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Events in March 2023

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Feb 26(1 event)

1:00 pm: Mean Girls Audio-Described Performance (in-person)


Feb 26

Mean Girls is a musical that’s based off the hit 2004 film.

Summary: Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the wild and vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. How will this naïve newbie rise to the top of the popularity pecking order?

The audio-described performance takes place at the Golden Gate Theatre box office at 1 Taylor St. in San Francisco.

To purchase ADA tickets, call 888-746-1799 or fax your order to 415-581-2121. For fax orders, please include the show name, number of tickets, date and time of show, credit card, and daytime contact information. Tickets may also be purchased at the Orpheum or Orpheum Theatre at 1192 Market, San Francisco.

In addition to purchasing a ticket, a headset must be reserved by requesting a headset ticket. With the reserved headset ticket, you may pick up the headset in the lobby of the theatre on the way to your seat.

Read more about Mean Girls in San Francisco.

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Mar 12(1 event)

5:00 pm: Lions LightHouse Concert Humanitarian Aid for Turkey and Syria (in-person)


Mar 12

This is a fundraiser for Humanitarian aid for earthquake victims of turkey and Syria by the Lions clubs international Foundation.

5:00 pm to 6:00 pm - Wine reception/finger food
6:00 pm - Concert

The donation for admission is:

$100 for VIP seats
$50 for general seats

Pay by PayPal to: svcyberlions@gmail.com or Venmo to: 415-699-9299

All proceeds will distribute through Lions Clubs International Foundation

There will be an intermission with light food and drinks

RSVP to svcyberlions@gmail.com.

Directions to LightHouse San Francisco

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Mar 14(1 event)

6:00 pm: National Federation of the Blind: San Francisco Chapter Meeting (online)


Mar 14

The National Federation of the Blind is a nationwide community of members that believe blind people can live the lives they want. We meet online via Zoom with the following schedule:

6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. – Virtual Happy (Half) Hour
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. – Chapter Meeting

To RSVP, contact President Bobbi Pompey at bobbipompey@gmail.com or 336-988-6375.

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Mar 18(1 event)

10:30 am: CCB San Francisco Chapter monthly meeting (hybrid)


Mar 18

The CCB San Francisco Chapter holds its regular meetings on the third Saturday of the month. In March, our meeting will start at 10:00 AM as we join a program about racial equity being presented by Inclusive Diversity of California, a statewide special interest affiliate of the California Council of the Blind, followed by our regular business meeting at 11:30 AM. This event will take place virtually on Zoom and in person at the LightHouse Multipurpose Room, 1155 Market Street, 10th floor. All are welcome.

RSVP to President Vita Zavoli at VZavoli@gmail.com or 510-846-4080.

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Mar 23(1 event)

10:00 am: Introductory Tactile Map Workshop (in-person)


Mar 23

LightHouse’s Rehabilitation Services and Media and Accessible Design departments are teaming up to present this free course on learning to read tactile maps.

This workshop takes place at LightHouse East Bay in the Osher Conference Room. The address is Ed Roberts Campus, 3075 Adeline Street, Berkeley, 94703. 

What will you learn?

  • The value of tactile maps for route planning and awareness of environmental features.
  • Systematic strategies in your approach to exploration of tactile maps.
  • How symbols, line types, labels, and distance, direction, and environmental features are used in interpreting maps.
  • Tactile discrimination techniques for map reading.
  • Greater orientation to new environments.
  • How to order more maps.
  • In addition to the training, each student will take home free TMAPs of their residential area and of the LightHouse East Bay neighborhood at 3075 Adeline, as well as a tactile map of the Ashby BART Station and a tactile BART system map.

Prerequisites:

  • Functional use of intermediate braille is required.
  • Students must be aged 16 or up.

LightHouse Braille Instructor, Divina Carlson; Senior Accessible Media and Braille Specialist, Frank Welte; Orientation & Mobility Specialist, Sarah McIntyre and tactile map aficionado, Jerry Kuns, will be facilitating this introductory training in the practical use of TMAP, tactile maps and tactile BART maps for Bay Area travelers. It must be noted that Jerry states he isn’t happier than when he has a good cappuccino in one hand and a tactile map in the other!

Come join us in learning the language of tactile maps. To attend, please contact Briana Kusuma, at BKusuma@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7335 no later than Friday, March 17. In your email, please provide Briana your full name, phone number and your residential address, so that we can produce your home map prior to the training.

Space is limited to 15 participants. Additional registrants will be placed on a waiting list. We will consider scheduling an additional session if there is sufficient interest. Students may attend with their TVI or O&M teacher. Because this is an in-person activity, we are requesting that you provide proof of vaccination upon entry and wear a mask during the event.

This course is made possible thanks to a grant from the Federal Transportation Administration.

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Mar 31(1 event)

7:30 pm: FANNIE: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (in-person)


Mar 31

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents FANNIE: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer.

Summary: “To hope is to vote!” Famed activist and civil rights hero Fannie Lou Hamer makes this impassioned rally cry, reminding us that change begins with just one voice. Tracing her steps from sharecropper to activist to political candidate, Fannie takes audiences on a gospel-filled journey of justice and self-determination, inspiring every American to rise up and fight for the vital issues of our time.

There will be three audio-described performances, courtesy of Gravity Access Services. Those performances are:

March 31 at 8:00 pm (pre-show talk at 7:30 pm)
April 1 at 8:00 pm (pre-show talk at 7:30 pm)
April 2 at 2:00 pm (pre-show talk at 1:30 pm)

(Additionally, there is an ASL performance and three performances with copen captioning.)

Performances take place at the Lucie Stern Theatre at 1305 Middlefield Rd. Palo Alto, 94301.

Purchase tickets online for FANNIE: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer.

After you purchase your ticket, you will also need to contact the box office to let them know you would like a headset for the audio-described performance at 650-463-1960 or boxoffice@theatreworks.org. There will be a talk You can also purchase your tickets this way. Pre-show talks are held 30 minutes before each performance.

Safety info: Masks are required for all attendees.

Visit the FANNIE: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer TheatreWorks webpage.
View Trailer for FANNIE: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer.
Meet FANNIE star Greta Oglesby.

 

 

Apr 1

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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