Re-Vision: Centre for Art and Social Justice

09/30/2026

Expedient Classification: How Seizures Are Made in Practice is a hybrid research talk and discussion with Dr. Megh Marathe from Simon Fraser University.

About:
This talk examines how doctors and patients distinguish between normal and pathological events in epilepsy. I show that both take what I call an expedient approach to classification, weighing the risks and benefits of labeling an event as a seizure. By engaging in expedient classification, doctors and patients bend formal classification schemes to suit the complex realities of people’s lives. These practices highlight the fluid, dynamic, and negotiated boundary between normal and pathological events in chronic conditions. The talk contributes to scholarship on disability, classification, and expertise.

Bio:
Dr. Megh Marathe is an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University. Their first name is pronounced “Make,” as in makerspace. Their research seeks to improve the tools that experts use to make high-stakes decisions by centering the experiences of disabled and trans people. They publish in humanistic and social science venues such as Social Studies of Science and Disability Studies Quarterly, as well as computer science venues like Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/expedient-classification-how-seizures-are-made-in-practice-tickets-2001405945058

Access Information
This event is hybrid.
Attendees are asked to wear a mask unless they have a medical exception. Masks may be removed while eating or drinking.
Nearby washrooms are wheelchair accessible.
Light refreshments will be provided.
A separate dining area is available upon request.
If you have additional access needs, including ASL, please contact us in advance. We will do our best to support your participation.
For access questions or requests, please contact Tali Cherniawsky, Lab Coordinator at [email protected]

09/29/2026

Canada’s Forgotten First Blind Actress and Social Worker - Addressing Archival Accessibility Barriers in the Search for Louise Cowan is a hybrid research talk and discussion with Dr. Michael Marlatt, an archive/museum accessibility consultant and disability media historian based in New Brunswick.

About:
Louise Cowan was a blind educator, historian, accessibility advocate, and actress born in Ontario in 1919. She was the first blind individual in Canada to get a master’s degree in social work, doing so in 1948 with a thesis on the history of at-home blind education in Canada. She worked for the CNIB for nearly 40 years in education and social welfare, eventually becoming the National Director of Welfare and Home Teaching. Cowan was also an actress, appearing on CBC and NFB programming multiple times in the 1950s and 1960s. Cowan would pass away in 1987 with seemingly little attention since. So how does someone with such accolades get forgotten? This presentation, hosted by Dr. Michael Marlatt looks to address this question through examining accessibility barriers that exist within Canada’s archives. Films, photographs, and textual records of Cowan live within such archives as Library and Archives Canada, the Archives of Ontario, the City of Toronto Archives, the NFB, and the CBC. The aim of this talk is to re-introduce Cowan, address what some of these major archival accessibility barriers are and outline an upcoming awareness campaign with LAC on Cowan.

Bio:
Dr. Michael Marlatt is an archive/museum accessibility consultant and disability media historian based in New Brunswick. Michael has been working with media archives for over a decade having graduated from TMU’s Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management MA program. He later received his PhD in 2024 from York University’s Communication & Culture program, writing on accessibility barriers in graduate-level moving image archival education training programs in North America. He hosts workshops and public talks with cultural institutions globally on person-centred disability-inclusion strategies in regard to public programming, collections processing, accessible cultural spaces, training, and equitable hiring practices. Previously Michael worked for Toronto-based arts organizations and festivals including the Luminato Arts Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. Michael currently serves as the archival producer on the AMI-tv Canadian disability history docuseries History in 60.

To register, please email Tali Cherniawsky at [email protected]

Access Information:
This event is hybrid.
Attendees are asked to wear a mask unless they have a medical exception. Masks may be removed while eating or drinking.
HEPA air filtration will be in use throughout the event.
The Disability Publics Lab and a nearby washroom are wheelchair accessible.
Light refreshments will be provided.
A separate dining area is available upon request.
If you have additional access needs, please contact us in advance. We will do our best to support your participation.
For access questions or requests, please contact Tali Cherniawsky, Lab Coordinator at [email protected]

09/09/2026

ZINE-MAKING WORKSHOP with JEN WHITE-JOHNSON
Friday, September 25, 12:30-2:30 p.m.
Tangled Art+Disability Gallery
(401 Richmond St W S-124, Toronto, ON M5V 3A8)

Masks required. ASL and CART provided!
Open to all disabled adults.

Space is limited. Please pre-register at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/zine-workshop-with-jen-white-johnson-tickets-1999402784551

Jen White-Johnson is a Baltimore-based Black disabled designer and mother. She is the creator of the Black Disabled Lives Matter logo, the Autistic Joy and Anti-Ableist Educators Manifestos, the Disabled Oracles deck (with Alice Wong and Lichen Hamraie), and many other projects.

