2025-2026
2025-2026
Jenny Brady
COCOA Language, Advocacy, and Consulting
Corvyn Dostie
Corvyn Dostie
Adam Flint
Elaine Lillian Joseph
Petra Kuppers
Jordan Lord
Carrie Sandahl
Finnegan Shannon
Roy Werner
2024-2025
2024-2025
Sarah Browne
JJJJJerome Ellis
Molly Joyce
Park McArthur
Constantina Zavitsanos
2023-2024
2023-2024
Corvyn Dotsie
Corvyn Dostie
JJJJJerome Ellis
Sarah Hayden
2022-2023
2022-2023
![A still image from the film Handsworth Songs. A group of three white policemen equipped with shields and helmets surround someone. Behind them on a brick wall three Black people are sitting. The captions at the bottom of the image read “[muddy distortion ripples beneath mournful, howling notes]”.](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/15/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-04-at-2.20.48-PM1-440x320-c-default.webp)
Elaine Lillian Joseph
slow emergency siren, ongoing – Talk & Film Screening
Thursday, April 13, 2023, 5:30pm
Black Audio Film Collective’s 1986 Handsworth Songsis an experimental documentary about uprisings against racialized police violence in Thatcherite Britain. Crucially, it is also a critique of their media coverage and colonial pre-histories. Sarah Hayden will give a hybrid talk which will be followed screening of Handsworth Songs with augmented audio-description by Elaine Lillian Joseph and creative captions by Care-fuffle Working Group. This new version of the film came about through slow emergency siren, ongoing: a year-long project, led by LUX and Sarah Hayden, to make Handsworth Songs newly and differently accessible.
![A still image from the film Handsworth Songs. A group of three white policemen equipped with shields and helmets surround someone. Behind them on a brick wall three Black people are sitting. The captions at the bottom of the image read “[muddy distortion ripples beneath mournful, howling notes]”.](https://web.faa.illinois.edu/app/uploads/sites/15/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2023-04-04-at-2.20.48-PM1-500x0-c-default.jpg)
Dustin Gibson and 'TL' Lewis
Dustin Gibson & Talila “TL” Lewis in Conversation: Reflections on Disability Justice
Thursday, March 30, 2023, 5:30pm
Dustin and TL will come together to reflect on the work they’ve been involved in separately and together. Sharing reflections and learnings from campaigns and organizations set up to abolish policing, prisons and institutions with a specific focus on how ableism is a central feature. They’ll share thoughts on the co-optation of disability justice and offer interventions to strengthen applications of disability justice that adhere to anti-imperialist and abolitionist principles.
Elaine Lillian Joseph
Accessing Handsworth Songs: a conversation on Audio Description
Friday, April 14, 2023, 9:30am
Zoom
Elaine Lillian Joseph spent 2021 working on the audio description for Black Audio Film Collective’s seminal 1986 film Handsworth Songs. Commissioned by Dr Sarah Hayden of Voices in the Gallery, the project involved making the film more, and differently, accessible through audio description and creative captions. Elaine will walk us through the research, scripting and recording process, offering some insights into her practice. The session will also include extracts from slow emergency siren, ongoing, the publication which makes the captions and audio description available as texts that can be read or heard as well as a short taster of her approaches to two of the most challenging scenes in the film.
Carmen Papalia
Performance: “Blind Field Shuttle” with Artist Carmen Papalia
Friday, March 24, 2023, 12:00pm
Blind Field Shuttle is a non-visual walking tour in which participants line up behind the artist, link arms, and agree to shut their eyes for a roughly hour-long walk. Papalia describes the experience as an opportunity for the participant to unlearn visual primacy and use their non-visual senses as a primary way of knowing the world. The project grew out of the artist’s choice to describe himself as a “non-visual learner” and exists as one in a series of related works that highlights the unseen bodies of knowledge in non-visual space.
Carmen Papalia
Carmen Papalia Public Artist Talk (Hybrid)
Monday, March 20, 2023, 5:30pm
Born in 1981, Carmen Papalia is a nonvisual social practice artist with chronic and episodic pain. He uses organizing strategies and improvisation to address his access to public space, art institutions and visual culture. As a convener, he establishes welcoming spaces where disabled, sick and chronically ill people can build capacity for care that they lack on account of governmental failure and medical ableism. His work, which takes forms ranging from collaborative performance to public intervention, is a response to the harms of the Medical Model of Disability.
Carrie Sandahl
Crip* Internship
“I didn’t See You there” Film Screening and Booklet Launch
Join us in celebrating the launch of the ‘An accessible university means…’ booklet/survey created by the Crip* Internship Group with a screening of the award-winning film ‘I Didn’t See You There’ by Reid Davenport!
Members of the Crip* Internship will introduce the ‘Instances of Ableism’ survey and ‘An accessible university means…’ booklet, created throughout the Spring and Fall of 2023. Limited edition risograph printed copies of the booklet/survey will be available for free for event attendees.
2021-2022
2021-2022