Disability Justice Dreaming Sessions
Rebel Fayola Rose
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[ID:] A circular illustration, in colour, depicting person is laying in a bed, a walker is beside their bed. Person has dark hair in braids on either side, freckles and is smiling, looking upwards. Person is looking up to a flower burst cloud that reads “Disability Justice Dreaming.”
Disability Justice Dreaming Sessions
January 24 and 27, 2023 / 11am to 1pm / Free with registration
In partnership with the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gallery Gachet is excited to host 2 sessions of Rebel Fayola Rose's Disability Justice Dreaming Sessions.
ABOUT DISABILITY JUSTICE DREAMING SESSIONS
In conjunction with the exhibition, NEXT: Provisional Structures | Carmen Papalia with Co-Conspirators, Rebel Fayola Rose (he/him) will host and facilitate five public Disability Justice Dreaming Sessions (DJ Dreaming Sessions). DJ Dreaming sessions provide participants with an opportunity to imagine an optimistic and visionary world while questioning narrow definitions for those who may experience ableism.
A Dreaming Session is a gentle, one to two hour transformative audience performance centering those most impacted by systems of oppression. They begin with an access check-in and include time to reflect on/respond to various questions that support the participant’s own imaginings to keep us grounded in community needs. The program involves creativity, imagination, and collective dreaming. The artist/facilitator is present to elicit these dreams and to reflect back on the presence of the community.
Each Session will begin at 11 AM and end at 1 PM. Refreshments will be available.
Click here for further information and dreaming session availabilities at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Please note: registry is required and this program series prioritizes *Disabled, BIPOC and LGBTQ2SIA+ Community Members. Each session has limited capacity, with a maximum of 10 to 12 individuals. Mask wearing is required. We ask that attendees also prepare to be fragrance free to participate in dreaming sessions. For more information on minimizing fragrances please visit https://csw.ucla.edu/toolkit#toggle-id-5.
*We invite anyone who has lived experience of being impacted by ableism and/or those that identify as neurodivergent. You do not have to have obtained a formal diagnosis, we acknowledge the value of self/undiagnosis. The term disabled is not comprehensive of personal experience and we invite expanded definitions and rejections of the term overall.
Please fill out the form at the bottom of this page to register for a Dreaming Session at Gallery Gachet. If filling out this online form is a barrier please feel free to call 604.687.2468 and a staff member will register you.
About the Artist
Rebel Fayola Rose (he/him) is a Disabled educator, space-holder and access artist. As a facilitator, Rose reflects back the open presence of the community and use those reflections to keep his work grounded in the needs of those most targeted by oppressions. Rebel is also an international Disabled social practice/multimedia artist who is passionate about healing intergenerational trauma through his work.
