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<h1 class="govd_header" style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 30px; margin: 0.67em 0 20px;">September at a Glance</h1>
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<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0px;">Talking Book Corner, with our teen volunteer, Layla Stephens</li>
<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px;">Art Enables at 25 exhibit opening coming in October!</li>
<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px;">Accessible movie screening of<em> The Mandalorian and Grogu </em>
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<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px;">NFB-Newsline available for blind and low vision readers to access newspapers and magazines from around the world</li>
<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px;">ASL Book Club virtual meeting on Wednesday, September 23</li>
<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px;">Other accessible events around town including an ASL Interpreted Job Fair, Employment First Summit, Latine Conference, and Voting Accessibility Summit!</li>
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<h1 class="govd_header" style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 30px; margin: 0.67em 0 20px;">*New* Talking Book Corner!</h1>
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<h2 style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.2; color: #035C67; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 22px; margin: 0.83em 0 18px;" align="center">Book Review by Layla Stephens<br>Teen Volunteer, Center for Accessibility</h2>
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<em>Bravo: Poems About Amazing Hispanics<br></em>By Margarita Engle </h3>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;"><strong>NLS Talking Book Number: DB88894</strong></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;"><strong>Age range: All ages</strong></p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Do you need inspiration or a pick-me-up? Check out <em>Bravo: Poems About Amazing Hispanics</em> by Margarita Engle. Bravo is an 18-poem collection of lesser known Hispanic or Latino people who made a difference in the world. It is only 39 minutes long, but it is motivational and uplifting. It also has great imagery, metaphors, and similes. You will learn about multiple famous teachers, poets, activists who fought against slavery and for equal rights for women, even a soldier at Yorktown who helped cure scurvy, and more. I love how none of these people gave up despite them being poor, despite them being persecuted, discriminated against, and hurt, they still chose to try to make a difference. They put in their blood, sweat, and tears trying to make the world a better place. We really owe them credit and recognition.<br><br></p>
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<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0px;">Find in the <a href="https://links-2.govdelivery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fsearch.nlscatalog.loc.gov%2Finstances%2F24b92a77-2c70-5860-b627-d8819adcbd8b%3Foption=keyword%26query=bravo%2520margarita/1/010101a05e2f8252-f83d9eb8-92ca-422e-9adb-63902a6b42cc-000000/C9ZKguKFBdrEdYnsHynaxOCJb0xT5BbT7SeuivNeGts=452" target="_blank" title="Bravo Poems about Amazing Hispanics NLS catalog link" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #1D5782;">NLS online catalog</a>
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<a href="https://links-2.govdelivery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fwww.dclibrary.org%2Fusing-the-library%2Fdc-talking-book-and-braille-program-nls/1/010101a05e2f8252-f83d9eb8-92ca-422e-9adb-63902a6b42cc-000000/J2dwvW5ISArTXyX6STUdL8F3veByiGgwbJdyTlMFKkQ=452" target="_blank" title="NLS DC website" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #1D5782;">DC NLS readers</a> can check out <em>Bravo: Poems About Amazing Hispanics </em>on the BARD app or request it on a cartridge by calling 202-727-2142 or emailing DCPLaccess@dc.gov</li>
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<h1 class="govd_header" style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 30px; margin: 0.67em 0 20px;">Grounding Our Dreams, Dreaming New Ground: Art Enables at 25!</h1>
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<h3 style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.2; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 17px; margin: 0 0 17px;" align="center"><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Wednesday, October 7, 5:30-7:30 p.m.<br>MLK Library, 5th Floor, Event Space, Circulation Space</span></h3>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Join us for an opening reception to celebrate the exhibit <strong>Grounding Our Dreams, Dreaming New Ground: Art Enables at 25</strong>, on view on the fifth floor of the MLK Library through January 18, 2027.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 1em 0 0px;"><strong>About the Exhibit: <em>Grounding Our Dreams/Dreaming New Ground: Art Enables at 25</em> </strong></p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Art Enables supports the creative and professional growth of artists with disabilities. The organization is driven by the knowledge that Washington, D.C.\u2019s relationship to the arts is made richer, more complex, and more urgent because artists with disabilities are here, creating. </p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">In 2026, Art Enables celebrates its 25th anniversary at the same time America celebrates its 250th. In this context, as D.C.\u2019s only studio and gallery representing artists with disabilities, Art Enables is thrilled to present <em>Grounding Our Dreams / Dreaming New Ground</em> in collaboration with the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, an institution core to the city\u2019s cultural identity. The exhibition <em>Grounding Our Dreams / Dreaming New Ground</em> explores a dual reality: the grounded, lived experiences of individuals with disabilities in context with the drive to dream toward something new. These two concepts \u2014 the quotidian and the imagined, the what is and the what could be \u2014 exist together, often showing up explicitly in the artists\u2019 bodies of work as various dualities. Past and future. Earth and sky. Confinement and expansiveness. Shadow and highlight. </p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">At this event, artists and representatives from Art Enables will gather for an informal tour and celebration of the new exhibit. Light refreshments will be served. This event, and the DC Public Library Art and Exhibits Program, are made possible in part with support from the DC Public Library Foundation.</p>
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<h3 style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 17px; margin: 0 0 17px;">Saturday, September 19, 1:30 p.m.<br>Room 401-E</h3>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">With audio description and open captions</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Rated: PG-13</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Run Time: 2 hours, 12 minutes</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">*Sensory note: Loud sounds, large crowds, flashing lights</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">To request other reasonable accommodation for this program, please contact <a href="mailto:DCPLaccess@dc.gov" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #1D5782;">DCPLaccess@dc.gov</a> or call 202-727-2142.</p>
