Eid is a day of Celebration for Muslims. Eid al-Adha is the 2nd Eid, that marks the end of Hajj. Come join us to learn more about this day!
For more information, check out our Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/646752924407
Eid Event – June 24, 2023
Who is our Interim-President?
Who is our mysterious interim-President of GVAD? Let’s find out!!!
Fundraising: Support Paula Wesley and GVAD
The GVAD is proud to support Paula Wesley with her fundraising, please see the GoFundMe campaign we have launched. Paula has received the honour to be an Indigenous Presenter at the WFD Congress in South Korea in July 2023. She needs financial assistance to help with some travel costs including hotel, meals, and transportation. GVAD is a non-profit charity and can provide tax receipts. Any kind of donations are appreciated. Please see the link for more information and watch the YouTube video in ASL. Any questions, feel free to contact info@gvad.ca
ASL-Interpreted Performance of Happy Valley by Derek Chan
Title: ASL-Interpreted Performance of Happy Valley by Derek Chan
Description: Using text, song, multimedia, and music, Happy Valley is a solo, interdisciplinary performance that dissects the historic, political, and cultural context surrounding Hong Kong’s current democratic struggles.
Date/Time: May 31st at 7:30pm
Location: Firehall Arts Centre
Tickets: Deaf/HoH Attendees get $15 tickets with promo code HAPPY15. Best seats for viewing are noted on the website, or if you call in, just mention you are a Deaf/HoH attendee!
Ticket link: https://tickets.firehallartscentre.ca/TheatreManager/1/online?bestavail=6564&qty=0 /
Box Office Number: (604) 689-0926
Coffee Workshop Clip
Take a look at what went on in a recent event, Coffee Workshop with Yiba! Is someone craving more coffee…? 
Cause, I am!
Media Release: AccessFest 2023 May 27 – June 3
MEDIA RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ANNUAL ACCESS FEST UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Access Festival: ACCESS and Equity for people with visible and invisible disabilities, BIPOC, and equity seeking communities.
Vancouver, BC: The ACCESS Festival, a free community arts festival held in Vancouver for thirteen years, will run May 27th to June 4th, 2023. Created by The Gathering Place (TGP) and the Downtown South Community Association (DSCA), this year, ACCESS Fest will be put on by Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture.
The festival will include an art show, parade, poetry night, community film screening, and multiple workshops held throughout the week. The parade on June 3rd will mark BC Access Day and include performers like Carmen Papalia, Glow Motive, and KeAloha. Starting in Emery Barnes Park at 12:00, vendors will welcome parade participants who will process at 2:00 PM to Vancouver Art Gallery’s north plaza for a grand stand featuring musicians and other performers.
Other events include the art show opening May 27th from 12:00-3:00 PM at The Gathering Place, featuring a talk by curator Yuri Arajs and our artists. Join textile artist Jenna Reid for a banner making workshop May 28th 12:00-3:00 at TGP to collaborate on the banners for the parade later in the week. Events and workshops with All Bodies Dance, Under the Table Poetry Collective, and Rabbit Richards will follow through the week.
To see the full schedule, visit: https://www.kickstartdisability.ca/accessfest/
ACCESS Festival is a festival run by and for disabled people, featuring equity seeking artists, musicians, and community leaders. The week-long festival is a celebration of our bodyminds, our history, and our culture intended to bring our community and allies together to imagine vibrant, beautiful futures together.
All events are free and open to the public. Events like workshops and the film screening, poetry reading, Film Screening and community dialogue, and accessible art tour at the Vancouver Art Gallery do require registration for capacity and accessibility reasons. Indoor events will require masks and all performances, workshops and talks will have ASL interpretation.
Presented by Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture in partnership with The Gathering Place and the Downtown South Community Association and financial support from the City of Vancouver, the Province of British Columbia, and SPARC BC.
To learn more, link to the ACCESS Festival website at https://www.kickstartdisability.ca/accessfest/
Media contact: Kait Blake kait@kickstartdisability.ca —
Kait Blake (she/her) Administrative Director PLEASE NOTE: I currently work part time Monday – Thursday and being disabled means I often work on “crip time“, which means responses may be slower than what is “typical” – if your email is urgent, please indicate so in the subject line. Thank You for your patience and understanding!
P/ 604.343.9141
www.kickstartdisability.ca
Facebook: KickstartDisability
Instagram: @kickstartdisability
Twitter: @kickstart_arts
Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture would like to acknowledge that we are fortunate to live and create on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish People; x?m??k??y??m (Musqueam), S?wx?wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel?íl?witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
ASL Core Presentation Series: Mythbusting Government Procurement & Ask PAC Anything Virtual Drop-In Hours
Mythbusting Government Procurement Webinar:
May 24, 2023
11:30am – 1:00pm Pacific Daylight Time / 2:30pm – 4pm Eastern Daylight Time
Procurement Assistance Canada (PAC) Pacific invites you to attend our webinar “Mythbusting Government Procurement” in American Sign Language
May 24th 2023 from 11:30am – 1:00pm Pacific Daylight Time / 2:30pm – 4pm Eastern Daylight Time
Please register here:
The registration link provides more information on what this session is all about!
