Calendar

Events in October 2019

  • Learn More About Better Market Street

    Learn More About Better Market Street


    Oct 3

    You 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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  • YES Weekend - Soaring Futures: Career Exploration and Travel at SFO

    YES Weekend - Soaring Futures: Career Exploration and Travel at SFO


    Oct 11 Oct 13

    Youth Employment Series (YES)
    Soaring Futures: Career Exploration and Travel at SFO

    In October, join the LightHouse Youth Employment Series, YES, and workshop celebrating White Cane and National Disability Employment Awareness as transition-age youth engage in career exploration at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Gainful employment and effective use of mobility tools are critical to pursuing self-confidence, personal satisfaction, economic empowerment, and disability talent development. Attendees will have the opportunity to experience an interactive visit and discover career paths at SFO, to be challenged in confidence building outings, and to collaborate with one another in engaging activities throughout the weekend in preparation for life post high school/college. YES workshops are monthly weekend-long learning experiences emphasizing the vocational enrichment of low vision and blind youth, increasing and providing access to a multifaceted array of mentorship, employment readiness skills, and alternative accessible techniques.

    The YES Workshop in October will provide students with the tools to obtain information on career pathways in both the public and private sectors, to create a disability disclosure and advocacy plan for work and school, to learn and improve mobility and independent travel skills, as well as to refine their interpersonal skills (soft-skills). The weekend is spent learning from blind and low vision mentors and engaging in creative hands-on activities which further support youth to explore and achieve their individualized and professional aspirations.

    Workshop Learning Objectives:
    1. Participants will expand their understanding of rights and responsibilities as blind and low vision individuals as they explore and create personalized disability disclosure and advocacy plans for school and work.
    2. Transition age youth will acquire information on employment opportunities in both public and private industries from administration and management to retail and customer service.
    3. Students will build their confidence in orientation and mobility as they collaborate with their peers to plan, prepare for, execute, and reflect on a group excursion.
    4. The over-night nature of the YES workshop provides opportunities for students to refine their workplace readiness soft skills including effective social and professional communication and independent living all while building community with their blind and low vision peers and mentors.

    If you are interested in participating in the October YES Weekend Workshop, please:
    1. Contact your Department of Rehabilitation counselor to discuss workshop attendance and authorization.
    2. Confirm attendance with Ann Wai-Yee Kwong, Transition Program Specialist, by email at youth@lighthouse-sf.org or by phone at 415-694-7328.

    If you have any questions or would like to pay for your participation in the workshop, please contact youth@lighthouse-sf.org. Each workshop costs $950 to attend for the entire weekend. Please note, space for this program is limited and workshop attendance must be confirmed one week prior.
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  • YES Weekend - Soaring Futures: Career Exploration and Travel at SFO

    YES Weekend - Soaring Futures: Career Exploration and Travel at SFO


    Oct 11 Oct 13

    Youth Employment Series (YES)
    Soaring Futures: Career Exploration and Travel at SFO

    In October, join the LightHouse Youth Employment Series, YES, and workshop celebrating White Cane and National Disability Employment Awareness as transition-age youth engage in career exploration at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Gainful employment and effective use of mobility tools are critical to pursuing self-confidence, personal satisfaction, economic empowerment, and disability talent development. Attendees will have the opportunity to experience an interactive visit and discover career paths at SFO, to be challenged in confidence building outings, and to collaborate with one another in engaging activities throughout the weekend in preparation for life post high school/college. YES workshops are monthly weekend-long learning experiences emphasizing the vocational enrichment of low vision and blind youth, increasing and providing access to a multifaceted array of mentorship, employment readiness skills, and alternative accessible techniques.

    The YES Workshop in October will provide students with the tools to obtain information on career pathways in both the public and private sectors, to create a disability disclosure and advocacy plan for work and school, to learn and improve mobility and independent travel skills, as well as to refine their interpersonal skills (soft-skills). The weekend is spent learning from blind and low vision mentors and engaging in creative hands-on activities which further support youth to explore and achieve their individualized and professional aspirations.

    Workshop Learning Objectives:
    1. Participants will expand their understanding of rights and responsibilities as blind and low vision individuals as they explore and create personalized disability disclosure and advocacy plans for school and work.
    2. Transition age youth will acquire information on employment opportunities in both public and private industries from administration and management to retail and customer service.
    3. Students will build their confidence in orientation and mobility as they collaborate with their peers to plan, prepare for, execute, and reflect on a group excursion.
    4. The over-night nature of the YES workshop provides opportunities for students to refine their workplace readiness soft skills including effective social and professional communication and independent living all while building community with their blind and low vision peers and mentors.

    If you are interested in participating in the October YES Weekend Workshop, please:
    1. Contact your Department of Rehabilitation counselor to discuss workshop attendance and authorization.
    2. Confirm attendance with Ann Wai-Yee Kwong, Transition Program Specialist, by email at youth@lighthouse-sf.org or by phone at 415-694-7328.

