You asked for it and we’re doing it! The DCC is hosting our first crafting circle. Crafters, aspiring crafters, lapsed crafters looking for inspiration, craft appreciators - all are welcome! Our resident crafter, Craigslist-free enthusiast, and DCC co-director Emily Beitiks will share her tips for crafting on a budget. Then she’ll facilitate our time as we chat and craft together. Come with your wisdom, questions, and ideas for a cozy and creative crafting circle! BYOC - Bring Your Own Craft!

ASL | CART | virtual

Register here.

Registration closes November 13, 2024, end of day.

We loved cooking dinner with y’all so much that we’re doing it again! Join cookbook authors Anna Foster and Rosemary McDonnell-Horita to make to learn a new dinner recipe. We haven’t decided what it is yet, but we can promise a delicious, low-spoon, fall-inspired meal. While we cook (or watch!) we’ll share kitchen hacks and stories as well as get updates on Measuring Spoons: A Cookbook for Crips.

Participants will get an ingredient list and recipe when they register. We’ll make substitution recommendations common allergens and if you have any questions or need help adapting the recipe please email us! The recipe is very adaptable and we’re always here to help. The total cost for four servings will be under $25. Meal kits are available for folks in the Bay Area without the spoons or funds for grocery shopping (details when you register.)

ASL | CART | virtual | recorded | meal kits for Bay Area folks

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Whether you're in the mood for a chat, want a little company while doing the dishes, need a cheer squad for that big project, or want to hang back and quietly be with your people, let's do it together! Together Time is a facilitated open Zoom room with nobody’s agenda but your own.

ASL | CART | virtual

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Registration closes November 8, 2024, at 3:00 pm PT.

Join Tan Hubbard, a Black, queer, solo family caregiver, for an all-bodies Yoga class. Tan dreams of a future where the planet and EVERYONE on it is thriving and working together towards a world that centers care, love, and conscious collaboration. Their yoga classes center meditation, visualization, and breath work with the goal of creating a space where everyone can access their own practice. No matter whether your body is moving or staying still, whether you’re sitting in a chair or standing on a mat – Tan teaches to our individual experiences and bodies as we move through the class together.

ASL | CART | virtual | recorded

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Calm your nervous system and be in community on election day. Blind elder and meditation leader Dennis Billups has been bringing meditation to disability activism since he participated in the 504 occupation in 1977. He will guide our meditation practice by drawing from his lived and spiritual experience, centering the importance of breath and quiet to fight oppression and care for our whole selves.

ASL | CART | virtual | recorded

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BIPOC creatives, this one’s for you! Artist and activist Alex Locust will facilitate a supportive, uplifting space for you to bring your projects and intentions. Come to bounce ideas off each other, reignite invigoration in your creative pursuits, just come to be with your people in a generative space.

*Note, this space is BIPOC-only*

ASL | CART | virtual | BIPOC-only

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Get together with Superfest filmmakers and attendees for a virtual conversation with your community. What did you love? How did it feel to see our stories without the stereotypes or pity? What was your best laugh? What film went over your head? Learn from the filmmakers about their process and inspiration; chat with fellow attendees about their perspectives and interpretations. Let’s talk about it all! Bianca Laureano, our incredible Cafe Crip moderator, will facilitate the conversation.

ASL | CART | virtual

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Superfest Disability Film Festival is happening at The Exploratorium in San Francisco! This year’s program promises innovative perspectives from around the world. Our films come from Mongolia, The Netherlands, Egypt, the United Kingdom and more. Please join us for a day of community, storytelling, and films that bring depth and breadth to disabled lives and experiences.

We’re hosting two screenings of brand-new films. Join us for a matinee screening from 12:00 - 2:00 and an afternoon screening from 3:00 - 5:00. Films are different at each screening, so stay for the day if you like! Passes are on a sliding scale, starting at $0.

ASL | CART | optional audio description | masks required in the auditorium

Get your passes here.

Because we know the Eventive site might be too daunting for some of our community members, we're screening this year's award-winning shorts on Zoom.

ASL | CART | open audio description | virtual

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Join us for our Superfest Kickoff Event where we will hear from Alice Wong and spotlight her new initiative: The Disabled BIPOC Film Collective. Learn from disabled filmmakers Malak AlSayyad and Jason DaSilva in a panel moderated by Superfest Co-Director Shaina Ghuraya as they discuss past productions, challenges encountered in this profession, and practical tips for creating a more inclusive industry.

