21 virtual postcards from disabled artists
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Curated by Harbourfront Center, a not-for-profit art center on Lake Ontario in Toronto.
https://harbourfront.live/festival/postcards/
Each first-person postcard combines video, still images, spoken word, captions. The artists address what life's like for them in the COVID-19 moment. Each artist’s page offers video links with and without audio description.
Gaelynn Lea improvises a dragon song on her fiddle (audio described)
https://harbourfront.live/event/gaelynn-lea/?enhance=yes
Dawn Jani Birley, a Deaf actor, describes flying from Canada to Finland while the world was locking down.
https://harbourfront.live/event/dawn-jani-birley/?enhance=yes
Brian Solomon, a non-symmetrical Indigenous dancer documents the family- and land-based art which is sustaining him during lockdown on his home land of Shebahonaning, Ontario "colonially known as Killarney."