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"The Chair Is Not Me" Art Show with Suzie Cappa Arts Center
Friday & Saturday • 9:00AM-5:00PM Private Dining Room
The Chair is Not Me is a collection of poems written, and illustrated by artists of diverse abilities, to inspire people to think about, learn from, and connect to people who are diversely abled. JJ realized the need to speak and teach about disabilities following an experience at a grocery store in the 1980s. A little boy shopping with his mother saw JJ and asked, “How come that man can’t walk?” When his mother replied, “Be quiet. Don’t bother him,” JJ approached them and offered to explain his disability. He reminded the mother, “If they don’t ask, they won’t learn.” He wanted the child to think it was okay to talk to someone with a disability. He also wants families that have children with disabilities to encourage children to find their voices, love themselves, and speak up and out about their disabilities.
FLUTTER PRODUCTIONS
Flutter Productions, part of the Black Hills Works family, creates opportunities for performers of all-abilities to soar, challenging the perception of people with disabilities and creating a new creative community in which performers - with or without disabilities -come together to create works that celebrate the human spirit. flutterproductions.com.
SUZIE CAPPA ARTS CENTER
Suzie Cappa Art Center, part of the Black Hills Works family, is a non-profit art studio and gallery located in downtown Rapid City; where artists of all abilities create, exhibit, and sell their work. We believe that disability is not a boundary; that all people can be creative in a supportive environment. The artists receive proceeds from the sales of their work and contribute to the cultural and economic life of the Rapid City community. suziecappaart.com
