A Growing List of Arts and Disability Resources:

Note: This is a work in progress. We expect this list will grow with your contributions. Please fill out the survey on the last page of the resources website to share additional resources.

Arts in Education:

Face2Face 2021: Centering Disability Identity for Students of the Arts with Disabilities - NYC Arts in Ed Roundtable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkLd1GD1Vd4

Kennedy Center resources on arts, education, and disability:

https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/networks-conferences-and-research/research-and-resources/vsa-research-and-resources/

Perkins School for the Blind: What Inclusive Accessible Arts Education Looks Like:

https://www.perkins.org/what-inclusive-accessible-arts-education-looks-like/

Disability and the Arts:

Art in America: Disability Culture So Far: A Movement in Milestones:

https://www.artnews.com/list/art-in-america/features/disability-culture-milestones-1234642589/

Ordinary Extraordinary Activism – Eliza Chandler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiO08k2AG28

Changing Arts Ep 10: Disability inclusion in the arts

https://www.tomocgroup.com/podcast/disability-inclusion-arts-culture

Tangled Art + Disability 401 Richmond | Creatives of Toronto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGWqcRw_hNk

Mari Ramsawakh on queer disability and the arts | This Ability Xtra Magazine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yONGntzsbUs

Disability Rights:

Our fight for disability rights -- and why we're not done yet | Judith Heumann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJr4wGcLNsA

A Brief but Spectacular take on the disability rights movement PBS NewsHour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PnUza4FPz8

Disability Justice:

My Disability Justice – The Painter (Mia Farah, Lebanon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13W6r-1BhwY

Intersectionality & disability, ft Keri Gray, the Keri Gray Group 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2XN0CQazr0

Intersections of Disability Justice and Transformative Justice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dKystkbHKQ

Disability Justice - Mia Mingus (interview clip)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNMLnlnaX-Q

My Disability Justice – the Dancer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMhzgpOONc8

Disability Visibility Project/Podcast:

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/podcast-2/

Access:

Sound System Allows Deaf People to Experience Music Like Never Before:

https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/219070/for-deaf-tactile-sound-system-takes-music-beyond-the-vibe

Ableism:

Linguistic Ableism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLz7-uzkd64

I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much | Stella Young

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K9Gg164Bsw

Cards for Inclusion:

https://www.culturehive.co.uk/resources/cards-for-inclusion-a-new-way-to-play-access/?owner=CH

Organizations:

ACCESS Acting Academy:

https://www.accessacting.com/

Battersea Arts Centre:

https://bac.org.uk/?gclid=CjwKCAjw-7OlBhB8EiwAnoOEk4VRxkgGNwRg9QPDd6OvbaAQ36g1w3xTxxo9FcRNuKPZLsXrlAjVXRoCTTIQAvD_BwE

Graeae Theatre Company:

https://graeae.org/our-work/

EPIC Players:

https://www.epicplayersnyc.org/

Museum Arts Culture Access Consortium:

https://macaccess.org/

ReelAbilities Film Festival:

https://reelabilities.org/

Birds of Paradise Theatre Company:

https://www.boptheatre.co.uk/

DRAKE Music Scotland:

https://drakemusicscotland.org/

Art Link Scotland:

https://www.artlinkcentral.org/

Creative Electric:

https://www.creative-electric.org/

Garvald Edinburgh:

https://www.garvaldedinburgh.org.uk/

Indepen-dance:

https://www.indepen-dance.org.uk/

Dance for PD, Mark Morris Dance:

https://markmorrisdancegroup.org/community/pd/dance-for-pd/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw59q2BhBOEiwAKc0ijTNJkdHa1S6sFeQfRT4JPc1sC-eo5aEGowi6Wc6hYwvP85BLqGGaYhoCYvgQAvD_BwE

Kinetic Light:  

https://kineticlight.org/

Axis Dance Company:

https://axisdance.org/

Heidi Latsky Dance:

https://heidilatskydance.org/

GIVE:

https://teachwithgive.org/

Arts Access Aotearoa:

https://artsaccess.org.nz/

Touch Compass:

https://www.touchcompass.org.nz/

Jolt Dance:

https://www.joltdance.co.nz/

Art-Reach:

https://www.art-reach.org/

Conferences:

Kennedy Center Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability:

https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/networks-conferences-and-research/conferences-and-events/lead-conference/

Able Assembly: Arts Better the Lives of Everyone

https://college.berklee.edu/able

Festivals:

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: Big Umbrella Festival

https://wwww.lincolncenter.org/series/lincoln-center-presents/s/Big%20Umbrella%20Festival

Inclusion Festival:

https://inclusionfestival.com/

Daft:

https://www.daftnz.com/

InterAct Disability Arts Festival:

https://interactfestival.nz/

Disrupt Disability Arts Festival:

https://www.disruptdisabilityartsfestival.ie/

Undercover Arts Festival:

https://undercoverartistfest.com/

Books:

Disability Visibility (Edited by Alice Wong)

Undoing Ableism: Teaching About Disability in K-12 Classrooms (Baglieri and Lalvani)

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha)

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