Rick Darnell

As a disabled person I have always appreciated CounterPulse’s support and presentation of disabled artists. In the two plus years I have been with CounterPulse, I have seen several amazing shows by disabled artists: dancers on crutches, dancers with prosthetic limbs, dancers in wheelchairs, and dancers with a visual impairment. Being disabled, and an arts administrator, I was intrigued when Jess Curtis offered to involve CounterPulse as a test site for his company’s nascent audio description service.  It was a

  As a practicing artist, I do a lot of research to support my projects. Here are some resources I have found, that support the independent, self-organized work of artists and small groups that play a critical and significant role within the San Francisco Bay Area communities. None of these require a fiscal agent or 501c3 status. Go out and make some art. Rick Darnell, CounterPulse Community Engagement Fellow Have anything to share or comments? engagefellow@counterpulse.org In this TOOLBOX post:

Stephanie Bastos is my new hero. Like me, she has a physical disability, and I found myself drawn into her piece. Moreover, I felt as though Stephanie was talking to me. Her story is compelling, and she is as engaging onstage as she is in everyday life. If pressed for an answer, most people would find it hard to define the culture of disability. Defining the disabled community, I think, would be much easier. The physically disabled community was a

I regularly see Zoë at CounterPulse. I was going to gush about Zoë's wide range of skill sets, how insanely capable she is, but that's true of everyone at CounterPulse. But having never seen Zoë perform before, never having seen what kind of work she makes, I was pretty curious. Like Stephanie, Zoë is a consummate storyteller. Drawing from circus arts and other movement sources, Zoë along with four acrobatically inclined performers, encapsulated Zoë’s life in about 30 minutes. I

As an independent artist, I do a lot of research to support my own work. Here are some resources I have found, that support the independent, self-organized work of artists and small groups that play a critical and significant role within the San Francisco Bay Area communities. None of these require a fiscal agent or 501c3 status. Go out and make some art. -Rick Darnell, CounterPulse Community Engagement Fellow Have anything to share or comments? engagefellow@counterpulse.org   Calling Artists for