Join us for a gathering of artists, professors, students, and organizers discussing and critically engaging with disability, access, and the potential to utilize these concepts in a generative and inclusive way.

Registration Details
All sessions will be fully hybrid, so they can be attended in person at the Siebel Center for Design on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus or virtually via Zoom. Every session of the colloquium will have live captioning and ASL interpretation, for both in-person and virtual event attendees.

Registration is required to attend, and you can select in-person or virtual options at the following links | Register for Day One |

Register for Day Two
The Shannon Finnegan artist talk on October 21 has its own registration portal through the Art + Design Visitors Series | Register for the Artist Talk

Schedule of Speakers

Thursday, October 21 | Register for Day One

2-3 pm
Cripping: Interdependence, Creativity, Access | An intercampus hybrid discussion about the integration and dissemination of access
Margaret Fink, Director of the Disability Cultural Center at University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)
Jorge Lucero, Professor and Chair of Art Education in the School of Art and Design, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Karyn Sandlos, Head of Art Education at UIC
Lorelei Stewart, Director Gallery 400 at UIC
Liza Sylvestre, Curator of Academic Programs at Krannert Art Museum, UIUC

3:30-4:30 pm
Faculty Discussion | Faculty from disparate departments at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign discuss how disability and access have informed their research and pedagogy
Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Department of Classics
Nic Flores, Department of Latina/Latino Studies
Christopher Robert Jones, School of Art and Design
Eduardo Ledesma, Department of Spanish & Portuguese

5:30-7 pm
Art + Design Visitors Series: Shannon Finnegan Artist Talk | Accessibility Dreams
Register for the Artist Talk
Through their art practice, Shannon thinks about how we can move towards better and more nuanced approaches to access. Instead of focusing on compliance and doing the minimum, what if we approach access creatively and generously, centering disability culture? How might we make spaces and experiences that disabled people not only can access but want to access?
About the Artist

Shannon Finnegan is an artist. Some of their recent work includes Anti-Stairs Club Lounge, an ongoing project that gathers people together who share an aversion to stairs; Alt-Text as Poetry, a collaboration with Bojana Coklyat that explores the expressive potential of image description; and Do You Want Us Here or Not, a series of benches and cushions designed for exhibition spaces. They have done projects with Banff Centre, the High Line, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Nook Gallery. Their work has been supported by a 2018 Wynn Newhouse Award, a 2019 residency at Eyebeam, and a 2020 grant from Art Matters Foundation.

Improvisers Exchange will host an online, open classroom workshop with Sam Newsome and Improvisers Exchange students on the practice of music improvisation.

This webinar program invites students, educators, and the general public to view the session to gain insight on listening and performance strategies utilized by improvising musicians. Live audience members viewing the session can submit questions upon registration or during the presentation.

Registration Details
Registration is required for this event, conducted via Zoom.

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Accessibility
Krannert Art Museum endeavors to be accessible to all. This virtual event will be in English and closed captioned via Zoom.
If you have questions or would like to request an accessibility accommodation, please email kam-accessibility@illinois.edu.

Phone: 217 - 333-1861

Email : kam-info@illinois.edu

Website: kam.illinois.edu

Free (donations accepted)

This program is partially supported by the Lorado Taft on Art Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Robert E. Brown Center for World Music, and School of Music. Sudden Sound is organized by Krannert Art Museum and Jason Finkelman, Director of Global Arts Performance Initiatives in the School of Music.

All Out A Cappella is the biggest a cappella event in downstate Illinois featuring vocal harmonies ranging from barbershop to contemporary a cappella. The concert is fun for all ages!

This year’s line-up includes:
No Comment A Cappella (U of I)
The Xtension Chords (U of I)
Illinois Rip Chords (U of I)
On the Brink of Normal (ISU)
Clef Hangers (ISU)
QB (Elmhurst College)
Surreal Sound (Unity HS)
Unity West 5th Grade Choir (early show only)

Performances at 4:30 pm and 7:30 pm in Unity High School's Polly Anderson Auditorium in Tolono, IL.

Tickets can be ordered online at:
https://unitymusicboosters.seatyourself.biz

Advanced seating: $15/adults and $10/students
Tickets at the door (if available): $18/adults and $13/students
For information about accessible seating, please email alloutacappella@gmail.com.

Sponsored by Unity Music Boosters with proceeds going toward enhancing music in Unit 7 schools.
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Date/Time(s): Sun, Mar 10, 2019 – 7pm (doors open at 6pm)

Seating: Reserved

Tickets: $29.50/$39.50/$49.50/$69.50
Add’l per ticket processing fees apply: $4 (online only)

On-Sale Date: Fri, Nov 30, 2018 – 10am

Mammoth Events and the Champaign Park District are proud to present THE CHOIR OF MAN at the Virginia Theatre on Sunday, March 10, 2019, at 7:00 P.M., as part of their inaugural North American tour!

This worldwide smash and runaway hit of numerous music festivals will have stateside audiences on their feet! Tickets to THE CHOIR OF MAN go on sale to the public Friday, November 30, 2018, at 10:00 A.M., at the Virginia Theatre Box Office, online at thevirginia.org, or charge by phone at 217.356.9063.

Known across the globe as ‘the ultimate-feel good show’, THE CHOIR OF MAN offers up 90 minutes of indisputable joy. It’s a party. It’s a concert. It’s a pint-filled good time set in a real working pub that combines hair-raising harmonies, high-energy dance, and live percussion with foot-stomping choreography. The multi-talented cast of nine handsome blokes sings everything – pub tunes, folk,Broadway, classic rock – all to roof-raising heights. It’s the best singing, dancing, stomping, pub crawl of a show you’ll ever attend!

One of the show’s producers, Nic Doodson states, ‘The guys have spent the last couple of years touring the UK and Australia and they are ready to bring this show to American audiences.

Imagine the greatest pub gig you’ve ever been to, multiply it by ten, and you’ll still be nowhere near the fun that this show exudes throughout. The show celebrates music that has wide appeal including songs by Adele, Queen, Paul Simon, Katy Perry, Red Hot Chili Peppers and more. The cast features world-class tap dancers, acrobats, singers, instrumentalists and poets, ensuring that there is something for everyone in this joyous and uplifting show for all ages.

THE CHOIR OF MAN is the latest show from the creative minds of Nic Doodson and Andrew Kay – the team behind Soweto Gospel Choir, The Magnets, and the award-winning North by Northwest.

“A feast for the senses, Choir of Man will have you dancing down the aisle. Leave your worries in your coat and grab a pint!” – Broadway Baby

For more information, please visit www.choirofman.com. Follows the guys on Facebook (/thechoirofman), Twitter (@choirofman) and Instagram (@choirofman).

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