Events in October 2019
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Learn More About Better Market Street
Learn More About Better Market Street
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Oct 3You are invited to a community gathering on Thursday, October 3, to learn more about and give input to the Better Market Street project.
Better Market Street is the City's multi-agency project to transform 2.2 miles of Market Street from Octavia Boulevard to Stuart Street, enhancing safety and accessibility, improving transit performance, replacing aging infrastructure, and revitalizing the corridors streetscape.
The project is advancing toward approval this fall and in the coming months. Team members from San Francisco Public Works and San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will be joining us for community meetings to provide updates on the project.
At our first meeting, we will hear an overview of the project with an emphasis on the first phase of the project: Market Street between Eighth and Fifth streets. The team will also discuss proposed transit stops and passenger drop-off zones.
Please join us at 1155 Market Street, 10th floor, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 4:30-6 p.m.
RSVP directly to Jennifer Blot of San Francisco Public Works: Jennifer.blot@sfdpw.org or (415) 554-6993.
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Superfest Disability Film Festival
Superfest Disability Film Festival
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Oct 12Superfest Disability Film Festival is the longest running disability film festival in the world. Since 1970, we have celebrated cinema that portrays disability through a diverse, complex, unabashed and engaging lens.
We strive for accessibility with audio description, captioning, and ASL/CART.
Showtimes:
OCTOBER 12, 2019
BERKELEY
FREIGHT & SALVAGE
12 - 2:30 p.m.
OCTOBER 13, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO
THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM
11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. & 2 - 4:30 p.m.
Visit the Superfest website for info and tickets.
Co-hosted by: LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the San Francisco State University Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability.
To book a traveling Superfest Showcase, contact superfestshowcase@gmail.com.
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Superfest Disability Film Festival
Superfest Disability Film Festival
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Oct 13Superfest Disability Film Festival is the longest running disability film festival in the world. Since 1970, we have celebrated cinema that portrays disability through a diverse, complex, unabashed and engaging lens.
We strive for accessibility with audio description, captioning, and ASL/CART.
Showtimes:
OCTOBER 12, 2019
BERKELEY
FREIGHT & SALVAGE
12 - 2:30 p.m.
OCTOBER 13, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO
THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM
11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. & 2 - 4:30 p.m.
Visit the Superfest website for info and tickets.
Co-hosted by: LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the San Francisco State University Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability.
To book a traveling Superfest Showcase, contact superfestshowcase@gmail.com.
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Celebrate White Cane Safety Day with SF Mayor London Breed
Celebrate White Cane Safety Day with SF Mayor London Breed
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Oct 15Tuesday, October 15 is White Cane Safety Day! Come celebrate the day and promote safety awareness in the neighborhood of LightHouse Headquarters (1155 Market St., San Francisco). Join LightHouse staff and ambassadors as we celebrate and spread awareness of White Cane Day from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. We encourage everyone to bring their canes or guide dogs with them for the event and to invite your friends and blindness allies if they are interested.
We will start off with a 30-minute welcome meeting at LightHouse on the 10th floor to talk about white canes, LightHouse's involvement with the Safe Streets project and pedestrian safety in the city. Come to LightHouse headquarters for the pre-walk event and meet San Francisco Mayor London Breed who will be in attendance. There will be refreshments for those attending the welcome.
After the meeting concludes at 10:30, we will go out as a group to City Hall and back to create awareness and visibility of the white cane and blind pedestrians. Anyone who comes to walk with us will get a free Safe Streets t-shirt – now in white!
If you are coming, RVSP directly to Briana Kusuma at bkusuma@lighthouse-sf.org or 415.694.7335 with your shirt size (if you would like one of our 2019 shirts) and be sure to wear your Safe Streets t-shirt if you already have one or don’t want to wear the new white one that day.
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.
The LightHouse is scent-free. Please abstain from wearing colognes, perfumes, or other scented products. Additionally, coffee must be securely lidded at all times and citrus should not be peeled on the premises. Thanks for supporting our efforts to respect chemical sensitivities!
