Archive: May 2007
Audience Development Opportunity
Wheelchair Dancer gave me this link in response to the entry about accessibility at Buell Theater below. Here’s what hit me right between the eyes:
Increasing your accessibility is an audience development opportunity — not a costly, facility retro-fitting, capital project. The gains far outweigh the costs. One in five persons have a disability - that’s [...]
Evening out at the Buell Theater
For my daughter, since she expects me to write about this:
To the House Manager, Buell Theater:
I attended Wicked at the Buell on Wednesday, May 23rd. I am a wheelchair user. I want to express my disappointment with my experience, beginning with purchasing the tickets.
An examination of your seating chart shows that very few orchestra seats [...]
Like Schumacher, after the bus
Christiane vs the bus:
It was the White City stop, the same story as yesterday. I’m waiting in full sight at the bus stop, holding my hand out towards the street, clearly signalling to the driver that I want to get on. And just like yesterday, the driver leaves me standing there.
I practically exploded with anger. [...]
Roger Ebert tells it like it is
Via The 19th Floor, movie critic Roger Ebert:
I have received a lot of advice that I should not attend the festival. I’m told that paparazzi will take unflattering pictures, people will be unkind, etc.
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I was told photos of me in this condition would attract the gossip papers. So what?
I have been very sick, am [...]
Stairs in the News
A new stair-climbing wheelchair: TopChair.
Topchair is a brand new powered wheelchair (and concept) that enables its drivers to easily be able to climb and descend stairs, steps and other obstacles - all of this in addition to having similar performance to an industry leading powered wheelchair on the road or at home.
(http://marketplace.sibaya.com/2007/05/18/topchair-stair-climbing-wheelchair-ready-for-commercialization/)
From Wheelchair Diffusion, a [...]
Everyone’s welcome, pee before you come
I’m like a broken record, discovering the same thing over and over again.
Tonight we rehearsed at Boulder Seventh Day Adventist Church. Inadequate parking, overly steep ramp, no flat area in front of the door, four steps up to to the chancel, no accessible restroom. Pee before you come.
I dug back into old email from when [...]
For Mother’s Day - The Lanyard
I have been feeling pretty guilty in the mother department recently; hearing Billy Collins read this on A Prairie Home Companion helped a lot:
The Lanyard
Billy Collins
The other day as I was ricocheting slowly
off the pale blue walls of this room,
bouncing from typewriter to piano,
from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,
I found myself in [...]
Multiple Sclerosis Postcard Blog
Multiple Sclerosis Postcard Blog - some serious talent out there:
Image description: a postcard. The background is a few strands of grass with drops of water clinging to them. A picture of a Drill Sergeant’s hat sits at the top. The words read:
I have become my own drill sergeant
Calling a cadence in my head
one step
no [...]
Mating dance
Orbital Express duo split apart, rejoin autonomously
A mission to test satellite servicing techniques took a giant leap forward in a 300-mile-high space ballet Saturday, when two spacecraft separated, spent an hour flying in tight formation, and automatically docked together again.
Woo-hoo! I wasn’t actually there at the time (yes, they do let me come home occasionally), [...]
Rolling the Labyrinth
This is cool:
Nuns open wheelchair accessible labyrinth
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