Category: Community News

  • 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…

  • Art and neuroscience

    Listen to this post:  Last night, I had the honor of being featured at a Portland State University event. It was sponsored and organized by Scholars for the Awareness of Neuroscience Education (SANE) at the university. They asked me to show my film, “Friending with Brain Injury!,” because it shows how people with brain injuries…

  • Spotlight on Disability Film Festivals: ReelAbillities New York

    Listen to this post:  Well, I missed the boat on announcing ReelAbilities Disability Film Festival 5 in New York. The good news is you can find out about the festival in thirteen cities in the US at their website, www.reelabilities.org, including the other dates I have missed, like the New Jersey festival. So how did…