In this workshop, participants will work with paper, found and created images, glue, and scissors to create zines about disability justice. No prior experience required.

In this hands-on workshop, Jen will guide participants through using collage, text, and DIY publishing to explore Disability Justice.

09/09/2026

A message from Rebekah Gold (PhD Candidate, Child and Youth Studies, Brock University)

Please see the below invitation to participate in my doctoral research titled: Young People Supporting Elder Kin through Mental Health System Access and Response: Young Carers, Storytelling, Madness, and Wisdom.

I am inviting you to consider participating in a multimedia storytelling research project exploring the stories of young people who support parents or older kin/family through mental health access and responses (sometimes called mental health crises).

This project involves six weekly virtual workshops (2 hours each) where a small group of young people will create multimedia stories together using a video creation software called WeVideo that combines text, voice, images, videos, and more.

Workshops will be collaborative and storytellers will have ownership over their created stories. Storytellers will be supported in decisions about authorship and identification of their story, including if they would like to remain anonymous with a pseudonym name and how they would like their story shared. Participation in this project will not affect access to any services and/or involvement with young caregiver organizations and/or communities.

This project is in collaboration with the Young Caregivers Collective of Canada, Starlings Community, and Re·Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice.

You may be eligible to participate if you:
You may be eligible to participate if you:

are 18 to 30 years old
support or have supported a parent or older Kin/family member(s) experiencing mental distress, Madness, psychosis, or related mental health challenges
live in Canada
What participation includes:
Six 2-hour virtual workshops over six weeks (one workshop per week)
Optional 1-on-1 support between sessions if needed
Creation of a multimedia story that you own and control
Opportunity to use multimedia stories to influence research, practice, and policy
This study has received ethics clearance from the Brock University Research Ethics Board ( #25-272).

If you are interested or would like more information, please email me (Rebekah Gold) at [email protected]. Thank you so much!

09/08/2026

Transformative Justice for Campus & Community Care, a 6 week arts-based learning series for 2SLGBTQ+ University of Guelph students.

We are seeking 10 participants who are eager to engage in critical dialogue, collaborate, experiment, skill share, be creative, and generate new ideas about growing Transformative Justice culture on campus!

This creative series will bring together 2SLGBTQ+ students from the University of Guelph community to learn about, practice, and create cultures around Transformative Justice (TJ) approaches to collective care and addressing harm. University of Guelph students from all levels (undergraduate and graduate), departments, and programs are welcome!

We will be discussing complex topics like criminalization, incarceration, violence, conflict, and harm, and we will also explore conflict scenarios together to collectively strategize responses through a TJ framework of inquiry. We will also be documenting our sessions through creative writing, and digital and visual arts to co-produce a zine that can be shared broadly on campus!

The in-person learning series will occur weekly on campus at the J.C Taylor Nature Center and MCKN 103 from Thursday October 1st, 2026, to November 5th, 2026, at 4:00 - 7:00 pm.

Participants will receive:
Honoraria for participation
Snacks & drinks at sessions (Provided by Guelph FEWD

09/08/2026

BUTTERY AS A CANE ON SAND, SPIKY AS OUR RAGE AGAINST BARRIERS: a workshop on disabled tactile knowledges with IZ PAEHR

Saturday, October 31, 1-3:00 p.m.

Tangled Art+Disability Gallery (401 Richmond St W S-124, Toronto, ON M5V 3A8)

Masks required. ASL and CART provided!

Open to all disabled adults.

What does access feel like? This workshop moves away from ocularcentrism (or the privileging of sight) and towards Tactile Disabled Knowledges: the shared, expert ways that disabled people understand and make worlds through touch. Together we will work with words, materials and vibrotactile sensations to design with and for touch.

Space is limited. Please pre-register at:

A workshop exploring tactile and haptic description

07/03/2026

Call for Participants:
Are you a high school student in the Niagara Region (age 16+) that enjoys the dramatic arts? Do you want to share your experiences with accessibility at school?

🟢The Study🟢 We are looking for participants for a study titled "Co-creating Access: Student Perspectives on Disability Arts, Relaxed Pedagogy. and Accessibility in Ontario Secondary Schools". This study explores how high school students in Niagara understands and experience accessibility at school, and how these experiences might be used to create recommendations for accessible classroom-building.

🟢Who?🟢
-Students 16+ years old attending a high school in the Niagara Region
-Can attend a one-day work in-person at Brock University
-Can participate in English

🟢Location and Time🟢 You would participate in a 2-hour improvisation (improv) workshop at Brock University on July 11, 2026 at 1pm, OR July 25, 2026 at 1pm.
Open-ended group games and scenario based activities will explore how students understand and experience accessibility at school. Through collective reflection, participants will contribute to co-created recommendations for creating accessible schools and classrooms.
You will also have the opportunity to review and provide feedback on these recommendations. This may take up to 1 hour by emailing your feedback to the researchers.

