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IMPULSE PROVIDES:

• Up to 5 hours of dedicated studio time between November 1st and 19th, 2022 (based on project need).
• Mentorship with Tiffany Tjosvold throughout the Residency
• $300 honorarium
• Access to all specialized Peek Fest workshops
• A showcase opportunity with other residency projects on November 19

IMPORTANT DATES:

• October 5 - Application Deadline
• October 14 - Artist Notification
• November 1 to 19 - Residency Window
• November 19 - Private Showcase​

ELEVATORS RESIDENCY PROGRAM
APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN / Due October 5

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​Elevators is a partnership between Impulse Theatre and Embrace Arts Foundation that supports micro-projects from local neurodiverse and disabled artists. Up to 3 projects will receive one-on-one mentorship from Elevators Mentor, Tiffany Tjosvold.

Tiffany Tjosvold (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and arts educator whose practices are rooted in movement and play. She is a chronically ill individual whose experience informs her desire to create accessible artistic spaces. Tiffany is also the founder of Embrace Arts Foundation, a multidisciplinary arts organization for individuals of all abilities.

“There have been times in my life when I have been able to successfully participate in full residency programs and there have been times when I haven’t had the capacity to do so. Even in those seasons of differing capacity, I wanted to create” - Elevators Program Mentor and Peek Fest Accessibility Coordinator, Tiffany Tjosvold.

Elevators is an opportunity for artists who want to create new work, receive mentorship, and share their ideas in a way that fits their current capacity. The program seeks projects in any style of performance including: dance, theatre, music, storytelling, and/or interdisciplinary work. Applicable projects must be led by a self identifying disabled and/or neurodivergent artists. Project participation can be in-person, or digitally.
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Meet Embrace Arts Foundation

PAST PARTICIPANTS

ELEVATORS 2021

Joy and All It’s Friends
by Claire Bruce

Joy and All It’s Friends is a physical theatre piece exploring the many emotions that one has at nighttime. 

My name is Claire Bruce (she/her) and I am a disabled artist who creates on the unceded territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Esquimalt and Songhees Nations) and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples. I'm a feisty Latina who loves the colour pink. I love to make art that brings joy to other people. I have performed in a wide variety of shows with Embrace Arts Foundation including: bloom, Creature Caste, & Sylvia and the Cephalopod. I've also trained with the Interdependence Collective and All Bodies Dance Project. 

Remiss Gendering
by Joanne Cuffe

Remiss Gendering is a creative way to respond to repetitive misgendering. The project aims to support colleagues, friends, family and community members who say they want to remember to use my pronouns. A short screendance is being audio described and captioned, and later will be followed by a new GIF or sound clip reminder each time remiss gendering happens. 

Joanne Cuffe (they/them) is active with cross-disability dance and creative access as a visitor in Lək̓ʷəŋən homelands. Over the past decade, they have been honoured to facilitate dance improvisation with 100 communities and groups, connecting with 2500 unique participants from 4 years old to 103 years young. Joanne is a neuroqueer nonbinary person of Irish-Scottish-english-settler descent. They are interested in collaborative, place-based, intersectional, multisensory screendance.

50 Shades of Grief: A Neurotic Erotica
By Regan Shrumm

50 Shades of Grief: A Neurotic Erotica is collection of the lightly fictionalized stories on the general awkwardness of sexcapades during the pandemic. It is just as good as going to therapy. 
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Regan Shrumm (she/her/they/them) is a queer, genderqueer, and disabled artist and curator who has been living on and off of the traditional and unceded lands of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples for the last 12 years. 

ELEVATORS 2020

​Elevators 2020 showcased micro presentations of visual/tactile art and poetry from local neurodiverse and disabled artists.

In 2020, Elevators included the work of: Adam Irwin-Gunn, Andrea Jones, Luka Garvin, Janelle Resendes, and Rachael Buchanan. These pieces were presented with full audio description prior to Wee Peeks, Peek Show 9, and the Residency Showcase.

EMBRACE ARTS FOUNDATION