Disability Awareness Day, February 7th, 2011

All are welcome to attend the 3rd annual Disability Awareness Day at
McMaster University.

The purpose of the event is to raise awareness
about disability and to stimulate people to think about disability and
people with disabilities in new ways. We have planned a day of
activities that presents the diversity and complexity of both
‘disability’ as a category and the lived experience of disability.

We are working from a broad definition of ‘disability’ including (but not
limited to) physical, intellectual, sensory, learning and cognitive
disability, mental health, chronic health conditions, visible and
invisible disabilities.

We are planning to have representation from a
wide range of disability groups on and off-campus. One of the
activities these groups will participate in is information/education
booths.

Other activities include media presentations; panel
presentations and discussions; art, poetry and photography by people
with disabilities; and an interactive display regarding disability
language. We have also planned a disability performance event to close
out the day.

If you would like to more actively participate in this
event – for example, by contributing art work, an information booth, or
making a presentation – please contact us at tomlind@mcmaster.ca.