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Schedule

Daytime Events

9:00 AM - 10:15 Welcome

9:00 AM to 9:30 AM Registration and access check-in, coffee Woodside Hall

 

9:30 AM to 9:45 AM Welcome and orientation - Joël Dazé and Gift Tshuma

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM Transit to Session One

10:15 - 11:45 AM Session One

Session 1A - New Directions in Adaptive Music Technology - Jean Teron Room

Jesse Stewart - WAAM Lab

 

David Bobier - VibraFusionLab

 

Joël Dazé - Blurring the Boundaries

Session 1B - New Frontiers in Music Accessibility Research - Parlour (hybrid session)

Peter Jonas, Jay Pocknell - New accessibility options in MuseScore composition and notation software

 

Erin Parkes, Jeffrey Sabo, Olivia Adams - "Whose Voices? Examining Equity and Lived Experience"

Lunch

11:45 PM -12:15 PM transit to Woodside Hall

 

12:15 PM - 1:30 PM lunch and networking Woodside Hall and Garden

 

12:15 - 1:30 PM Innovation Showcase, Jean Teron Room

12:00 Jesse Stewart – AUMI-controlled gongs and drums

12:15 Makerspace Challenge, winner: Team Strum-able

12:30 Joel Dazé – Ableton Live 12

12:45 Makerspace Challenge, runner-up: Team Happy Note

1:00 David Bobier – Vibrotactile Tech

1:15 Makerspace Challenge, 2nd place: The Seam Team

Session Two: Plenary Session 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM Woodside Hall

Sean Lee, Keynote Talk - “A Crip Approach to Curation”

 

2:30 PM to 3:00 PM break and transit to Session Three.

Session Three: A and B 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Session 3A - Performers’ Perspectives on Accessibility - Jean Teron Green Room

Tamyka Bullen - ASL poetry and Performance

 

Mike Carter – “Creating and Performing Beyond the Non-Disabled Gaze”

 

Dani Saldo - “Love Me Till I’m Me Again”

Session 3B - Accessibility Strategies and Policy - Parlour (hybrid session)

Jenna Richards - Adaptive Concerts: An Inclusive Performance Initiative

 

Olivia Adams - “Accessible Assessments: Exploring Academic Accommodations in Youth Performance Assessments”

 

Joël Dazé - Report on the National Arts Centre Accessibility Strategy

 

James Deaville, Charlotte Stewart-Juby, Rowan Friesen - “The Sight of Music: Developing A Universal Language for Musical Closed Captioning”

Evening Events: Concert 7 PM to 10 PM

Lucas Haneman and Megan Laurence (The Blind and the Beautiful)

Dani Saldo and Edison Dietrich

Joël Dazé and Julian Bertino - Colours

Jo-Anne Bryan and King Kimbit - Speaking Vibrations

Colin Tucker - The Aesthetic is Eugenic / Collapsing the Aesthetic

Michael Carter, saxophone and Jesse Stewart, drums

Chris Binkowski (Bucko)

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