Do you love to cook or are you looking to learn? Curious about non-visual techniques to learn kitchen sills? We're got the course for you!
“Meet Me in the Kitchen,” is a five week-course designed to empower LightHouse students with the non-visual techniques needed to prepare and present delicious meals independently. This course is created…
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LightHouse’s Connections Department is recruiting fitness volunteers. This November, there will be Fitness volunteer recruitment events in Santa Rosa, San Francisco and Berkeley. Do you like getting outside, getting your heart rate up, or just generally staying healthy? This is the role for you! Fitness volunteers work with blind or low vision individuals who…
Read More Spread the Word! We’re Recruiting Fitness Volunteers!
[ngg src=galleries ids=23 display=basic_thumbnail override_thumbnail_settings=1 thumbnail_width=400 thumbnail_height=300 thumbnail_crop=0]On Saturday, October 5, over 200 marchers and volunteers traveled from all over the San Francisco Bay Area to the Marin Vista Point to participate in LightHouse’s 2nd Annual White Cane Day March across the Golden Gate Bridge. Blind, low vision, deafblind and sighted marchers alike, all…
Read More We Had a Fabulous White Cane Day, and the Celebration of the White Cane Continues
Where: LightHouse headquarters located at 1155 Market St, 10th Floor, San Francisco - Directions to LightHouse San Francisco
When: Wednesday, November 13, from 11:30 AM to 3:30 PM
Cost: The cost is $50 per person, which includes lunch.
Why: This is a gathering of blind travelers nationally and internationally, coming together to learn and share tips and tricks from each other. Rideshare and autonomous…
Read More LightHouse and Mike May Present the 2024 Blind Travel Summit, 11/13
On September 28, join LightHouse in celebrating the Cantonese, Mandarin and Spanish speaking communities, along with the African American community, through personal narratives, cultural cuisine and inspiring music at Journey to Community, A Multicultural Event.
This event is hosted by LightHouse’s multicultural committee, The Cultural Engagement Project. LightHouse Adult Program Specialist Sabrina Bolus chatted with us…
Sumérgete en nuestro taller en línea y descubre herramientas esenciales de accesibilidad en iOS diseñadas para hispanohablantes. Aprende a dominar VoiceOver, explorar mejoras para baja visión y utilizar aplicaciones de lupa para navegar tu dispositivo iOS con confianza e independencia.
¡Visita nuestro canal ahora para acceder a este valioso recurso y mejorar tus habilidades tecnológicas…
Dr. Truyet Tran, LightHouse’s Low Vision Optometrist, will be offering two info sessions about eye health and low vision exams this September.
The Importance of Eye Health for Your Overall Well-Being (online)
Wednesday, September 11, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Join LightHouse’s Low Vision optometrist, Dr. Truyet Tran, as she discusses the link between eye health…
Maps deepen understanding, broaden perspectives, and encourage engagement with our world. However, people who are blind or visually impaired do not have equal access to maps that the sighted population often takes for granted. As one of the few places in the world—and one of the best—producing high-quality tactile maps, the MAD Lab is…
Read More Invitation to “Hands On Mapping: Introduction to Tactile Cartography”, 9/7
On August 29, LightHouse will hold a free, audio-described screening of “Baldy for the Blind”, a documentary about a group of blind hikers attempting to summit Mount Baldy, which has an elevation of 10,000 feet.
Directly after the screening, a Q&A with hiker Melissa Hudson, director Drea Castro and mountain guide Chris Lynch will be…
Our White Cane Day march across the Golden Gate Bridge is this Saturday, October 5! We are so excited to welcome a historic number of participants to this year’s celebration. Due to a high number of participants, limited shuttle space and LightHouse provided lunches, registration for shuttle services and picnic lunch is closed. However, if…
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