Category: Community News

  • CymaSpace Arts and Accessibility Showcase Gala

    Listen to this post: Do you know about CymaSpace? CymaSpace is a Portland non-profit technology incubator that focuses on making cultural events inclusive for Deaf and Hard of Hearing people. With their technology, they create art and performances focus on sound, light, and vibration. Neat! This May, CymaSpace is hosting a big fundraiser gala event that looks like…

  • Support Ink Visible on Kickstarter

    Listen to this post: There is just nothing like combining a fantastic word play with an awesome cause. Portland artist and disability activist Arianna Warner has done just that. Between now and May 10th, you can hop on over to Kickstarter and pledge to support Arianna’s new project called Ink Visible. From the website, inkvisible.org:…

  • Check out ArtLifting: representing homeless and disabled artists

    Listen to this post: If you like buying art, you have to know about ArtLifting! ArtLifting provides homeless and disabled artists the opportunity to earn their own income. The artists create works in shelters or art programs at disability-focused centers. ArtLifting then sells original paintings, art prints, and other products like phone cases, totes, and…

  • ZCO/Dance Project premieres “Progression” and dancing beyond disability

    Listen to this post: Back in 2013, you got to meet longtime dancer, actress, model, and disability activist Zazel-Chavah O’Garra when she shared a guest blog about her experience becoming disabled from a brain tumor. That same year, Zazel founded ZCO/Dance Project. Her brain tumor was 13 years ago, and it came when she was in the…

  • Truth and Reconciliation project around psychiatric and mental health services

    Listen to this post: At the TBI and art NW NOGGIN event the other night, something truly amazing happened. Nothing like this has ever happened at one of my presentations. No, I’m not talking about how the audio didn’t work on my movie. So we played the movie on a laptop, and I acted out all…