Bricks & Glitter presents:
Workshop Series for Event Organizers

Access-centered Planning

Access-centered planning is the difference between inviting disabled people to participate in an event versus planning events that center and welcome disabled people in all aspects of the event. This workshop moves beyond a disability 101 and into radical community organizing practices that centre and include the needs of the disability community. This workshop covers how to ask central questions about disability in all aspects of event planning from the conception, budget, promotion, execution and feedback stages. Together we will work through a real life example that can teach us how disability planning can be best integrated into all community organizing work.

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Shay Erlich is a hard of hearing, multiply disabled, and genderqueer child and youth care practitioner and wheelchair dancer. Shay holds a MA degree in Child and Youth Care from Ryerson University and runs The Cyborg Circus Project, which is an incubator for disabled artists focused on disability justice. The Cyborg Circus Project creates spaces for disabled people to gain performing arts education in spaces that fully support their needs as disabled artists and fosters an attitude that promotes loving the disabled bodies that we have.

Facebook: The Cyborg Circus Project
Twitter: @cyborgcircus @Shay_Erlich
Instagram @cyborgcircusproject

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Pay-what-you-can
Refreshments beforehand at 5:30pm
ASL interpretation will be available

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Unit 2 is a wheelchair-accessible venue
Please let us know if there are any ways we can make it easier for your to attend this event

unit2.club/accessibility/