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<h3 style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 17px; margin: 0 0 17px;">Saturdays, September 19, October 17, November 14, December 12<br>3:30 \u2013 5 p.m.<br>Center for Accessibility, Room 205-B</h3>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 1em 0 0px;">Play accessible versions of board and card games such as Uno, Bananagrams, chess, and more with the Center for Accessibility!</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Boards and cards are tactile and include braille labelling and other accommodations for low-vision and blind players.</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">To request a reasonable accommodation for this program, please contact DCPLaccess@dc.gov or call 202-727-2142.</p>
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<h3 style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 17px; margin: 0 0 17px;">Mondays, September 14, 21, and 28<br>4-4:30 pm<br>MLK-Children's Amphitheatre</h3>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 1em 0 0px;">This early childhood play program provides children with and without intellectual disabilities the same opportunities to advance in core developmental milestones through fun activities. Through play, children develop important skills for learning, like sharing, taking turns, and following directions.</p>
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<h3 style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 17px; margin: 0 0 17px;">Saturday, October 17<br>10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.<br>Lamond-Riggs Neighborhood Library</h3>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">We have a variety of toys and themed activities so kids can play and create while families socialize and learn about local resources. Each session opens with a themed story time at 10:30 and closes out with a dance party.</p>
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<h3 style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 17px; margin: 0 0 17px;">Saturdays, October 31 and December 12<br>10:30 a.m.<br>Chevy Chase Neighborhood Library</h3>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 1em 0 0px;">All children and their families are invited to this fun story time, packed with sensory-friendly activities designed to be enjoyed by children of all abilities, including those on the autism spectrum.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">We will read a story, sing songs, and dance. Children and their grownups are encouraged to actively engage and participate with the stories and activities during the program in ways that work best for them.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">This can include moving around the room instead of sitting down, communicating with AAC devices, and more!</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">October 31<sup>st</sup> is Halloween! Families are encouraged to come in costume!</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">December 12<sup>th</sup> we will have a fun Winter theme. </p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Content is designed for children ages 2-8, but children of all ages are welcome to attend with a caregiver.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Online registration is required as space is limited. If you have any questions or would like to request a reasonable accommodation, please contact DCPLaccess@dc.gov.</p>
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<h3 style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 17px; margin: 0 0 17px;">Mondays, October 5 and 19<br>4-4:30 p.m.<br>MLK- Children's Amphitheatre</h3>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 1em 0 0px;">All children and their families are invited to this fun story time, packed with sensory-friendly activities designed to be enjoyed by children of all abilities, including those on the autism spectrum. </p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Content is designed\u202ffor\u202fchildren ages 0-5, but children of all ages are welcome to attend with a caregiver. </p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Online registration is required\u202ffor\u202feach program, as space is limited. If you have any questions or would like to request a reasonable accommodation, please contact DCPLaccess@dc.gov </p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 1em 0 0px;">We sign and vocalize our stories and songs. No knowledge of ASL is needed! These fun story times are for kids ages 2-5 with caregiver. </p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.2; color: #035C67; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 22px; margin: 0 0 18px;" align="left">Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library:</h2>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Unless otherwise noted, all ASL Story Times at MLK Library during 2026 will be held on the following Mondays at 11 a.m. in the Children's Room on the 2nd Floor!</p>
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<li style="text-align: left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0px;">September 14</li>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">ASL interpreters will be present. For other reasonable accommodations, contact DCPLaccess@dc.gov or 202-727-2142.</p>
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<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0px;">Wednesday, September 16, 11:30 a.m. - Southwest Library</li>
<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px;">Tuesday, September 22, 11:00 a.m. - Northeast Library</li>
<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px;">Tuesday, October 20, 11:00 a.m. - Northeast Library</li>
<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px;">Wednesday, October 21, 11:30 a.m. - Southwest Library</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.2; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 17px; margin: 0 0 17px;" align="left">Thursday, <span class="marky2f6owj5m" data-markjs="true" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsbtc="" data-ogsbrc="" data-ogsbbc="" data-ogsblc="">September</span> 3, <br>7-8 p.m.<br>Virtual Discussion via Zoom</h3>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 1em 0 0px;">The topic for September will be "Introducing the Web Player." After the presentation and demonstration, the session leaders will take your questions about all things BARD for the remainder of the hour.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 1em 0 0px;">NFB-Newsline is a free service for blind and low vision people. The service includes 450 newspapers from across the country and around the world. It has a wide variety of 50 magazines. Along with these, it contains T.V. listings, department store circulars, weather reports and job listings.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">There is also a DC Information Channel that provides local and national announcements as well as newsletters of special interest to the blind and print disabled community.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">NFB-Newsline can be accessed using an iOS Mobile App, online via a computer, a touch-tone phone, an Amazon Echo, or the Victor Reader Stream.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Anyone who is blind or low vision is eligible to sign up for NFB-Newsline. If you are interested in doing so, or you would like more information, please email:</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Kathy Gosselin at Nfb.newsline@dc.gov or call the Center for Accessibility, at 202-727-2142.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">If you are a Washington DC resident, Kathy will fill out the NFB-Newsline application with you and sign you up. If you are a resident of another state, she will tell you who to contact to sign up.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">NFB-Newsline is a great resource for news and information. Kathy encourages</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">you to subscribe, and looks forward to hearing from you!</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Kathy Gosselin</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">NFB-Newsline Administrator for Washington, DC</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Nfb.newsline@dc.gov</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.2; color: #035C67; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 22px; margin: 0.83em 0 18px;" align="center">ASL Book Club</h2>
