2015 Massachusetts Disability Summit: The ADA at 25 Date: September 18, 2015 Time: 8:30am – Registration 9:15am – Speaking Program Location: Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Room 052A 415 Summer Street Boston, MA 02210 Join a Who’s Who from the…
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Artist Market at the 2015 Boston Abilities Expo
VSA is proud to sponsor the at the . Visit the Market to meet VSA artists and see a unique selection of beautiful fine art and crafts- including prints, paintings, textiles, and jewelry. The expo and market are free to…
What Artists Knead
A series of breadmaking parties for artists curated by , musician and artist-ethnographer for Boston Creates, Boston’s cultural planning initiative. Over 1,000 people have participated in over 90 community conversations for , since the community engagement stage began in June…
VSA Webinar: Beyond the Basics of Dance Education for Students with Disabilities
Description: This Webinar synthesizes emerging research and classroom experience delivering strategies to develop practice, pedagogy, and policy in teaching dance to students with disabilities. We will move past inclusion basics and include ground-breaking work from disability dance leaders who “put…
All Voices Count – 2015
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…
Company One Theatre’s "Colossal"
Last November we blogged that Company One Theatre was 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…
Boston Conservatory Music Program for Young Children on the Autism Spectrum
The Boston Conservatory Music Program for Young Children on the Autism Spectrum is a fun and engaging way for parents to introduce their young children on the autism spectrum (ages 3-8) to music. Taught by graduate students and alumni of…
Non-verbal Theatre and Puppetry – "Yellow Bird Chase" on Boston Common
A clownish maintenance crew finds a magical yellow bird. Seeing its value, they try to capture the bird, but it escapes and a great chase begins. Racing over land, across the sea, and through the air, battling pirates, monsters and…
ADA 25th Anniversary Celebration on the Boston Common
Join us Wednesday, July 22, 2015 from 11am – 3pm on the Boston Common to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Help us mark this important milestone kicked off with a march, great performers, speakers,…
Upcoming VSA Webinars
Free webinars scheduled by the Office of VSA & Accessibility, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Fundamentals: Big Ideas from the National Core Arts Standards and Guiding Principles for Students with Disabilities Tuesday, July 21, 2015 3-4pm Presenters: Marcia McCaffrey,…