We invite you to join us for a watch party for 'Stages of Grief: Crip Hearts on Fire,' Sins Invalid’s 2024 live performance, marking 18 years of crip brilliance on stage. Sins Invalid is a disability justice-based movement building and performance project that celebrates disabled people, centering and led by disabled Black, Indigenous, and people of the global majority, and queer, trans, and nonbinary disabled people.
The performers offer testimony to survival, love, and collective power in a world on fire. From climate chaos to systemic ableism, from sacred grief to revolutionary visions of liberation, this performance is both an offering and a call to action.
The performance features pieces by: Tré Vasquez, María Palacios, Nomy Lamm, Germán Parodi, Lateef McLeod and Antoine Hunter and Urban Jazz Dance Company.
This release is dedicated to the memory of beloved Patty Berne, co-founder of Sins Invalid, visionary artist, and architect of Disability Justice, whose brilliance continues to guide us towards access, interdependence, and collective liberation.
About the Facilitator:
Aspen Dominguez is a white, queer, cis mama raising two small humans in the Mission. She is a co-director at Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project, which centers disability justice in its work to bring communities into right relationship with one another and the environments that sustain us.
Accessibility
The Ruby is a ground-level space with the ability for step-free access (just let us know if needed).
The virtual performance will be available in ASL, English, and Spanish, with captions and audio description in English and Spanish and Visual Description in ASL. Seating will be available throughout the event.
We have a gender-neutral, ADA-accessible restroom on-site.
If you have specific accessibility needs or questions about the space, please contact us at staff@therubysf.com and we'll work with you to ensure you can participate comfortably.
Health & Safety
To be an inclusive space for immunocompromised and caregiver members of our community, we check vaccination records for all non-member guests (Ruby members are already verified). Please bring proof of vaccination—a photo on your phone works great!
Masks are strongly encouraged and will be available at the event.
Please do not share our address with others who have not RSVP-ed to this event.
Getting Here & Parking
We're a few short blocks from 16th Street BART. Public transportation is encouraged.
Limited parking spots are available in the Ruby carport on a first-come, first-served basis for members. If you need accessible parking or closer access to the entrance, please contact us in advance at staff@therubysf.com so we can reserve a spot and arrange entry.
Questions?
Reach out to staff@therubysf.com with any questions about accessibility, accommodations, or logistics. We're here to help!