Month: March 2013

  • Guest Blogger: David Parkin on putting yourself back together again

    Listen to this post:  Meet my pal Dave. You can ask him how we met, or I could tell you. Chances are we’d both get it sort of wrong because we probably don’t really remember. I mean it was months ago. Best I recall, he somehow found my blog. Or someone else re-blogged something of…

  • Digital storytelling for all

    Listen to this post:  Some people call my films “the voice” for people with brain injury. I don’t want to be anyone’s voice, especially since no one really needs me to do that. It’s a common but wrong belief that disabled folks can’t speak on their own behalf. I really feel it’s about access to…

  • Spotlight on Disability Film Festivals: 4th Annual Bosifest

    Listen to this post:  This June will be the 4th annual Bosifest, the only festival of its kind in Southeast Europe. They have shown more than 140 films from all over the world at the Belgrade Youth Centre. The festival has a competition for films by and about disabled folks as well as workshops on a variety…

  • Call for artists with brain injury!

    Listen to this post:  Art show! For the month of July, Splendorporium gallery will be hosting the art of folks with brain injury! The show is called “A Different Perspective: Who Am I To Stop It.” If you don’t know about Splendorporium art space and the non-profit Art4Life yet, please go visit their site and…

  • Featured Oral History Project at UC Berkeley Library

    Listen to this post: University of California, Berkeley is widely-known as a very accessible college campus. The city of Berkeley has been called one of the most physically accessible cities around. After all, the first Center for Independent Living was founded there by disability activists in 1972. One of the more widely known activists in…