March 31st FROM THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE TO THE ART GALLERY: SANDIE YI’S RADICAL VISION OF BEAUTY

ACCESS ADVISORS’ OPEN HOUSE  AND DISABILITY ARTS FESTIVAL

FROM THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE TO THE ART GALLERY:
SANDIE YI’S RADICAL VISION OF BEAUTY

with Sandie Yi, Amanda Cachia, and Anthony Tusler
de Young Museum | Koret Auditorium
Saturday, March 31
11:00 a.m.–noon

https://www.facebook.com/events/260712190677910/


Sandie Yi will illustrate and discuss Crip Couture, her collection of
disability fashion, in conjunction with the exhibition The Fashion
World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk. Seen as
prosthetics, orthotics, or an unsettling dream, Yi’s work elevates
disability-inspired clothing to the level of art and high fashion.


Freelance curator Amanda Cachia will introduce Yi and talk about
current trends in disability art. Disability scholar Anthony Tusler
will explain how Crip Couture compares with and often surpasses
Gaultier’s radical approach to fashion and art.

This event is free of charge.
To ensure availability, make requests for accommodations before March 22.
For information: tbrown@famsf.org or 415-750-7645.


de Young
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco


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Access Advisors Open House and Disability Arts Festival

March 31, 2012 - 10:00am
http://deyoung.famsf.org/deyoung/calendar/access-advisors-open-house-and-disability-arts-festival-0


Celebrating everyday accessibility at the FAMSF, the disability
community produces a day of museum tours, art making, performance, and
Disability Culture.

Schedule
--9 am Private early morning tour of The Fashion World of Jean Paul
Gaultier From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, Reservation necessary, fee.
--10 am–2 pm: Museum Tours (ask for details)
--10:30 am–2:30 pm: Art Studio for a Day, Art Demos/Art-making
activities; artists at work including Maia Scott’s Human Sculpture
Project and music by Tim Cain
--11 am–noon: From the Doctor’s Office to the Art Gallery: Sandie Yi’s
Radical Vision of Beauty, Sandie Yi , Amanda Cachia, and Anthony
Tusler
--1–3 pm: Art Slam 2012


Sign language interpreters provided.
Extra blue spaces for parking.
Requests for accommodations made by March 22 will help ensure availability.

Ticket Information

General Museum admission free with RSVP by March 28.
There is a $10 surcharge for the Gaultier exhibition.
To register for early-morning Gaultier tour with discounted fee,
inquire by March 22.


Contact Information
Tish Brown
tbrown@famsf.org

EMBRACE THE SPACE: “What’s Your Story” Workshop & “Paper Doll” Performance

EMBRACE THE SPACE
SAINT MARTIN’S FAMILY FESTIVAL of DISABILITY ARTS and CULTURE

“What’s Your Story” Workshop & “Paper Doll” Performance

Sunday, March 25th at 1:30 PM

Tekki Lomnicki is the Artistic Director of Tellin’ Tales Theatre in
Chicago, Tekki has devoted her craft to finding ways to incorporate
her abilities and those of others to perform compelling stories.

Check out our Facebook event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/195043993938451/


EMBRACE THE SPACE*
Mar. 25
“What’s Your Story” Workshop & “Paper Doll” Performance
with Tekki Lomnicki

Apr. 15
“Body Magic” printing workshop & poetry readings
with Sandie Yi & Poets: Pennie Brinson, Lily Diego, David Jones

Apr. 29
“So You Think You Can’t Dance” movement workshop
with Alana Hodges Wallace & Dance>Detour

May 20
“Hollywood Images of Disability in Films for Kids”
with Carrie Sandahl & Aly Patsavas

*All events take place on Sundays at 1:30 pm

Saint Martin’s Episcopal Church
5700 West Midway Park
(near Central Avenue & Lake Street)

RSVP, Information & Disability Accommodations: tpacio1@uic.edu or
call 312-996-1967

Free Admission, Food & Refreshments Served

Sponsored By:
Bodies of Work: A Network of Disability Arts and Culture
Website: http://www.bodiesofworkchicago.org/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/BodiesOfWork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/BodiesOfWork

and

Department of Disability and Human Development at University of
Illinois at Chicago
The Chicago Community Trust





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Sandie Yi

Graduate Assistant
Bodies of Work: A Network of Disability Arts and Culture
http://www.bodiesofworkchicago.org/

Ph D Student, Disability Studies and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
E-mail: cyi9@uic.edu
Personal Artist's Website: http://cripcouture.org

Bodies of Work invites you to Actor as "Lifestyle Performer"

Are you a person with lifestyle?  Do you also like to perform?

