The San Francisco Bay Area Disability Business Alliance (SFDBA) is a pioneering new initiative that aspires to build a powerful and integrated community of businesses owned by people with disabilities.

Please join them at their inaugural event to celebrate the diversity in the San Francisco business community. As a supporter, you’ll be a part of the first-ever dynamic network of businesses owned and operated by individuals with disabilities. 

Your dreams are possible no matter who you are. Urban Jazz Dance Company is a convergence of artistic forces where raw energy, rooted in freedom, is expressed through the athletic body and passionate dance. 

The Main Library is accessible for wheelchair users.  American Sign Language interpreters will be provided.  To request other accommodations, please contact marti.goddard@sfpl.org or call 415/557-4557. Requesting accommodations at least 3 business days in advance will help to ensure availability.

Connect with Disability Changemakers: Website

Events for adults and children dealing with disabilities, their families, friends and allies.

This is a Performance program from SFPL. We host events featuring music, art, dance and more.

A family friendly dance workshop for deaf and hearing people of all ages. 

Choreographer and dance star Antoine Hunter, a powerful disability advocate at home and internationally, founded the Urban Jazz Dance Group in Oakland and the Annual Bay Area Deaf Dance Festival.  Everyone is welcome - from beginner level students to fluent ASL signers.

The Main Library is accessible for wheelchair users.  American Sign Language interpreters will be provided. To request other accommodations, please contact marti.goddard@sfpl.org or call 415/557-4557.  Requesting accommodations at least 3 business days in advance will help to ensure availability.

Connect with Disability Changemakers: Website

Events for adults and children dealing with disabilities, their families, friends and allies.

This is a Performance program from SFPL. We host events featuring music, art, dance and more.

Alex Locust is known as the Glamputee and a disability justice activist, through his popular workshops on disability awarness and micro-agression.  He is on the Advisory Council for the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University and works as a certified counselor for the AIDS Foundation.  He will be in conversation with local disability community members about their lives and work.

The Main LIbrary is accessible for wheelchair users.  American Sign Language interpreters will be provided.  To request other accommodations, please contact marti.goddard@sfpl.orgor call 415/557-4557.  Requesting accommodations at least 3 buisness days in advance will help to ensure avaiability.

www.disabilitychangemakers.org

Events for adults and children dealing with disabilities, their families, friends and allies.

A selection of award-winning documentary films from the 2019 Superfest Disability Film Festival will be shown.

Superfest International Disability Film Festival is the longest running disability film festival in the world. One of the few festivals worldwide that is accessible and relevant to filmgoers with all kinds of disabilities and their allies, Superfest celebrates cutting-edge cinema that portrays disability through a diverse, complex, unabashed and engaging lens.

The Main Library is accessible for wheelchair users. American Sign Language interpreters will be provided. To request other accommodations, please contact marti.goddard@sfpl.org or call 415-557-4557. Requesting accommodations at least 3 business days in advance will help to ensure availability.

This is a Films & Videos program from SFPL. From feature films to youth-made videos, we’ve got something great to watch.

Participants will explore creative processes including writing, art and movement as tools for nurturing the stories which arise from their bodies and lives.

Maia Scott is a blind artist, teacher and labyrinth facilitator. She will lead participants in the meditative practice of walking the labyrinth to release habits of judgment and free up creative space and then engage participants in various art making activities. This is a general art workshop for the public and for artists with disabilities.

The Main Library is accessible for wheelchair users. To request other accommodations, please contact marti.goddard@sfpl.org or call 415-557-4557. Requesting accommodations at least 3 business days in advance will help to ensure availability.

All materials are provided, unless noted.

Events for adults and children dealing with disabilities, their families, friends and allies.

Inclusive programs have been designed for library users who want to gain a deeper understanding of autism spectrum disorders, sensory integration issues, developmental disabilities, learning differences, or other needs. Everyone is welcome!

Hosted by our favorite stuttering stand-up comedian, writer and disability advocate Nina G., this event features San Francisco disability activist and social entrepreneur Tiffany Yu and ASL teacher and Deaf event organizer Francis Refan Phiri.  The celebration will close with a dance presentation by students of Access SFUSD and a drag performance by one of their alumni, DeMian Williams performing as Serena Jackson.

