"Enjoy live music, dance, art, demonstrations, and more."
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Watch performances and learn unique adaptive skills taught by artists and other experts with disabilities. The Aquarium’s festival program will showcase the talents of people with disabilities, including:
- Team Hotwheelz, a wheelchair dance team featuring Ali Stroker, a finalist on The Glee Project this summer on Oxygen, and Chelsie Hill and Mia Schaikewitz, who are featured on the hit reality-documentary series Push Girls on Sundance Channel.
- Love in Motion, a sign language choir;
- Dat Nguyen, a world music guitarist who is blind;
- Kodi Lee, a singer who is blind and has autism;
- ARC Handbell Choir; and
- other inspiring performing artists.
Along with these music and dance performances, the Aquarium will feature local artisans, including mouth-stick art demonstrations, as well as storytellers and booths by various organizations featuring everything from art displays to games for people of all abilities.
Diveheart will lead adaptive SCUBA demonstrations, showing that people of all abilities can enjoy the sport.
More activities include:
- FREE creative workshop classes lasting thirty to forty-five minutes per session,
- Singing in sign language with Love in Motion,
- Wheel chair art with artist Tommy Hollenstein,
- Hat painting with Michael Seale Jr., and
- Adaptive dance with Team Hotwheelz and Theatre Bethune.
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Festival Honoree:
They will also be honoring the late Zina Bethune, founder and artistic director of Theatre Bethune. Just weeks after she participated in last year’s Festival of Human Abilities, Bethune passed away in a tragic car accident. She will be honored at 1:40 p.m. on Sunday, January 27, followed by a performance by Theatre Bethune’s Infinite Dreams at 2:30 p.m. Infinite Dreams is the first participatory dance program created by a professional dance troupe for youth with disabilities.9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Aquarium of the Pacific
100 Aquarium Way
Long Beach, CA
(562) 590-3100
COST
$25.95 adult (12+)
$22.95 senior (62+)
$14.95 child (3-11), &
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More about the Aquarium of the Pacific:
The Aquarium of the Pacific, a nonprofit institution, is dedicated to conserving and building nature and nature's services by building the interactions between and among peoples. Beyond its animal exhibits, the Aquarium is a community gathering place where diverse cultures and the arts are celebrated and a place where important topics facing our planet are explored.
Disclosure: This is a non-sponsored post. All images (c) Aquarium of the Pacific and used with permission.