ASL | CART | recorded | virtual

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Mini-zines are easy and fun to make – something about their tiny form is very freeing!  Liz Henry, poet, literary translator, small press publisher, hacker, and maker of innumerable zines, will facilitate this hands-on workshop. We'll look at a few zines for inspiration and construct our tiny zines together. We'll hang out and chat while we all start - and maybe finish - our own! Please note, the window for requesting zine-making kits has now passed 🤎

ASL | CART | virtual | kits for Bay Area folks

Materials needed: sheets of blank paper; scissors or a utility knife, pens; (optional) a glue stick, or other glue, or tape; (optional) a magazine you can cut up; (optional) a stapler

Register here.

Bailamos bachata! Esta clase de baile es accesible para todos los cuerpos introducirá la alegría de la bachata. Danny Ramirez, una persona queer, de género fluido y con discapacidad, dirigirá esta clase en español con traducción en inglés y ASL. La bachata, una forma de baile en pareja social, será comunitaria a través de nuestro espacio virtual del Centro Cultural de la Discapacidad: tus parejas serán abundantes. ¡Baila frente a la cámara o fuera de ella, con todo el cuerpo o solo los ojos, elije tu propia aventura!

ASL | CART | ESPAÑOL | VIRTUAL

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Let’s dance bachata! Join instructor Danny Ramirez for this accessible class in Spanish with English and ASL interpretation. Danny, a queer, Latine, gender-fluid, disabled professional dancer, combines their passion for dance and music with their experience of learning to love exactly how their body shows up each day. Dance on camera or off, take breaks and hydrate, dance with your whole body, or keep the beat with your eyes – choose your own adventure! Your dance partners will be plentiful, and the music will fill your heart!

ASL | SPANISH | ENGLISH | CART | VIRTUAL

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Join us at the San Francisco Public Library to watch diverse films created by, acted by, and about people with disabilities. This program is curated by The Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability in partnership with San Francisco Public Library's Talking Books and Braille Center and the Deaf Services Center.

ASL | CART | in person | masks encouraged | drop in

Library event page.

NO REGISTRATION NEEDED.

Cafe Crip is a monthly gathering to talk about important topics within our disability communities. This month’s conversation is a part of our Care Work Series. We’ll dive deeper into our September 19th panel topic, Care Work and Academia. We send readings in advance and encourage folks to attend the panel, but no preparation is required. Facilitator Bianca Laureano leads the group through community agreements and access principles to ensure everyone can join this informal community-building hangout.

ASL | CART | virtual

Register here.

The DCC co-directors invite you to chat! Have a program idea or feedback you’d like to share? Want to learn about what’s underway as the hybrid DCC is being developed? Catch up with our leadership team. Come on by for a virtual cup of tea and open conversation. In July, we talked about uplifting and developing disabled-owned businesses. We’d love to hear more of your ideas and what would be helpful as we develop our social entrepreneurship program. So, please join if you are a small business owner or dream of working for yourself!

ASL | CART | virtual

Register here.

REGISTRATION CLOSES SEPTEMBER 22, 2024 AT 11:59 PM (PST)

Academia continues to be a place where ableism thrives. Inside these larger institutional structures of power, disabled faculty, staff, and students have been creating our own care networks for survival and resilience. This program will learn from panelists fighting to create space for disabled belonging inside the walls of our academic institutions.

Panelists: Capria Berry | Sara Acevedo | Travis Chi Wing Lau
Moderator: Emily Beitiks

ASL | CART | recorded | virtual

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T.S. Banks, a Black Trans, Queer person with a disability, teaching artist, poet, and playwright, leads us through a collaborative and dynamic poetry writing experience. T.S. helps folks get their creativity activated and explores the power and beauty of our collective voice. No need to be a poet, poetry reader, or writer. Just come as you are and let’s do this together.

ASL | CART | virtual

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It’s Friday the 13th, and we’re exorcising ableist demons. Want to vent and rage about ableism? Want to slay the monsters of oppression with community and love? Let’s do it together at Together Time: Rage Edition. We’ll open a quiet room (text chat only) and a talking room (text, captions, voice, ASL) so you can rage and love as big as you want, however you want!

ASL | CART | virtual

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REGISTRATION CLOSES SEPTEMBER 11 at 1:00 PM (PST)

Learn a new recipe with a cooking demo hosted by Anna Foster and Rosemary McDonnell-Horita, authors of Measuring Spoons: A Cookbook for Crips. Together, we’ll cook gnocchi and veggies, a favorite easy low-spoon meal. As we prepare dinner, we’ll discuss the Measuring Spoons cookbook and how Rosemary and Anna are developing the idea.

