Coalition of Texas with Disabilities – Art Spark Texas https://www.artsparktx.org Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:53:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://www.artsparktx.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-sm-rotated-sticks-web-32x32.png Coalition of Texas with Disabilities – Art Spark Texas https://www.artsparktx.org 32 32 Lion & Pirate Virtual Inclusive Open Mic https://www.artsparktx.org/event/lion-pirate-virtual-inclusive-open-mic/ Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.artsparktx.org/?post_type=tribe_events&p=68116 Inclusive Virtual Open Mic from Art Spark Tecas and the Coalition of Texans with disabilities
The Lion & Pirate’s LAST gathering of 2025 is Sunday, December 14, at 1 pm CT!
Join us on Zoom for a virtual, inclusive open mic! Zoom link posted here the day of the open mic.
Sign up to perform or attend! https://forms.gle/98NWR6PexU29FZ679
(Are you playing music? Make sure your Zoom settings are configured for original sound: https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb…)
As always, we’re open to work in any genre: music, spoken word, improv, skits, storytelling, dance, poems, prose… Anything you can perform in 3(ish) minutes! Read on for community guidelines and accessibility adventure notes.
Community Guidelines: please read the Art Spark Texas code of conduct before Lion & Pirate events: https://www.artsparktx.org/code-of-conduct/
Things we believe:
– We feel and practice respect for all people and for diversity of thought and identity.
– We see honesty as a form of love.
– We acknowledge that free speech is difficult sometimes.
– We accept that we are unaware of the traumas people within even our own communities are trying to live through, and we have to teach each other, learn from each other, make each other more aware.
Accessibility adventure notes for virtual performers or attendees:
Captions: Zoom has auto-generated captions, and those are… ok. When possible, we screen share the words/ lyrics/ poems to each performance so that attendees who need closed captions (CC) get better quality info. Performers are welcome to: screen share their words themselves, so they can stay on screen OR send an L&P host their words and they’ll do the screen sharing OR paste a link to a document with their words in the chat, so attendees can decide if they want to see the words or not. If sharing your words ahead of time is not in the cards, that’s ok, we’ll do our best to make it work!
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Sound quality: We ask all attendees to stay muted when not performing (or cheering). Are you performing with an instrument or accompanying music? Learn how to configure your Zoom settings for a live musical performance: https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb…
Access requests: Need something else for virtual OR in person participation? Get in touch with Laura P by DM or email lperna@txdisabilities.org
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