Image credit: Keimi Nakashima-Ochoa
Accessibility as Creative Practice: Storytelling Through Art Engagement Tools
SAT, JUN 17 / 2 – 5PM
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
SFU Galleries welcomes Siobhan Barker as co-facilitator of the third and final Access as Creative Practice workshop, which is centred around Disabled, Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, or racialized people.
For this workshop, Siobhan and Access as Creative Practice Intern Keimi Nakashima-Ochoa will create a space that contemplates ways of storytelling, while centering and serving those who are part of multiple communities that are rarely centred. We want this to be a space where Disabled QTBIPOC folks are supported in an environment that will focus on making art, with joy, and in solidarity. Using this basis of engagement, participants will explore ways in which we create our own narratives to share in our communities.
Siobhan Barker (sha-von/Sio/they/she) is of a stolen people living in solidarity on the stolen, unceded, and ancestral land of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish, Musqueam, Hwlitsum, Katzie, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, Matsqui, Qayqayt, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, and Stó:lō Nations. Sio is a published, nationally recognized, bilingual, equity and accessibility consultant, spokesperson, storyteller, and community organizer. Sio advocates recognizing the impact of intersectionalities in moving toward equity, decolonizing practices, and collective liberation. As a non-binary person of mixed ancestry living with disability, they recognize and value the intersection of identities that inform disability justice, artistic practice, change-making, and honouring ancestral teachings. Sio is a big bodied, caramel coloured, 6 foot 2 inch person of mixed Indigenous African Caribbean Latinx European ancestry, with two-toned brown curly shoulder-length hair. A jaunty dimple in their left cheek with wise and sometimes mischievous cocoa-coloured eyes.
Keimi Nakashima-Ochoa is an immigrant settler whose art practice focuses on exploring racialized identity, multi-sensorial experiences of art, and artistic labour. Their work focuses on textile materials like weaving, tufting, and sewing, but includes printmaking and writing, and more. Nakashima-Ochoa is interested in the perceptions of ethnicity and gender that exist in art-making, and how “accessibility” and “art” relate.
This is a free event with materials and snacks provided.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/accessibility-as-creative-practice-storytelling-through-art-engagement-tickets-654395874677
ASL will be provided at this event.
While masks will not be required, we ask that participants consider COVID safety to protect the most vulnerable among us. Being fully immunized and/or testing 24hrs before attending are great ways to do this. Even if it’s not COVID, please stay home if you’re feeling unwell.
This event is scent free and citrus free, as citrus may pose a serious anaphylactic risk to people regularly in the space.
This program has been made possible by the generous support from a British Columbia Arts Council’s Early Career Development Grant.
