Posted Friday March 29 2013 at 07:55 am
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ARTZ presents an interactive music workshop designed specifically for people with dementia and their care partners. Dr. Lisa Wong, author of the critically acclaimed "Scales to Scalpels: Doctors who Practice the Healing Arts of Music and Medicine", will be leading the workshop. Free and open to the public.
Brookline Public Library
361 Washington Street, Brookline
Thursday, April 4 2013, 2 - 3:30pm
RSVP required
Call or Email Dee Brenner: Brenner@artzalz.org, 978-985-4427
Posted Tuesday March 26 2013 at 11:27 pm
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Join the Museum of Science Saturday March 30, 2013 for a Community Partners Day. See the new traveling exhibit Design Zone. Registered guests will receive a total of 4 free exhibit hall admissions per reservation. The Museum is open 9-5PM on Saturdays. ASL interpreters will be available to visit exhibits with guests from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
Guests can pick up tickets at the Community Relations registration table in the Museum lobby on the morning of March 30 between 10am and 1pm.
Registration is required.
For questions, please contact Maria Cabrera (mcabrera@mos.org, 617-589-0418) or James Boyd (jboyd@mos.org, 617-589-0315)
Tickets are limited.
Posted Sunday March 24 2013 at 4:28 pm
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Maurice Parent and Kami Smith in Underground Railway Theater's
production of "The Mountaintop" by Katori Hall, January 2013.
Photo by A.R. Sinclair Photography.
This is a guest blog post by Michael Muehe, Executive Director of The Cambridge Commission for Persons with Disabilities
The Cambridge Commission for Persons with Disabilities was very pleased to have had the opportunity to collaborate with the Central Square Theater and Underground Railway Theater on a disability rights symposium in January. This symposium was one of a series of events, each of which connected with several community organizations doing work on behalf of various human rights/civil rights constituencies. Each event dovetailed with an ASL-Interpreted performance of The Mountaintop, a Katori Hall play that imagines the final evening on earth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., just prior to his assassination.
Local disability advocates and activists Joanne Daniels-Finegold, John Kelly, and I were featured speakers in the January 26 panel discussion. The panel explored various dimensions of the legacy of Dr. King and how his civil rights strategies and tactics have been used by subsequent disability rights activists, right up to the present. Both the panel discussion and subsequent performance were very well received by the audience.
