3Arts, the Chicago-based nonprofit organization, announced today the four dance and theater artists added to its Disability Culture Leadership Initiative, an online platform that elevates the work of Deaf and disabled artists and encourages the arts and culture sector to prioritize Disability Culture in programming and organizational efforts.
Bechdel Fest 8
Broken Nose Theatre presents Bechdel Fest 8: Realign, a festival of short plays featuring femme, female-identifying, nonbinary, transgender and queer actors playing characters who talk about subjects other than men. The festival references the Bechdel-Wallace Test created by cartoonist Alison Bechdel that asks whether an entertainment work features at least two non-male identifying characters in conversation about something other than a man. Many of the immensely talented artists involved in this season s festival have been signed on since last spring, back when we were expecting to host the event in-person during the summer, said Broken Nose artistic director Elise Marie Davis in a prepared statement. The fact that they graciously and enthusiastically stayed onboard as this year s lineup was pushed back, and ultimately pivoted to becoming digital, is enormously exciting to the Broken Nose family and myself.
3Arts launches Disability Culture Leadership Initiative to advance advocacy and justice efforts in the arts
Reveca Torres, Two Fridas Recreation.
CHICAGO, IL
.- 3Arts, the Chicago-based nonprofit grantmaking organization, announced today the launch of the Disability Culture Leadership Initiative (DCLI), featuring a new online platform created to elevate Deaf and disabled artists and encourage the arts and culture sector to prioritize Disability Culture in programming and organizational efforts. DCLI features candid video conversations among eleven Chicago-based Deaf and disabled alumni of the 3Arts Residency Fellowships at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), as well as a report that chronicles the trajectory of the Fellowship and the citys approach to creating and supporting the Disability Art and Culture movement. The DCLI videos and accompanying publication are now available here.