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Audio Café

ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus

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Sep 18, 2022 12:45 PM
Wexner Center for the Arts

Free for all audiences (RSVP required via email or phone)

Click here to view our latest COVID-19 protocols.

ACCESSIBILITY

Live audio description will be provided for this event.

We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Accessibility Manager Helyn Marshall at accessibility@wexarts.org or via telephone at (614) 688-3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

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Participate in an artmaking and sensory exploration event—developed in partnership with Art Possible Ohio—during the launch of this year’s ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus! 

Audio Café is an accessible experience, open to all, for anyone with or without disabilities who is interested in sensory exploration of the arts beyond vision. Enjoy an audio-described tour of works from one of our fall exhibitions, Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective, with a gallery educator. After that, take part in a community making session with local writing artist and sensory guide Elizabeth Sammons.

Light, dietary-inclusive refreshments will be provided in the café after the tour, during the making session. The event will conclude at 2:15 PM.

Audio Café is free to attend, with registration limited to 15 participants. Registration closes September 15.  

Contact Accessibility Manager Helyn Marshall by email at accessibility@wexarts.org or by phone at (614) 688-3890 to register. Transportation access support—determined as part of the registration process—will be provided as needed.   

After Audio Café, you can join us for a virtual chat in our Film/Video Theater with award-winning, disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport at 2:30 PM. Stay for a free screening of his documentary I Didn’t See You There—presented in partnership with Art Possible Ohio for ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus. The film will screen with open captions and open audio description at 3:15 PM.

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Elizabeth Sammons, photo: Sophia Kiselova.

More about the writing artist

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When Elizabeth Sammons was born blind, doctors told her parents to institutionalize her. Instead, her parents raised her with a sense of self-respect and wonder, often stemming from the scripture and fiction they read together. After graduating high school at age 16, Sammons became an exchange student in Switzerland and ultimately completed her MA in journalism from Ohio State. She then worked as a Peace Corps volunteer and nonprofit manager in Eastern Europe and Central Asia before returning to her native Ohio. She speaks three languages fluently and strives in each to use the respect and wonder her parents left her. 

Since 2018, Sammons has been pursuing writing full time. Whether writing poetry, nonfiction, journalism, or long fiction, she wants her work to reflect the voice of a globalist intrigued by the diversity of our world and human experience—with emphasis on the use of all our senses in discovering many truths. Sammons published her first novel, The Lyra and the Cross, in 2018 and has more on the way! Her nonfiction has been featured in publications including Ethics in Journalism, Plough Quarterly, and Columbus Dispatch. For more, see Wordgathering's interview with Sammons and her presentation for Art Possible Ohio on YouTube.  

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Organized in partnership with Art Possible Ohio

ART & RESILIENCE PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Institute of Museum and Library Services

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Greater Columbus Arts Council 
The Wexner Family
National Endowment for the Arts 
Ohio Arts Council
L Brands Foundation
The Columbus Foundation
Nationwide Foundation
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Mike and Paige Crane
Axium Packaging
CampusParc
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams
President Kristina M. Johnson and Mrs. Veronica Meinhard
Nancy Kramer
Larry and Donna James
Lisa Barton
Johanna DeStefano
Jones Day
Alex and Renée Shumate

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In a reflection of an unmarked storefront is a grayish silhouette of a man using an electric wheelchair. Behind the man is a spectacular red-and-yellow circus tent.
Past Film/Video

I Didn’t See You There

(Reid Davenport, 2022)

ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus

Q&A with Reid Davenport at 2:30 PM
Sun, Sep 18, 2022
Interior view of a circular enclosure made of plywood, with photographs hung on the interior panels and a wooden chair placed next to a white column.
Past Exhibitions

Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective

Fri, Sep 16, 2022 - Fri, Dec 30, 2022
Multiple Dates/Times Available
Still from the film I Didn't See You There. Filmmaker Reid Davenport, who is in a wheelchair, is seen in silhouette in the foreground, in the reflection of wood-framed glass doors. A red circus tent looms large behind him.
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Q&A: Art Possible Ohio's Megan Fitze

Wed, Aug 31, 2022
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Past Education

Audio Café

Sep 18, 2022 12:45 PM EST
Wexner Center for the Arts

Free for all audiences (RSVP required via email or phone)

Click here to view our latest COVID-19 protocols.

ACCESSIBILITY

Live audio description will be provided for this event.

We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Accessibility Manager Helyn Marshall at accessibility@wexarts.org or via telephone at (614) 688-3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

Become a Member