Events

All activities of ArtsAbly, including the podcast, will be on summer break from September 1st to September 30, 2024.

For this fourth iteration of the HPN Symposium, on November 8 and 9, 2024, we find ourselves interrogating, engaging with, and pushing the boundaries of the concept of  “best practices” and how it relates to humanities podcasting. Our initial inquiry was born out of a discussion about the need to counteract worker invisibility and exploitation […]

Welcome to ArtsAbly in Conversation with artists! ArtsAbly’s aim is to promote artists with disabilities through the podcast “ArtsAbly in Conversation” available on all streaming platforms and on YouTube. This special podcast episode will be the 50th since ArtsAbly was launched in 2024. It will be a live online discussion with artists who have been […]

The past comes to life in the Village at Black Creek on August 9th and 10th, 2025. The upcoming shows will illuminate the historic village with live performances all weekend long! Travel through time and catch all of the acts by a range of all-star artists! ArtsAbly is the accessibility advisor for this event. We […]

Private event: Community Theatre and Accessibility workshop organized by ArtsAbly for City Centre Musical Productions (CCMP) in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Organized by the AMS Music and Disability Study Group. Saturday, November 8, 2025. 12:30pm – 2:00pm CDT / 1:30pm – 3:00pm EST The Music and Disability Study Group of the AMS hosts three presentations and a conversation on the theme “Musicking in Disabled Community: Access Intimacy and Cultural Activism.” We have chosen three presentations that: […]

My colleague Roman Romanov, Sessional Lecturer at OCAD University and fellow Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification (RHFAC) Professional, invites Diane Kolin to present the public art accessibility assessments work frequently done by ArtsAbly to his class about accessibility and design. This presentation is not public.

We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for the Music and Collective Access Symposium, which will occur in February 2026 in Vancouver.   Music and Collective Access Symposium 2026 Link to the event website: https://www.musiccollectiveaccess.com/ The event is free but registration is mandatory.   Organizers: Anabel Maler (UBC), Stefan Sunandan Honisch (UBC), Diane […]

The National Arts Centre (NAC) in collaboration with Blurring The Boundaries Arts (BTBA), the Research Centre for Music, Sound, and Society in Canada at Carleton University, the Canadian Accessible Musical Instruments Network, and the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation invites you to Empower Arts 2.0, a public disability arts summit taking place during […]

Private event: Accessibility in the Performing Arts Workshop organized by ArtsAbly for Bach Children’s Chorus in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Dr. Diane Kolin, the founder and director of ArtsAbly, will deliver the keynote of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) Commission on Special Music Education and Music Therapy pre-conference on July 22, 2026, at 11:15 am. The full schedule of the pre-conference (July 21-24) can be found at the following link: see full schedule. […]

For its 37th edition, the ISME World Conference will meet in Montreal, at the Convention Centre, around the theme ‘Unity in Music Education: Building Bridges for All.’ The panel entitled ÉTeaching Disability Studies in Music Education: Experiences from the Field” brings together six people who teach disability studies concepts in the areas of K-12 music education, […]