<h3 style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.2; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 17px; margin: 0 0 17px;" align="center">Next Meeting: Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at 6 p.m.<br>Virtual Program</h3>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Do you love to read and talk about books? Are you interested in participating in an online book discussion in American Sign Language? If so, this book club is for YOU! Come join us for an ASL Book Club on Zoom every other month on a Wednesday evening from 6-7 p.m. ET.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">The ASL Book Club is facilitated by librarian Janice Rosen from the Center for Accessibility.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;"><strong>Our September title is <em>Tom Lake: a novel</em> by Ann Patchett </strong></p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;"><strong>Abstract:</strong></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;"><strong>The book is available in the DCPL collection in the following formats</strong>:</p>
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<h2 style="line-height: 1.2; color: #035C67; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 22px; margin: 0 0 18px;">Ongoing ASL Classes at Francis A. Gregory Library!</h2>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Fun, informal, inclusive, interactive, in-person ASL learning at the Francis A. Gregory Library through December 2026!</p>
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<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0px;">Beginning Level: Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m.</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.2; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 17px; margin: 0 0 17px;" align="center">Thursday, September 17, 12:30-4 p.m.<br>Anacostia Library, 1800 Marion Barry Ave SE</h3>
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<h1 class="govd_header" style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 30px; margin: 0.67em 0 20px;">DC\u2019s 2026 Employment First Summit\u202f</h1>
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<h2 style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.2; color: #035C67; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 22px; margin: 0 0 18px;" align="left">Wednesday, October 7, 2026<br>9:30 a.m. \u2013 3 p.m.<br>MLK Library</h2>
<p style="text-align: left; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;" align="left"><span data-contrast="auto" data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody" style="line-height: 1.4;">The Summit will offer an engaging and enriching experience filled with practical skills, valuable resources, networking opportunities, creative and interactive learning, and ideas for building more inclusive workplaces. This event welcomes people with disabilities of all ages, family members, service providers, advocates, educators, policymakers, employers, District government staff, and community leaders. Together, you will learn, celebrate successes, and build connections that help both employers and people with disabilities.\u202f</span></p>
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<h1 class="govd_header" style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 30px; margin: 0.67em 0 20px;">8th\u202fAnnual Latine Conference for People with Disabilities\u202f </h1>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;"><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody" style="line-height: 1.4;"><strong>TIME: </strong>12 to\u202f4 p.m.</span></p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;"><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody" style="line-height: 1.4;">You will have the opportunity to learn about services, resources and supports available to people with disabilities and their families in DC.</span></p>
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<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px;">Health and Wellness Resources</li>
<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px;">Food</li>
<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px;">Book Bags</li>
<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px;">Games</li>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">The event will be held in Spanish with ASL and English interpretation available at no cost. If you need accommodations or have any questions, please contact Carla McCaskill at (202) 710-3049 or carla.mccaskill@dc.gov</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.2; color: #035C67; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 22px; margin: 0.83em 0 18px;" align="center">Voting Accessibility & Language Access Summit<br>Saturday, September 19, 2026<br>12 - 3 p.m.</h2>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">In recognition of Disability Voting Rights Week, this free event will provide information and resources to help ensure every eligible voter can confidently access the voting process.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">DC Board of Elections</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">1015 Half Street, SE, 7<sup>th</sup> Floor</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Washington, DC 20003</p>
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<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0px;">Learn about voting rights and available accommodations</li>
<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px;">Explore language access services</li>
<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px;">Receive a demonstration of the Ballot Marking Device (BMD)</li>
<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px;">Have the opportunity to register to vote</li>
<li style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px;">Connect with Board of Elections staff and accessibility resources</li>
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<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;"><strong>NEED AN ACCOMMODATION?</strong></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">If you require an accommodation or language interpretation services, please contact:</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">Kenia Flores</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">ADA and Language Coordinator</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;"><a href="mailto:kflores@dcboe.org" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #1D5782;">kflores@dcboe.org</a></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.4; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 15px; margin: 0 0 0px;">202-617-9708</p>
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