Mark your calendars for this year's annual ReelAbilities - Boston Disability Film Festival, which starts on April 3, 2016 and ends on April 14, 2016.
ReelAbilities strives for inclusion of all people and is dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories, and artistic expressions of people with different abilities from a variety of communities. All venues are wheelchair accessible.
Highlights include:
TransFatty Lives: At 30, Patrick O'Brien was TransFatty, a New York City DJ, internet personality, and filmmaker. Then his legs started shaking. Transfatty Lives takes you on an emotional roller-coaster into the dark heart of ALS. As the director and star of his own documentary, Partick films every step of his debilitating journey for first diagnosis though paralysis. Forcefully lacking in self-pity, he captures the emotion, humor, absurdity of life as he makes art, gets political, falls in love, fathers a son, and fights depression. April 3, 2016 10:00 a.m., Showcase Cinema de lux Revere.
The Way He Looks: Leo, a blind teenager is determined to leave Sao Paolo to study abroad-to the dismay of his best friend, Giovana. But Leo's plans change when he is paired on a school project with Gabriel. As the boy's interest in each other grows, Giovana begins to reveal her own feelings, growing increasingly jealous of Gabriel. April 4, 2016 6:30 p.m., Emerson College, Boston.
After sharing the initial findings from the community engagement phase back in November, the Boston Creates team has been hard at work analyzing the data and refining the goals and strategies for the cultural plan.
On March 28, 2016 at Bunker Hill Community College from 6pm to 8pm, the cultural planning team will share the goals and strategies of the cultural plan with the community. Ultimately, these goals and strategies will form the overall framework for the cultural plan that will be complete in June 2016. It is important that Boston's residents, communities, and organizations see themselves within the plan.
Bunker Hill Community College is accessible by the MBTA Community College Station on the Orange Line. There is parking available on site as well.
RSVP at bostoncreates.eventbrite.com
Bunker Hill Community College
A3 Auditorium
250 Rutherford Ave
Charlestown, MA 02129
Join Museum of Science educators and local researchers March 19, 2016 as they explore the effects of brain chemistry on human behavior and health. Learn how your brain changes throughout your lifetime — from adolescent brain chemistry to what happens during aging (including Alzheimer's). Museum educators will host hands-on activities in the Hall of Human Life and throughout the Exhibit Halls. Local scientists will display their own cutting-edge research on this fascinating subject.
Registered guests will receive up to 4 free adult and/or children exhibit hall entrances per reservation.
Guests can view the exhibits until 5pm, when the Museum closes.
Registered guests will receive a hand-stamp for Exhibit Hall entrance at the Community Relations registration table in the Museum lobby on March 19 between 10am and 1pm.
