RDS sponsors Disability Awareness programs throughout the year. Many of our efforts are concentrated through individual class lectures or presentations associated with other university-wide programming.
In the past, RDS has presented a concentrated number of programs at a certain time of the year. However, due to a lack of resources, currently programs are created in collaboration with other entities on campus and are presented at different times. Disability awareness, like other aspects of diversity, is viewed as a normal part of the overall education offered to students, faculty and staff.
The following are specific programs for Spring 2009:
When: Friday, March 27 at 6:00 pm. Where: Lory Student Center Theater.
Keith Wann, a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) comedian, is coming to CSU. "Watching Two Worlds Collide" features humorous stories about growing up with Deaf parents in a hearing world. Performed in American Sign Language, there will be a voice interpreter provided. Co-sponsored by RDS, American Sign Language Club at CSU, Diversity and Justice Progams, and ASAP. FREE to the public.
Check Keith Wann out on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2nX41KvnNY or at www.keithwann.com
When: Monday, April 6 at 7:00 - 8:30 pm. Where: Cherokee Park, Lory Student Center.
Eli Clare, author of Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, will be on campus April 6 and 7. Co-sponsored by RDS, Committee for Disabled Student Accessibility, GLBT Resource Center, and Campus Activities.
Eli will be presenting "Listening to the Freaks," a multi-media lecture and discussion that explores what the freak shows can teach us about resistance and exploitation, pride and shame. Through story-telling, poetry, and analysis, race, disability, imperialism, and queerness are woven together into narratives of pride and witness.
When: Tuesday, April 7 at 12:00 - 1:00 pm Where: Virginia Dale, Lory Student Center
Eli will be doing a reading from either of his two books (Exile and The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion) with a booksigning to follow.
When: Tuesday, April 7 at 5:30 - 7:30 pm Where: Cherokee Park, Lory Student Center
Eli will also be facilitating a storytelling workshop "Stories in Motion: Listening to the Marrow," exploring what stories tell us about embodied experiences of race, disability, violence, class, gender identity, and sexuality.
For more information on Eli Clare, visit: http://eliclare.com/books/