Call for Posters on Celebrating Disability Culture

Celebrating Disability Culture

Call for Poster Presentations and Exhibits for our 2007 Spring Symposium on April 4th, 2007

Tell us what you do and how it enriches disability culture and contributes to rich, vibrant and strong portrayals of people with disabilities and our contributions to a diverse and livable community.

We welcome:
- Art presentations: Visual, Performing and Literary Arts
- Communal Story Tellings
- Academic Studies
- Research Findings.

We encourage posters that reflect diversity in the disability community.

Our 2007 Spring Symposium includes:
- a lecture/performance presented by The Anarcha Project: Carrie Sandahl, Anita Gonzalez, Tiye Giraud, Aimee Meredith Cox and Petra Kuppers
- Disability Culture Poster Presentations
- An Award Dinner
- A Crip Culture Cabaret A special evening theatre performance by celebrated California-based theatre artist Lynn Manning.

General Poster Presentation Requirements (negotiable): Posters/Exhibits should generally be 30x40 inches and mounted on firm poster board or wood, to be able to stand up by its own, and displayable either on an easel or a table top.

The audience for the symposium and poster presentations are the local disability community, University of Michigan faculty and students, and many disability culture activists from the US and beyond who are coming together to investigate the current shape of diversity in disability culture.

Please send descriptions and outlines by March 7th to the following email addresses: petra@umich.edu and cgrawi@aacli.org.

For questions please call: UMInDS Office (734) 647-6251 or AACIL (734(971-0277 ext47
(a maximum of twenty-five projects will be accepted)