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Toronto: The “Cripping the Arts” festival runs January 24-26

Monday, January 21, 2019

Cripping the Arts 2019 is three days of programming - panel discussions, co-creative workshops, exhibitions and performances - animating how Deaf, Mad, and Disability arts and activism changes how we experience art and culture as well as the ways our sector contributes, and leads to, the achievements of disability rights and justice movements.

We invite you to join us as we explore, debate, and share emerging ideas and practices that relate to themes of representation and new models of leadership, disability culture in an increasingly digital world, and working in solidarity between disability rights, racial justice, decoloniality, and Indigenous sovereignty.

Crip Shorts:

Six extraordinary disabled performers from Canada and the UK bring their distinct creativity to this one-night celebration. Five short acts, each responding and redefining the experience of disability through performance, feature the UK “stumppeteer” Jackie Hagan, Canadian interdisciplinary creator Jessica Watkin, aerialist Erin Ball, poet Tamyka Bullen and theatrical dancers Justin Many Fingers and Brian Solomon.

Brownton Abbey:

Celestial beings from queer dimensions transform Harbourfront Centre into a kaleidoscopic off-world temple as Brownton Abbey, the UK based Afro-Futurist performance party with a Space Church theme, hits Toronto.

Created by and centering on queer people of colour, especially those with d/Disabilities (s/Super Powers), Brownton Abbey features an international collective of UK and Toronto based artists. The genre defying event fuses a hyped party, performance art and the personal/political, as a catalyst to celebrate intersectional identities.

Take up space, drench yourself in contemporary ritual, and get transcendental on the dance floor.

If you would like to dress up, then please feel free to interpret the theme of Intergalactic techno church realness.

CRIPPING THE ARTS

January 24-26, 2019

Crip Shorts

General Ticket: $17
Community Ticket: $8

Prices include HST. $3 per ticket service charge will be applied to phone orders and online purchases.

Performing Warnings: Strong Language.
Recommended for ages 16+.

Brownton Abbey

General Ticket: $17
Community Ticket: $8

Prices include HST. $3 per ticket service charge will be applied to phone orders and online purchases.

Recommended for ages 16+.
No strobe or flashing lights will be used for this event. Haze and smoke will be used.

Photo: Scene from Brownton Abbey.