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Office Hours:
258 Kirby Student Center
Mon - Fri 8 am - 4:30 pm
Phone: 218-726-6130
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AFA - Access For All
This month sponsoring BOLD Choice Theatre and AAAWD (Arrowhead Alliance for Artists with Disabilities) on Tuesday, February 7 at 1:00 p.m. in Kirby Ballroom!
Access for All is a student organization dedicated to promoting disability awareness on campus and around the community. Anyone can join! You don't need a disability in order to join AFA. As long as you are interested in learning about disabilities and working on disability issues you're more than welcome to attend!
As a member of AFA you will gain leadership experience, activism skills, and a deeper understanding of disabilities and issues surrounding them. Our hope is that you will also meet like-minded individuals and have lots of fun as well.
Purpose:
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To promote campus awareness of disabilities, disability issues, and worked to dispel the many misconceptions associated with disabilities
To increase and support diversity at UMD
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To create a strong social network for students with disabilities
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To create leadership opportunities for students with disabilities
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To develop a coalition of students with and without disabilities to promote disabilities issues
Calendar of Events (Spring 2009)
Independence |
Integration |
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| Day | Date | Time | Location | Event |
| Wednesday | January 21 | 3:30 - 5:00 | KSC 273B | Train Your Brain: "The Notebook" |
| Tues. & Wed. | Jan. 27 & 28 | 11:00 - 2:00 | Kirby Commons | Egg Roll Sale |
| Wednesday | January 28 | 3:30 - 5:00 | KSC 268 | AFA Kick-Off! |
| Wednesday | February 4 | 3:30 - 5:00 | KSC 268 | AFA Meeting |
| Wednesday | February 11 | 3:30 - 5:00 | K273B | Train Your Brain: Epilepsy: One in One Hundred Kids |
| Tuesday | February 17 | 1:00 | Kirby Ballroom | Bold Choice Theatre* Presenting: Romeo and Juliet with AAAWD Art Show |
| Wednesday | February 18 | 3:30 - 5:00 | KSC 268 | AFA Meeting: Epilepsy: A Closer Look |
| Tues. & Wed. | Feb, 24 & 25 | 11:00 - 2:00 | Kirby Commons | Egg Roll Sale |
| Wednesday | February 25 | 3:30 - 5:00 | KSC 268 | AFA Meeting |
| Wednesday | March 4 | 3:30 - 5:00 | KSC 268 | AFA Meeting: Cochlear Implants: A Closer Look |
| Wednesday | March 11 | 3:30 - 5:00 | K273B | Train Your Brain: Sweet Nothing in my Ear |
| Wednesday. | April 1 | 3:30 - 5:00 | KSC 268 | AFA Meeting: MS: A Closer Look |
| Wednesday | April 8 | 3:30 - 5:00 | K273B | Train Your Brain: But You Still Look So Well |
| Tues. & Wed. | April 14 & 15 | 11:00 - 2:00 | Kirby Commons | Egg Roll Sale |
| Wednesday | April 22 | 3:30 - 5:00 | KSC 268 | Student Panel |
| Wednesday | May 6 | 3:30 - 5:00 | KSC 268 | Last AFA Meeting - End of Semester Get Together |
Peer Advisors:
| Marilyn Simerson-Wallfred Peer Advisor simer011@umn.edu |
Kristy Seaver |
Maddie Besta Peer Advisor jbesta001@umn.edu |
Penny Cragun Faculty Advisor pcragunr@umn.edu |
*BOLD-choice Theatre Company(Battling Obstacles Living with Disabilities)
BOLD-choice Theatre Company is an Outreach Theatre Company that creates and tours disability awareness theatre productions. It provides a unique style of theatre performance that exposes community and student audiences to the talents of individuals with disabilities.
Arrowhead Alliance of Artists With Disabilities (AAAWD) Our Mission is to promote awareness, standing, community, and opportunity for artists with disabilities in the Arrowhead region of Minnesota. For more information see their blogspot: http://aaawd.blogspot.com/
Photos from UMD's Ice Sculpture Tribute to the FDR (Frankleen D. Roosevelt) Memorial Statue
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Monday, 09-Mar-2009 15:25:36 CDT