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SUMMARY:Performance:Wheelchair Sports Camp & Gaelynn Lea
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, Oct. 18\, 2026  |  1:00 PM (doors at 12pm)  |  The Ark (316 S Main St\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48104)\nRSVP: https://forms.gle/kbVVvzFj16JtfaH39 \n\nAs part of the 2nd annual Michigan Arts Festival\, the U-M Arts Initiative\, with partners The Ark\, Booksweet\, and the Disability Network Washtenaw Monroe Livingston\, will offer a free concert and discussion by artists Wheelchair Sports Camp & Gaelynn Lea.\n\nThe event will take place from approx. 1-3pm\; doors at 12pm. A free livestream will also be available.\nAfter the concert\, Booksweet will offer sales of Gaelynn Lea's 2026 memoir\, IT WASN’T MEANT TO BE PERFECT. The artists will be present for a signing.\n\nMasks are welcome/encouraged.\n\nThe Ark is fully accessible to those with disabilities and works to accommodate anyone with special seating needs. The listening room is located on the second floor and is wheelchair accessible by elevator\, which is located just behind the box office\, straight back from the main entrance. If you have any concerns about your specific needs\, please indicate them via the RSVP form and/or contact The Ark at (734) 761-1800.\n\nThis program is sponsored in part by the U-M Student Accessibility and Accommodation Services.  \n\n\nMore info on the artists:\n\nWheelchair Sports Camp is certainly not your average act. Hailing from Denver\, CO\, fronted by Kalyn Rose Heffernan - a wheelchair-using\, profanely queer and tiny rapper\, with a very distinctly high-pitched sense of humor. Backed by her gimp Greggy on drums\, the band combines fantastic beats with an absolutely face-shredding live show. After playing shows everywhere they could\, the band expanded into performance art\, museum takeovers\, politics\, prison tours\, permanent installations\, theatre\, film\, and now the release of their newest album\, “oh imperfecta” on Alternative Tentacles Records.\n\nGaelynn Lea has carved out a singular place in contemporary music since winning NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest in 2016. With her haunting songs and cinematic arrangements of live-looped fiddle tunes\, she has captivated audiences around the world and gone on to compose the original score for Macbeth on Broadway. Her work moves fluidly across genres—she has collaborated with Michael Stipe\, The Decemberists\, Wilco\, LOW\, and Pigface. In 2026\, Algonquin Books published Gaelynn Lea's debut memoir\, IT WASN’T MEANT TO BE PERFECT. Her book is a warm\, witty look at music\, disability advocacy\, and the complicated but beautiful life of a touring artist. Gaelynn is one of the leading public voices on Disability Culture and accessibility in the arts.
UID:151138-21910966@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151138
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Disability,Free,Michigan Arts Festival,Music
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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