Enjoy button making and a visit with Canine Companions for Independence before moving to the Skylight Gallery to view the exhibition of Changemaker portraits.

The Main LIbrary is accessible for wheelchair users. American Sign Language interpreters will be provided. To request other accommodations, please contact marti.goddard@sfpl.org or call (415) 557-4557. Requesting accommodations at least 3 business days in advance will help ensure availability.

About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times is a new anthology co-edited by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Peter Catapano. Learn more about this groundbreaking book featuring all disabled writers and meet some of the contributors from the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to a moderated discussion and Q&A, copies of About Us will be available for purchase. This event is co-sponsored by the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University, the Disability Visibility Project, the Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair in Disability Studies at the University of California Berkeley, and the San Francisco Mayor’s Office on Disability.

The Main Library is accessible for wheelchair users. American Sign Language interpreters and Real-time Captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations, please contact marti.goddard@sfpl.org or call 415-557-4557. Requesting accommodations at least 3 business days in advance will help to ensure availability.

More information: https://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1039811701

Come join the Global Shapers of San Francisco for a ShaperTalk on Wednesday, December 11th, with best-selling author Haben Girma

About this Event

Come join the Global Shapers of San Francisco for a ShaperTalk on December 11, with New York Times-featured author and the 1st Deafblind Harvard Law School grad, Haben Girma.

Agenda (Times in PT)

6:00 – 6:30 pm: Networking

6:30 – 7:15 pm: Moderated Talk

7:15 – 7:30 pm: Audience Q&A

7:30 pm onwards: Networking

About Haben

The first deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, Haben Girma advocates for equal opportunities for people with disabilities. President Obama named her a White House Champion of Change. She received the Helen Keller Achievement Award, and a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. President Bill Clinton, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Chancellor Angela Merkel have all honored Haben. Haben believes disability is an opportunity for innovation. She travels the world teaching the benefits of choosing inclusion.

Her best selling book Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law was featured in the New York Times, Oprah Magazine, People, The Wall Street Journal, and the Today Show.

**This event will be ASL Interpreted**
**This event is fully accessible for all people**
**There will be childcare available**

Join the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival in San Francisco for the 7th stop of the We Must Do M.O.R.E. national tour as we Mobilize, Organize, Register and Educate.

The tour stop in California will culminate with a March and Mass Meeting on Wednesday, December 11. We will meet at San Francisco City Hall (1 Dr Carlton B. Goodlett Pl.), march through San Francisco at 6:00 pm, and then gather together for a Mass Meeting at 7:00 pm at Glide Church. This will follow an Oakland community site visit to shine light on the struggles and stories of impacted people from the community and provide a platform for them to share both the conditions they are facing and the solutions they believe in.

At the Mass Meeting, we will hear from people directly impacted
by systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the corrupt moral narrative. We will also hear from Rev. Barber and Rev. Theoharis, Co-Chairs of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is organizing a 25-state We Must Do MORE national tour from September 2019 to May 2020. This tour will lead into the Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington, where thousands of poor people and moral agents will gather at the nation’s capitol on June 20, 2020 to demonstrate their power.

We will demand the implementation of our Moral Agenda and call all people of conscience to engage in deeply moral civic engagement and voting that cares about poor and low-wealth people, the sick, immigrants, workers, the environment, people with disabilities, the Deaf community, First Nations, the LGBTQIA+ community, and peace over war.

Please register @ Action Network event: http://bit.ly/moreCA

**Need a ride or have extra seats to offer in yours? Please sign up here on our statewide CA MORE Tour Mass Meeting Carpool system: https://www.prepatrip.com/t/ux9rdz

**Interested in supporting this event as a volunteer? Please sign up here: http://bit.ly/morecavolunteer

In partnership with AbleThrive and LINK20, we are hosting #ThriveWorldwide on International Day of People with Disabilities to celebrate living life to the fullest and promoting inclusion in society by joining meet-ups around the world on the same day.

Speakers

• Alex Locust, Counselor-Coordinator, San Francisco AIDS Foundation

• Francis Phiri, Founder & President, Giving Back To Community - Zambia

• Liz Travis Allen, Attorney

• Zahna Simon, Assistant Director, Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival

• Jared Hatch (moderator), ThoughtWorks

• More to come

RSVP: https://sfthriveworldwide2019.eventbrite.com

Disability Rights are Worker Rights! Worker Rights are Disability Rights!

