[NFBNJ] Fw: ADA30 Lead On: Celebration of Disability Arts, Culture, Education & Pride - Thursday July 23 from 7-9:15 ET

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From: DDS Communications
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 11:28 AM
To: NJDDS at LISTSERV.DHS.NJ.GOV
Subject: ADA30 Lead On: Celebration of Disability Arts, Culture, Education & 
Pride - Thursday July 23 from 7-9:15 ET

“ADA30 Lead On: Celebration of Disability Arts, Culture, Education & Pride!”

Join us for this Live Streaming event on July 23, from 7:00-9:15pm ET on 
YouTube & Facebook Live

**Register Free here: ADA30LeadOn.Eventbrite.com

Join host Danny Woodburn & other disability rights leaders, performers, 
artists, singers, dancers, poets, filmmakers and storytellers with 
disabilities.  Thanks to our Lead Sponsor, AT&T.

Appearances include: Tony Award-winner Ali Stroker; Academy Award-winner 
Marlee Matlin; Comedian/performers Maysoon Zayid, Geri Jewell, Kathy 
Buckley, Nic Novicki, Nina G., Andy Arias, Shannon DeVido, Selene Luna, and 
Michael Beer.

Singer-Songwriters - Emmanuel Kelly/NEVER ALONE; Anita Hollander/BODY OF THE 
FIGHTER with ASL Deaf Performer Alexandria Wailes; Elaine Kolb/WE WILL RIDE 
and NOT DEAD YET; Jeff Moyer/ADA ANTHEM; Johnny Crescendo and the Pop 
Squad/PRIDE; and KripHop Nation’s Leroy Moore & Keith Jones/MY ADA STORY 
NEVER ALONE In Memoriam edited by Bus Door Films’ Bradley Gantt and Ruan du 
Plessis with ASL Deaf performers: Michelle Banks, Erika Chirino, CJ Jones, 
Dickie Hearts, Krissy Lemon, and John McGinty.

Dancers - Alice Sheppard’s Kinetic Light/DESCENT; Heidi Latsky Dance/ON 
DISPLAY; Infinite Flow/Marisa Hamamoto and Auti Angel; Alie B. Gorrie, Evan 
Ruggiero, Blake Stadnick; and Full Radius.

Performers and/or ADA30 Birthday greetings by Poet Maria R. Palacios/CRIP 
WORDS OF ADVICE TO A YOUNGER GENERATION; Camryn Manheim and Cole Sibus, CJ 
Jones, RJ Mitte, Christine Bruno, Eileen Grubba, Diana Elizabeth Jordan, 
David Harrell, David Zimmerman, Marilee Talkington, Natalie Gross; Tal 
Anderson, Treshelle Edmond, Jerald Creer, Antoine Hunter, Performing Arts 
Studio West, Jenni Gold, Mark Ozdoba’s Mr. & Mrs. Snowman; SAG-AFTRA’s 
Gabrielle Carteris, Rebecca Damon and Camryn Manheim.

Disability Leaders Senator Tom Harkin, Judith Heumann, Tony Coelho, Haben 
Girma, ADAPT’s Anita Cameron and Heath Montgomery, Maria Town/AAPD, Kelly 
Buckland/NCIL, Jim Weissman/United Spinal, Shaun Castle/PVA, Diane 
Coleman/Not Dead Yet and Dan Fisher/National Coalition for Mental Health 
Recovery.

Government colleague greetings - Neil Romano/Chairman, National Council on 
Disability, Shelley Reeves/NIDILRR-ACL, Charles Baldwin/Mass Cultural 
Council, National Endowment for the Arts’ chairman Mary Anne Carter and 
Accessibility Director, Beth Bienvenu; Governor Tom Ridge; ADA/Mayor’s 
Office for People with Disabilities - Victor Calise/NYC, Stephen David 
Simon/Los Angeles, Nicole Bohn/San Francisco, Rachel Arfa/Chicago, Kristen 
McKosh/Boston, David Newburger/St. Louis, and Rachel Tanenhaus/Cambridge.

