill”, and those in solidarity with us. Mad Pride is about: • remembering and participating in mad history • challenging discrimination • advocating for rights • affirming mad identities • developing and empowering mad communities • having fun! Our lives and…
Ray Cohen, founder and CEO of the Canadian Abilities Foundation and editor of Abilities magazine, passed away on March 22, 2013 at the age of 64. Ray was a tireless advocate for people with disabilities. Through the Abilities Foundation, Ray fostered Abilities Arts Festival’s first tentative steps; and was a continuing guide and supporter both to the organization as a whole and to our many artists. Our heartfelt condolences to…
NEW DEADLINE – July 31st, 2013 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for a book on: KEEPING REFLECTION FRESH Top Educators Share Their Innovations in Health Professional Education To be published in 2014 by KENT STATE PRESS in their Literature and Medicine series Editors: Allan Peterkin, MD and Pamela Brett-MacLean, PhD Please distribute widely this call widely. Feel free to encourage your colleagues who are working in this area to submit to…
Propeller Dance: RBC Emerging Choreographers Program – Call to Artists! Propeller Dance has launched a new program for Dance Artists with Disability. The future of integrated dance in Canada relies on the artistic growth and artistic voices of dance choreographers with disability. It is vital that we support their contribution towards putting integrated contemporary dance on the international dance map – changing the existing dance landscape to include artists with…
