News

MOTIONS: Healing Within the Community Visionaries of the Creative Arts proudly presents MOTIONS: Healing Within the Community, a three-day event featuring dance, sign poetry, storytelling, and cultural preservation. TICKETS ONLINE UPDATED TO ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Saturday, May 2 from 7:30PM–9

VOCA invites you to join us for a powerful weekend of community, creativity, and healing. Motions: Healing Within the Community is a unique series of events that brings people together through dance, movement, storytelling, and sign poetry. This experience creates space to witness, learn, and engage

Visionaries of the Creative Arts proudly presents MOTIONS: Healing Within the Community , a three-day event featuring dance, sign poetry, storytelling, and cultural preservation. Friday, May 1 from 7:30PM–9:00PM Choreographers Work-In-Progress Show. Featuring Mervin Primeaux O’Bryant and guest arti

HOTHOUSE 2026: New Play Block Party Theater Alliance presents HOTHOUSE 2026 featuring an Active Mic Performance with VOCA. Join us for an exciting evening of ASL poetry from the world premiere of Dinner Note. Featuring: Antawn Wanliss & Aarron Loggins When: Saturday, February 28, 2026 Time: 9:00 P

VOCA has had an incredible 2025! We jumpstarted the year with vibrant weekly dance class offerings to the Community , led by the amazing Deaf dance instructors Ronnie Bradley, Tara Miles, and Nicholaus Nero. February found VOCA being invited to lead the “ DASL (Directors of Artistic Sign Language)

With " big, Black, Queer-ass, American Broadway" excitement, VOCA and DAT invite you to see our bold new production of Michael R....

The emotional climax of "A Strange Loop," now playing through August 10 at Atlas Performing Arts Center, unfolds in a fierce and vulnerable silence. Audience members can either read the heated dialogue in captions projected on the set or, if they understand American Sign Language, watch the actors' impassioned gestures.

A new production at Atlas Performing Arts Center, done as a collaboration between Visionaries of the Creative Arts and Deaf Austin Theatre, adds a further twist to this already twisty play by casting a mix of deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing performers and filtering the whole thing through an accessible lens.

The opening number of Michael R. Jackson's musical A Strange Loop has always plunged me into a dizzying mirror world. The musical opens with Usher, who introduces himself as a fat gay Black man attempting to write a "BIG BLACK AND QUEER-ASS / AMERICAN BROADWAY SHOW."

Celebrating Unity, Creativity, and Community Through the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa with VOCA! Hello! I’m Michelle Banks - Artistic...

Visionaries of the Creative Arts (VOCA) and Deaf Austin Theatre (DAT) present the Tony-winning musical at the Atlas, July 23 to August 10. This innovative co-production marks the first time two Deaf theater companies in the United States have joined forces to stage a performance.

Alexandria Wailes- I am a light skinned Black, mixed race woman with dark hair half pulled back and shoulder length. With hoop earrings....

Visionaries of the Creative Arts (VOCA), a Deaf-led nonprofit dedicated to inclusive and accessible performing arts, has been selected as an ArtsHERE grant recipient. The grant will support The ISM Project, a social impact curriculum exploring racism, audism, sexism and other systemic isms through the voices of Deaf BIPOC artists.

CASTING NOTICE: ISM II Audition ISM II, conceived and directed by Michelle Banks ISM II - The New VOCA Ensemble of Deaf, DeafBlind, and...

Visionaries of the Creative Arts (VOCA) is delighted to announce its selection as a recipient of a grant from Walmart's Local Community Grants Program, bolstering VOCA's ongoing commitment to empower the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing BIPOC community through the transformative power of the creative arts.

DC Theater Review - VOCA's A Raisin in the Sun! Check out Caroline Bock's review of A Raisin in the Sun just posted......

The Countdown Continues!

AUDITION DATE : October 6th - 9th Visionaries of the Creative Arts (VOCA) is having auditions for its Fall 2021 production, 'ISM',...

Don't miss and register TODAY! Registration: https://bit.ly/2XABVao

Here is an ASL vlog signed by April Jackson about the D.E.A.F event at the Kennedy Center @ The REACH. Click to register: :...

We are excited to share the newer look of our website with you! Please take the opportunity to explore our programs and spread the word...

VOCA is the proud recipient of the Borealis Philanthropy grant. The awarded $75,000 grant will support various projects and programs designed to spotlight and put into action solutions in support of diversity, equality and justice that include the BIPOC Deaf and hard of hearing community.