Posted Sunday July 20 2014 at 07:40 am
Mayor Martin J. Walsh
& the Mayor's Commission for Persons with Disabilities
Welcome's All to Attend
A.D.A. Celebration day
A FREE event for children, families, & individuals of all abilities.
Thursday, July 24, 2014 12 noon – 3 p.m. Boston City Hall Plaza
* FOOD * MUSIC * INFO * T-SHIRTS * FRIENDS * FUN *
New This Year – A Disability Pride Parade
Join the Commission Advisory Board before the A.D.A. Day Event!
Gather at 11 a.m. near the flag pole on City Hall Plaza to march around Government Center. Email felicity.lingle@gmail.com for details.
No Registration Required to Attend
** Wheelchair Accessible * ASL * CART * Scent-free **
To request accommodations, call 617-635-3682, or email disability@boston.gov
For more information & updates, visit www.cityofboston.gov/disability
Posted Tuesday July 15 2014 at 06:17 am
Sophomore at The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Concentrating in human rights, studio art, and mental health.
What are your favorite pastimes?
"I love to eat, paint, and hang out with friends."
If you could be a cartoon character, who would you be?
"Most people already think of me as the old man from Up, so I would be him."
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Posted Tuesday July 01 2014 at 11:12 pm
This is a guest blog post by Wilhelmina Peragine, VSA Teaching Artist and Parkolation Visionary.
Dear VSA Community,
Thank you for your tremendous support of the Parkolation Project this year. Because of you and our many partners, we just finished the first student-designed, fully accessible, sustainable parklet in Boston!
The late educator and philosopher, Maxine Green, encouraged us to imagine the world as if it were otherwise. This project set out to do just that by giving young people of all abilities opportunities to dream, design and build creative solutions to real world problems.
Come check out what you helped make possible at 506 Park Drive, Boston where you can:
- buy lunch at our parklet partner restaurant, Mei Mei and eat outside
- roll some moveable seats into any configuration
- stand and eat or read at the study bar while you charge your phone with the sun
- enjoy our little garden, fed by student-made compost
- park your bike, upright
- join us in re-imagining and building a greener and more artful future for all
Follow us on Twitter @parkolation and please keep in touch!
Gratefully yours,
Wilhelmina Peragine
VSA MA Teaching Artist
parkolationproject.com
