Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired will host the 2012 Northern California Braille Challenge in collaboration with LightHouse for the Blind, California School for the Blind and Society for the Blind. Braille Challenge is an academic contest for school-age youth in grades 1 to 12 who read Braille. It serves to encourage blind … Continue reading Register by Feb. 3 for 2012 Braille Challenge
The National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute announces the NFB Early Explorers Program. This free program is designed to introduce young blind children (age birth to 7) and their families to the long white cane. Through the program parents will receive the tools, support and confidence needed to become their child’s first cane travel … Continue reading NFB Early Explorers Program
Junior Blind of America’s Student Transition & Enrichment Program (STEP) will offer “Life After High School, Empowerment, Success and You!” for blind and low vision high school students, their teachers and parents. Space is limited. Friday, February 3, 2012 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Orientation Center for the Blind (OCB) 400 Adams Street, Albany, CA … Continue reading STEP Workshop for Blind High School Students
“Healthier Living with Diabetes” is a workshop open to anyone with diabetes or pre-diabetes and the people who care for them. Participants will learn appropriate exercises for strength, flexibility and endurance; healthy eating; relaxation and stress-reduction techniques; medication management; and about working more effectively with healthcare providers. Participants will make weekly action plans, share experiences … Continue reading Free Six-Week Diabetes Management Workshop
Please note: All offices of the LightHouse will be closed for the winter holidays from December 24, 2011, through January 1, 2012.
For many years the LightHouse has supported art exhibitions by artists in our community. The following opportunity will give visually impaired artists the chance to show their work to a larger audience, so we encourage all interested artists to consider submitting their work. The slide exhibition of art by artists with disabilities has been developed … Continue reading Art Slam 2012 Accepting Submissions
Make your reservation for a pre-holiday yoga workshop this Saturday with instructor Nancy Yates. Traditionally, holidays signaled a time for connection with loved ones….a moment to ritualistically pause and enjoy each other and the gifts that love provides. Today, in the midst of the collective “commercialization and restlessness” it is challenging to just pause and … Continue reading Join Us Saturday for Our Monthly Yoga Workshop: ‘Inhabit Now, Now’
Each week the LightHouse is coordinating a group of individuals to meet with their employed counterparts working for the Bay Area’s leading businesses and institutions. Our next jobsite excursion will take place on Wednesday, November 30th. We will be visiting Catherine Kudlick, a UC Davis history professor. We will be using the LightHouse’s office space … Continue reading UC Davis History Professor is Focus of Next LightHouse Jobsite Series Visit
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is intended as an affordable approach to creating rapid transit along Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco’s major north-south transit route, for two miles between Mission and Lombard streets. The San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency is analyzing the environmental impact of three BRT build alternatives and one design variation. They include: • … Continue reading Bus Rapid Transit on Van Ness Avenue – Public Comment on Environmental Impact Accepted through Dec. 19
Maps are an integral aspect of daily life in our society, conveying essential information about the world we live in. Having access to that information is necessary to participate in society and gives people the ability to do what they couldn’t do before. If someone is newly blind or learning a neighborhood from scratch, having … Continue reading LightHouse Seeks Community Feedback for Transit-Mapping Project
