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A11yNYC Meetup at Thoughtbot NYC on Mar 19 2018
Transcript: http://isoc-ny.org/a11ynyc/a11ynyc_mar192018.txt
Summary:
Diversity and inclusion in the arts is the issue, but does 2018 send us back to
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the drawing board? Or are there new paradigms and models based on creating, maximizing and revitalizing disabled artists in the arts? A practical presentation and discussion emphasizing real world problem solving, action plans and looking at both artists and disability within not only a changing political landscape, but a rapidly changing world based on digital technology, global projects and drastically different artistic mores and accountability than 20 years ago. In addition, the very definition of disability and what defines marginalized groups continues to shift within both the artistic community and society at large.
Presenter Bio:
Stephanie Barton-Farcas, is the Founder and Artistic Director of Nicu’s Spoon Theater Company (www.spoontheater.org), based in New York City and Hawaii. She is also the co-founder of the Disability in Cinema Coalition and sits on the board of Identity Theater Company. Nicu’s Spoon has been a WNYC‘s Salute the Arts (STAR)’ initiative winner, an OOBR award winner, a multiple New York Innovative Theater Award winner, the Thom Fluellen Award winner for service to New York City as well as Winner of the Snapple/NYC Mayor’s Office Best People to Work For Award and many more. The company has been spotlighted in Playbill, the New York Times and many others as well as has been the subject of the documentary “Two and Twenty Troubles”. Stephanie herself is an actress and author of “Disability & Theatre: A Practical Manual for Inclusion in the Arts: published by Routledge Press and is at work on a second book, “Acting & Auditioning in the 21st Century.”
https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/events/248300533/
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