Fridays at noon MGH 024: Apr 15 films of Riva Lehrer; May 20 Yonas Seifu; June 3 ET Russian
Spring 2016 Brown Bags
Please be fragrance free. We have requested CART captioning and ASL interpretation for all events.
Friday, April 15, 12:00-1:20, MGH 024
Screening & discussion of Riva Lehrer’s documentary films on disability art & culture:
"Code of the Freaks" AND “Self Preservation: The Art of Riva Lehrer”
Riva will be a featured presenter at the DS Symposium on Fri, May 13, 4:30-7pm, ODE 220. "Making Disability Public: Arts, Scholarship, and Activism." RSVP here by Apr 29th: https://depts.washington.edu/disstud/pacific-western-ds-symposium
Friday, May 20, 12:00-1:00, MGH 024
Yonas Seifu, MBA, “My Intersectional Journey”
Link to 2012 news story: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/uw-grad-works-to-become-whole-6-years-after-bullet-shattered-life/
Friday, June 3, 12:00-1:00, MGH 024
E.T. Russian, “CASTING SHADOWS: The making of a multi-sensory installation piece about disability culture and the human experience”
CASTING SHADOWS is a multi-sensory, audio-video installation piece of comics that explore disability culture and the human experience. As an artist with a physical disability I was compelled to create this piece because storytelling is vital and the disability experience is characterized by isolation and often misunderstood. CASTING SHADOWS explores themes of animal-human interdependence, family, employment, homelessness, the body, the brain, race, sexuality, illness, parenting and connection. CASTING SHADOWS offers storytelling on multiple sensory levels (audio, visual and spatial), making this piece accessible to a wide variety of audiences. This talk will explore the process of making this project, including interviews, sound recordings, photography and original illustrations. CASTING SHADOWS will have its debut exhibition at The Jack Straw Foundation in Fall 2016.
BIO
E.T. RUSSIAN is a multi-media artist, author, filmmaker, performer, educator and healthcare provider living in Seattle, Washington. Russian is the author of The Ring of Fire Anthology (2014) and has published work in The Seattle Weekly, The Graphic Medicine Manifesto (2015), Gay Genius (2011) and The Collective Tarot (2008). Russian is a member of Seattle comic collective THE HAND, an Advisory Board Member for Seattle’s Short Run Fest, an organizer centered in Disability Justice, a featured performer with Sins Invalid and dance company Light Motion, and Co-Director of documentary Third Antenna (2001). Russian has lectured at Universities, conferences and community organizations across the country, and received support from the Seattle Office of Art & Culture, The Art Matters Foundation, The Jack Straw Foundation and the Harlan Hahn Award in Disability Studies from the University of Washington. Russian is a documentarian at heart and believes storytelling is a powerful tool for the liberation of all people. Learn more at ETRUSSIAN.COM