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Events in March 2019

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Feb 24
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Feb 28(1 event)

10:00 am: Knitting


Feb 28

Every week, our knitters gather to share their purls of wisdom and get in the loop on each other’s latest project, and usually end up in stitches spinning yarns. Whether you knit for pleasure, distraction or just practical economics, or you’ve never done it before and want to give it a try, there’s always room for another loom. Learn, refine, or teach a skill that makes your gift-giving budget lighter weight or support a student-led altruistic project like knitting chemo caps, beanies for babies, lap blankets or other creative applications.

For more info, needle Adult Program Coordinator Serena Olsen at solsen@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7316.

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Mar 7(1 event)

10:00 am: Knitting


Mar 7

Every week, our knitters gather to share their purls of wisdom and get in the loop on each other’s latest project, and usually end up in stitches spinning yarns. Whether you knit for pleasure, distraction or just practical economics, or you’ve never done it before and want to give it a try, there’s always room for another loom. Learn, refine, or teach a skill that makes your gift-giving budget lighter weight or support a student-led altruistic project like knitting chemo caps, beanies for babies, lap blankets or other creative applications.

For more info, needle Adult Program Coordinator Serena Olsen at solsen@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7316.

Mar 8
Mar 9(1 event)

11:00 am: Museum Meanderings: The Contemporary Jewish Museum


Mar 9

Museum Meanderings: Contemporary Jewish Museum
Saturday, Mar. 9, 11 AM-2 PM 736 Mission St. San Francisco FREE

If you missed the special exhibit opening night in February, now is your chance to take in a great exhibit with a quality access experience. one guest per LightHouse community member and RSVP is required by Friday, March 8th. Contact Adult Program Coordinator Serena Olsen at solsen@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7316. Access tour will be from 11 a.m. to noon, and you are free to enjoy the museum thereafter until it closes at 5 p.m.

About the exhibit: How do we depict “the self” if it is unknowable, inherently constructed and ever-changing? How does the concept of portraiture shift when categories are in crisis and visibility itself is problematic? Jewish thought on performed and fluid identity can be interpreted in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible, an archetypal story of an empowered declaration of Jewish identity. Likewise, the Talmudic notion of svara is a potent entry-point to Jewish practices of self-determination, themes that animate Show Me as I Want to Be Seen. Taking the work of French Jewish artist and writer Claude Cahun (1894–1954) and her lifelong lover and collaborator Marcel Moore (1892–1972) as its starting point, Show Me as I Want to Be Seen examines the empowered representation of fluid and complex identity. Cahun (born Lucy Schwob) and Moore (born Suzanne Malherbe) were pioneers in their bold representations of an unfixed self. This exhibition positions their work in dialogue with ten contemporary artists working in painting, sculpture, photography, video, and 3-D animation. The contemporary artists in the exhibition—Nicole Eisenman, Rhonda Holberton, Hiwa K, Young Joon Kwak, Zanele Muholi, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Gabby Rosenberg, Tschabalala Self, Davina Semo, and Isabel Yellin—also address notions of the opaque, constructed, and shifting self. Show Me as I Want to Be Seen is organized by The Contemporary Jewish Museum and is curated by CJM Assistant Curator Natasha Matteson. The exhibition is accompanied by a 112-page, fully illustrated hardcover catalog published by The CJM with original contributions by Natasha Matteson, Rabbi Benay Lappe, and a newly-commissioned piece of fiction by Porpentine Charity Heartscape.

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Mar 14(2 events)

10:00 am: Knitting


Mar 14

Every week, our knitters gather to share their purls of wisdom and get in the loop on each other’s latest project, and usually end up in stitches spinning yarns. Whether you knit for pleasure, distraction or just practical economics, or you’ve never done it before and want to give it a try, there’s always room for another loom. Learn, refine, or teach a skill that makes your gift-giving budget lighter weight or support a student-led altruistic project like knitting chemo caps, beanies for babies, lap blankets or other creative applications.

For more info, needle Adult Program Coordinator Serena Olsen at solsen@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7316.

6:00 pm: Dancing in the Dark


Mar 14

Dancing in the Dark
Thursday, March 14, 6-8 p.m.
CounterPulse Theater 80 Turk St., San Francisco FREE

Gravity brings you down into the underbelly of CounterPulse for a multi-sensory durational performance experience in the Project Space. Jess Curtis and his team of international collaborators will share excerpts from their research into the intersections of movement, culture, sensory difference and physical diversity in live performance: inviting you into a full-body performance experience. Total duration for performance installation is 6-8 p.m. Come and go as you please. RSVP to LightHouse Adult Program Coordinator Serena Olsen at solsen@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7316.

