Cover photo by Creative Collective for Salem Jazz and Soul Festival The Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) operates a network of local cultural councils across the Commonwealth. These councils award funds to support community-based arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences activities. The program aims to promote and support cultural projects that benefit local communities. Important Note: While this guide focuses on the

Editor’s Note: This piece is part of ongoing discussion of Accessibility and Disability Awareness leading up to the International Day of Disabled Persons on December 3 and the hopeful introduction of a Disability Parade in 2021. If this is a topic you are interested in or have thoughtful story ideas, please reach out to joeyphoenix@creativecollectivema.com by Joey Phoenix This month,

Note: The Chaos Within Podcast is trying to become more Accessible! Scroll to the end of this page to find the audio transcript. The Chaos Within uses Otter.ai for transcriptions, and you probably should too. If you’ve designed something and you have excluded a lot of people, you haven’t thought about how to make something accessible, what you’re communicating is