Speaking Advocates: Summer Daze
AGE Building 3710 Cedar Street, Room 101, Austin, TX, United StatesJoin the Speaking Advocates this month to share summertime adventure stories. Anything from childhood summer camp to exciting vacations and more!
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Call for Art: Opulent Mobility 2019
Dora Stern Gallery 544 Freeman St,, City of Orange, NJ, United StatesSubmission deadline: June 30, 2019* Opulent Mobility is accepting artwork that re-imagines disability. Opulent Mobility is accepting 2-D and sculptural artwork, music files, and performances on video/film. The challenge is to imagine a world where mobility, disability, and access are not merely functional, but opulent.
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Call for Art: LEAD Conference Agenda Cover
The Kennedy Center Office of VSA and Accessibility is seeking artwork by artists and designers with disabilities for the cover of the 2019 LEAD® conference agenda book.
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Create Your Story! Writing & Art Workshop for Veterans
Austin VA Outpatient Clinic 7901 Metropolis Dr., Austin, TX, United StatesExpress your story with powerful words and bold colors! Reflect, create and connect to your personal story through freestyle, stream of conscious style writing exercises. Each week you will focus on a different theme and have a piece of writing and a piece of art at the end of each session.
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The Lion and The Pirate Open Mic
Malvern Books 613 W. 29th Street, Austin, TX, United StatesShare a story, poem, song, or other talent in a fun and supportive neighborhood bookstore!
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Create Your Story! Writing & Art Workshop for Veterans
Austin VA Outpatient Clinic 7901 Metropolis Dr., Austin, TX, United StatesExpress your story with powerful words and bold colors! Reflect, create and connect to your personal story through freestyle, stream of conscious style writing exercises. Each week you will focus on a different theme and have a piece of writing and a piece of art at the end of each session.
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Veterans – Ink Stick Project Writing Class
Apache Arts & Craft Center 761st Tank Battalion and 62nd Street, Bldg 2337, Fort Hood, TX, United StatesThis four-week course is designed to help current and prior service members tell their stories. This class will give you the tools to write about your experiences or to express the truths you have learned in a life built on service. We will focus on fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
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Call for Art: Governor’s Committee Poster Competition
Disability Employment Awareness Month is celebrated in Texas every October. The Texas Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities produces a colorful poster for display in businesses, government offices and schools. The posters are intended to spark a conversation about employment of people with disabilities. Artwork for the poster is selected by a submission and judging process and is open to any Texas artist with a disability.
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Stand Up for Mental Health
AGE Building 3710 Cedar Street, Room 101, Austin, TX, United StatesLearn stand-up comedy with comic and counselor, David Granirer. Specifically for people with addiction or mental health issues.
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Body Shift Foundations Class
McBeth Recreation Center 2401 Columbus Dr., Austin, TX, United StatesFoundations is a class for people of all unique mental and physical characteristics. Each class will explore ideas like developing body awareness, non-verbal communication, understanding of time/rhythm and choice making to support students in the discovery of their own movement language. Students will have the opportunity to awaken their creativity, notice habitual movement patterns in order to expand movement possibilities, and have a lot of fun in the process.
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Veterans – Journal Making/Writing Class
Help Heal Veterans 2508 S. 5th St., Temple, TX, United StatesIn this two day class, start by making Journals using handmade paper. Learn the skills to put together your own multi-page journal. Then, in the second week, learn how to make the ideas and pictures inside your head come alive on paper by sharpening your use of color and imagery. You will be led through visualization exercises, easy writing prompts, and useful writing examples to create strong writing by careful word choice and many other effective writing techniques. Discover your own writing style in a relaxed, supportive class atmosphere.
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Veterans – Ink Stick Project Writing Class
Apache Arts & Craft Center 761st Tank Battalion and 62nd Street, Bldg 2337, Fort Hood, TX, United StatesThis four-week course is designed to help current and prior service members tell their stories. This class will give you the tools to write about your experiences or to express the truths you have learned in a life built on service. We will focus on fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.