Come and join us for an early afternoon event on Actor as "Lifestyle Performer"

Visiting PhD Research Fellow from Berne, Switzerland, Yvonne
Schmidt will present the Intersection of professional and
non-professonal Actors.

March 27th, Tuesday
12:00pm to 1:30pm
University of Illinois at Chicago,
Disability and Human Development Building
1640 W Roosevelt, Chicago, IL
Room 448

This event is sponsored by Disability Studies Student Council at UIC.

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Sandie Yi

Graduate Assistant
Bodies of Work: A Network of Disability Arts and Culture
http://www.bodiesofworkchicago.org/

Ph.D Student, Disability Studies and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
E-mail: cyi9@uic.edu
Personal Artist's Website: http://cripcouture.org

Dissertations Pertaining to Disabilities Studies

March 6, 2012

Colleagues:

The latest list of recent doctoral dissertations world-wide harvested from the July 2010 issues of _Dissertation Abstracts_ pertaining to disabilities studies have been downloaded to the HSLS homepage and can be viewed at :http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/histmed/dissertations/

This is a free service I offer the scholarly community on a 6-8 week basis.Please share this information with your colleagues and students.

Your comments are always welcomed.

Jonathon Erlen, Ph.D.

History of Medicine Librarian

Health Sciences Library System

University of Pittsburgh

412-6488927

"France is like this handicapped person stuck in this wheelchair..."

It is interesting in article below to see that Harvey Weinstein is calling bigotry expressed about/toward disabled people an: intolerant statement maybe one of these days we can get him to produce a film that exposes such bigotry. it is not clear from Weinstein's description of the film, that The Intouchables does that - the focus seems to be on bridging socioeconomic, religious and racial divides.  
        — Simi Linton



THE INTOUCHABLES tells the true story of a wealthy, physically disabled risk taker, the picture of established French nobility, who lost his wife in an accident and whose world is turned upside down when he hires a young, good-humored, black Muslim ex-con as his caretaker. Their bond proves the power and omniscience that love and friendship can hold over all social and economic differences. It is the 2nd highest grossing film of all time in both France and Germany and will be released in the U.S. by TWC on May 25. It premieres tonight in New York at Rendez-Vous with French Cinema’s Opening Night at Alice Tully Hall.

Weinsteins Denounce French Politician Le Pen’s ‘The Intouchables’ Comments

By BRIAN BROOKS | Thursday March 1, 2012 @ 8:15am PSTTags: Harvey Weinstein, The Intouchables
New York, NY – March 1, 2012 – During a recent television appearance on France 3’s National French Journal, founder and former president of France’s National Front party Jean-Marie Le Pen, as no surprise to the French who’ve witnessed his past tirades, disgraces France by making this analogy comparing the country’s socially progressive current state to the circumstances in the film THE INTOUCHABLES. Le Pen is notorious for advocating that France be a closed community, and he sees this film as a representation of the progression that France is making – which he is vitally against.

“France is like this handicapped person stuck in this wheelchair, and we are going to have to wait for the help of these suburb youngsters and the immigration in general. I don’t subscribe to this point of view. It’s a movie, a novel. And we have to take it that way and not like an example for the future. It would be a disaster if France would find itself in the same situation as this poor handicapped person,” said Le Pen.

THE INTOUCHABLES directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano chose to inspire audiences with this film and its true story by uncovering the philosophy that race, religion and class do not separate people and that they have nothing to do with the humanity of people and their potential for friendship and love.
The Weinstein Company Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein denounced Le Pen’s statement.

