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What we once thought were disabilities, we now understand to be blessings.

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AXIS Dance Company: Roots Above Ground streams Disability Dance from The Joyce in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Dec 7-12. Free. joyce.org 🇺🇸

Coming Soon

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.

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

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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.

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