Arts Equity

05/27/2023

🎉Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day 🎊We’re proud to share how they have prioritized and promote inclusion & the activists, check out the details here: here:www.oaklandairport.com/
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This beautiful mural featuring Judy Heumann, Ed Roberts, and Brad Lomax has just been added to the Oakland International Airport! The Center for Independent Living is collaborating with the Port of Oakland on a series of paintings and exhibits about the disability rights movement.

Learn more about the project here: https://www.oaklandairport.com/mural-exhibit-featuring-disabled-artists-and-disability-rights-activists-hung-at-the-oakland-airport/
Image Description: A colorful mural with a large group of disabled protestors holding signs. Centered are paintings of Judy Heumann, Ed Roberts, and Brad Lomax. Below them is a pink ribbon with “Disability is Strength - Desabilidad es Fuera” written inside.

05/14/2023

Classical High School student wins 2023 Poetry Ourselves poem competition !!

Natasha B. Connolly, right, a junior at Classical High School, poses with National Endowment for the Arts Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, left, as she accepts the award for winning the 2023 Poetry Ourselves competition in the written category for her original poem, “Birdfolk at the End of the World”.

Link to poem & story in comments.

05/11/2023

Strange as angels Dancing in the deepest oceans Twisting in the water… https://rhythmandroots.com C U in September

We love a surprising cover: watch "Just like Heaven" Cure Cover by the The Infamous Stringdusters https://youtu.be/2W1mPRTjlq4
Nashville-based acoustic group the Infamous Stringdusters balance old-timey bluegrass and indie jamgrass sensibilities into a sound that's both organic and groove friendly. They'll be here on Sunday, September 5th. Get your tickets yesterday!

05/10/2023

How cool is this?!? 👋🏾♿️👣🦶🏾I’m in !!

All you need are tap gloves and a board for tapping to be part of the Tap Dancing Hands Down craze, created and launched by professional dancer Mary Six Rupert.

03/31/2023

📺♿️When watching television you may be pleasantly surprised when your community is represented. While there should be even more representation of disability in kids shows, here are some great options you and the kids in your life can watch.

Here is what the disability community recommends:

How many of these shows have you seen?

03/16/2023

♥️♠️Marlou Van Rhijn stands in her running blades on the cover of Harper's Bazaar. Woman of the Year.

03/11/2023

Meet the trailblazers helping to make the fashion industry more representative.
See & Read more: https://bit.ly/3L9I4RC

Meet the trailblazers helping to make the fashion industry more representative.

Para athletes are leading the revolution in the fashion industry.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3L9I4RC

Photo: Para athlete Robyn Lambird pictured.

03/10/2023

🎉25th Anniversary!! Come join us:
Announcing the 25th Anniversary of Rhythm & Roots, to take place Labor Day Weekend in Charlestown, RI! ☀️☀️

EARLY BIRD TICKETS ON SALE NOW
🎫: https://bit.ly/RREarlyBird23

Lineup announcement coming soon!

EARLY BIRD TICKETS ON SALE NOW ☀️☀️

🎫: https://bit.ly/RREarlyBird23

Announcing the 25th Anniversary of Rhythm & Roots, to take place Labor Day Weekend in Charlestown, RI! This is your chance to buy at 2022 Pricing!

Lineup announcement coming soon!

Presented by GoodWorks Entertainment

03/06/2023

This is the 28th Year the United States has recognized and celebrated March as National Disability Awareness Month!
🎥🎬🎞️Celebrate & watch a movie. Here are a few documentaries that are educational, entertaining and make for an informative and engaging team movie night. CripCamp is FABULOUS!!

Suggestions:

Crip Camp
Creating the Spectacle
Unrest
Right Footed
When I Walk
Born for Business

03/06/2023

Just a month away from the RISCA grant deadline… come join us Wednesday, create improved access to your programs & improve your funding prospects! It’s not only ‘the law’ it’s the best thing to do & we can help!

Learn what federal civil rights laws require of nonprofits, and how to get started making your organization more accessible.

