JC ADA 30 Festival

Bojana Coklyat

A virtual art centered celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) – the JC ADA 30 Festival!

A virtual art centered celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) – the JC ADA 30 Festival! This festival is going to focus on innovation, creativity and the relationships between people that make access happen and not necessarily the law itself. The focus will be more about what has been possible since the signing of the law. The intention of this festival is to refigure the future of the arts in Jersey City in a way that engages truly everyone. So far, Art House Productions, Jersey City Theatre Center, and Golden Door film Festival will be using their platforms to showcase different events. Events will include ASL, captioning, audio description and clear instructions on how to participate. This festival will take place on several different online platforms and links to participate will be available closer to the date of the festival. Deconstructing Disability Art July 22nd 2pm-3pm (Zoom)<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82722809612?pwd=VXplUVBMZzJLMjFNa3RrKys0bUJtZz09" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Zoom link</a> In this panel discussion, we will spend time getting to know disabled artists in the field of disability art. How does their way of experiencing the world inform their artistic practice? The purpose of this seminar is to Disability Art is any art (theater, fine art, film, writing, music or club) that takes disability as its theme or whose context relates to disability. Disability Arts is an area of art where the content of the art takes on disability as its theme. Disability art is about exploring the conceptual ideas and physical realities of what it is like to be disabled concepts relating to the word. This panel will also address subjects such as “inspiration porn and why stories centering the tragedy of disability” reinforce negative stereo-types.Disability Justice: New Frameworks for Organizing Access in Jersey City July 23rd 4 pm - 6 pm Tickets link: www.jctcenter.orgThe ADA is an important civil rights law for disabled people but it doesn’t ensure meaningful access. Meaningful inclusion and access only exist if organizations engage in disability justice. Disability Justice is a frame work that examines disability and ableism as it relates to other forms of oppression and identity (race, class, gender, sexuality, citizenship, incarceration, size, etc.)It was developed starting in 2005 by the Disability Justice collective, a group of black, brown, queer and trans people including Patty Berne, Mia Mingus, Stacey Milbern, Leroy F. Moore Jr. Eli Claire and Sebastian Margaret. We will discuss ways arts organizations can implement “open access” and open up conversations regarding these topics. Our panel will include cultural producers, cultural organizers, and various members from the disability community. Golden Door Film Festival Screening July 24th 12-6pm Facebook live link: https://www.facebook.com/goldendoorfilmfestTwelve (12) short films centering disability and concepts associated with disability. This screening features films where disability experience is an integral part of the creative process, used to tall new stories. Alt-Text as Poetry Workshop July 26th 1-3pm Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86737867055Artists, educators and other ember s form the disability community will come together to practice a creative method of alt-text. Join us to learn more and and gain form their perspectives. Alt-text is an essential part of web accessibility, making visual content accessible to blind people and people with low vision. It is often overlooked altogether or understood through the lens of compliance, as an unwelcome burden to be met with minimum effort. How can we instead approach alt-text thoughtfully and creatively? This project reframes alt-text as a type of poetry and creates opportunities to practice writing it. This project has been featured in Hyperallergic , Art in America and Art News. Crip Camp Watch Party and Discussion hosted by Art House Productions July 26th 6:30-9pmTicket link \: https://bit.ly/CripCampDoc“Down the road from Woodstock, a revolution blossomed at a ramshackle summer camp for teenagers with disabilities, transforming their lives and igniting a landmark movement.” After the movie, a panel consisting of local disabled advocates/activists, artists and leaders in the Jersey City Art community will discuss how this movement currently affects ours lives and what we can do to expand places where disabled people want to be.

In the center of the image is an archival photo of the capital call, we are disabled people left their wheelchairs at the bottom of the capitol building steps to protest. Swirling around this image are light streaks and motion blur in oranges, yellows and blues. On the top are the words JC Ada 30 in bold black font, on the bottom in the same font is the word festival.

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