After a two year long journey, Creative Users, an initiative of Akin Dupont member Lindsay Fisher, is thrilled to officially launch their new website and accessible events listing thanks to the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.

This website features information about Creative User projects, as well it provides an events listing, "Accessing the Arts" which features accessible arts and disability arts happening in Toronto. Creative Users' goal for the next two years is to research and evaluate the usability of this site, to expand the scope of resources to include accessible and inclusive curatorial practices happening nationally with information, news articles and documentation on making the arts accessible along with updates on what's happening in the disability arts scene.

Creative Users is a disability-led artist platform that explores the intersection of art and design practices, accessibility, and disability. Creative Users is a shapeshifter, cultural connector and sector builder of disability arts and accessible curatorial practice. The work stems from a desire to activate art and make visible an inclusive arts culture. creativeusers.net

Giving Tuesday is just around the corner – November 29. It’s a global day of giving, and a chance for us to think about the causes we care about.

All donations and contributions made to Akin Projects between now and November 29 will be split equally with another local arts organization near and dear to our heart - Project Creative Users.

Project Creative Users is an arts collective that brings together artists with disabilities to creatively examine social, cultural, and individual understandings of disability and accessibility through a process of exploring what it means to be a “user” in the environments we inhabit. We play with the word “user”, a term used in inclusive design practices wherein disabled people are commonly referred to as “extreme users.”

With your help, we can continue to have a significant positive impact on our city through the arts.

Click here to donate now and support both organisations

ps. Be sure to visit our online shop! Proceeds from all sales go to directly to supporting our initiatives.

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Creative Users new website - Accessing the Arts!

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