We are launching the Disability Cultural Center with a genre-bending showcase of live performances that celebrate the beauty, creativity, and innovation of disability culture.

Our lineup of disabled, mostly BIPOC, artists, musicians, poets, dancers, and writers channel the joy of disability culture while challenging perceptions. After the show, the performers will have a conversation about their work and what “disability culture” means to them.

We will end the program with a community-wide dance party and fashion show. Whether your look is the coziest robe or you want to bust out your most couture gown, and whether you dance with your eyes or your whole body - we can’t wait to celebrate all the fierce beauty, fabulous style, and wonderful humans in this community.

Cafe Crip is a monthly opportunity to come together to talk about important topics within our diverse disability community. Participants will receive readings in advance, but the discussion is organized so that anyone can attend and participate whether or not they have a chance to prepare. This series is helmed by Bianca Laureano, a talented facilitator, who leads the group through community agreements and access principles to ensure that everyone can be a part of this informal community-building hangout. This month's program will follow our virtual night of Disability Culture on 7/12 with a conversation about the power of disability culture to fight ableism, both internalized and external, and promote Disability Justice. 

This collaboration between the Disability Visibility Project and the SF Disability Cultural Center will be in person at SFMoMA. We will host a powerful opportunity to celebrate the beauty of disabled people by inviting our diverse community to have their photographs taken and visit the museum afterward for free. Too often, getting your picture taken as a disabled person causes harm. Clueless photographers pressure their models to hide their disabilities or mask as neurotypical. Even choosing to submit yourself to being stared at through the camera lens can be hard when so many people with apparent disabilities face stares as a part of daily life.

Here, our photographer Mia Robinson, a queer, Black, trans, disabled person, focuses their work on how to celebrate disabled bodies and minds and rewrite the experience of being photographed. Each participant will receive a print of their photo sent to them after the event. We’ll also have the opportunity to mark the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act with snacks and chatting - what a beautiful reminder that we’re still here!

Join us for a Superfest Disability Film Festival Showcase for the whole family! Superfest is the longest-running disability film festival in the world. Since it first debuted in a small Los Angeles showcase in 1970, it has become an eagerly anticipated international event. While our core festival each October often features predominantly adult content, this event will bring Superfest to all ages with a look back at some of our family-friendly entertainment from recent years. In this short screening, we’ll see a range of cutting-edge cinema that portrays disability through a diverse, complex, unabashed, and engaging lens.