Join us at the Foundry in Cambridge with Design Museum Everywhere to guide you through gentle movement using your body as a tool for storytelling. The activity is designed for ages 6 and up; all are welcome, including families, young professionals, and elders. This event will take place outdoors depending on the weather, please wear flexible and comfortable clothing. Registration is required due to limited capacity. 

Building and Event Information: 

• First floor is wheelchair accessible. The main entrance and the entrance from the yard have automatic doors. All doors in the building do not automatically open.

• All bathrooms on the first floor are gender neutral. Two bathrooms are wheelchair accessible. Sinks in all first floor bathrooms are 34 inches tall with a 12 inch reach to the faucet.

• Mask use will be encouraged for all visitors to the Foundry building, and masks will be on hand for those who need one.

Join us for an evening at the intersection of movement, wellness and inclusion. Through the lens of artistic expression, a diverse roster of New England’s leading artmakers and dancers will amplify the importance of dance and movement in maintaining their own wellness as well as the power in embracing the arts as a vehicle and catalyst for creating community identity and belonging.

Come early to kick off the night with Lawrence’s Louis and Elvis for an LGBTQ inclusive bachata class. And stay with us following the conversation as the Museum’s Blue Wing turns into a celebration of the sights and sounds of the Hispanic and Latinx culture and community featuring performances and audience demonstrations from the Afro-Latin dance scene, dancing to DJ music, and more!

The City of Boston, in collaboration with the Boston Cultural Council awarded a total of $626,000 in grants to 160 arts and cultural organizations as part of this year’s Boston Cultural Council grant funding. Join us in recognizing the important contributions these organizations have made to Boston's arts sector at this year's grantee reception.

A twenty-five minute performance with a mix of verbal and physical expression from two dancers. These dancers invite the audience to make movements of their own.

Venture inside the studio of Abilities Dance Boston, a local performing company that uses dance as a tool for intersectional disability rights. Ellice Patterson, Founder and Director of Abilities Dance, will talk about the process of how Abilities works in bringing together music, movement, and more in its productions. Ellice will focus on Abilities Dance’s new production, Intersections v2, which features diverse artists within and outside of the disabled community. Intersections V2 highlights BIPOC and deaf/disabled artists and activists past and present while exploring how racial justice and disability rights advocacy interconnect. Join us for this interactive talk, and learn about Abilities Dance and the themes of Intersections V2.

You can attend this program in person in Hunneman Hall at the Brookline Village Library, or you can watch live on YouTube or Facebook via the Brookline Interactive Group or on BIG’s Community Channel, Brookline RCN/Comcast Cable Channel 3.

Ellice and Abilities Dance Boston are featured in the new book Inside Their Studio: Deaf & Disabled Artists Reshaping the Arts by the Ikouii Creative. We invite you to check out the book to learn more about Abilities Dance and about deaf and disabled artists from many communities.

This program is in partnership with the Brookline Interactive Group. This event is generously sponsored by the Brookline Commission on Disability and the Library Trustees.

ADB’s Andrew Choe and Ellice Patterson, along with Marian Taylor Brown and Allegra Fletcher invite you to traverse life across dimensions of disability, race, queerness and magic stardust with them at the CHRONIC closing celebration

Abilities Boston uses dance as a tool for intersectional disability rights by disrupting ableist beliefs and disseminating the value of inclusion through dance.  Come see a performance from their repertoire followed by a Q&A. 

Generously supported by the Friends of the Robbins Library and the Arlington Libraries Foundation.

In reaction to a disability movement that treated disability as a single-issue concern, in 2005, activists Patty Berne, Mia Mingus, and Stacey Milbern conceived of the term and framework of “disability justice.” The movement wanted to focus on the way that systems are interconnected and include disability issues that intersected with historically excluded groups, such as women, people of color, immigrants, and people who identify as LGBTQ+. Ellice Patterson, founder of Abilities Dance, Jorge Matos Valldejuli, professor and reference librarian at Hostos Community College, and Britney Wilson, Director of the Civil Rights and Disability Justice Clinic at New York Law School, are all engaged in disability justice work from the arts to the courtroom. Panelists will reflect on the history of disability justice as a concept, disability rights vs. disability justice, how the framework has informed their work, and how disability justice has grown and manifests today.

See ADB’s repertoire of pieces performed at Studio 797 in NYC as part of our APAP showcase. NYC based dancers Caitlin, Leslie, and Jamie are highlighting the ways our artists work across the country.