Program Description In this interactive program, the DisAbility Project
ensemble uses music, dance, sketches and simulation exercises to entertain and educate participants about disability culture and raise awareness of the issues that people living with disability face. This format includes ample time for guided discussion and the opportunity to ask questions about what it means to live with disability.
Now in its 15th season, the DisAbility Project brings awareness and sensitivity to issues of the disability community through a combination of art and advocacy that tours to a variety of audiences. Comprised of adults with and without disabilities, this award-winning theatre ensemble is one of the few projects of its kind in the country, giving individuals of various abilities the opportunity to create material about their own lives and experiences to share with the greater public. The ensemble has performed for an estimated 85,000 people and been written about internationally.
More information about the DisAbility Project can be found at www.uppityco.com/dp.html.
Program Format
1. Welcome and Introduction—Student groups and experts will be introduced and welcomed to the program.
2. Performance and Conversation—Members of the DisAbility Project will perform several skits desgined to provoke questions and discussion about what it means to live with a disability, how to interact with people with a disability, how to create environments of mutual respect for all people.
Students will be able to ask members of the project questions that emerge for them from the skits and to interact in conversation with project members on issues raised in the skits.
3. Non-Dominant Hand Exercise and Discussion—Members of the project will take students through an exercise writing and drawing with their non-dominant hand. A discussion will ensue about how easy or difficult it was to perform the tasks, how it made the students feel to face the difficulties they did, and how this exercise might relate to developing insight about those living with disabilities. An explanation of the activity is included in the preparatory materials for this program.
4. Summary and Closing—The group will perform a final piece then we’ll summarize the major concepts learned today and seek final questions from students.
Objectives 1. The participant will explore issues faced by people living
with a disability.
2. The participant will interact with members of the DisAbility Project to learn from the member’s life experiences and compare those experiences to their own.
National Standards to which this program aligns This program is tied to
your school’s efforts to increase respect for and acceptance of all members of your learning community and not to any specific national curriculum standards. It is designed to increase student awareness about what it is like to live with a disability as part of your school’s character education program, teaching respect for all program, creating a respectful learning environment program, etc.
State/Regional Standards to which this program aligns This program is
tied to your school’s efforts to increase respect for and acceptance of all members of your learning community and not to any specific national curriculum standards. It is designed to increase student awareness about what it is like to live with a disability as part of your school’s character education program, teaching respect for all program, creating a respectful learning environment program, etc.
Program Length 60 minutes
Dates/Times
Program Date Program Time Network Time Registration Deadline
All times below are displayed in Central Standard Time, as specified by the Content Provider.
3/3/2011 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM 02/23/2011
3/3/2011 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM 02/23/2011
Program Fee Notes There is NO CHARGE for this program.
If you'd like to join us for this program, please send an email to live@hectv.org, or call 314.531.4455 and ask for Helen Headrick.
Thank you,
Tim Gore
Interactive Coordinator
HEC-TV
