Links to non-PAI resources

Arts and Media

A Disability in the Family - Film Shows Parents' Response to a Child With Cerebral Palsy, Washington Post, 11/13/07

Abilities United: Making noise to break Hollywood stereotypes of characters with disabilities, American Chronicle, 1/18/08

Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts - promoting full diversity in theater, film and television.

Artslynx International Arts Resources - Arts Empowerment - Dance can empower individuals and communities. Theatre is a force that can unite, uplift, teach, build communities, inspire, and heal. Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham

Autism Speaks - provides videos, information, an interactive autism network and more, including the film Autism Every Day with clips from screenings at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and the original 13-minute film

AXIS Dance Company - creates and performs high quality contemporary dance, developed through the collaboration of dancers with and without disabilities.

Film Movement - distributes award-winning independent and foreign films, including Her Name is Sabine - a documentary film about a woman with autism, winner of the International Federation of Film Critics Award at the Cannes Film Festival

Integrated Arts - increasing opportunities for people with and without disabilities to express and define themselves through creative arts.

Josh Blue is "Clearly, Frankly, Unabashedly Disabled" and he won NBC's "Last Comic Standing" in 2006. Mr. Blue represents the broader portrait of disability now infusing television and film. - New York Times, 5/13/07

L.A. Bridges Theatre Co. of the Deaf - members.aol.com/LABTCDeaf/ - non-profit works to provide equal opportunities to all deaf and hard of hearing actors, as well as provide useful information for succeeding in Hollywood.

Make Them Go Away - www.makethemgoaway.com - "Make Them Go Away: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve and the Case Against Disability Rights," by Mary Johnson, a long-time disability social issues reporter,  examines the arguments against disability rights, presents the other side, and explains the disability rights vision that underpins the ADA.

Media Dis&Dat - Reflections on media images of people with disabilities and disability issues.

Moving On Theater - www.movingonoutreach.org/MovingOnTheater.htm - Theatre group for people with disabilities. Sponsored by the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley, California.

NADC - National Arts and Disability Center - the national information dissemination, technical assistance and referral center specializing in the field of arts and disability. NADC promotes full inclusion of children and adults with disabilities in the visual-, performing-, media, and literary-arts communities. This rich and deep site features resource directories, annotated bibliographies, related links, conferences on accessibility to the arts, and much, much more.

New Civil Rights Movement: Passionate Crusade for Inclusion of People with Disabilities, American Chronicle, 12/30/07

New Day Films - http://www.newday.com/films/ - Films explore multiple truths and realities by humanizing complex social issues and telling good stories; many films come with curricular tools designed to enliven dialogue and debate.

On a Roll Radio - www.onarollradio.com - Talk Radio on Life, Disability & Human Potential.

VSArts - An affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - "Creating a society where people with disabilities can learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts.

Welcome Change Productions - http://www.welcomechange.org/ - Creating art that helps us live together with humor, tolerance, and compassion.

Young disability groups build presence - “My kid is taking French and photo arts in ninth grade and doing quite well,” ... “That never would have been the case without IDEA.” - Politico, 12/3/07