Bill Shannon, TILT Performance Group, and Body Shift at Cinema Touching Disability! Cinema Touching Disability is back for our 19th year, and we're so excited to be holding our Fest in person! Join us at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar October 14 & 15 for two nights of fantastic disability film, fun, and community. |
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As always, we've got some terrific live performances and guests at this year's fest! - Friday evening, come out early for a pre-show dance with Body Shift Collective! They'll be gracing us with a pop-up performance at 5:45 in front of the Drafthouse, before theater doors open at 6.
- Friday after we screen IMPERECT (2021), stick around for some selections from Austin's own inclusive theater company, TILT Performance Group! Tilt is gearing up for their world premiere of STRANGE FACES on October 29, but you can get a sneak preview of this exciting new musical at Cinema Touching Disability!
- Saturday evening, meet us back outside the Drafthouse at 5:45 for a pre-show performance by Bill Shannon (pictured above), star of CRUTCH! Bill will also join us following his film for an audience Q&A.
Tickets are on sale now! Your $10.00 ticket can be redeemed for up to $10.00 worth of food or drink from the Alamo Drafthouse menu. Just check in with us to pick up your coupon. Check in starts at 5pm both nights. The program will begin at 6pm and end by 10pm. |
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About this year's Fest Guests Bill Shannon (he, him) is an interdisciplinary artist and maker who explores body-centric work through video installation, sculpture, linguistics, sociology, choreography, dance and politics. Bill’s contributions to dance include a very specific movement vocabulary evolved through his creative use of crutches as a child after the discovery of a physical disability that effected his ability to bear weight in his hips. Bill’s subsequent immersion in the emergent youth cultures of hip-hop and skateboarding further contributed to his autodidactic form on crutches. Body Shift Collective is a community dance performance group that is part of Art Spark Texas’ dance program. It is dedicated to diversity and accessibility and to create daring dance performances. This dance group cultivates choreography through respecting individuality, exploring togetherness, and is advocating for social change through free, public performances with performers of different abilities. TILT Performance Group envisions a Central Texas where people with disabilities flourish as artists through our mission to shatter disability stereotypes through inclusive theatre. To achieve this mission, we are guided by our values of inclusive theatre, artistic originality, meaningful employment, impactful education, strategic collaborations and fun! Access notes All films will have open captions. ASL interpretation is provided for the films and live portions of the Festival inside the theater. Audio description devices will be available for the films and live portions of the Festival inside the theater. If you have additional accessibility requests, please include them when you purchase your tickets, or contact us at filmfest@txdisabilities.org. |
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