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Create Your Story! Writing & Art Workshop for Veterans

Austin VA Outpatient Clinic 7901 Metropolis Dr., Austin, TX, United States

Express your story with powerful words and bold colors! Reflect, create and connect to your personal story through freestyle, stream of conscious style writing exercises. Each week you will focus on a different theme and have a piece of writing and a piece of art at the end of each session.

Body Shift Elements Class

Town Lake YMCA 1100 W. Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX, United States

The Elements class takes place every 2nd Saturday of the month from 2:30-4:30pm at the Town Lake YMCA in the large group exercise room on the first floor.

$5 – $20

Body Shift Foundations Class

McBeth Recreation Center 2401 Columbus Dr., Austin, TX, United States

Foundations is a class for people of all unique mental and physical characteristics. Each class will explore ideas like developing body awareness, non-verbal communication, understanding of time/rhythm and choice making to support students in the discovery of their own movement language. Students will have the opportunity to awaken their creativity, notice habitual movement patterns in order to expand movement possibilities, and have a lot of fun in the process.

$5 – $20

Call for Art: Return to the Water

Imagine Art 2830 Real Street, Austin, TX, United States

RETURN TO THE WATER encourages artists to ponder the wonders of water and submit artwork reflective of its multi-dimensional gift. Nature scenes (Lakes, Rivers, Streams), Boats, Tones of Blues, Meditations on Ocean Waves, Baptisms for the Soul and Inner Depths, Aquatic Abstractions.

Call for Art: IOD Calendar

Institute on Disability (IOD) 10 West Edge Drive, Suite 101, Durham, NH, United States

The University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability (IOD) is currently inviting artists to submit artwork for its 2020 Calendar. For the past 20 years, the IOD has produced beautiful, full-color calendars featuring 13 original works of art coupled with inspirational quotes. This is a wonderful opportunity to share your talent on a global scale.

Speaking Advocates: Summer Daze

AGE Building 3710 Cedar Street, Room 101, Austin, TX, United States

Join the Speaking Advocates this month to share summertime adventure stories. Anything from childhood summer camp to exciting vacations and more!

Call for Art: Opulent Mobility 2019

Dora Stern Gallery 544 Freeman St,, City of Orange, NJ, United States

Submission deadline: June 30, 2019* Opulent Mobility is accepting artwork that re-imagines disability.  Opulent Mobility is accepting 2-D and sculptural artwork, music files, and performances on video/film. The challenge is to imagine a world where mobility, disability, and access are not merely functional, but opulent.

$20.00

Call for Art: LEAD Conference Agenda Cover

The Kennedy Center Office of VSA and Accessibility is seeking artwork by artists and designers with disabilities for the cover of the 2019 LEAD® conference agenda book.

The Lion and The Pirate Open Mic

Malvern Books 613 W. 29th Street, Austin, TX, United States

Share a story, poem, song, or other talent in a fun and supportive neighborhood bookstore!

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Veterans – Ink Stick Project Writing Class

Apache Arts & Craft Center 761st Tank Battalion and 62nd Street, Bldg 2337, Fort Hood, TX, United States

This four-week course is designed to help current and prior service members tell their stories. This class will give you the tools to write about your experiences or to express the truths you have learned in a life built on service. We will focus on fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Call for Art: Governor’s Committee Poster Competition

Disability Employment Awareness Month is celebrated in Texas every October. The Texas Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities produces a colorful poster for display in businesses, government offices and schools. The posters are intended to spark a conversation about employment of people with disabilities. Artwork for the poster is selected by a submission and judging process and is open to any Texas artist with a disability.

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Stand Up for Mental Health

AGE Building 3710 Cedar Street, Room 101, Austin, TX, United States

Learn stand-up comedy with comic and counselor, David Granirer. Specifically for people with addiction or mental health issues.

$35
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