About the workshop:
Disabilities vary widely from person to person and can be visible or invisible. They can be due to physical, developmental, behavioral or emotional, or sensory impairment. Disabilities can also be dynamic or affect one person entirely differently than another.
Accessibility Statements share existing accommodations and accessibility options for disabled performers, audience members, and students. They empower people to choose if an event is accessible to them, which can increase attendance and expand the diversity and inclusion of individuals at your events.
In this 90-minute workshop, you’ll learn about essential information and how best to share it. Then, in a half-hour follow-up session the next week, you will discuss your statements, share ideas, and walk away with something tangible to support those who want to support you.
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.