Happy New Year! For the past 6
months, I've had the unique pleasure of working with the
Disability Art and Culture Project in planning for our first
disability pride festival—coming this spring to the Portland
area. The festival will include dance performances,
award-winning film previews, theatre workshops, and discussions
about the emergence of a cultural identity that celebrates
diversity and the disability experience through art and other
creative works.
To support these endeavors, we are
hosting a fundraising dinner on
Monday, February 6, 2006,
from 6 to 10 pm, at Portland's new premier Thai food
restaurant—the Siam Society and Temple Bar, located in the
historic Alberta Substation at 2703 NE Alberta Street.
Please join us for an evening of
gypsy jazz and fine Thai cuisine at this beautiful, inclusive
venue. Your $50 contribution will include a four-course meal
with savory meat or vegetarian options, a cash bar, and live
acoustic swing entertainment featuring classic jazz standards
from the 1920s-1950s. We are depending on you—our colleagues,
friends and fellow activists—to make this evening a success.
Please mark your calendars and send an email reply today to make
Portland's first Disability Art and Culture Festival a reality
this spring.
This fundraising dinner is less than
5 weeks away, so we are asking each of you to please send us
your reservations this week, first, by responding to this email
and then, by mailing in your $50 per person donation made
payable to:
The
Disability Art and Culture Project
Attn: Kathy Coleman
430 NE 16th Avenue, #110
Portland, OR 97232
Thank you in advance for your
generous support of the DACP fundraising dinner on February
6th! We look forward to your reply and to sharing with you a
wonderful evening of authentic Thai food tastes and textures
accompanied by the incredible gypsy rhythms of Roma de la Couve.
Please let us know that you
received this invitation by replying to this email,
and feel free to share the invitation with other friends and
colleagues. We value your support.
Peace,
Jane S. Gravel, PhD
The Disability Art and Culture
Project, Festival/Fundraising Committee Kathy Coleman, Jane
Gravel, Erik Ferguson, Toshio Meronek, Michelle Nario-Redmond,
Julie Osborn, Jody John Ramey, Caitlin Wood
