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CUNY Graduate Certificate in Disability Studies and the JFK, Jr. Institute for Worker Education Presents:
Disability Through a Whole New Lens: A Conversation with Lawrence Carter-Long
When: Thursday March 1 @ 6:30 pm
Where: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, 9th Floor, Skylight Room
Free and open to the public. Refreshments served.
For more information call: 646.344.7316
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With increasing visibility and new possibilities for social mobility, disability rights advocates, educators and allies have unprecidented opportunities to reshape public perception of disability. By drawing on true-life experience and success stories, this interactive symposium will explore innovative ways to use media and the arts to challenge prevailing stereotypes and outmoded ideas. Join us for an exciting discusson detailing how community events, media opportunities (including interviews) and unique projects like the disTHIS! Film Series are being used to shift attention toward more strategically useful and interesting ideas about disability.
With increasing visibility and new possibilities for social mobility, disability rights advocates, educators and allies have unprecidented opportunities to reshape public perception of disability. By drawing on true-life experience and success stories, this interactive symposium will explore innovative ways to use media and the arts to challenge prevailing stereotypes and outmoded ideas. Join us for an exciting discusson detailing how community events, media opportunities (including interviews) and unique projects like the disTHIS! Film Series are being used to shift attention toward more strategically useful and interesting ideas about disability.
About the speaker: Lawrence Carter-Long is the Founder and Curator of the groundbreaking disTHIS! FILM SERIES (http://disthis.org) and the Director of Advocacy for the DISABILITIES NETWORK OF NYC. He is a producer of WBAI's LARGEST MINORITY radio show, where he reports on disability arts, culture and community. As a commentator, Lawrence hasaddressesed difficult issues ranging from the best and worst depictions of disability in media to the recent Ashley X controversy and the MDA Telethon on NBC's THE TODAY SHOW, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO and CNN, among others For over 15 years, he has facilitated workshops on effective communications and presented lectures across the nation on diverse topics ranging from media relations to disability rights to animal advocacy.
Directions: The CUNY Graduate Center is located on Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets, the building is two blocks east of Penn Station, one block east of Herald Square, and two blocks west of the 33rd Street and Park Avenue station. The closest subway station, located at 34th Street and Avenue of the Americas, is served by the B, D, F, N, R, and Q trains. Click here for a dynamic map courtesy of Mapquest, or here for a map courtesy of Yahoo. Penn Station is served at 7th Avenue by the 1,2,3, and 9 IRT trains, as well as the A, C, and E lines at the 8th Avenue station which is located one block west.
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