Disability Awareness Day Miami Beach

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Starting October 20th, 2010 - Miami Beach

Mission Statement

To exhibit the Ability of People with disabilities.
It’s about our Ability, and not our disability.

Provide viable solutions for challenges, whether physical, visual, hearing or intellectual.

Display our talents, which extend deeply into our Hearts, and Souls.

See our Skills.

Feel our Humanness…Our Passions, our Loves.

See us Laugh, and Laugh with us.

See us Cry, and Understand that we don’t want pity.

Expand the minds of those in our community…
Because we are people, and not a disability.

In our dreams, we are just like you:

We can see the ocean…
We can walk the beach…
We can hear the waves…
and we can think clearly.

In our waking hours, we’re also like you. But, you may not know how. We want you to understand what we have, and not fear what we don’t have.

Gather all of us together to share our experience.

*Visit here the Disability Awareness Day Memorial Website .

Schedule

*American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreters will be represented at all of the events scheduled through out the day.

“Lights Out Miami Beach”
(A Dining in the dark experience)
10-20-2010
All over Miami Beach

Celebrity Masquerade Gala and Fashion Show Extravaganza
10-23-2010
Location to be announced

Art Exhibition at the Resource and Technology Expo
10-22-2010 to 10-23-2010
Miami Beach Convention Center
11:00am to 4:00pm

Crunch 5k Run
10-23-2010
13th and Washington Ave., Miami Beach
8:30am

Resource and Technology Expo at the Convention Center
10-22-2010 to 10-23-2010
11:00am to 4:00pm

Taping of Cooking without Looking TV show
Location to be announced

Taping of Traveling without Trouble TV show
Location to be announced

Education Simulation and Children’s Events
At the Resource and Technology Expo
Miami Beach Convention Center
10-22-2010 to 10-23-2010
11:00am to 4:00pm

Music Symposium
10-19-2010
The Colony Theater
Lincoln Road, Miami Beach
8:00pm

Comedy Festival
10-21-2010
The Colony Theater
Lincoln Road, Miami Beach
8:00pm

Business Luncheon
10-22-2010
Alexander Hotel
57th and Collins, Miami Beach

Regatta
10-24-2010
Location to be announced

Celebrity Sports Exhibition Game
Location to be Announced

About D.A.C.

The purpose of the City's Disability Access Committee (DAC) is to review, formulate, and coordinate information, suggestions, proposals, and plans, and to address complaints from the general public to provide more conveniently accessible facilities, public buildings, streets, sidewalks, and programs for the persons with disabilities in the City. The Committee is consulted with in terms of prioritization of accessibility-related improvements to City facilities.

The priorities are in terms of both the order of which facilities to modify, and also the particular improvements to each respective facility. The Committee may provide accessibility-related input to the following City departments: building services, recreation, culture and parks, police and code compliance on behalf of persons with disabilities residing in or visiting the City of Miami Beach.

The DAC is composed of seven voting members who are direct appointees by the Mayor and City Commissioners. Consideration shall be given, but not limited to, the following categories: persons having mobility impairment; deaf and/or hard-of-hearing persons in the community; blind and/or vision-impaired persons in the community; mental, cognitive or developmental disabilities; and the industries of tourism and convention, retail, hospitality (restaurant or hotel), and health care (or rehabilitation).

Miami Beach Disability Access Committee official page