Advocacy: Open Letter to All Presidential Candidates, April 2008

An equal rights/equal access issue: an American minority culture being ignored:

ASL interpreting is required to insure access to communication for Deaf voters - in order to be compliant with the ADA and insure that hundreds of thousands of voters using ASL have the opportunity to be as informed as any American voter asked to choose among our candidates running for President of the United States.

YES~! On March 31 - ASL interpreters were at Senator Clinton's rally in Fairless Hills - PaH! (in ASL, "PaH!" stands for "success.....FINALLY") ?? ARE INTERPRETERS SCHEDULED FOR THE REST OF SENATOR(S) CLINTON, OBAMA AND MCCAIN RALLIES, PRESENTATIONS, PRESS CONFERENCES AND DEBATES??

(?) April 9 - ASL interpreters for Elton's Concert in NYC! We interpreted his 2004 Philadelphia Freedom Concert before 200,000 people. Now let's continue including Deaf Americans by respecting their language: American Sign Language EQUALS 'ramps" for equal access according to the ADA!

Castle Film: Sneak Peek at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery

On October 26, 2007, the Foundation for Self-Taught American Artists held a sneak peek at their first film production—a documentary about Idaho artist James Castle—at the Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia.

This event was organized by Carol Finkle of Creative Access as part of Creative Access’ Deaf Arts & Culture PaH! Festival 2008 in conjunction with Independence Starts Here: A Festival of Disability Arts and Culture: a month-long celebration of the visual and performing arts.

Fleisher/Ollman Gallery owner John Ollman talked about the drawings, books, and constructions on view and Foundation director Molly Dougherty introduced the film to an audience largely unfamiliar with the work of James Castle.

Click here to view video clip from JAMES CASTLE opening