Special Events
Disability Justice Dreaming Session #4
Tue Jan 31, 2023 | 11 AM - 1 PM
Vancouver Art Gallery
Image: Courtesy of the Artist
[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.”
“It is a human right to dream.”
– Rebel Fayola Rose, founder of Disability Justice Dreaming
This page is for DJ Dreaming Session on January 31 at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Find out how to register here.
Find out more about our Accessibility Information here.
See the full schedule of sessions here.
Learn about our collaborators here.
This event is free to register.
Please note: this program series prioritizes Disabled, BIPOC and LGBTQ2SIA+ Community Members. Each session has limited capacity, with a maximum of 10 to 12 individuals
ABOUT DISABILITY JUSTICE DREAMING SESSIONS
In conjunction with the exhibition, NEXT: Provisional Structures | Carmen Papalia with Co-Conspirators, the Vancouver Art Gallery is pleased to host programming led by artist, Rebel Fayola Rose (he/him), founder of Disability Justice Dreaming.
In partnership with Gallery Gachet, Rebel 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.
HOW TO REGISTER
DJ Dreaming Sessions are free to register.
Please e-mail sbokenfohr@vanartgallery.bc.ca with the following information:
- Your name and pronouns
- The session and date you would like to join
- Please include a brief description of any access needs to ensure you have a comfortable experience during the session.
ASL is available upon request with seven business days advance notice. We will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made outside of that window of time. To place a request, please reach out to Adult Public Program Coordinator Stephanie Bokenfohr through email sbokenfohr@vanartgallery.bc.ca or executivedirector@gachet.org; or call (604) 662 4700 and mention that you would like to register for a DJ Dreaming Session.
*Please note: For sessions that will be held at Gallery Gachet on Jan 24 and Jan 27, please email contact@gachet.org with the following information:
- Your name and pronouns
- The session and date you would like to join
- Please include a brief description of any access needs to ensure you have a comfortable experience during the session.
Or contact Gallery Gachet by phone at (604) 687 2468. For accessibility information at Gallery Gachet, please visit their Accessibility page.
Inclusion Expectation
By registering to attend, you commit to participating in a respectful manner, which contributes to building a safe and welcoming space. Additionally, you acknowledge that any disrespectful or harm-causing behaviour may result in a revoked right to participate.
Accessibility Information
If you have any requests, concerns, or questions regarding accessibility at this event, please contact Stephanie Bokenfohr by email: sbokenfohr@vanartgallery.bc.ca or by phone at (604) 662-4700.
The sessions at the Vancouver Art Gallery take place in a space that includes: seating, wheelchairs, walking canes, noise-cancellation headphones, heating pads, blankets, and fidget toys. Refreshments will also be served during and/or after the session.
Please note: this program series prioritizes Disabled, BIPOC and LGBTQ2SIA+ Community Members. Each session has limited capacity, with a maximum of 10 to 12 individuals
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Session 1: Friday, January 20 11 AM – 1 PM
Vancouver Art Gallery | Second Floor of the Gallery
Session 2: Tuesday, January 24 11 AM – 1 PM
Gallery Gachet
Session 3: Friday, January 27 11 AM – 1 PM
Gallery Gachet
Session 4: Tuesday, January 31 11 AM – 1 PM
Vancouver Art Gallery | Second Floor of the Gallery
Session 5: Friday, February 3 11AM – 1PM
Vancouver Art Gallery | Second Floor of the Gallery
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
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.
Gallery Gachet is an Artist Run Centre located in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver on the stolen, sacred, and ancestral homelands of the xwməθkwəy’əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Gallery Gachet’s mandate supports artists and offers art programs addressing mental health and socio-political marginalization while promoting art as a means for survival, cultural participation, human rights and political activation.
In its hosting of DJ Dreaming Sessions, Gachet hopes to continue working in line with its socially engaged and community-centred mandate by providing the residents and community members of the Downtown Eastside with the possibility of envisioning the otherwise.
The Gallery Gachet team hopes that these dream sessions will shed light on how the ability to dream is, in fact, political and a privilege that some hold. The artistic director of Gallery Gachet, Olumoroti George (He/They), believes that for most marginalized and disabled groups, it is important to disidentify from the societal dictated state of being by envisioning an ideal social condition where all individuals but most especially individuals living with societal barriers can thrive in comfort. With Rebel Fayola Rose’s dream sessions, the members of the DTES community where Gallery Gachet is situated will be given the opportunity to have their imaginations supported whilst having their current perspectives on the world validated.