Join us on the occasion of Disability Pride Month to explore the magical possibilities of access. In workshops led by disabled artists and organizers, we will discover creative techniques for worlding with the deep wisdom that disability offers. The Silent Disco will bring us together to share in the manifold dimensions of disability-centric nightlife with ASL song-signing, creative captioning, choreographic offerings, access doula-ing, and music. Together, we’ll open a portal to an ecology where access is a coordinating principle for sharing space, contemplation, and joy.
Ticketing:
Guests are welcomed to participate in the entirety of the event from 6pm-10 pm or join at 8 pm for the Silent Disco.
Advance Registration tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis on this site at noon on Tuesday, July 12.
General Admission tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 5:30 pm at the glass elevator at 144 West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam. For guests unable to stand in line due to a disability, please check in with staff upon arrival.
General Admission tickets for the Silent Disco are available beginning at 7:30 pm at the Oasis dance floor. Accessible entrance on Columbus at 63rd Street. Access-A-Ride stop at 20 Lincoln Center Plaza.
For guests unable to stand in line due to a disability, please check-in beginning at 7 pm at the Welcome Tent near the ramp onto the south side of the plaza steps at Columbus at 63rd Street.
Schedule:
5:30 pm: Hearst Plaza opens for guests. Access the entrance via the glass elevator on the south side of West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam
6:00 pm -7:45 pm: An installation by The Society of Disabled Oracles (in the Outdoor Reading Room around the corner from Hearst Plaza) will feature telegrams of disabled wisdom from the past, present and future.
6:15 pm: Cyrée Jarelle Johnson leads Fragmented Oracle, a collective tarot reading and group poem making. Guests will get their cards read, then stay to make a poem from what they learned based on one of the 78 cards in a tarot deck. The group poem will be arranged by Cyree Jarelle Johnson and made available online.
6:30 pm: Altar of Sorrows and Pleasures by Nocturnal Medicine (Larissa Belcic & Michelle Shofet) will be a multimodal ritual for sinking deeper into the idea of holding these two states of being, sorrow and pleasure, together at once.
7:45 pm: Guests transition to the Oasis for Silent Disco and pick up headphones (personal headphones with standard jack welcomed) and Music: Not Impossible wearable backpacks, wrist bands, and ankle bands that translate sound to skin.
8:00 pm-10:00 pm: DJ Kevin Gotkin mixes music with lyric captioning and description of music on screens, as well as live verbal description. The event includes: a four-part DJ set by DJ Who Girl, individual headsets by Quiet Events, wearable suits that translate sound to skin by Music: Not Impossible, choreographic activations by x, and artistic ASL by Up Until Now Collective.
10:00pm: Event ends
Artists and Collaborators:
Kevin Gotkin, curator and DJ Who GirlThe Society of Disabled Oracles
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson (Temperance Queer Tarot)
Nocturnal Medicine
Up Until Now Collective
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Ezra Benus
Jezz Chung
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Guest Services at 212-875-5456 or [email protected].
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