Saturday October 5, 2019 from 2pm-5pm PST

Come learn the history of disability in the U.S. and how it connects fundamentally to the oppression of domestic workers. Jessica Lehman will lead us through an interactive timeline that will lift up important milestones in Disability Rights and Disability Justice organizing, as well as shine light on the intersections of ableism and racism and how that connects to Domestic Worker Rights organizing. (More background below.)

We will also discuss our CA statewide campaign to win a new social insurance program to help all Californians afford long-term care and other Long-term Services and Supports, which we see as being critical to reshaping our Care Economy so that it works well for everyone.

Light refreshments provided- bring something to share if you can! Please RSVP to request childcare, attendant support and other accommodations.

Background:
Ableism, or discrimination and oppression based upon disability, harms not only people with disabilities but also contributes to the devaluation and dehumanization of all of us who are not wealthy, white cis-gender men or who don’t have “normal bodies.”

Home attendants who provide critical personal care assistance to people with disabilities so we may live in our homes and communities are among the lowest paid of all domestic workers. Many homecare workers acquire disabilities in the course of their work, yet few can afford the costs of homecare once they need it themselves. Not surprisingly, domestic worker leaders have been key advocates for universal child care and universal home support policies.

Disability Justice is a growing field of activism and theory that brings clarity to how intersecting oppressions are centered in the body and how all of our liberation depends upon the end of ableism, but also the end of capitalism, racism, heteropatriarchy and the many systems of oppression that mutually reinforce the power structure in this country.

Image description:
During 2014 Disability Capitol Action Day in Sacramento, seniors and people with disabilities from Hand in Hand and Senior and Disability Action hold a sign that reads "No to the Cap on Hours for IHSS Workers! Yes to in-home support and better jobs!"

Today, September 7th from 3:00 p.m. PT to 4:30 p.m. PT

In Conversation with  Lainey Feingold 

Haben Girma defines disability as an opportunity for innovation. She learned non-visual techniques for everything from dancing salsa to handling an electric saw. Haben pioneered her way through obstacles, graduated from Harvard Law, and now uses her talents to advocate for people with disabilities. Haben takes readers through a thrilling game of blind hide-and-seek in Louisiana, a treacherous climb up an iceberg in Alaska, and a magical moment with President Obama at The White House. Warm, funny, thoughtful, and uplifting, this captivating memoir is a testament to one woman's determination to find the keys to connection.

Lainey Feingold is a disability rights lawyer focusing on digital access, an international speaker, and the author of Structured Negotiation, A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits.

If you need disability accommodations, please contact Cheryl McKeon, (415) 835-1020 , events@bookpassage.com

Calling all Fat people, all Disabled people, all Seniors, all our loved ones, and anyone who has experienced being separated, shut away, controlled, disposed of, incarcerated in prisons, nursing homes, fat camps, psych institutions, or generally told they are the problem for society’s woes to UNITE in solidarity with migrants. Together we demand an end to the brutal treatment of migrants, an end to concentration camps, and an end to ICE. We know Disabled POC are at greater risk for incarceration and deportation. And we know that part of disability justice means we must absolutely hold community members whose impairments are created intentionally as a result of state terror, incarceration, border policing, war, and so many tools of domination. As Disabled and Fat people of many communities, we know and therefore must insist:

NO BODY IS DISPOSABLE!

WE ARE RESILIENT AND STILL HERE!

WE WILL NOT ALLOW THE ERASURE OF IMMIGRANTS!

Join us in person if you can, outside the ICE office in San Francisco, 630 Sansome St. If you can, wear an outfit that celebrates your resiliency or the resiliency of your community. (Whatever creative interpretation this means to you.) Just like we refuse to be pushed away and forgotten about, we refuse to let go of our people incarcerated in the camps. Bring signs, chants, friends, your precious sacred bodies, and your vital spirit of resistance, resilience and solidarity.

We’ll post ideas in the Facebook event discussion for actions folks can also do in support: from home, from bed, etc. If you need support getting to the action please post that on the event page or by contacting us. We strongly encourage people to form crews/squads if that makes sense for you or your org; we have found as disabled and fat activists this is often the best way to combat isolation and for individuals to get needs met in public.


