{"id":5295,"date":"2023-11-29T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accessarts.ca\/?p=5295"},"modified":"2023-11-30T15:24:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:24:56","slug":"canadas-largest-disability-arts-organization-receives-190000-from-the-national-creation-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accessarts.ca\/announcements\/canadas-largest-disability-arts-organization-receives-190000-from-the-national-creation-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s largest disability arts organization receives $190,000 from the National Creation Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CALGARY \u2013 The National accessArts Centre (NaAC), Canada\u2019s largest disability arts organization, is announcing an investment of $190,000 from the National Creation Fund, administered by the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. This is the single largest investment in the NaAC\u2019s performing arts programs, and will go towards the further development of its current project, titled&nbsp;<em>ICONIC+<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>ICONIC+<\/em>&nbsp;is a groundbreaking project, designed from the ground up by artists living with disabilities who actively participate in the NaAC\u2019s Professional Dance Ensemble. Rooted in improvisation, the investment from the Fund will allow the NaAC to further connect the project with accessible technology and explore new concepts around disability leadership in the performing arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor this project, roles such as artistic director and choreographer have been removed, placing more artistic decisions in the hands of the ensemble. The ensemble will be supported by international leaders in the disability arts including VibraFusion Lab, Drag Syndrome, Laurel Lawson, and Sky Cubabcub, who are all doing ground-breaking work revisioning what disability-led performing arts looks like.\u201d \u2013 Karly Mortimer, VP, Artist &amp; Program Development, NaAC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cICONIC+ is a game-changing Canadian performance that shows the magic that&#8217;s possible when bold artistic dreams, wildly talented disabled artists, and dedicated partners come together. We at the National Creation Fund are so proud to support this culture-expanding work!\u201d \u2013 Sarah Conn, Acting Artistic Producer, National Art Centre\u2019s National Creation Fund<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>ICONIC+<\/em>, also supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, will be featured at Tangente Danse in Montreal as well as the Korea International Accessible Dance Festival in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investment will propel current disability-led performance project into being production ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessarts.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessarts.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessarts.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessarts.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessarts.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accessarts.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessarts.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessarts.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessarts.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}