Trailers - courtesy of filmmakers: Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newham/CRIP CAMP, 
Day Al-Mohamed/INVALID CORP, Eric Neudel and Alison Gilkey/LIVES WORTH 
LIVING, Yaara Kedem and Isaac Zablocki/ReelAbilities Film Festival NY.

Visual artists - Gina Klawitter/ALL THE WAY TO FREEDOM,  Oaklee 
Thiele-DisArt-Ford Foundation/MY DEAREST FRIENDS, plus Edmonroe and Neil 
Marcus/EvoluTOn of a Movement; Photographs -  Tom Olin/The Tom Olin 
Collection, an AT&T Humanity of Connection recipient.

Sponsor greetings - AT&T’s David Huntley, Bri King-Offord, Abdi Warsame, and 
Yasmine Jonaidi; Rodger DeRose/Kessler Foundation; Nic Novicki/Easterseals 
Disability Film Challenge; Candace Cable/Foundation for Global Sports 
Development and Sidewinder Films; Kathy Martinez/Wells Fargo; Karen 
Goss/Mid-Atlantic ADA Center; and Laura Owens/TransCen.

Accessibility - Open audio description and open captions provided by Woman 
of Her Word and Point 360, audio described by Michele Spitz. Sign Language 
interpreters Mara Bassani-Santamaria and Elena Lee provided by Bill Pugin’s 
The Sign Language Company. CART for planning meetings provided by ACS.

ADA30 Lead On logo designed by Dan Wilkins.

Music Supervisor - Reggie Luck; Editors - Liz Pritchard, Tim Doran, Trelanda 
Lowe, Jd Michaels and Sady Paulson; Writers’ Zoom - Danny Woodburn, Day 
Al-Mohamed, Mark Ozdoba and Tari Hartman Squire; Production & Design - Jd 
Michaels; End credits - Exceptional Minds.

Thanks to Talent Outreach Committees and Allies - Christine Bruno, Kallen 
Blair Prosterman, Andy Arias, Nina G., Alie B. Gorrie, Diana Elizabeth 
Jordan, Nic Novicki, DisArts’ Jill Vyn and Chris Smit, Elisabeth Axel/Art 
Beyond Sight, Beth Bienvenu/NEA; Casting Society of America’s Russell Boast, 
Caroline Liem, Danielle Demchick, Kendra Castleberry, John Ort, Michael 
Sanford, and Stephanie Klapper.

Website Design Team - Dustin Snowadsky, Gina Klawitter, DisArts’ Jill Vyn 
and Chris Smit, Mark Ozdoba. Social Media ADA Generation blogger 
coordinator - Anita Cameron;

Produced and directed by Tari Hartman Squire and Danny Woodburn; Associate 
producer Karen Goss; Production assistants - Emma McElroy, Allilsa 
Fernandez, Candace Cable, and Mark Ozdoba.

We appreciate Yoshiko Dart for blessing our ADA30 Lead On name with Justin 
Dart’s signature phrase, Lead On.

Thanks to our sponsors - AT&T, The Ability Center, Bus Door Films, 
Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, EIN SOF Communications, Exceptional 
Minds, Foundation for Global Sports Development, Kessler Foundation, Lights! 
Camera! Access!, michaels.adams., Mid-Atlantic ADA Center, Mitsubishi 
Electric America Foundation, Mulberry Tree Group, Point 360, TransCen, Wells 
Fargo, Woman of Her Word.

Image description - Two gold comedy and tragedy masks with red and blue 
accessible/lip readable PPE face masks revealing the smile of comedy and the 
frown of tragedy, next to a paint brush that is creating a musical staff 
that ends with a silhouette of Alice Sheppard, dancer using a wheelchair. 
The words ADA30 LEAD ON at the top, with Celebration of Disability Arts, 
Culture, Education & Pride appear at the bottom.

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Peri L. Nearon, MPA

Executive Director, Division of Disability Services

Department of Human Services

Division of Disability Services

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PO Box 705 Trenton, NJ  08625-0705

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