🟢Questions?🟢 If you have any questions contact the researchers:
Principal investigator: Chelsea Jones ( [email protected] )
Principal Student Investigator: Emma Rupcic ( [email protected] )

📌Recruitment Questionnaire - (open until July 24th, 2026)
https://brock.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bNrGgPMaQUW0jrM?Q_CHL=qr

This study has been reviewed and received clearance through the Brock University Research Ethics Board ( [email protected] ), File #25-323 JONES.

05/13/2026

A Re•Vision Centre Work of Stories in the World Project
Transformative Justice Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Thursday May 14, 2026, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm EST ONLINE
https://uoguel.ph/tjfilms
You’re invited to join Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice for a screening of short films centred on Transformative Justice (TJ).
TJ is a movement committed to finding alternatives to punitive justice systems. TJ Artist-Facilitators Naty Tremblay and Nealob Kakar will co-host a virtual evening of short films that illustrate the impacts of police and prison systems as well as possibilities for everyday abolitionism. Taken together, these aesthetics and affective stories highlight what Disability Justice scholar Liat Ben-Moshe names the “Carceral Archipelago."
How do carceral logics flow across and connect our institutions?
How is vulnerability and criminality manufactured against diverse marginalized communities?
How does disposability manifest in our movements, communities, and within ourselves?
How can art make visible the vast pipelines of the prison industrial complex (PIC), imbue the affective impacts on criminalized peoples, and/or enliven our visions of future-worlds where prisons are obsolete?
Image by N.Tremblay & N.Kakar

Thursday, May 14th, 6:30pm - 9pm ET (ONLINE)

04/12/2026

A Re•Vision Centre Work of Stories in the World Project

Transformative Justice Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Thursday May 14, 2026, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm EST ONLINE

Registration deadline: May 1st

Register Here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdy6CazdG8HlSjnx1Ae22xbR8Pxx9ZyHz-lCvinNy3WI3q6yw/viewform

You’re invited to join Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice for a screening of short films centred on Transformative Justice (TJ).

TJ is a movement committed to finding alternatives to punitive justice systems. TJ Artist-Facilitators Naty Tremblay and Nealob Kakar will co-host a virtual evening of short films that illustrate the impacts of police and prison systems as well as possibilities for everyday abolitionism. Taken together, these aesthetics and affective stories highlight what Disability Justice scholar Liat Ben-Moshe names the “Carceral Archipelago."

How do carceral logics flow across and connect our institutions?

How is vulnerability and criminality manufactured against diverse marginalized communities?

How does disposability manifest in our movements, communities, and within ourselves?

How can art make visible the vast pipelines of the prison industrial complex (PIC), imbue the affective impacts on criminalized peoples, and/or enliven our visions of future-worlds where prisons are obsolete?

The screening will be followed by a panel and Q&A with some of the filmmakers and storytellers to discuss the works and liberatory concepts they explore.

Audience participation is encouraged!

Image by N.Tremblay & N.Kakar

03/11/2026

The Telling Our Stories Project is Hiring!

We are seeking an experienced photovoice facilitator to join the Telling Our Stories team.

Telling Our Stories is a photovoice research project focused on autistic youth thriving and co-design with youth and community partners in and around Sault Ste Marie.

We are looking for a facilitator to join our dynamic team and support photography and visual elements.

Required:
• Experience in photovoice or other storytelling facilitation
• Ready to offer photography tutorials to autistic youth
• A team player
• Experience working with autistic or other marginalized youth (12-25)
• Experience working with diverse communities

Strongly preferred experience and training:
• Training in culturally affirming, decolonizing, disability arts, accessible media and/or social justice approaches
• Experience working on an exciting research team
• Experience working in Northern Ontario

The successful candidate must be available to work in person in Sault Ste Marie, ON, April 2, April 23, May 7, May 21 and June 4, 2026 (if located elsewhere in Ontario, you must be able to travel) and be available for team sessions.

Rate of pay starts at $37/hour and is dependent on experience. Travel will be covered by the project. Some evening or weekend hours are required. Virtual participation is available for team meetings. Hours will vary (anticipated 5-10 average) depending on the needs of the project.

Please contact Project Director Dr. Patty Douglas with a cover letter and CV or resume by March 20, 2026: [email protected].

This project is funded by SSHRC and is a partnership between Queen’s University, Algoma Family Services, Autism Alliance Canada, Autism Ontario, Finding Our Power Together and The Re•Storying Autism Collective.