LIGHT
+
VIBROTACTILE
now open at
January 17 - 31, 2026
Wed - Sat
12 - 5pm
10130 100 St NW
FREE
Click the buttons below for plain text about each interactive installation at latitude53, or keep scrolling!
TACTILE MAP
Feel your way around!
This is a tactile map. This makes navigation more accessible for Blind, low-vision, and DeafBlind patrons at theatres, galleries, libraries, and any other venue imaginable.
Even if you are sighted, try to experience the map just through touch. Can you tell where everything is? Do you feel confident navigating the rest of the gallery based on this information?
Accessibility is always evolving. If this is your first time experiencing a tactile map, ask yourselves why. And then ask yourselves what you can do to help make them as common as ramps and elevators.
Tactile map designed by Christine ‘Coco’ Roschaert.
VIBRO-PACK
Packing good vibes!
This is a Vibro-Pack. It takes sounds, music, and other auditory events, and converts them to vibrotactile sensations. It also uses integrated lighting to convey emotional cues and intensity.
Imagine a Vibro-Pack on your lap in a theatre, dance performance, orchestral symphony, or even on your couch with a playlist of soothing meditations.
How does this make you feel? What other sensations emerge in your body?
The Vibro-Pack is still a prototype. We welcome your impressions, suggestions, and inspirations. Leave a note in the book provided, or make an ASL video message and send it to general@invisiblepractice.ca!
Pick up a Vibro-Pack. Mind the cables.
Hold it in your hands or lap. Or flip and hold it against your chest - anywhere, anyhow!
Enjoy the pre-programmed loops.
With a friend? Share a pack, and see if you react differently to the same sensations!
Vibro-Pack designed by Judah Truong.
VIBRO-TABLE
Meet the fleet!
This is a Vibro-Table. What you see and feel is what audiences will see and feel during CARBON MOVEMENTS, one of The Invisible Practice’s flagship Deaf-centric productions that integrates vibrotactile sensation throughout the performance.
During CARBON MOVEMENTS, the Vibro-Tables will be set right next to your audience seat and filled with black granular material. But for this Light+Vibrotactile installation, we offer different materials for you to play with.
How do they move? Why do they move that way? How does the combination of visuals and vibrations make you feel?
Find the dial on the front leg of the Vibro-Table.
Turn the dial to control the intensity of the vibrations.
Play!
(Please avoid spilling or taking out any of the material)
Take a video of your favourite table and tag @the_invisible_practice!
Vibro-Table designed by Ian Walker.
LIVE PERFORMANCE
EXCLUSIVE ONE-NIGHT-ONLY EVENT!
Music through a Deaf lens.
What colour is a high note? How about a low note?
What kind of light comes from bass speakers, and from an opera singer’s throat?
These cross-sensory questions continue to ignite our curiosity as we explore the possibilities of Light+Vibrotactile. While a thumping bass is great for a night of dancing, sometimes we want to sit back and enjoy a delicate aria of winds and strings. How can such aural sensations be conveyed through sight and touch?
For our Vibro-Playground fundraiser event on January 31st, we welcome the talented musical experimenter, Mustafa Rafiq.
Light+Vibrotactile
FREE public exhibition
An interactive installation hosted in partnership with Latitude53
January 17 - 31, 2026
gallery open Wednesday to Saturday 12-5pm
Drop in for free during gallery hours and check out the dazzling, wild, and weird experiments we’ve been working on!
This technical exploration project was generously funded by
VIBRO-PLAYGROUND
2026 FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN
Saturday January 31, 2026
Doors open 6:00PM until late!
Join us for a fundraising party with drinks, snacks, and interactive installations that play with your senses!
As a new Deaf arts organization, The Invisible Practice builds capacity in the local community for Deaf-centric creativity. Vibro-Playground is our first-ever fundraising event, and your support will let us serve even more Deaf artists.
Tickets are available NOW through the form below!
Vibro-Playground is proudly hosted in partnership with Latitude53.
MEET THE TEAM
“What if we could transcend the boundaries of accessible technology?”
Four years ago, Connor first encountered vibrotactile technology — and was completely dissatisfied, knowing that there was still so much undiscovered potential.
Connor (he/him/they/them) is the artistic director of The Invisible Practice, a Deaf arts collective based in amiskwacîwâskahikan/Edmonton. He is a Deaf performer, producer, and playwright based in Edmonton, Alberta. His work focuses on creating performance rooted in Deaf culture, sign languages, and inclusive practice.
His artistic practice challenges traditional performance structures and expands access in the arts toward meaningful inclusion. Recent major work includes two live productions, After Faust and CARBON MOVEMENTS, the latter of which is currently embarking on national tour.
Beyond his creative practice, Connor is widely recognized for his leadership in accessibility and intersectional justice. His North Star is a vibrant arts ecology that embraces and uplifts Deaf creatives and audiences, and where Deaf-centric stories emerge to be shared across the land.
“What if people could bring home pre-programmed vibrotactile scores for play, meditation, and therapy?”
Cabling, signals, data — Judah makes it make sense with his proficiency in general technology, programming, and combining systems.
Judah (he/him) is a multidisciplinary technician in Amiskwacîwâskahikan. As a Queer Asian-Canadian he focuses on the accessibility of theatre for marginalized communities. He has worked in 9 languages including ASL, Japanese, and Spanish. None of which are his native tongue. His everyday practices focus on adapting theatre to be inclusive and to honour the artistic integrity of diverse stories.
“What if everything was designed for DeafBlind folks first?”
Through tactile communication and accessibility leadership, Coco ensures every aspect of L+V is generated through DeafBlind principles and values.
Christine ‘Coco’ Roschaert is known in Canada and globally for her advocacy and organizational work spanning 20 years. Born and raised in Ottawa where she also currently lives, she is passionate about breaking barriers for DeafBlind people, sharing stories of her travels around the world and advocacy work on social media and trying out global cuisines!
She identifies as DeafBlind and has been involved with DeafBlind organizations in several provinces and nationally. She brings an in depth knowledge of access, policy, theatre, and advancements in technology which she brings to The Invisible Practice.
“What if the audience could see the colours of an entire orchestra?”
With years of experience in jazz, blues, and experimental forms of music making, Mustafa brings a valuable aural perspective to our work.
Mustafa Rafiq is a self-taught guitarist and saxophonist and visual artist. Using these tools with voice, field recordings and sound collage percussion he researches relationships among blackness, nature, divinity, sound and time.
“What if the audience could feel a dancer’s every single step?”
Using her many years of professional expertise, Ainsley is leading the logistics of our first-ever fundraiser event and ensuring everyone experiences immaculate vibes.
Ainsley Hillyard is an Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton)-based artist of settler descent. She is a choreographer and performer who works in contemporary dance and theatre. Her work is immersed in the curiosities and connections between these two forms. Ainsley was a co-founder, and a co-artistic director/general manager for the Good Women Dance Collective from its inception in 2009 to 2023.
She has worked as a choreographer and performer for various theatre and dance companies in Amiskwacîwâskahikan and received numerous Sterling nominations and awards for her performances and choreographies. Ainsley also runs her own dog care business, Bumblebear Doggy Care, and serves on the board of the Edmonton Arts Council and the Common Ground Arts Society.
Light+Vibrotactile Technical Exploration is made possible with generous funding from Canada Council for the Arts’ Research & Creation program. Thank you, Canada Council!
