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| SCREENING FOR DISABILITY – A Panel Discussion September 12, 3 PM Location: New York University, King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, NYC Admission: Free This panel of filmmakers, programmers and activists will discuss their creative and curatorial work making and screening films about the lives of people with disabilities, and how their work is breaking new ground in the representation and circulation of these stories. Isaac Zablocki, Director of Film Program, The JCC in Manhattan, Realabilities Film Festival Lawrence Carter-Long, Director of Advocacy and disThis film series, Disabilities Network of NYC, Tony Di Salvo, Director, Sprout Film Festival Alice Eliot, Award-winning filmmaker and activist and director of Welcome Change Productions, Simi Linton, award-winning writer and advocate, founder, Disability/Arts Ilana Trachtman, award-winning filmmaker and activitst (Praying with Lior) Co-presented with NYU Council for the Study of Disability, with the support of NYU Center for media, Culture and History |
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| PRE-FESTIVAL SCREENING at Roosevelt Island SHAMELESS: THE ART OF DISABILITY September 14, 1:30 PM Location: Goldwater Memorial Hospital, 1 Main Street, Roosevelt Island, NY 10044. Tel: (212) 318-4728. Admission: Free Join us for a free pre-festival screening of the remarkable documentary by Bonnie Sherr Klein, SHAMELESS: The Art of Disability. Discussion and refreshments to follow. Co-presented with Coler-Goldwater and Roosevelt Island Disabled Association |
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| FAMILY PROGRAM September 21, 11 AM Location: The JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave @ 76th Street, NYC Admission: $5 Join us on Sunday morning for a family program featuring a screening of the animated feature FINDING NEMO, followed by a storytelling hour from DISABLED FABLES. Finding Nemo The wizards at Pixar take us under the sea to the world of clownfish Marlin and his son Nemo who has only one fin… When the defiant Nemo takes off from his dad and gets captured by a tropical fish seeker he finds himself stuck in a fishbowl in a dentist’s office. Marlin and his well meaning, but wacky, friend Dory embark on an epic journey to find his son. Diverse characters get along well, Nemo is brave and capable. A father searches tirelessly for his son and learns a lesson in letting go and letting him grow up. Disabled Fables A compilation of fables retold and illustrated by adults with developmental disabilities. The writer/artists' interpretations of the tales is startling, relating the stories to their life experiences in an often touching and illuminating way. Read by Heidi Landis, Program Director, CANY. |
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| THE ARTWORK OF PURE VISION ARTS: SLIDESHOW PRESENTATION September 22, 5 PM Location: The JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave @ 76th Street, NYC Admission: Free Pure Vision Arts (PVA) is New York's premier studio and exhibition space for adults with developmental disabilities. Pamala Rogers, Director of Pure Vision Arts, joined by artists of Pure Vision Arts, will introduce the art work and the stories behind it through a slideshow presentation. More about Pure Vision Arts: PVA provides studio space, art materials, exhibition opportunities, and career development for beginning, emerging and established artists. PVA is also a resource center for artists, art collectors, curators and others interested in promoting inclusion and accessibility in the arts for people with disabilitites.PVA was founded in 2002 by The Shield Institute, a leading provider of services to New Yorkers and an affiliate of The Jewish Board of Children and Family Services, and is located in the Chelsea district of Manhattan.For more information visit our web site www.purevisionarts.org |
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