    If you have any questions or would like to pay for your participation in the workshop, please contact youth@lighthouse-sf.org. Each workshop costs $950 to attend for the entire weekend. Please note, space for this program is limited and workshop attendance must be confirmed one week prior.
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    Superfest Disability Film Festival

    Superfest Disability Film Festival


    Oct 12

    Superfest 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.

    Read more: Superfest Disability Film Festival

  • YES Weekend - Soaring Futures: Career Exploration and Travel at SFO

    YES Weekend - Soaring Futures: Career Exploration and Travel at SFO


    Oct 11 Oct 13

    Youth Employment Series (YES)
    Soaring Futures: Career Exploration and Travel at SFO

    In October, join the LightHouse Youth Employment Series, YES, and workshop celebrating White Cane and National Disability Employment Awareness as transition-age youth engage in career exploration at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Gainful employment and effective use of mobility tools are critical to pursuing self-confidence, personal satisfaction, economic empowerment, and disability talent development. Attendees will have the opportunity to experience an interactive visit and discover career paths at SFO, to be challenged in confidence building outings, and to collaborate with one another in engaging activities throughout the weekend in preparation for life post high school/college. YES workshops are monthly weekend-long learning experiences emphasizing the vocational enrichment of low vision and blind youth, increasing and providing access to a multifaceted array of mentorship, employment readiness skills, and alternative accessible techniques.

    The YES Workshop in October will provide students with the tools to obtain information on career pathways in both the public and private sectors, to create a disability disclosure and advocacy plan for work and school, to learn and improve mobility and independent travel skills, as well as to refine their interpersonal skills (soft-skills). The weekend is spent learning from blind and low vision mentors and engaging in creative hands-on activities which further support youth to explore and achieve their individualized and professional aspirations.

    Workshop Learning Objectives:
    1. Participants will expand their understanding of rights and responsibilities as blind and low vision individuals as they explore and create personalized disability disclosure and advocacy plans for school and work.
    2. Transition age youth will acquire information on employment opportunities in both public and private industries from administration and management to retail and customer service.
    3. Students will build their confidence in orientation and mobility as they collaborate with their peers to plan, prepare for, execute, and reflect on a group excursion.
    4. The over-night nature of the YES workshop provides opportunities for students to refine their workplace readiness soft skills including effective social and professional communication and independent living all while building community with their blind and low vision peers and mentors.

    If you are interested in participating in the October YES Weekend Workshop, please:
    1. Contact your Department of Rehabilitation counselor to discuss workshop attendance and authorization.
    2. Confirm attendance with Ann Wai-Yee Kwong, Transition Program Specialist, by email at youth@lighthouse-sf.org or by phone at 415-694-7328.

    If you have any questions or would like to pay for your participation in the workshop, please contact youth@lighthouse-sf.org. Each workshop costs $950 to attend for the entire weekend. Please note, space for this program is limited and workshop attendance must be confirmed one week prior.
    "

    Superfest Disability Film Festival

    Superfest Disability Film Festival


    Oct 13

    Superfest 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.

    Read more: Superfest Disability Film Festival

  • Celebrate White Cane Safety Day with SF Mayor London Breed

    Celebrate White Cane Safety Day with SF Mayor London Breed


    Oct 15

    Tuesday, 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.

  • Youth Extreme Recreation Adventure: Master of the Maze

    Youth Extreme Recreation Adventure: Master of the Maze


    Oct 19

    Youth Extreme Recreation Adventure: Master of the Maze
    Saturday, October 19, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

    During the 2019-2020 school year, the LightHouse's Youth Program will be hosting monthly extreme recreation activities and adventures for youth that are blind or have low vision. Those that sign up for these monthly outings will have opportunities to make new friends, meet mentors and develop life skills that will help them be successful in other aspects of life - all while enjoying the wonderful recreation options that the Bay Area and surrounding areas have to offer.

    During our October adventure we will head to Livermore for some Halloween fun. We will gather at G&M Farms at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 19, where we will start our day with a corn maze. After we find our way through the corn maze we will gather for a picnic lunch before an epic hunt for the perfect pumpkin. Students that are low vision or blind of all ages and their immediate family are encouraged to join us in costume as there will be a costume contest during our lunch.

    Who: low vision and blind youth of all ages and their immediate family members
    What: Halloween Festivities, Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch
    When: 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Saturday, October 19
    Where: G&M Farms @ 487 East Airway Blvd, Livermore CA 94551
    Cost: LightHouse will pay for entry and corn maze fee however, we encourage students to bring additional money if they wish to purchase a pumpkin to take home
    What to bring: water bottle, warm layers of clothes and a bag lunch for a picnic

    If you wish to RSVP or have any questions about this outing, please contact Jamey Gump by Friday, October 18 by phone at (415)694-7372 or by email at jgump@lighthouse-sf.org.

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!

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