LightHouse is throwing a party! On Thursday, June 8, from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm, we are welcoming our community and our supporters to join us in celebrating our organization and the blind community at LightHouse Day.
We’ve come a long way in our 121 years! Since LightHouse was founded in 1902 (originally as a Reading Room for the Blind) we have grown into a multifaceted non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the independence, equality and self-reliance of people who are blind or visually impaired. From early intervention home visits with the families of blind babies we serve with our Little Learners program, to the twice awarded US Environment Protection Agency Safer Choice Award products our blind and low vision employees produce and bottle at Sirkin Center, LightHouse provides support and opportunity for blind, low vision, and deafblind individuals at every stage of life and of blindness, and we want to celebrate these accomplishments!
To honor LightHouse, the mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, will be presenting us with a city proclamation, declaring the month of June as LightHouse Month! We invite all of you to share this momentous event with us. Aside from this huge honor the city of San Francisco is bestowing upon us, we will have a whole plethora of fun planned for the afternoon! Join us for a live cooking demo with blind chemist Hoby Wedler, check out the latest in accessible devices from our Adaptations store, meet the inventor of Bop It, Dan Klitsner, and play some accessible games, get your hands on our tactile treasures produced in-house by our Media and Accessible Design Lab (MAD Lab) and learn to Braille your name with our Braille instructor Divina Carlson. You can even explore a sensory escape room with some of our awesome Orientation and Mobility Specialists!
You won’t want to miss this incredible event. RSVP to LightHouse Day, and we’ll see you on Thursday, June 8 at 3:00 pm!
