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Honor our Honored Citizens on public transit
Listen to this post: Later this spring, you’ll get a fantastic podcast episode with Jared Franz and Keith Scholz from OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon. So I’m going to leave the longer description of that organization for the post that goes up with the podcast. What I’m writing about today relates to OPAL because they work…
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Brain injury crafts are so much more than art
Listen to this post: I introduced you to Brain Injury Voices from Maine and one of the members who’s an artist, Hilary Zayed, on this blog a while back. Now it’s time for a very exciting update. The group is supporting many other peers with brain injury in arts and crafts, and the place is just…
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Where Is Hope? documentary fundraiser
Listen to this post: Emmitt Thrower (Wabi Sabi Productions Inc) and Leroy Moore (Krip Hop Nation) started a documentary project on police brutality against people with disabilities in 2011. Then, Leroy and DJ Quad produced a CD mix-tape of original songs and poetry on police brutality in 2012. I have the CD and love it.…
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Inclusive Arts Vibe Dance Company on Kickstarter
Listen to this post: Hey now, we haven’t had a Disability Art and Culture Project (DACP) update on this blog in a long time. So here we go! Check out the current dancers in this integrated dance company of youth and young adults with and without disabilities: [Image description: Seven teen and young adult dancers strike poses in…
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Guest Blogger Carole Christie on the truth in TBI art
Listen to this post: I recently met Carole. I want you to meet her too. Remember that story on this blog about the taxi driver who blurted out to me his deep, deep knowing that people with TBIs can’t do anything. (And we’re the impulsive ones and bad communicators?) I didn’t verify where he got his…