Category: Community News

  • Alzheimer’s Unleashing Art

    Listen to this post:  Talking about life with Alzheimer’s Disease is not easy. I do not want to trivialize anyone’s experiences or make it seem like I know some truths–positive or negative–about them. So rather than write about what it means to live with Alzheimer’s, let me just please introduce a couple of people to…

  • Short films of fiction and truth

    Listen to this post:  We had a great premiere of the three new short films, “The Tablet Shorts, Out.” It was one of the most diverse audiences I’ve had at one of my screenings. One really exciting thing for me as the producer? There were fewer people in the audience with brain injury than people…

  • Reflections on the March on Washington 50th Anniversary from National Black Disability Coalition

    Listen to this post: Forgive my lateness in this post! It’s now November, and here is some storytelling from August. I’ve been volunteering with the National Black Disability Coalition on some technology stuff. We started working together because the organization and I are both very interested in storytelling. I talked with Jane Dunhamn of NBDC about…

  • Out of Step online marketplace for people with disabilities

    Listen to this post: I recently joined this fabulous website called Out of Step. Find them at www.OutofStep.com. “Out of Step is an online marketplace and platform connecting people with disabilities to consumers and employers. On Out of Step, people with disabilities can sell products, offer services or post a resume. Anyone can use Out…

  • The Museum of disABILITY History and People Inc. 9th Annual disABILITIES Film Festival and Speakers Series

    Listen to this post:  Welcome to the latest installment of “Announcing Disability Film Festivals After They Are Over” on this blog. My timing is notoriously terrible. And once again I have failed to let folks know about this festival before it happened. Here is the site: www.disabilityfilmfest.org. And here’s how they describe the festival: “The goal…