What we once thought were disabilities, we now know to be blessings. The ReelAbilities Film Festival and Disability Pride Parade are New York City’s big Disability celebrations.
Celebrate Obatalá, Orisha Who Created Humans
Thursday, September 24, 2020 AFRICAN DIASPORA
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Honor Babalú-Ayé, Orisha of the Sick
Thursday, December 17, 2020 SANTIAGO DE LAS VEGAS, Cuba
Naomi Osaka & Dominic Thiem Win US Open Grand Slam 2020
August 31 to September 13, 2020 USTA BILLIE JEAN KING NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens Naomi Osaka 🇭🇹 🇯🇵 🇺🇸 Dominic Thiem 🇦🇹 – 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇸🇻 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇵🇷 🇷🇴 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇺🇸
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The 39th Battery Dance Festival goes Virtual for 2020
Friday, August 14-22, 2020 YOUTUBE FREE – African, Indian, Middle Eastern, Romanian, French, Greek, Japanese, Women’s, LGBT, Indigenous, Mexican and Disability dance
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Victoria Elena Ferreyra Turns Quarantine Tears into Butterflies (Interview)
Thursday, July 9, 2020 🇦🇷 by María Veronica Cabeza
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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 #JEWISH #DISABILITIES #FILMFESTIVAL
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 love is the gift of disability.