National accessArts Centre receives support from Shaw Communications to launch new online education platform to support Canadian artists living with disabilities
January 26 2022 - 11:00AM
The National accessArts Centre (NaAC), Canada’s oldest and largest
disability arts organization, today announced that support from
Shaw Communications will help it develop a digital learning
platform that will connect artists who live with disabilities
across Canada.
The NaAC represents a growing community of artists living with
physical and/or developmental disabilities through its artistic
training, creation, exhibition, and presentation platforms. With
NaAC’s multidisciplinary mandate, many of its artists train and
present works across the visual and performing arts disciplines.
Those disciplines include visual arts, literary arts, dance
theatre, and music.
Shaw’s funding for a new digital learning tool – featuring live
broadcasts from the NaAC studio space in Calgary of interactive
studio sessions, and workshops and learning modules curated by
artists with disabilities – will help provide much needed
infrastructure and supports for artists living with
disabilities.
“During the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen the arts turn into a
real lifeline for artists living with disabilities,” said Jung-Suk
(JS) Ryu, President and CEO of the NaAC. “With our national
mandate, we feel compelled to respond to a growing need that we’ve
heard across the country for an immersive learning platform that
can support and showcase even more talent from our community of
artists.”
“Art connects us all, and NaAC is doing exceptional work to keep
this vibrant community of creators, artists, and performers
inspired and connected,” said Chethan Lakshman, Vice President,
External Affairs, Shaw Communications. “We’re pleased to support
the ongoing work of these talented and driven artists by ensuring
they have the learning tools and support they need to continue
doing what they love without barriers. We are excited to see the
works created as a result of this new learning platform.”
In 2020, The NaAC became the country’s first multidisciplinary
disability arts organization. Today, the NaAC supports more than
350 artists living with developmental and/or physical disabilities
through on-site studio supports and workshops, and an even broader
community of Canadian artists with disabilities through immersive
programs delivered online.
The NaAC’s new digital learning platform is set to launch in
late Spring 2022.
For more information on National accessArts Centre and its
programs, visit www.accessarts.ca
About the National accessArts Centre
The National accessArts Centre is Canada’s largest and oldest
disability arts organization, providing artistic training and
supports for more than 350 artists living with developmental and/or
physical disabilities across the visual arts, literary arts,
digital media, music, dance, and theatre. In 2021, the NaAC
continues its groundbreaking international work with exhibitions in
Seoul, Tokyo, Osaka, and at the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference
in Glasgow. Currently, NaAC artist Robert Panich’s work Forest Fire
is on display at the Dubai 2020 Expo Canadian Pavilion.
About Shaw Communications Inc.
Shaw is a leading Canadian connectivity company. The Wireline
division consists of Consumer and Business services. Consumer
serves residential customers with broadband Internet, Shaw Go WiFi,
video and digital phone. Business provides business customers with
Internet, data, WiFi, digital phone, and video services. The
Wireless division provides wireless voice and LTE data
services.
Shaw is traded on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges and
is included in the S&P/TSX 60 Index (Symbol: TSX – SJR.B, NYSE
– SJR, and TSXV – SJR.A). For more information, please visit
www.shaw.ca
For more information, please contact:Jung-Suk
(JS) RyuPresident and CEONational accessArts Centrecell.
403.404.3174email. js.ryu@accessarts.ca
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