09/01/2026
THIS LABOR DAY, SUPPORT BLIND & LOW-VISION ARTISTS.
“Labor Day is my favorite holiday, because of my own experiences with employment discrimination and having my rights violated in work situations. Dark Room Ballet likes to position itself in opposition to the abusive workplace, ableism and discrimination against blind people. And we hire blind artists. So this really has to do with employment justice.”
— Krishna Washburn, Founder & Artistic Director
For Dark Room Ballet, Labor Day is about more than celebrating work. It is about fighting for the right of blind and disabled artists to have meaningful, fairly paid work.
Dark Room Ballet began with Krishna teaching ballet to blind students. Today, that vision has grown into a broader accessible arts community, offering regular classes and workshops in movement, voice & speech, improvisation, audio description, musicality, and more.
Our classes are tuition-free for disabled participants and taught by an all-blind/low-vision faculty of teaching artists.
But this work doesn’t happen without the artists and educators who make it possible.
Only 41% of working-age people with vision difficulty were in paid employment, compared with 72% of people without vision difficulty. And 22.8% of people with vision difficulty live below the federal poverty level.
This Labor Day, we’re raising funds to pay and support the blind and low-vision artists, educators, and administrators who make Dark Room Ballet possible.
✨ Support blind & low-vision teaching artists
✨ Keep classes tuition-free
✨ Support employment justice for disabled artists
✨ Make space for disabled artists to create, teach & perform
Labor Day is our day, too.
🖤 Donate today.
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/donate-to-change-lives-20930 Donations to Dark Room Ballet are tax-deductible.
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