Category: Community News

  • Disability Art and Culture Project’s Sex, Love and Disability III fundraiser and local arts

    Listen to this post: Getting started with planning early! It’s been quite a while since I wrote about the Disability Art and Culture Project, so here we go! 2014 is going to bring us to the 6th Disability Pride Arts and Culture Festival and the 3rd Sex, Love and Disability Fundraiser event. (The festival is…

  • 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…