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Ophira covers a variety of topics in her work as a keynote speaker, consultant, curator, educator and workshop facilitator.

 

Her topics include, but aren’t limited to:

  • Disability Representation in Media

  • Building an Accessibility Framework

  • Relaxed Performance and Process

  • Crip Storytelling

  • Doctor-Patient Relationships

  • The Role of Narrative in Healthcare

  • Voice and Songwriting Lessons

  • Sketch Comedy Workshops

  • Creative Coaching

  • Disability Story Consulting


Notable Experience:

Jacalyn Duffin Health and Humanities Conference, Queens University (Keynote), Our Cities On Our Stages (Curator, Moderator and Presenter), Toronto Sketchfest (Juror, Workshop Facilitator and Accessibility Consultant), Assembly Improv (Moderator and Panelist), Access Activator Training (Keynote), University of Toronto Inter-Professional Education Program (Speaker and Health Mentor), Covid-19 Stories Filmmaking Project (Workshop Facilitator), Myseum Intersections Festival (Juror), MNJCC Fall and Winter Fun Intensive (Teacher), ILC Ehlers Danlos and Chronic Pain Conference (Speaker), Women in Film and Television #CripTheScript Panel (Speaker), Next Stage Theatre Festival Accessibility in the Arts (Speaker) Paprika Hot Topics Series (Workshop Facilitator), Opera Mariposa: Accessibility in Opera Panel (Speaker)


Discover ways to crip the script: to challenge, reframe, and reclaim language, systems, stories, and spaces, centring disability and chronic illness identities and experiences