03/06/2023

Today we mourn the loss of our friend, colleague, and disability champion, Judith Heumann. Judy was a lifelong disability advocate, often referred to as the mother of the disability rights movement. She was a wheelchair user most of her life and rejected cliches about disability being a tragic experience, saying, "Disability only becomes a tragedy for me when society fails to provide the things we need to lead our lives––job opportunities or barrier-free buildings, for example. It is not a tragedy to me that I'm living in a wheelchair.”

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i/d: A Black and white image of Judy Heumann speaking into a microphone. A button on her jacket reads "SIGN 504". In black text on a white background is the quote "Our anger was a fury sparked by profound injustices. Wrongs that deserved ire. And with that rage we ripped a hole in the status quo."

03/06/2023

💔a heart breaking loss for the entire disability community. a wheelchair user most of her life she rejected cliches about disability being a tragic experience, saying, "Disability only becomes a tragedy for me when society fails to provide the things we need to lead our lives––job opportunities or barrier-free buildings, for example. It is not a tragedy to me that I'm living in a wheelchair.”
we are all in her debt for the real & substantial changes she made in the world pioneering disability rights. RIP Judy

For Immediate Release: March 4, 2023 Contact: Yoli Navas at yoli@newcostrategies.com or 561-990-9029 The World Mourns the Passing of Judy Heumann, Disability Rights Activist Judith “Judy” Heumann (1947-2023) Judith “Judy” Heumann-widely regarded as “the mother” of the disability rights m...

03/03/2023

🎉♿️Next Wednesday the 8th ! Applying for a RISCA or other grant? Learn what federal disability rights legislation & grant applications requires of nonprofit organizations to be accessible - and how to get started! This workshop is free, open to the public and will be recorded. Register to join us below:

Learn what federal civil rights laws require of nonprofits, and how to get started making your organization more accessible.

02/13/2023

Access for All Abilities Mini-Grants Up to $2,500: 2023 Applications Now Available,
link to details in comments!

The Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities at Rhode Island College is soliciting applications from local businesses and organizations for the 2023 Access for All Abilities Mini Grant cycle. The Sherlock Center will award grants with the purpose of increasing access for people with disabilities to social, leisure, recreational, and/or cultural activities.
Grant Awards Up to $2,500
Apply by March 31, 2023

Eligibility

Businesses and organizations that engage the public in social, leisure, recreational, and/or cultural activities in Rhode Island, or primarily serving Rhode Island communities, are eligible to apply. Eligible entities include non-profit organizations, for-profit businesses, schools, and city or town government agencies. Applicants must demonstrate in their proposals sufficient resources to complete the proposed project within one year of receipt of the grant award.

Applications due by March 31, 2023. Apply online or by mail, fax, or email. Visit sherlockcenter.org for complete details.

The Sherlock Center will prioritize applications submitted by eligible businesses or organizations (as defined above) that demonstrate a high degree of engagement with minority communities or diverse populations (e.g., veterans, refugees, L.G.B.T.Q.

The application and instructions are available in English and Spanish at www.sherlockcenter.org. For help or to request materials in other languages, please contact Crystal Cerullo at ccerullo@ric.edu.

02/12/2023

Best game to watch 2day? PUPPY BOWL!
🐾❤️‍🔥with JOEY from Foster, RI💋🐾 & great tailgating 🍺🌭🍹with Snoop & Martha
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/02/12/sport/puppy-bowl-time-lineup-adoption-trnd/index.html

02/06/2023

💔our hearts are broken. So many of us are sad to share the news that Adrian Hall, Founding Director of Trinity Rep passed away this weekend.

Adrian led Trinity Rep from its first show in 1964. Under his leadership, Trinity launched ‘Project Discovery’ that introduced RI’s students to brilliant, relevant theater & a larger creative world that changed our lives.

Thanks to Adrian all our lives became larger & more colorful: “We mourn the loss of the person who not only made our theater what it is today, but who was a human being of unbound creativity and courage. Our hearts are with those who knew and worked with Adrian over the years.” We were blessed !