Images Festival’s 37th Edition Rehearsing Refusal will take place April 11th-16th at Innis Town Hall in Toronto. We are happy to provide the following accessible services for this year's festival:

AUDIO DESCRIBED SCREENING

April 16 at 3:30pm:

menaced hierarchies: an audio described screening of Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s Oriana and Lananh Chu’s Creases of Time

ASL

April 12 at 7pm:

a city in pursuit

April 14 at 4:30pm:

Viento del Este (East Wind)

NEW ACTIVE LISTENERS

April 11 at 8pm:

Opening Night: La Noche Eterna (The Eternal Night)

April 12 at 2:30pm:

A Tyrant's Fear of Songs

April 14 at 7pm:

The image is not going to speak for itself

Thank you to HELD Agency for providing Active Listeners for the first time in Images Festival's history!

VENUE

Innis Town Hall is a fully accessible venue. Assistive listening devices are available on a first-come, first-served basis for all in-person screenings.

OFF-SITE VENUES

Mercer Union:

Mercer Union is located at street level and has an accessible ground-floor washroom, with clear, unobstructed pathways within the gallery. Please note that there are no automatic doors at the entrance or washroom.

Mercer Union is committed to ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities. We welcome service animals and support persons onto our premises. If you require additional accommodations, please send an email to office@mercerunion.org.

TIFF:

Barrier-free washrooms available on every level of the building.

To book accessible seating, please call the TIFF Call Centre, open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 5pm, at 416-599-2033 or 1-888-258-8433. Seating is limited and cannot be guaranteed; it is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Vtape:

401 Richmond Street West is a wheelchair-accessible building equipped with an elevator to each level of the building. There are two wheelchair-accessible entranceways: the first is located at the front entrance near the Roastery Café (just east of Spadina Avenue); the second, BETTER ENTRANCE is at the north-east corner of the building, near the Spacing and Swipe retail shops (just west of the corner of Richmond and Peter Streets). To get to Vtape, or The Commons @ 401, please take the elevator up to the 4th floor; our office and all shared facilities in The Commons are wheelchair-accessible.

Please call Vtape in advance to discuss any additional accommodations that might be required.

Images Festival operates on land stolen from the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Tkáron:to is currently home to diverse Indigenous and Métis peoples as well as people who settle on this land. As part of Treaty 13 and the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant, we acknowledge that we all eat from the same bowl and spoon, and must take only what we need, ensuring resources are available for all.

As art workers, artists, and curators, we see the process of untangling ourselves from settler complicity as internal, structural, and ongoing. It is not something to be taken lightly. The inclusion of Indigenous artists and curators into our program is just the first step of necessary and deeper change. Extending from our organizational accountability work, we strive to not only undo forms of complicity, but also actively create an environment and infrastructure that can support Indigenous peoples who work with us.

Images expresses our solidarity with Indigenous people on Turtle Island and globally. We are committed to continuing to learn, critique, and challenge the settler colonial structures we are complicit in.

Accessibility

AUDIO DESCRIBED SCREENING

ASL

*NEW* ACTIVE LISTENERS

VENUE

OFF-SITE VENUES

NEW ACTIVE LISTENERS