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Join Me Sunday For a Free Event for Realabilities, NYC’s First Annual Disability Film Festival!

September 12, 2008


This movie poster is for SHAMELESS: The ART of Disability, a film that is being included as part of Realabilities, the first annual New York City disabilities film festival dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of people with different disabilities. The festival will present award winning films in various locations throughout New York City.

As a person with a disability, I am very excited about this new festival and hope that it will bring together both people with disabilities and others in our shared community to discuss and appreciate the diversity of the human experience.

I was honored to be asked to participate in the kick-off event for the festival, being held in my district on Roosevelt Island. This is especially appropriate because Roosevelt Island is home to many people with disabilities, and as a planned community, it boasts some of the most accessible public spaces in New York City. I will participate in a discussion after the film about individual and shared societal beliefs and views about disability in today’s society.

Joining me in that discussion will be Claude Ritman (Executive Director, Coler-Goldwater Hospital) and Virginia Granato (President, Roosevelt Island Disabled Association).

I hope you join me for this free event!

Sunday, September 14
1:30 PM
Goldwater Memorial Hospital
1 Main Street
Roosevelt Island

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Written by Micah · Filed Under Blogroll, Community, Events, Roosevelt Island 

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