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Access as Art and Practice in Creative Projects

Left: Cheryl is a white Ashkenazi Jewish woman with olive complexion, super cute glasses, and long, dark curly that seems to melt right into her black t-shirt. She’s unaware her picture is being snapped as she stands in front of an enormous mural of running wild horses. She stares wistfully past her shoulder in the direction the painted horses are running. Their black, gray, and white painted lines mirror the white screen print on her t-shirt of a delightful array of sharp knives and daggers and the words “No More Spoons.” A solemn crow tattoo adorns her upper arm, and her forearms are crossed in front of her, chiseled from too many years of typing too much. The air smells of car fumes and evergreen trees on this near cloudless day. Right: A white person with blonde hair and glasses with a mannequin on their shoulder looks sideways, in front of a bookcase swathed in pink light.
Oct 23, 2024
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

In this artist talk and workshop, Ariel Baska, multiply disabled horror filmmaker and disability advocate, shares their experiences using accessibility tools as a uniquely creative layer. They are joined by Cheryl Green, of the Social Audio Description Collective, to talk through how captions and audio description can intertwine aesthetically with the work. By working in this way, artists can provide access that is both integral to the art and opens up new artistic worlds to audiences they have never reached before.

NOTE: This a virtual workshop. Times are in PST. Registrants will be sent a link to join prior to the event.

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Ariel Baska is a multi-award-winning, multiply Disabled queer horror and documentary filmmaker, who believes in advocacy and accessibility for historically underserved communities. Their work has played on Alaska Airlines, and at film festivals from Berlin to Mexico City to Mumbai. They have presented with Lincoln Center, SXSW (South by Southwest) and the Berlinale on various topics in disability and accessibility in the film and television industry. They are the creator and festival director of ACCESS:HORROR, a film festival and industry summit celebrating the history, future and impact of disability and horror. Their work in progress, Monstrous Me, is a horror memoir and documentary feature about finding themselves as a disfigured child in the face of Freddy Krueger. The project won a grant from Virginia Humanities, and the Crip Script Pitch competition at ReelAbilities Film Festival. Regardless of what story they’re telling or what work they’re doing, they care passionately about the margins.

Cheryl Green is a creative captioner, audio describer, podcaster, and filmmaker. She brings her lived experience with invisible disabilities and chronic illness to all of her work, centering disability culture and access as art. She’s a 2017 AIR New Voices Scholar, 2020 DOC NYC Documentary New Leader, 2023 Rockwood Leadership Institute Documentary Leaders Fellow, Member at New Day Films, and a member of the Social Audio Description Collective. Cheryl has proudly served on the jury for Superfest Disability Film Festival, and she co-facilitates workshops for artists, filmmakers, and museums on arts accessibility. Find her documentary and short fiction films and her podcast, Pigeonhole, at WhoAmIToStopIt.com.

This workshop is generously sponsored by the Prosper Portland and the Portland Film Office.

Accessibility Information:

  • ASL/English interpreters will be provided with multi-pin privileges for those using interpreting.
  • Automated real time captioning will be turned on.
  • The chat will be set to only go to co-hosts so those using screen readers will not have the presentation interrupted by chat entries.
  • All media shared will have audio description and captions.
  • Any images shared with photosensitivity triggers will be announced in advance so attendees can opt out of watching that clip.
  • Content notices will be used for any sensitive topics.
  • For additional access requests please contact us at: access@pam.org or 503-276-4284
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