The Festival of Flourishing was a day filled with art, creativity and co-creation! It celebrated the launch of posAbilities Strategic Vision 2028 - of Good and Full Lives, for Everyone.

Radical Care is an interactive, immersive experience hosted by community based artist Aaniya Asrani in partnership with Curiko at Alternatives Gallery.

Artist in Residence, Kelly Riccardi, a professional hip-hop dancer, created a series of accessible videos to introduce hip hop to persons with disabilities.

A two-part project offering free low-barrier digital studio workshops, and a supported application process for the juried selection of 4 artists who produced small-scale murals for display at the Vancouver Mural Festival.

Neighbourhood organizing is a prototype that explores how to build connection to people and places in local neighbourhoods. It tries to find and engage the hard to reach, bridge social capital, and connect people across differences and divides.

In this fieldwork course at Emily Carr University, students were invited to imagine and explore a series of virtual and place-based interactions in their own neighbourhoods.

Using the medium of photography to get to know people with disabilities, Galen documents lives and personalities. He thinks creating and sharing intimate portraits of people could be a step towards building bridges between the disability community and the rest of the world through increased visibility.

Identity is at the heart of BoBae Kim’s Artist-in-Residence project. A series of literal and abstract portraits of individuals she’s worked with capture both their outward appearance and inner personality. At first glance, it’s easy enough to see the link between identity and a portrait series. However, for BoBae, the project is also about reclaiming her identity as an artist.

A partnership with Outsiders and Others and Christ Church Cathedral resulted in a pop-up gallery in the windows of the cathedral during the month of April 2021.

What happens when you bring diverse poets together and ask them to co-create some spoken word poetry together?

What does a community art project look like during the COVID-19 pandemic? It’s a question that Nadia Galvan is still grappling with.

Adiba Muzaffar addresses themes of skin, body, and touch as a part of a series of workshops she conducted in partnership with posAbilities.

In this posAbilities-sponsored course at ECUAD, students explored and applied methodologies for socially engaged art at posAbilities, informed by concepts of ‘radical care’ and ‘creative resistance.’

Three LGBTQ+ art students from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (ECUAD) teamed up in pairs with three LGBTQ+ folks with developmental disability in order to co-create art that celebrates them.

PosAbilities invited three videography students from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (ECUAD) to team up in pairs with three folks with developmental disability in order to co-create a short film that celebrates their presence and perspectives.

At The Museum of Vancouver, we profiled the work of community engaged artists, and mobilized those in the audience to ideate together and execute on activation idea that would advance human connection.

After hanging out with the cast and crew of Becoming Bulletproof in Vancouver we started talking about what it might look like to disrupt the commercial advertising world.

Exeko shares their philosophy and methods regarding the role of the arts and humanities in addressing social and political inequalities.

Imagining together cool commercial scripts that illustrate how persons with disabilities can bring fresh and creative angles into advertising.

In 2013 posAbilities commissioned a poem from the exceptional Vancouver poet and musician, Shane Koyczan.