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SUMMARY:Disability Pride Pop Up Event with Women & Children First and Access Living
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a popup event for disability pride. The event will have art-making\, creative writing\, a pop up book shop\, open mic and book talk. \nAbout this event\nDisability Pride Pop-Up Event with Women & Children First \nJoin Access Living and Women and Children First for an afternoon of celebration in honor of disability pride! \nWomen and Children First Bookstore is having a Pop-up book shop\, where you can find books authored by disabled writers and books that talk about disability experiences and culture. You are invited to join our creative art stations\, where you can make personalized wearable buttons and participate in the Re-Wired Project (see description below) \nProgram: \n1:00-6:00pm Pop-up book shop and creative stations where participants can:\n– make buttons\n– create personal narratives of disability identity and pride; and\n– be a part of the Re-Wired Project \n4:00-4:30pm Featured readers & open mic for those who self-identify as a member of the disability\, Deaf\, neurodivergent or psychiatric survivor community to share short personal narratives of disability \n4:30pm Book talk\, Q&A session\, and book signing with Liat Ben-Moshe\, author of Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition \n5:30pm Book talk from disabled artist Riva Lehrer\, author of GOLEM GIRL \nPlease note that masks are required for entry into the Access Living building and must be worn at all times. \nWhat is Re-wired Project? \nTHE RE-WIRED PROJECT is inspired in part by the moving and powerful expressions of solidarity that emerged as chalky sidewalk slogans and impassioned murals throughout the City in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. The walls\, sidewalks\, front yards\, and windows of Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods have long served as a canvas\, reflecting individual and community values. \nJoin us and create texts and wire sculpture that represents our disability and/or Deaf community\, culture and values. \nDates and Times:\nMonday\, 7/25\, 1:00-6:00pm \nLocation:\nAccess Living\n115 West Chicago Avenue\, 4th floor\nChicago\, IL 60654 \nWho can participate?\nThis event is open to the public. All members of the disability community and allies are welcome to attend. Participants do not need any art/craft experience or skills. \nCost:\nThe event is free to attend. All art-making activities will be no cost. There will be books available for purchase. \nReady to sign up?\nSpace is limited due to Covid safety precautions\, please sign up soon by using the Eventbrite link\, or email Beth Bendtsen at bbendtsen@accessliving.org. You can also call Beth at (312) 640-2156 with any questions\, concerns or access needs. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/disability-pride-pop-up-event-with-women-children-first-and-access-living-tickets-376832745887 \nAccess Information:\nAccess Living is a scent free building. Please refrain from wearing scented products\, such as scented lotion\, perfume and cologne. All areas of the building are wheelchair accessible. ASL interpretation services and CART will be provided during the open mic and book reading. Please contact bbendtsen@accessliving.org with other access requests. \nOrganizers’ Information:\nThis event is brought to you by the Arts and Culture Project at Access Living\, an independent living center for people with disabilities\, and the Disability Culture Activism Lab (DCAL)\, a teaching lab housed under the department of art therapy and counseling at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As a platform for creative disability art and advocacy projects\, DCAL uses a peer support and collective care model in which disability community members and art therapy graduate students collaborate as disability culture makers for social change. \nThe contents of this event were developed under a grant from the National Institute on Disability\, Independent Living\, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grant number 90RTCP0005). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL)\, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of this event do not necessarily represent the policy of NIDILRR\, ACL\, or HHS\, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. \nThis program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dear Jack\, Dear Louise
DESCRIPTION:When two strangers meet by letter during World War II\, a love story begins. U.S. Army Captain Jack Ludwig\, a military doctor stationed in Oregon\, begins writing to Louise Rabiner\, an aspiring actress and dancer in New York City\, hoping to meet her someday if the war will allow. But as the war continues\, it threatens to end their relationship before it even starts. Two-time Olivier Award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig tells the poignant story of his own parents’ unlikely courtship during World War II. \nKen Ludwig’s Dear Jack\, Dear Louise is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French\, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com \nThere will be a touch tour at 1:30pm inside the theater where patrons will be invited into their seats for a pre-show introduction to the space and the cast. \nKen Ludwig’s Dear Jack\, Dear Louise
URL:https://culturalaccesscollaborative.org/access-event/dear-jack-dear-louise/
LOCATION:Chicago\, United States
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