ACCESS:
This action is on a public sidewalk in a flat area. It’s 6-8 blocks from BART. We are investigating nearby parking and transportation. We will have ASL interpreters. More access details to come.

Haben Girma, daughter of refugees and the first Deafblind woman to graduate from Harvard Law, has been honored for her activist work by President Obama, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and more. In August, she visits with award winning journalist Angie Coiro to share her life story.

Riddled with laughter, warmth, inspiring perspective, and hair-raising incidents of world-travel, don’t miss this discussion of Haben.

Raised by two Eritrean refugee parents who survived a 30-year war, Haben learned to value courage and community early. In her lifetime so far, she has traveled the globe, mastered non-visual techniques for navigating both salsa and the electric saw, climbed an iceberg and faced a bull, and attained the prestigious degree that helps her advocate for increased access and equity for disabled persons. She does this all, joyfully, using innovations that allow her to move readily through abled spaces as a deaf and blind woman.

Haben accepts no limits to the future of herself or others. With guts, humor, and wisdom, she insists:

Disability is an opportunity for innovation. Inclusion is a choice. Can we build a stronger community and better world for everyone through these ideas? Visit Kepler's on August 21st to join in that hope.

If you are a guest attending this event and need disability accommodations, please contact events@keplers.org at your earliest possible convenience. Please include the name and section in which tickets were purchased, the number of guests attending, and complete information about the accommodations needed, along with a contact number at which you can be reached.

Tickets to Kepler’s Literary Foundation events are not tax-deductible. Tax deductible donations can be made online at keplers.org/donate

The Bay Area Arts Access Collective, The Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State, and The Bind Posse are co-hosting a panel and open conversation in connection to the Asian Art Museum's Access and Inclusion Tasforce and their accessibility efforts.

Program Description: This workshop will explore opportunities and strategies for making exhibitions and museums more accessible for visitors with disabilities at the physical, virtual, and cultural level, with the aim to go beyond compliance and instead celebrate the important perspective disabled people bring to our world. In the last two years, the Asian Art Museum has made such an effort. This event seeks to share lessons learned from the perspective of both Asian Art Museum staff and the disabled community members (The Blind Posse and community workshop participants), whose expertise made this progress possible, while also providing details of access features now available. With an open conversation about the progress made, the challenges faced, and the work ahead, this event seeks to engage arts & culture professionals, arts funders, and enthusiasts, with a call to action for further collaboration and activism to support museums that seek to go beyond compliance. 

Panelists and hosts include:

Allison Wyckoff, Director of External and Community Programs, Asian Art Museum

Andrew Lau, Digital Project Director, Asian Art Museum

Cecile Puretz, Co-Founder of the Bay Area Arts Access Collective (BAAAC), and Access and Community Engagement Manager at The Contemporary Jewish Museum

Deborah Clearwaters, Director of Education and Interpretation, Asian Art Museum

Emily Beitiks, Assistant Director of the Paul. K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State

Georgina Kleege, Author, Access Consultant, and Professor at UC Berkeley

Indra Mungal, Senior Educator for Public Programs, Asian Art Museum

Josh Halstead, Design Educator and Disability Advocate

Stanley Yarnell, Founder of the Blind Posse

And additional Disability Community Charrette participants to be announced.

Event Accessibility:

• The event space is accessible to wheelchair-users, those who use mobility devices, and visitors who need to avoid stairs.

• Parking: A white zone for visitor drop-off/pick-up is located on Larkin Street in front of the museum entrance. Limited accessible parking spaces can be found along Fulton and Larkin streets.

• ASL interpretation and CART real-time captioning will be available

• Wheelchair-accessible restrooms are located on every level.

• Welcoming environment for service animals.

• Scent-Free Event: All BAAAC events are scent-free; please refrain from wearing products with fragrance such as perfume, cologne and lotion.

To request additional accommodations, please contact the Asian Art Museum ADA Coordinator 415-581-3598 (Relay calls welcome) or communityengagament@asianart.org

For more questions about this program contact Allison Wyckoff awyckoff@asianart.org or 415-581-3666

For more information on accessibility at the Asian Art Museum (including directions, parking, restrooms, and more) visit: http://www.asianart.org/visit/accessibility.

Cost: This event is FREE, please RSVP to save your spot by emailing bayareaartsaccess@thecjm.org or registering through Eventbrite.

