Dates: Tuesday, November 14th, for 90 minutes and Tuesday, November 21st, for 30 minutes at 7 pm Central. This will be recorded!
About the workshop:
Being a performer and student is hard enough as it is. Being a disabled adds more complicated layers, especially if you don’t know what you’re getting into.
Instead of showing up to a venue unprepared for what you’ll face, this workshop will empower you to ask for essential accessibility information and help you create an Accessibility Needs Rider. This document states what your explicit accessibility needs are and offers some reasonable accommodations.
In this 90-minute workshop, you’ll learn crucial information to ask for and how to write an Accessibility Needs Rider, which will inform producers and instructors of your needs. Then, in a half-hour follow-up session the next week, you will discuss your riders, share ideas, and leave with an easy-to-read yet comprehensive method to ensure that every event will go as smoothly as possible.
Please bring note taking supplies.
About the instructor:
Minda Mae puts the “babe” in Disabilibabe. Hailing from Minneapolis, this boundless beauty is the first wheelchair-using burlesque performer in Minnesota.
A fierce advocate for persons with disabilities, she works tirelessly to spread awareness and champions for change at every opportunity. She is the founder of the DisabiliTease Festival, a multi-day festival that showcases performers with disabilities in the areas of burlesque, cirque, cabaret, and drag from around the world. She is also the founder of the DisabiliTease Academy, the first school specifically geared towards performers with disabilities and their allies.
Don’t ‘dis’ her ‘ability’ to capture your heart, because that’s how this wheeling woman of wonder rolls.