Are you an artist?
Are you an actor?
Are you a storyteller?
Are you a poet?
All Voices Count brings together young actors and storytellers with disabilities and those without, to create multidisciplinary performances that address relevant contemporary communication as well as social and political issues.
When: August 17, 2015 11am-2pm, August 18, 2015 10am-4pm, August 19, 2015 5-8pm, August 21, 2015 10am-4pm
Where: Massachusetts College of Art & Design, The Pozen Center, 621 Huntington Ave., Boston
RSVP: 617-426-4737 or 617-290-1947
E-mail: utp@RCN.com
All learning styles will be accommodated.
Presented through a collaboration of Until Tomorrow Productions, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, and VSA Massachusetts.
Last November we blogged that Company One Theatre was seeking a wheelchaired actor for it's production of Colossal. They found the right guy and we'd like to think our post helped them out. Anyway . . .
The lights burn bright. The smell of turf hangs thickly in the air. The crowd erupts in thunderous applause. The beauty and brutality of football seduce Mike to stray from the path his father had mapped out for him, but when a snap decision results in a career-ending injury, Mike must tackle the past and make peace with the man he dreamed he would be. Played in four quarters with a half-time show, dance company, and a drumline, Colossal's explosive theatrical storytelling and full-contact physicality carries this unmissable summer event all the way to the end zone.
Seven Hills Foundation is a proud sponsor of the City of Worcester's 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on Saturday, July 25, 2015 from noon to 4:00 p.m. at Union Station.
The day the Americans With Disabilities Act passed in 1990, then-U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa delivered a speech from the Senate floor in a way most of his colleagues didn't understand.
Harkin, the bill's sponsor, used sign language for the benefit of his brother who was deaf and had taught Harkin this lesson: "People should be judged on the basis of their abilities and not on the basis of their disabilities."
With the country marking the act's 25th anniversary, Brandi Rarus, a former Miss Deaf America, remembers how important it was for people with disabilities to make it known they would no longer allow others to set limits on what they could achieve.
"Those of us with disabilities face many barriers," says Rarus. "Some of those are unavoidable. I can’t listen to the radio as I drive to work in the morning. Often, because of communication barriers, I have to work twice as hard as a hearing person. Instead of taking me five minutes to make a doctor’s appointment, it takes me 10."
But some barriers are avoidable, Rarus says. And that's why the Americans With Disabilities Act has played such an important role in people's lives for the last 25 years.
Please join us for this local celebration--enjoy an afternoon of entertainment, interactive exhibits and activities, educational resources, food and dance!
Date: Saturday, July 25, 2015
Time: Noon to 4:00 p.m.
Place: Union Station, 2 Washington Square, Worcester More Information
