About Kickstart Disability Arts

Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture is a Vancouver based arts non-profit that supports and promotes artists who identify as living with disabilities.

Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture Workshop Series: Social Media and Marketing

March 9, 2019 from 1-3pm at The Gathering Place, 609 Helmcken Street, Vancouver Facilitated by: Wendy D – Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture’s Board President, and practicing artist. Cathy Browne – Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture’s Board Vice President, PR veteran. Social media and marketing is fast paced and constantly in flux. The content people want […]

Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture Workshop Series: Grant Writing for Artists

February 9, 2019 from 1-3pm The SpencerCreo Centre, 610 Main Street, 5th Floor, Vancouver Facilitated by: Mary Ann Anderson of Little Dog Consulting There is a lot of untapped potential in the world and amazing projects that are spinning around heads uncompleted. One of the causes of this buildup of unused inspiration is lack of funding […]

Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture Workshop Series: Portfolio Development and Professionalism

January 12, 2019 from 1-3pm The Gathering Place (609 Helmcken Street, Vancouver) Facilitated by: Yuri Arajs – Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture’s Artistic Director, and practicing artist. Wendy D – Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture’s Board President, and practicing artist. The world of galleries, curators, and the arts market can be daunting and confusing. There […]

Hootenanny: Songs of Peace and Social Justice

Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture presents Hootenanny: Songs of Peace and Social Justice, Friday August 31st 8pm at The Culture Lab in The Cultch. Tickets are $10 and available at The Cultch box office. There is no better time than the present for us to have a Hootenanny! We are bringing together a group of […]

BC Access Awareness Day

Saturday June 2nd 2018 from 5pm to 7:30pm At The Gathering Place Community Centre 609 Helmcken Streen Produced by All Bodies Dance, Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture, and the Gathering Festival. With performances by Dave Symington Band, All Bodies Dance, and MC Paul Beckett. Trivia with prizes. Register at the Gathering Place reception desk to guarantee […]

Gaelynn Lea: In Concert

Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture is pleased to present Gaelynn Lea in concert! Tickets available here, through EventBrite.com Thusday April 5th 8pm – 10pm CBC Vancouver, 700 Hamilton Street, Vancouver Gaelynn Lea was given the opportunity of a lifetime when she won NPR Music’s 2016 Tiny Desk Contest, and she certainly made the most of […]

Kickstart 20th Anniversary Online Auction

The purpose of this fundraiser is to help raise awareness and funds to support our upcoming 20th anniversary season of events. This year we are so fortunate to be partnering with the Vancouver Art Gallery, The Cultch, CBC, and many other organizations, to bring a series of concerts, visual art exhibitions, experiences, artists talks, workshops, […]

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

December 3rd @ 12-2pm, Robson St. Plaza One of the greatest challenges of living with a disability is simply being seen. Join us outside for a cup of coffee this December 2nd at the Robson Street Plaza in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery. “The right to participate in public life is essential to create […]