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Deaf Café

ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus

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A floral watercolor work in progress. Two additional pieces of paper with more abstract watercolor shapes of repeating lines and circles lie beside the floral watercolor.
Mar 26, 2023 2:45 PM
Wexner Center for the Arts

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

Registration is currently full. To be added to the waitlist, please email Helyn Marshall at hmarshall@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890.

View our current COVID-19 protocols.

ACCESSIBILITY
ASL interpretation 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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Join us for a cross-disability community gallery tour and artmaking session, organized with Art Possible Ohio for ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus.

Deaf Café is an accessible experience for anyone with or without disabilities who is interested in sensory exploration of the arts beyond hearing. Enjoy an ASL-interpreted tour of our current exhibition Meditation Ocean with a gallery educator, followed by a guided artmaking workshop with local self-taught artist Mania Drosak.

Light, dietary-inclusive refreshments will be provided in the café after the tour, during the making session, which will conclude at 4:15 PM. Come share food, drink, and conversation following the ReelAbilities screening of No Bone: Scars of Survival.

Deaf Café is free to attend, with registration limited to 15 participants. Registration closes March 24.

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

IMAGE CAPTION
Untitled floral watercolor, courtesy of Mania Drosak.

More about ReelAbilities

ReelAbilities is a groundbreaking film festival that promotes awareness and appreciation of lives, stories, and artistic expressions of people with disabilities, all through the easily accessible artform of film. Learn more about the festival on Art Possible Ohio’s website.

"I cannot change my disabilities and see them as part of what makes me unique."
Mania Drosak

About the Artist

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Deaf Café teaching artist Mania Drosak was born hearing, to Deaf parents. After having an illness as a toddler, she gradually lost more hearing and is now a Deaf adult. Drosak proudly has two Deaf children herself. Growing up hard of hearing and wearing hearing aids in the 1980s and 90s, she says she certainly didn’t fit in with her hearing peers, yet she was not Deaf enough for her family. An early diagnosis of ADHD was another isolating factor of her youth, and art was therapy for her loneliness.

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Organized in partnership with Art Possible Ohio.

ART & RESILIENCE PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Crane Family Foundation
Cardinal Health
Ohio State Energy Partners

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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Past Film/Video

No Bone: Scars of Survival

(Marc Schiller, 2020)

ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus
Sun, Mar 26, 2023
A dimly lit gallery space with four large screens projecting scuba divers meditating among coral reefs. Three visitors sit in meditation on round cushions on the floor.
Past Exhibitions

Meditation Ocean Constellation: Meditation Ocean

Sat, Feb 11, 2023 - Sun, Jul 9, 2023
Multiple Dates/Times Available
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Past Education

Deaf Café

Mar 26, 2023 2:45 PM EST
Wexner Center for the Arts

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

Registration is currently full. To be added to the waitlist, please email Helyn Marshall at hmarshall@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890.

View our current COVID-19 protocols.

ACCESSIBILITY
ASL interpretation 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