If a keynote speaker sets the tone, CAGE 2017 is off to a flying start. Amanda Cachia—a writer, curator and educator currently based in California but originally from Sydney, Australia—is deeply embedded in the study and practice of art curation and production through the lens of (dis)ability.

The recipient of the 2014 Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies and of the 2016 Yale University Sarah Pettit Doctoral, Amanda Cachia will be spending a good deal of time with CAGE members April 20-23 in Halifax. CAGE 2017: Advocacy and Accessibility, provides participants with the opportunity to join with Cachia and other experts in the field during lectures and workshops.

Cachia asks questions that will make any art educator re-assess their practice: “How, precisely, can perceptions of the disabled body be liberated from binary classifications such as “normal” versus “deviant” or “ability” versus “disability” that themselves delimit bodies and constrain action? What alternative frameworks can be employed by scholars, curators, and artists in order to determine a new fate for the often stigmatized disabled identity?”Cachia-CAGE-2017

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