When: Sunday October 23, 2011 from 2:00 pm – 4:30pm
Where: Art House Productions, 1 McWilliams Place, Jersey City,
This program is free and open to the public.
Assisted Listening Devices are available upon request 201-459-2070
... Art House Productions is a fully accessible venue.
For Directions please go to www.arthouseproductions.or
Please RSVP to Meredith Lippman at 201-459-2070 or by email to mlippman@hcnj.us
This is a chance to discuss compliance with ADA beyond issues of accessibility. The panel will discuss how people with disabilities, who are artists, create their work and how they may be integrated better into arts programming and onto the governing boards of arts groups. If you are an artist with a disability, know an artist with a disability, are working with artists who have disabilities - please join this discussion. We need to hear from you.
This workshop IS NOT about answers. It IS about having a discussion. It is also about creativity, ideas and answering questions you may have about ADA. I hope you will join us on Sunday October 23, 2011 at Art House Productions from 2:00pm-4:30pm to be part of the discussion.
The panel:
Members of UPTICo Theatre Company, (Unlimited Potential Theatre Company which works as part of VSANJ) will be talk about being actors, producers and directors who have disabilities and who are working in theatre.
Bojana Coklyat is a highly trained visual artist will also discuss what it is like to be a blind artist.
Nanette Hernandez who is the co-founder of Segunda Quimbamba, a Puerto Rican dance and drumming group (also a re-grantee) Segunda Quimbamba began a pilot program for children with autism. Nanette will discuss her experience with this new program.
Maryann Valls, a writer with Cerebral Palsy is also scheduled to be on the panel. She has great difficulty with speech and movement due to her cerebral palsy. Maryann even has trouble using a computer but persists because as an artist she has a lot to say in her writing.