Ford and Mellon Foundations Reveal 2024 Disability Futures Fellows
by Stephi Wild - Jul 18, 2024
The Ford Foundation and the Mellon Foundation announced the 2024 recipients of the Disability Futures Fellowship, an initiative administered by United States Artists that is dedicated to platforming and amplifying disabled creative practitioners across various mediums and geographies.
Lachi Releases 'Lift Me Up' Single With James Ian Ft. Gaelynn Lea
by Michael Major - Jul 25, 2023
Lachi and acclaimed songwriter James Ian have released a new single and video, “Lift Me Up” featuring Broadway musician Gaelynn Lea, to honor the renowned disability rights activist Judy Heumann who passed away earlier this year. Tony-winner Ali Stroker starts the video with an audio description for blind and low-vision audiences.
Lachi Announces 'Lift Me Up' Single With James Ian Ft. Gaelynn Lea
by Michael Major - Jul 11, 2023
The video, a salute to Deaf Culture, was created by an award winning, BIPOC, LGBTQ, disabled team, directed and produced by Catriona Rubenis-Stevens, co-directed by Day Al-Mohammed, with DP Caroline Mariko Stucky, edited by Jake Primmerman, and starring three superstar ASL performers.
New Global Free Film Series FILMS.DANCE Announces Launch
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 11, 2021
The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance has teamed up with two of Los Angeles’ foremost cultural organizations—the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts—to launch Films.Dance, a groundbreaking new global free film series.