Location: Koret Center (1st floor). Volunteers will be positioned at the entrance near the admissions desk to assist with wayfinding.

Image description: Black bold text "Advocating for the Arts: A Panel & Community Spotlight on the Asian Art Museum Access & Inclusion Taskforce." The "Advocating for Access in the Arts" is set against a pink background and the remainder of the title is set against a warm yellow background. Design by Isabelle Smeall.

On June 22, 1999, the Supreme Court held in Olmstead v. L.C. that the segregation of people with disabilities is discrimination, and that people with disabilities have the right to live, work, and thrive in the community. Approaching the 20th anniversary of this monumental decision, we can point to progress and success—but there is still work to be done and conversations to be had.

Come join The Kelsey and Bay Area disability rights leaders Alice Wong, Leroy Moore, John Marble, and Micaela Connery to learn what's working, what's needed, and how you can promote inclusion where you live, work, and play.

They will serve light bites, and beer and wine.

Please reach out to Lindsay at lindsay@thekelsey.org with any questions or accomodations requests. We look forward to seeing you there!

Meet the Panelists

Alice Wong: Alice is a media maker, research consultant, and disability activist based in San Francisco, CA. She is the Founder of the Disability Visibility Project (DVP), an online community dedicated to creating, amplifying, and sharing disability media and culture. Alice is also a co-partner of #CripTheVote, a nonpartisan online movement encouraging the political participation of disabled people with Gregg Beratan and Andrew Pulrang. Alice is the editor of an upcoming anthology of essays by disabled people, Disability Visibility, coming out summer 2020 by Vintage Books.

You can find Alice on Twitter @SFdirewolf and @DisVisibility or https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/

Leroy F. Moore Jr.: Founder of the Krip-Hop Nation. Since the 1990s, has written the column "Illin-N-Chillin" for POOR Magazine. Moore is one of the founding member of National Black Disability and activist around police brutality against people with disabilities. Leroy has started and helped started organizations like Disability Advocates of Minorities Organiztion to Sins Invalid to Krip-Hop Nation. His cultural work includes film documentary, Where Is Hope, Police Brutality Against People with Disabilities, spoken-word CDs, poetry books and children’s book, Black Disabled Art History 101 published by Xochitl Justice Press. His upcoming graphic novel, Krip-Hop Graphic Novel Issue 1: Brown Disabled Young Woman Super Hereo Brings Disability Justice to Hip- Hop will be publish by Poor Press 2019. Moore has traveled internationally networking with other disabled activists and artists. More has wrote, sang and collaborated to do music videos on Black disabled men.

You can find Leory on Twitter @kriphopnation or www.kriphopnation.com

John Marble: From working in warehouses to inside the White House, John is someone who constantly questions and explores how we can improve systems in order to create better products, policy, and outcomes. John is passionate about research, innovation, diversity, and communicating complex ideas in a way that is easily understood by stakeholders and the public. From researching anti-poaching efforts alongside park rangers in the eastern Congo to being shipwrecked on an island for three days, he's also a bit of an adventurer. His curiosity and love of research has taken him around the world to better understand conflict resolution and disparate societies. ​ John began his career as a journalist before transitioning into communications, research, and strategy. For most of the past eight years, he has served as a White House Presidential Appointee in the administration of President Barack Obama. There, he used his skills to identify patterns and problems on workforce and diversity issues as well as their solutions.

He is a Co-Founder of the Autism Advantage program which recruits, trains, places, and supports autistic talent in the technology sector and beyond. He is autistic.

You can find John on Twitter @JHMarble or www.pivotdiversity.com

Micaela Connery: Inspired by her cousin Kelsey, Micaela has worked on inclusion in communities her entire life. She has seen firsthand the housing shortage adults with developmental disabilities and their families face. She is CEO and Founder of The Kelsey, which exists to turn the challenge of disability housing into the opportunity of an inclusive community. The Kelsey is developing a fully inclusive mixed ability, mixed income community in San Jose with $11 million in city funding committed, are a finalist for a second site in San Francisco, and received seed funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to support its organizing, advocacy, and community building efforts across the Bay Area.

Prior to The Kelsey, Micaela was the Founder and CEO of Unified Theater.

You can find Micaela on Twitter @MicaelaConnery and www.thekelsey.org