“It’s not a surprise to hear such an intolerant statement from the man who founded and was president of the extreme-right, xenophobic, racist National Front party. Le Pen made a repulsive statement, representing a bigoted world view. And right now, Jean-Marie’s daughter, Marine Le Pen, is running for president of France as the leader of the National Front party — and she is fourth in the polls with almost 16% of the population intending to vote for her. That’s frightening to me, and I think it’s important to speak up and speak out against Le Pen and his ideas. That’s why I’m proud to bring THE INTOUCHABLES to American audiences. This movie is based on a true story, and it’s a funny, extremely entertaining illustration of how simple human connection trounces socioeconomic, religious and racial divides. “



Sindy F.M. Gordon
Director of Communications
Inclusion in the Arts
1560 Broadway, Suite 709
New York, NY 10036
212.730.4750
www.inclusioninthearts.org


2011 Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre

Past and Present of Eugenics--Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Ruth Cowan, Rachel Adams, Paul Lombardo, Nikolas Rose, and Marisa Miranda and Gustavo Vallejo

Hello everyone,

Along with my colleague Claire Clark, I have founded an online video journal called Biopolitics.

It can be accessed at http://bio-politics.org<http://bio-politics.org/>

The journal uses a combination of video dialogues and written commentary to explore pressing issues at the intersection of medicine and politics.

We have just released our first issue, called "Past and Present of Eugenics."

It features a video dialogue between Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Emory) and Ruth Schwartz Cowan (UPenn), with commentary by Rachel Adams (Columbia), Paul Lombardo (Georgia State), Nikolas Rose (King's College London) and Marisa Miranda and Gustavo Vallejo (National University of La Plata, Argentina.)

There is a transcript of the dialogue available in PDF form.  It is in the section marked "Download," immediately beneath the abstract.

Accessibility is a key commitment of the journal.  With that in mind, please let us know what we can do to increase accessibility, and we will make every effort to do so.

In addition, please let us know if you have any future suggestions for issue topics.

Thank you,

Harold Braswell

ADA position at U.Va.

Hi Everyone,

Since this position oversees academic accommodations for students with disabilities at U.Va., I'd love to have someone disability-centric apply.
It does require a Ph.D in Clinical Psychology.

More info is on the Jobs@UVA site under posting #0609336.

Best,

Chris

P.S. Yes, we hope that someday disability services will be outside of the health system, sigh.


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DIRECTOR, LEARNING NEEDS EVALUATION CENTER

The University of Virginia's Department of Student Health seeks a doctoral level clinical psychologist to serve as Director of its Learning Needs and Evaluation Center (LNEC). The Director oversees the daily operations of the Learning Needs and Evaluation Center (LNEC) which is the program responsible for helping to identify students with learning and attentional disorders as well as determining eligibility and implementing academic accommodations for students with disabilities as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The Director of LNEC has supervisory responsibility for 7.5 FTE staff. The Director also oversees the assessment training and supervision provided to psychological interns from Counseling and Psychological Services' APA-accredited internship.

The Director will have thorough knowledge of the issues pertaining to implementation of disability accommodations, ADA compliance, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The Director should have extensive experience in administering and interpreting psychometric assessment measures relevant to the diagnosis of learning, attentional, and emotionally-based conditions. The Director will also have knowledge of DSM-IV differential diagnostic criteria and be able to assess the impact of learning and physical disabilities on social and emotional functioning. The position includes the opportunity to provide a limited amount of psychotherapy to LNEC patients according to the successful candidate's experience and career goals. Understanding of diversity issues will be important to all aspects of this position.

The Director should hold a doctoral degree from an APA-approved psychology program and have completed an APA-accredited internship. Specialty training in psychological and neuropsychological assessment is preferred. Licensure or license-eligibility in the state of Virginia is required.

Application Procedures: Interested candidates should apply online at https://jobs.virginia.edu (Jobs@UVA). Please complete a Staff Application and attach a cover letter, a current resume/CV, and contact information for three professional references. Review of applications will begin February 22, 2012, however the position will remain open until filled. For assistance with the on-line submission process, please contact University Human Resources at 434-982-0123.

The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply.



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Christopher Krentz
Associate Professor
Department of English and ASL Program
Director, American Sign Language Program
University of Virginia