After registering, participants will get an ingredient list—the total cost for four servings will be under $25. For San Francisco community members who may not have the funds or spoons for grocery shopping right now, we can provide about 20 meal kits. They will be available for pick-up at a central location (TBD) in the City. If you are unable to pick up your kit, we will happily make a few at-home deliveries.

ASL | CART | virtual | materials available | recorded

Register here.

Blind elder and meditation leader Dennis Billups has been bringing meditation to disability activism since he participated in the 504 occupation in 1977. He will guide our meditation practice by drawing from his lived and spiritual experience, centering the importance of breath and quiet to fight oppression and care for our whole selves.

ASL | CART | virtual | recorded

Register here.

Whether you're in the mood for a chat, want a little company while doing the dishes, need a cheer squad for that big project, or want to hang back and be with your people, let's do it together! We plan on playing with breakout rooms and timed check-ins and would love to continue evolving this space.

ASL | CART | virtual | quiet room

Register here.

Cafe Crip is a monthly gathering to talk about important topics within our disability communities. This month’s conversation is a part of our Care Work Series. We’ll dive deeper into our August 22nd panel discussion, Care Work and Direct Action Organizing, about bringing care networks into direct action organizing. We send readings in advance and encourage folks to attend the panel, but no preparation is required. Facilitator Bianca Laureano leads the group through community agreements and access principles to ensure everyone can join this informal community-building hangout.

ASL | CART | virtual

Register here.

The DCC co-directors invite you to chat! Have a program idea or feedback you’d like to share? Want to learn about what’s underway as the hybrid DCC is being developed? Catch up with our leadership team. Come on by for a virtual cup of tea and open conversation.

ASL | CART | virtual

Register here.

Disabled people have always played a role in direct action organizing. Using networks of care and creative hacks, we can bring access and support to mobilizations that often presume a nondisabled body or neurotypical mind. Organizers Anita Cameron, Jesenia M, and Max Airborne will share their tactics to make direct action organizing possible and sometimes cripping what organizing looks like.

ASL | CART | virtual

Register here.

Together Time is a space to be in community with no agenda. Whether you're in the mood for a chat, want a little company while doing the dishes, need a cheer squad for that big project, or want to hang back and be with your people - let's do it together! We're planning on playing with breakout rooms and timed check-ins and would love to continue to evolve this space together.

ASL | CART | virtual | registration closes on August 11

Register here.

School’s starting! Let’s learn how to cultivate self-advocacy opportunities for disabled students during the IEP process and beyond. We’ll discuss strategies for all levels of education between ages 3 and 22 and how to work with your unique kiddo(s). Additionally, we will explore taking the power back from the bureaucracy to honor better the disability justice principle of “recognizing wholeness” inside of institutional processes. Come with your IEP and questions; following a 60-minute conversation, we’ll have 30 minutes for audience Q&A and discussion. This event will be led by CASE (https://www.caseadvocacy.org/about-us), a Bay Area non-profit committed to collaborative advocacy for families with children with disabilities navigating the school system.

ASL | CART | description of visual materials | virtual

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Join us for a Superfest Disability Film Festival’s Family Movie Night! Superfest is the longest-running disability film festival in the world. Since it first debuted in a small Los Angeles showcase in 1970, it has become an eagerly anticipated international event. While our core festival each October often features predominantly adult content, this event will bring Superfest to all ages with a look back at some of our family-friendly entertainment from recent years. In this short screening, we’ll see a range of cutting-edge cinema that portrays disability through a diverse, complex, unabashed, and engaging lens.

ASL | CART | audio description | virtual

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Crip elder and meditation leader Dennis Billups has been bringing guided meditations to disability activism since he occupied the San Francisco Federal Building in 1977 for the implementation of the first disability civil rights legislation. Join us for this opportunity to rest and reset as Dennis demonstrates the power of meditation for managing chronic pain and fighting oppression.

ASL | CART | virtual

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At the end of each month, the DCC co-directors invite you to chat! Have a program idea or feedback you’d like to share? Want to learn about what’s underway as the hybrid DCC is being developed? Catch up with our leadership team. Come on by for a virtual cup of tea and open conversation.

ASL | CART | virtual

Register here.