Disability Awareness Week and Pride Week 2007

DISABILITY AWARENESS WEEK

Activities include Dance for All Bodies and Abilities (noon-1 p.m. Oct. 15, Main Theatre), featuring the Dandelion Dancetheater; Accessible Technology Faire (11:30-1:30 p.m. Oct. 16, MU II and Garrison Room, Memorial Union); guest speaker Catherine Campisi, former director of the California Department of Rehabilitation (noon-1 p.m. Oct. 18, Mee Room, MU); and Disability Faire (11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 19, Silo Courtyard), featuring service dog demonstrations. Complete schedule: www.dateline.ucdavis.edu/dl_detail.lasso?id=9757.

PRIDE WEEK 2007

Activities include Kickoff Event on the Quad (11 a.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 15); keynote speaker Cherrie Moraga, poet, playwright and essayist, (7 p.m. Oct. 15, Freeborn Hall), reading her work that reflects her emerging consciousness as a Chicana lesbian; Violence and Sexual Assault within the LGBT Community (noon-1 p.m. Oct. 17, LGBT Resource Center); RiSE UP and Resist! march through campus (noon Oct. 18). Complete schedule: lgbcenter.ucdavis.edu.

Media Resources

Dave Jones, Dateline, 530-752-6556, dljones@ucdavis.edu

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