Open Access
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until 26 October 2019
Training X

Open Access: Organizing Accessibility from the Grassroots

The tenth training as part of Trainings for the Not-Yet is with Carmen Papalia, and takes place from 22-26 October 2019 (Tuesday-Saturday).


This training consists of dialogue, embodied movement, non-visual mapping, creative writing, exercising non-visual senses, and sign and banner making.

Open Access is a conceptual framework for accessibility developed by Carmen Papalia in response to institutional failures that he experienced as a recipient of disability support services. Rather than providing a “policy,” Open Access offers guidelines for person-to-person agreements for mutual care.

Besides seeking an unlearning of visual primacy, the goals of this training include establishing a new context for accessibility in a landscape of restrictive programs and prescriptive regimes. It presents an opportunity to reconsider accessibility and public engagement of cultural institutions, and think through a relational accessibility program that evolves with the cultures of the publics that they serve. Participants engage in modeling trust and mutual care, inspiring a broad reframing of the ways institutions engage those at the margins.

When put into practice, Open Access problematizes the typical roles of institutionalized care by encouraging participants to collectively envision a space that suits their needs, and then to share accountability toward that vision and organize accessibility from the grassroots.

When: 22-26 October 2019 (Tuesday-Saturday)
Tuesday from 14–18 hrs, Wednesday-Friday 15-18 hrs followed on weekdays by dinner from 18–19 hrs and preceded on Saturday by lunch from 13–14 hrs in the Basic Activist Kitchen.
On Saturday 26 October 2019, 13-18 hrs, the training culminates in a public program that is part of the training (and free for training participants), but also open to the general public (with a separate ticket).[i]


Participation: This is a five-day training. It is possible to join on individual days, although attending the training in its entirety is encouraged.
Language: English
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Open Access, collective performance organized by Carmen Papalia
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Open Access, collective performance organized by Carmen Papalia
Open Access, collective performance orga
Open Access, collective performance organized by Carmen Papalia
Open Access, collective performance orga
Open Access, collective performance organized by Carmen Papalia
Open Access, collective performance orga
Open Access, collective performance organized by Carmen Papalia
Open Access, collective performance orga
Open Access, collective performance organized by Carmen Papalia
Open Access, collective performance orga
Open Access, collective performance organized by Carmen Papalia
Open Access, collective performance orga
Open Access, collective performance organized by Carmen Papalia
Open Access, collective performance orga
Open Access, collective performance organized by Carmen Papalia
Open Access, collective performance orga
Open Access, collective performance organized by Carmen Papalia

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