Dancing in the Dark is a part of To Be Free: CounterPulse Festival 2019. Visit counterpulse.org/tobefree for more details on the festival.

(in)Visible Credits: Choreographer: Jess Curtis Created and Performed by: Sherwood Chen, Gabriel Christian, Rachael Dichter, Sophia Nieses, Xenia Taniko, and Tiffany Taylor Sound by: Sam Hertz Extravisualing Consulting by: Georgina Kleege Philosophical Consulting by: Alva Noë (in)Visible is supported with funding from: MAP Fund, The Kenneth Rainin Foundation, The Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission, California Arts Council, Grants for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts.

Read more: Dancing in the Dark

Mar 15(1 event)

4:00 pm: Dinner and Bingo


Mar 15

Dinner and Bingo

Enjoy a community dinner and lots of rollicking bingo fun on the third Friday of each month at the LightHouse. RSVP by noon on the Tuesday prior and $7 covers your dinner (RSVP later or not at all and your dinner is $10). Braille and large print bingo cards make bingo accessible for everyone.   Bring a handful or two of coins for small-change competitiveness … we play a couple of nickel games, several dimes games, and after dessert, one quarter gets you three games – good company – good food – good fun! To RSVP, contact Adult Program Coordinator Serena Olsen at solsen@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7316.

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Mar 21(1 event)

10:00 am: Knitting


Mar 21

Every week, our knitters gather to share their purls of wisdom and get in the loop on each other’s latest project, and usually end up in stitches spinning yarns. Whether you knit for pleasure, distraction or just practical economics, or you’ve never done it before and want to give it a try, there’s always room for another loom. Learn, refine, or teach a skill that makes your gift-giving budget lighter weight or support a student-led altruistic project like knitting chemo caps, beanies for babies, lap blankets or other creative applications.

For more info, needle Adult Program Coordinator Serena Olsen at solsen@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7316.

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Mar 28(1 event)

10:00 am: Knitting


Mar 28

Every week, our knitters gather to share their purls of wisdom and get in the loop on each other’s latest project, and usually end up in stitches spinning yarns. Whether you knit for pleasure, distraction or just practical economics, or you’ve never done it before and want to give it a try, there’s always room for another loom. Learn, refine, or teach a skill that makes your gift-giving budget lighter weight or support a student-led altruistic project like knitting chemo caps, beanies for babies, lap blankets or other creative applications.

For more info, needle Adult Program Coordinator Serena Olsen at solsen@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7316.

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Apr 4(2 events)

10:00 am: Knitting


Apr 4

Every week, our knitters gather to share their purls of wisdom and get in the loop on each other’s latest project, and usually end up in stitches spinning yarns. Whether you knit for pleasure, distraction or just practical economics, or you’ve never done it before and want to give it a try, there’s always room for another loom. Learn, refine, or teach a skill that makes your gift-giving budget lighter weight or support a student-led altruistic project like knitting chemo caps, beanies for babies, lap blankets or other creative applications.

For more info, needle Adult Program Coordinator Serena Olsen at solsen@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7316.

6:00 pm: Accessing the Arts: A Panel Discussion on Sensory Diversity and Performance


Apr 4

Accessing the Arts: A Panel Discussion on Sensory Diversity and Performance
Thursday, April 4, 6-8 p.m. FREE

The performing and other arts have long been thought of as out of reach for many in the disability community. The ADA has made physical access greater, and technologies like audio description or ASL interpretation, where available, have raised the bar on participation. How do we expand the scope of what access to the arts and full participation really mean and how do we make it a reality? Lighthouse for the Blind, Gravity Access Services, and Dancers' Group will be hosting a panel discussion and information session on access accommodation practices for live performance.

Panelists include: Author and Access Consultant Georgina Kleege; Gravity Artistic Director Jess Curtis; Blind dancer and access consultant Tiffany Taylor; Choreographer and Artistic Director of the Bay Area Deaf Dance Festival, Antoine Hunter; Assistant Director of the Deaf Dance Festival (and dancer) Zahna Simon; and LightHouse Adult Program Coordinator, Serena Olsen.

We invite all interested members of the disability and arts communities to be a part of this very important dialogue. Light refreshments will be available beginning at 6 p.m. and the panel discussion will start at 6:30, followed by time for Q&A. RSVP to Serena at solsen@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7316.

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The events for the upcoming week are read aloud on our event hotline every Friday, which can be accessed by calling 415-694-7325. For more information about visiting the Adaptations Store, head to our shop page.

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