ASL Ask PAC Anything Virtual Drop-In Hour
May 25, 2023 12pm – 1pm Pacific Time / 3pm – 4pm Eastern Time
We are excited to announce a new addition to our webinars – ASL Ask PAC (Procurement Assistance Canada) Anything virtual drop-in hour. We encourage attendees of our webinars to come drop in, using the same zoom link as the webinar the day before, to ask us anything related to procurement. The drop-in hour will have a staff member from PAC that uses ASL.
Login information to connect to the webinar will be sent to you a day prior to the event. The Zoom link for the webinar is the SAME one for the ASL Ask PAC Anything Virtual Drop In Hour the next day!
This session will be hosted in American Sign Language.
For French and LSQ sessions or for more information, contact Procurement Assistance Canada, Pacific Region, email at SACPacifique-PACPacific@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca.
If you have any questions, contact Christine “Coco” Roschaert Christine.roschaert@pwgsc.gc.ca or Sarah Anne Hrycenko sarah.hrycenko@pwgsc.gc.ca
Hope to see you there!
Up in the air theatre is pleased to offer: “Catfish”
Created by Deaf Artist Simran Gill, Catfish is created and performed with integrated ASL making it a show that is accessible for both hearing and Deaf audiences.
What is the show about?
Take the plunge into Michelle’s layers of lies as she misrepresents herself online and uses her hearing friend’s voice to entice the new guy at school. From the depths of her deception, Michelle must turn her search for love and acceptance inward. Join her in this vibrant, complex and delightfully earnest exploration of identity and self-love, and witness her find the strength to share her true Deaf, Punjabi self with the world.
What are the dates:
May 24 at 7pm
May 26 at 715pm
May 31 at 7pm with a talk back
June 1 at 8pm
For each show there will be ASL provided in the lobby to support any language barriers, 1 hour before the show starts. And ASL is provided for the talk back on May 31st.
The show is 75 minutes long
Venue: The Cultch Lab
1895 Venables Street, Vancouver.
Deaf community members can have 2 free tickets. Please email to arrange tickets: amy@upintheairtheatre.com
Seating is general admission, but Deaf community members get priority seating. When at the theatre please connect with the Front of House staff if you are interested in priority seating.
Hockey night in Vancouver
When: Saturday, April 29, 2023
Time: 4:00PM to 11:30PM
Where: Bonsor Recreation Complex, 6650 Bonsor Ave, Burnaby BC.
Drop in at the door
GVAD Members: FREE ADMISSION
Non-Members: $5.00
Watch Hockey Game
Pizza and Drink: $10.00
Under the Table Open Mic Series ft. Kyla Jamieson
Join us for a night of poetry that centres disabled and/or queer poets, this month featuring Kyla Jamieson!
ASL Interpretation will be available through the full event. This open mic series happens every month on the first Tuesday of the month. Everyone is welcome!
Under the Table Open Mic Series ft. Kyla Jamieson
Massy Arts Gallery, 23 East Pender Street, Vancouver
Tuesday May 2nd, doors and sign-up at 5:45, show runs from 6-8pm
Free tickets and more information can be found at the link below
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/under-the-table-open-mic-series-ft-kyla-jamieson-tickets-618558634527[Image description: a vibrant purple and yellow event graphic featuring a colour photo of Kyla, a bisexual cis woman of European and Asian descent with long brown hair, light skin, and green eyes. Kyla is wearing a white knit turtleneck under a dark green jacket and looking at the camera with a neutral expression and her head tilted to the right. The graphic features the logos of Under The Table, Kickstart Disability Arts + Culture, Massy Voices, Canada Council for the Arts, Funded by the Government of Canada, and Poets.ca the League of Canadian Poets. Text on the image reads “ft. Kyla Jamieson, Tuesday, May 2 @ 6pm, Massy Arts Gallery, 23 E. Pender St. Masks Required”]
2023 Fun Bowling Games
Saturday, June 10th
Names will be drawn for the teams.
Pay $15 dollars per person for 2 games that start at 10 am includes bowling shoes rental
Rev Bowling Alley, 5502 Lougheed Hwy, Burnaby BC
RSVP and must pay an e-transfer or give the cash in advance by June 2nd
Contact: Heather Leblanc – email – hinnescarlin@gmail.com
Our goal is to recruit interested bowlers for the Fall of 2023 for The Greater Vancouver Deaf Bowling League
Door prizes will be given out.
The Arts Club
The Arts Club is proud to offer a FREE workshop series for Deaf Community members who want to learn more about theatre and how to create and develop work.
This will be a 9 week series starting on May 30th from 630-9pm
At the BMO theatre Centre located at 162 West 1st Ave in Vancouver.
Christian Vasquez, a Deaf Theatre maker and performer will lead these sessions and there will be a cabaret style showcase on July 30th on our Newmont Stage – Deaf performers can share a variety of works, from created and personal monologues, poetry, movement pieces or scene work, wither from an existing movie or play or created by the performers.
S this is a Deaf led theatre workshop, there will be no ASL interpreters on site and the performance will not be interpreted for hearing people – making a Deaf friendly space for the community to tell their stories.
The workshop is free, space is limited and registration is required. We want people to be able to commit to as many of the dates as possible to be able to learn and support their fellow cast mates.
This if for participants 18 years and older, no children please, and there is no childcare provided. Children cannot be unaccompanied in the building, so please consider this when registering.
If you have any more questions, or want to register, please contact Accessibility Coordinator at the Arts Club at aamantea@artsclub.com
Come and join the fun!
