“I hope I can find myself in here”: Examining Accessibility at Carleton University’s Audio-Visual Resource Centre with Michael Marlatt

• In-person event
• SP460 (AVRC), St. Patrick’s Building, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

• Contact
• Laura Horak, LauraHorak@CUNET.CARLETON.CA

Open to all.

For the purpose of this workshop, “finding oneself” refers to disability representation within the collection as well as navigating the space itself. The workshop will discuss accessibility alongside many of the common themes found within Michael’s workshops including programming, collections processing, physical/digital archival spaces, training, and equitable hiring practises. The workshop is meant to be collaborative in nature. Michael will also recommend specific action items the AVRC can take to improve institutional accessibility, guided by his lived experience, previous work, and participant collaboration.

Dr. Michael Marlatt is a disabled film archivist, film programmer, accessibility consultant, and archival producer. He received his PhD from York University’s Communication & Culture program, writing on accessibility barriers in moving image archival education. He publishes, hosts workshops, and gives public talks on disability-inclusion strategies for archives and museums globally. His workshops have been held with government archives, broadcast media archives, museums, film archives, non-profits, universities, and archival professional organisations. Michael is currently the archival producer on the AMI-tv Canadian disability history docuseries History in 60.

This event is made possible by the support of Film Studies; the Transgender Media Lab; Research Center for Music, Sound, and Society in Canada; International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation; and the Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Communication.

Image description for Marlatt headshot: Michael, a white man in his late 30s with medium brown hair, is posing in front of a sea-side painting. He has light brown and grey facial hair stubble and is smiling. He is wearing a dark blue sweater.

Image description for “I’ll Find a Way” image: A screen capture of Carleton University’s Audio-Visual Resource Centre’s collection record for the 1977 documentary I’ll Find a Way. The font is small and the term “[no data]” appears throughout.