2002– 2003 Past Events:

• Disability and Arts! The UIC Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Persons with Disabilities Presents a celebration of disability and arts.

Featured Artists: (See below for more information)
Jim Ferris, Poet
Riva Lehrer, Visual Artist
John Killacky, Filmmaker

• PAST DATE: April 24, 2003
• PAST TIME: 2-6pm
• PAST PLACE: 1640 West Roosevelt Road, Room 166
• Sign language interpreters, real-time captioning, personal assistants, and audio description will be provided. CCSPD requests that all who attend the event refrain from the use of scented products.

 

Jim Ferris is a poet and communication scholar at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, with a particular interest in humanities-based disability studies. With experience as playwright, performance artist, director, and actor, he has performed widely in the U.S and Canada, and his writing has appeared in dozens of publications including the Michigan Quarterly Review. At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Ferris led the successful effort to establish a disability studies cluster as part of the university's interdisciplinary hiring initiative, which will result in the hiring of three scholars in disability studies over the next few years.

Painter Riva Lehrer focuses on the ways in which the shape of one's body affects the shape of one's life, using the language of figure painting. Her current project, "Circle Stories," begun in 1997, is a series of portraits of artists and academics that have significant disabilities and explore disability in their own work. Participants include Eli Clare, John Hockenberry, Susan Nussbaum, Tekki Lomnicki, and Hollis Sigler. Work from "Circle Stories" and other series have been shown in galleries and museums across the country. Riva has been showing her work in Chicago since 1980, and is now teaching at the School of the Art Institute, the Evanston Art Center, and is a visiting artist at a number of other universities.

John Killacky, Program Officer for Arts and Culture, joined the San FranciscoFoundation inMarch 2003. He received the First Bank Award Sally Ordway Irvine Award in Artistic Vision; the William Dawson Award for Programming Excellence from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters; Dance USA's Earnie Award as an "unsung hero;" a Gerbode Foundation Professional Development Fellowship; and in 2002, a scholarship to Harvard Business School's summer intensive. Mr. Killacky has served as a panelist, lecturer, and consultant for a broad range of arts and funding organizations. He has written numerous publications on the arts, and written and directed several award-winning short films and videos.

• Movie Night! UIC's Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Persons with Disabilities invites you to view and discuss films/videos about disability. Our feature film is "Twitch and Shout" by Laurel Chiten about the world of Tourette's syndrome (59 min.). The other film is "Tell Them I'm a Mermaid." Seven creative women with physical disabilities relate their stories in this original musical-theatre documentary (23 min.). The films will be followed by an informal open discussion.
  • PAST DATE: April 14, 2003
  • PAST TIME: 4-6pm
  • PAST PLACE: Auditorium, IIDD.
    

• Movie Night! UIC's Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Persons with Disabilities invites you to view and discuss short films/videos about disability.

  Our feature film is "King Gimp" by Susan Hannah Hadary and William A. Whiteford. "King Gimp" is about Dan Keplinger, who was born with cerebral palsy. When Dan was 12, two filmmakers in Baltimore began to document his life. They filmed him for more than 13 years.

  We will show 2 films;they will be followed by an informal open discussion.

  • PAST DATE: November 13, 2002
  • PAST TIME: 5-7pm
  • PAST PLACE: Auditorium, IIDD (1640 W. Roosevelt)
  • No reservation is required. We will have hot and cold snacks, and beverages. Sign language interpreters, real-time captioning, personal asistance and audio description will be provided. Parking is available at the Paulina Street Parking Structure (PSP) at 915 South Paulina Street. For parking accessibility information, visit http://www.uic.edu/depts/oae/bldgs_pl/926.html.