What we once thought were disabilities, we now understand to be blessings.
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The 14th ReelAbilities Film Festival is at the JCC Manhattan in the Upper West Side, April 7-13, 2022.
The Disability Pride festival is expected to return in July 2022.
Disability Festivals in NYC
The ReelAbilities Film Festival and Disability Pride Parade are some of NYC’s big Disability celebrations.
The US Open tennis grand slam is also a wheelchair tennis championship.
Celebrate World Autism Awareness Day!
Saturday, April 2, 2022 🇺🇳
Honor Babalú-Ayé, the Orisha of Epidemics and Healing
Saturday, December 17, 2022
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Battery Dance Festival 2021 Brings the World of Dance to NYC
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Thursday-Saturday, August 12-14, 2021
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ROBERT F. WAGNER PARK
Battery Park City
Sunday-Friday, August 15-20, 2021
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Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland” Makes History at the Oscars 2021 Academy Awards
AWARDS 🎞🏆 ABC7, Sunday, April 25, 2021
NOMINATIONS Monday, March 15 🇫🇷🇷🇴🇹🇳
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US Open Grand Slam 2020 Champions Naomi Osaka & Dominic Thiem
August 31 to September 13, 2020
USTA BILLIE JEAN KING NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
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The 39th Battery Dance Festival goes Virtual for 2020
Friday, August 14-22, 2020
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African, Indian, Middle Eastern, Romanian, French, Greek, Japanese, Women’s, LGBT, Indigenous, Mexican and Disability dance
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Summer Streets 2019
Sat, August 3, 10 & 17, 2019
MANHATTAN ~ Seven miles of city streets become a long pedestrian mall with rest stops that offer free African, Brazilian, Disability, French, Indigenous, Mexican, Peruvian and Puerto Rican entertainment and family activities
Dominican Film Festival New York 2019
July 23-28, 2019
NEW YORK CITY
See the best new movies made in the Dominican Republic and by the Dominican diaspora, and network and party with Dominican filmmakers
Show your pride at the 2019 Disability Pride Parade and Festival
Sunday, July 14, 2019
UNION SQUARE, NYC ~ Parade down Broadway from Madison Square to the Disability Pride Festival at Union Square
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Dance on Camera Festival 2019
Fri-Mon, July 12-15, 2019
LINCOLN CENTER, NYC ~ The world’s longest-running dance film festival is screening Cuban, Disability, French and Spanish dance films
ReelAbilities Film Festival NY 2018
MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN, UPPER WEST SIDE, Thu-Wed, March 8-14, 2018 ~ Inspiring movies about Brazilian, Colombian, Italian, & Catalan-Spanish people with different abilities
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Previously in Disability NYC
All-blind band Los Ciegos del Barrio plays Latin rhythms for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Thu, Oct 28 at 9:30pm & 11:30pm. $10
The Yorùbá Story of Obatala
In parts of Africa, including Ancient Egypt, disability is considered to be a connection with the divine. The Yorùbá story of Obatala, the creator of humankind, is wonderful.
Yorùbá are a people of Western Nigeria, Benin and Togo. The Yorùbá form of West African/Central African culture is widespread across the Americas. It’s even become part of U.S. culture in the blues, country music, some children’s stories, and many other ways.
The Obatala story goes something like this. Olodumare, the one supreme god (same as Judaism, Christianity and Islam), gave Obatala the task of creating people. From the clay of the Earth, Obatala created humankind in his own image. Tiring, he drank some palm wine to refresh himself, but got drunk. When he woke up, Obatala realized he had made some people who were not perfect. In remorse, Obatala promised not to drink palm wine and to protect those who he created.
Love conquers all and the gift of disability is love.