Seeing with Photography		Crooked Beauty		GIMP		Music for Autism		To be Seen
Practical Guide to Autism		Infinity Dance Tehater		Flame		Kids Club Art Exhibit

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	SEEING WITH PHOTOGRAPHY – Schedule The JCC in Manhattan On view: Jan 28 – Feb 2 Talk with artists: Sat, Jan 30, 2:30pm Free admission Seeing with Photography Collective is a group of photographers based in New York City who are visually impaired, sighted and totally blind. Coming from diverse backgrounds and life experiences, we share an awareness of sight loss, along with the determination to dialogue and integrate our images into a more universal context. Sighted assistants focus and compose the view camera’s frame directed by the blind artist. Then, in a darkened room, we leave the camera's shutter open as we slowly paint our sitter with a small flashlight ...human scaled exposures, lasting many minutes, rather than the instant shutter click we typically hear. Luminous distortions, blurred or glowing forms result from the technique, not digital altering. The nature of our visual limitations can provoke any viewer or perceiver of these portraits…Is less, more? What is seeing? What does one choose to see? Click here for schedule for ALL films & events.
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	CROOKED BEAUTY – Schedule NYU 19 University Place, room #102 Fri. Jan. 29, 4pm Register Following screening of excerpt from the work-in-progress film, Jonah Bossewitch, Ashley McNamara, and Annie Robinson of the Icarus Project will discuss viewing "mental illness" as a disability versus The Icarus Project's vision of a new culture and language that resonates with their actual experience of "mental illness". In this panel, questions of creativity and "madness", divers-ability and normality, mutual aid, and biomedical psychiatry will be explored. For more information about The Icarus Project, please visit http://theicarusproject.net. Click here for schedule for ALL films & events.

	GIMP – Schedule The JCC in Manhattan Sat, Jan 30, 4:30pm Free Admission Choreographer Heidi Latsky presents a roster of performers who embody unique physical virtuosity. Outstanding technique, raw beauty and the physical poetry of risk- taking, propel the artists and the audience into the collective unknown. GIMP examines the uncompromising ways we are often identified or defined by our physicality; an elegant landscape of portraits, illuminating limbs to accentuate uncommon beauty, mystery and grace; the ways in which our bodies support and rebel. GIMP confronts the audience with their preconceptions, challenging us to re-think accepted notions about dance, performance and body image. An exploration, that dives into the heart of difference, voyeurism and the unexpected. Click here for schedule for ALL films & events.
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	MUSIC FOR AUTISM – Schedule The JCC in Manhattan Sun, Jan 31, 11am Register An Interactive, "Autism Friendly" Concert with Tony Award Winner Jarrod Emick and Singer & Guitar Player Andrew Ross. This concert has been generously underwritten by James E. Kirk. Click here for schedule for ALL films & events.
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	TO BE SEEN – Schedule The JCC in Manhattan Sun, Jan 31, 1pm Register An original theater piece written and performed by The Creative Alternatives NY (CANY) and The JCC in Manhattan's Adaptations Drama Group. Click here for schedule for ALL films & events.

	PRACTICAL GUIDE TO AUTISM – Schedule JCC of Mid-Westchester Mon, Feb 1, 7pm Author discussion & book signing with Dr. Fred Volkmar. Click here for schedule for ALL films & events.

	INFINITY DANCE THEATER – Schedule Coler-Goldwater Hospital Sat. Jan. 30 6:30pm A non-traditional dance company featuring dancers with and without disabilities. Click here for schedule for ALL films & events.
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	FLAME – Schedule JCC of Staten Island Sun. Jan. 31, 1pm FLAME, a group from upstate New York made up of 11 people with developmental/physical disabilities, including autism, Down's syndrome, mental retardation and blindness. Click here for schedule for ALL films & events.
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	KIDS CLUB ART EXHIBIT – Schedule JCC of Staten Island Sat, Jan. 30 Free Admission Featuring self- portraits created by the children of the Kids Club for Special Children. Click here for schedule for ALL films & events.