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Dis/Rep is back for another fully virtual series of interactive workshops called Dis/Rep 2023: Holding Us Together.
Dis/Rep is a 6-week relaxed virtual meeting space on Zoom that will meet for two hours on six Sundays between April 23rd and June 4th. If you can’t attend live, that works too. If you register, you can watch recordings of the sessions with real closed captions that get posted within a week after each one happens live. The workshop series will discuss ways cross-disability communities can collaboratively hold accessible gathering and cultural spaces. Each two-hour session starts with an embodiment warm up led by a disabled artist. Then we read a short piece of writing aloud and discuss and reflect on it in different ways. Each session covers different topics and sections to read, so you can come to one or all of them. Having been to all of the 2021 and 2022 sessions, I can also attest to the fact that there’s some not-to-be-missed cat appearances now and again in different Zoom boxes. People join from indoors or out, wherever is comfortable and accessible, even lying back on a sofa or in bed. You can have your camera on or off.
The Zoom sessions have ASL by a Deaf and hearing interpretation team and automated captions. Facilitators describe visuals, and people do fun self-descriptions when they introduce themselves the first time.
This is an anti-ableist, anti-racist, queer- and trans-positive space centering the needs and voices of multiply-marginalized disabled folks, and is open to all. Dis/Rep 2023 is co-produced by The Curiosity Paradox, Calling Up Justice, and Catalyst Consulting Associates.
There are six Sunday sessions between April 23rd and June 4th at 12 PM Pacific / 3 PM Eastern. Learn lots more about how this workshop series works and how to register at DisRepWorkshop.org.
These workshops are free to Portland-area residents thanks to generous support from the City of Portland Office of Community and Civic Life. If you live outside Portland, please consider chipping in what you can, if you can. You can also pay if you live in Portland, but that’s definitely just optional. See y’all there!