CreateABILITY festival
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- June
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Last November, representatives from several local theater groups and institutions gathered around a long table in Valhalla to talk about “inclusive theater,” the idea that taking part in a show isn’t an enterprise only for able-bodied.
At the end of the meeting, the participants were fired up, ready to try to bring the idea into their worlds.
(Read my story here.)
Even before that meeting, Jordan Jankus had experience with “arts-based experiential theater. Jankus and his JessBecause group have run with it. Jankus created a program for teens and adults with disabilities at the Westchester Institute for Human Development.
According to the Jess Because Web site, “We believe that there is great value in the educational experience of just giving a person the chance to try something without the criteria of success or failure. It’s an approach that we’ve used and found to be very empowering for each student.”
Tomorrow night, Jess Because presents Create ABILITY ‘08 at the Valhalla campus, featuring two parts:
STASIS: A Moment of Equilibrium, a juried art exhibit of visionary and outsider art” — This is a juried show by self-taught artists with or without disabilities.
and
SPIRIT — a performing arts show with artists who are disabled or whose work deals with living with disabilities.
The festival is tomorrow night from 6 to 9:30 p.m. in Valhalla.
For more information, call Jankus at 914.526.8245.
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