May I Take Your Arm?

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Named one of the most influential disabled artists by UK’s Power Magazine, Alex Bulmer has over 30 years professional experience across theatre, television, film, radio, and education. Alex is dedicated to inclusive collaborative art practice, fuelled by a curiosity of the improbable and deeply informed by her experience of becoming blind. She is activated by obstacles, well exposed to the absurd, and embraces the disciplines of generosity, listening, time, and uncertainty within her artistic and personal life. Alex is Artistic Director of Common Boots Theatre, co-founder and artistic director of Cripping The Stage with The British Council, and the lead curator of CoMotion Festival 2022, an international disability arts festival produced by Harbourfront Centre.

Anna Camilleri has been working with performance, image, and text for 25 years. Her inquiries span socially engaged practices, narrative, materiality, and the public imaginary. Her books have been recognized with distinctions from the LAMBDA Literary Foundation, the Association of Independent Publishers, the American Library of Congress, and are part of the University of Toronto’s Fisher Rare Books Library Queer Canadian Literature Collection. She is co-artistic director of Red Dress Productions.

Tristan R. Whiston is a Toronto-based theatre director, dramaturge, writer, performer, audio and community artist. He has written and directed five audio documentaries for CBC, including Middle C, which won the 2007 Premios Ondas Award for International Radio. Tristan’s film pINCO Triangle was honoured with three 2018 Queer North Awards, including Best Canadian Film. He is co-artistic director of Red Dress Productions.

For 20 years, Katie Yealland has worked in the commercial film industry primarily as a grip (film  technician),  and since 2010, Katie has worked with Red Dress Productions in various roles including community artist, live video animation, and production lead.

Becky Gold is an accessible drama instructor, creative enabler, and PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies at York University. Her research explores disability-driven and inter-abled artistic practice, with a focus on interdependence, relation-building, care, and access-intimacy in the creation process. For the past three years, Becky has worked with Alex Bulmer on a variety of artistic projects as a support worker and collaborator. This work has and continues to influence her approaches to audio description and access aesthetics.

Wy Joung Kou is a queer, chronically ill, multi-disciplinary artist. Their body of work spans mosaic, poetry, sound, movement, performance, video, and installation. Grounded in a disability justice framework centering accessibility, community and interdependence, their artistic practice is interwoven with personal narratives of grief, care, and intimacy. They are a member of Raging Asian Womxn Taiko Drummers, the inaugural winner of a JRG Grant for Artists with Disabilities (2018), and an ILGBT Artist Residency alum.

Charles Ketchabaw is the Managing Director of FIXT POINT Arts & Media and Co-creator / Producer of The Tale of a Town – Canada, a national project which has brought him all across the country conducting interviews, recording sound and designing interactive audio performances. May I Take Your Arm x Theatre Passe Muraille makes Charles smile. Two incredible forces combining for good.

Visual Story –This Package aims to support people with communication difficulties, learning disabilities, English as a second language and Autistic People. It can be used to help anyone access and understand the installation.