The program will contain three types of presentations:
- Lecture: 20 min lectures + 10 minutes questions
- Lecture-Recital: 30 min
- Workshop: 1 hour
Our keynote speaker is Pamela Witcher.
The entire symposium will be hybrid, held in person and remotely via Zoom. There will be captions and ASL interpreters.
The event is free but registration is mandatory. The registration period is now over. If you wish to attend but did not register yet, please contact us.
The times are given in Pacific Time (PST).
Content
Link to the detailed program with abstracts and biographies
Day 1
8:00-9:00: Registration
9:00-9:30: Welcome speech
9:30-10:00: Lecture 1
Paula Gómez Martín – Literary Pathways Toward Inclusive Sonic Experience
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10:00-10:30: Lecture 2
Rhoda Bernard – Implementing Best Practices in Accessible Music Education
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10:30-11:00: Lecture 3
Oliver George-Brown – Who Cares?: Performing Transecology in the Mojave Desert
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11:00-11:10: Short break
11:10-12:10: Workshop 1 (ArtsAbly)
Diane Kolin – Braille music discovery workshop
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12:10-1:20: Lunch
1:20-1:50: Lecture 4
Gabrielle Berry – Silent Sounds: Access in the Age of Silent Film
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1:50-2:20: Lecture 5
Caroline Heggie – Supporting Dyslexic Learners: Improving Instructional Strategies for Undergraduate Music Theory
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2:20-2:30: Short break
2:30-3:00: Lecture 6
Cecilia Hiros – ‘Eye-Music’: Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Knowledge-Making as Musical Practice
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3:00-3:30: Lecture 7
Elizabeth McLain – Music as Crip Space: DisCoTec Artist Residencies
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3:30-3:40: Short break
3:40-4:10: Lecture 8
Bruce Petherick – Inclusion and Community: A Performer’s Perspective
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4:10-4:40: Lecture-recital 1
Michele Cheng & Micah Huang – Live, Beyond the Edge
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4:40-5:40: Workshop 2 (ArtsAbly)
Gaitrie Persaud-Killings – American Sign Language (ASL) Music singing workshop
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6:00-8:00: Dinner – Mingle & Connect
Day 2
8:00-8:45: Registration
8:45: Brief welcome speech
9:00-9:30: Lecture 9
Jon Lee – The Silent Voice of East Asian Musicians in Vancouver, Canada
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9:30-10:00 Lecture-recital 2
Dena Kay Jones – Vision Through Sounds: The Life and Work of Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999)
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10:00-10:10: Short break
10:10-10:40: Lecture 10
Michael Carter – Improvising Around and Through Ableism
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10:40-11:10: Lecture 11
Anne Slovin & Katherine Meizel – Disability and Accessibility in the Voice Studio: A Resource for Voice Teachers and Pedagogy Instructors
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11:10-11:20: Short break
11:20-12:20: Workshop 3 (ArtsAbly)
Diane Kolin – New technology and adaptive instruments workshop
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12:20-1:30: Lunch
1:30-2:00: Lecture 12
Sara Beth Lyons – Intersectional Navigations: Black Disabled Women, Mad Method, and Uses of Black Radical Creativity
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2:00-2:30: Lecture 13
Rena Roussin – Musical Constellations and Bodies that Matter: Disabled Classical Musicking in Canada and Access as Collective Care
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2:30-3:00: Lecture 14
Anabel Maler – How Sign Language Analyzes Musical Form
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3:00-3:10: Short break
03:10-4:10: Keynote
Pamela Witcher
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4:10-4:20: Short break
4:20-5:20: Workshop 4 (ArtsAbly)
Jesse Stewart and Ellen Waterman – Sounding Inclusion: Practical Approaches to Accessible Music-Making
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5:30-7:30: Dinner