Festival of Human Abilities

Provisional festival schedule provided as a courtesy.
Events may be weather dependant and can change without notice.
If you have any questions, please call (562) 590-3100, ext 0.
Festival of Human Abilities
6th Annual
January 24-25, 2009
Festival Hours: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Welcome to the 6th annual Festival of Human Abilities, celebrating the creative spirit of people
with disabilities. Enjoy dance, music, storytelling, and interactive displays that showcase the
talents of people from diverse backgrounds and abilities as you explore the wonders of the
Aquarium of the Pacific. And for the first time see Cody Unser, who is paralyzed, scuba diving at
3:45p.m. in our Blue Cavern exhibit.
* Festival Programming
Saturday, January 24, 2009
9:30 a.m. – Whales: A Journey with Giants Show / Great Hall
9:45 a.m. – Blue Cavern Dive Show / Great Hall
10:00 a.m. – W elcome to Festival of H uman Abilities-- emcee Glenn McIntyre and
service dog Zander* / Blue Cavern
10:05 a.m. – Love in Motion Signing Choir * / Blue Cavern
10:25 a.m. – Bethune Theatredanse – dance presentation* / Blue Cavern
10:30 a.m. – Tropical Reef Dive Show / Tropical Pacific Gallery 2nd Floor
10:30 a.m. – Children’s Interactive Program/ Marine Life Theater
10:50 a.m. – Love in Motion Signing Choir * / Blue Cavern
10:45 a.m. – Sea Otters Show / Northern Pacific Gallery 2nd Floor
11:00 a.m. – Sharks Show / Shark Lagoon
11:15 a.m. - Storytelling with W heely W illy* / classroom- enter via H arbor Terrace
11:15 a.m. – Blue Cavern Dive Show / Great Hall
11:15 a.m. – Seals & Sea Lions Show / Southern California/Baja Gallery 2nd Floor
11:30 a.m. – Kodi and the Chill Bodi’s – music band* / Shark Lagoon
11:35 a.m. – 10th Anniversary Tribute / Great Hall
11:45 a.m. – Cityzen- music band* / Blue Cavern
12:00 p.m. – Tommy Hollenstein wheelchair painting* / H arbor Terrace
12:00 p.m. – Tropical Reef Dive Show / Tropical Pacific Gallery 2nd Floor
12:05 p.m. – Cityzen- music band* / Blue Cavern
12:35 p.m. – Whales: A Journey with Giants Show / Great Hall
12:45 p.m. – Blue Cavern Dive Show / Great Hall
1:00 p.m. - Hip H op W heelchair Dance by Colours ‘N’ M otion* / Blue Cavern
1:15 p.m. – Seals & Sea Lions Show / Southern California/Baja Gallery 2nd Floor
Provisional festival schedule provided as a courtesy.
Events may be weather dependant and can change without notice.
If you have any questions, please call (562) 590-3100, ext 0.
1:30 p.m. – Children’s Storytelling --Michaelangelo the Diver by Dana
Commandatore* / W atershed Classroom
1:30 p.m. – Tropical Reef Dive Show / Tropical Pacific Gallery 2nd Floor
1:30 p.m. – 10th Anniversary Tribute / Great Hall
1:40 p.m. -
ARC H andbell Choir* / Blue Cavern
2:00 p.m. – Sharks Show / Shark Lagoon
2:05 p.m. – Cody Unser short film*/ Great Hall
2:15 p.m. – Blue Cavern Dive Show / Great Hall
2:15 p.m. – Sea Otters Show / Northern Pacific Gallery 2nd Floor
2:20 p.m. -- Keynote Presentation: Cody Unser* / Honda Theater
2:30 p.m. -
Hip H op W heelchair Dance by Colours ‘N’ Motion* / Blue Cavern
2:30 p.m. – Service Dog Demonstration with Glenn McIntyre and Zander*/
W atershed Classroom
3:00 p.m. – Tommy Hollenstein wheelchair painting* / H arbor Terrace
3:00 p.m. – Whales: A Journey with Giants Show / Great Hall
3:00 p.m. – Tropical Reef Dive Show / Tropical Pacific Gallery 2nd Floor
3:10 p.m. -
Kodi and the Chill Bodi’s – music band* / Blue Cavern
3:15 p.m. – Seals & Sea Lions Show / Southern California/Baja Gallery 2nd Floor
3:30 p.m. – Storytelling- A puppy helps a paralyzed police officer* / W atershed
Classroom
3:45 p.m. – Blue Cavern Dive Show featuring paralyzed scuba diver Cody Unser* /
Great Hall
4:00 p.m. – Exbound featuring No Boundaries & Triana Moon – music performers* /
Blue Cavern
4:00 p.m. – Sea Otters Show / Northern Pacific Gallery 2nd Floor
4:15 p.m. – Tropical Reef Dive Show / Tropical Pacific Gallery 2nd Floor
4:30 p.m. – Exbound featuring No Boundaries & Triana M oon – music performers *
/ Blue Cavern
5:00 p.m. – 10th Anniversary Tribute / Great Hall
Sunday, January 25, 2009
9:30 a.m. – Whales: A Journey with Giants Show / Great Hall
9:45 a.m. – Blue Cavern Dive Show / Great Hall
10:05 a.m. – Love in M otion Signing Choir* / Blue Cavern
Provisional festival schedule provided as a courtesy.
Events may be weather dependant and can change without notice.
If you have any questions, please call (562) 590-3100, ext 0.
10:25 a.m. – Service Dog Demonstration with Glenn McIntyre and Zander*/ Blue
Cavern
10:30 a.m. – Tropical Reef Dive Show / Tropical Pacific Gallery 2nd Floor
10:30 a.m. – Children’s Interactive Program/ Marine Life Theater
10:45 a.m. – Sea Otters Show / Northern Pacific Gallery 2nd Floor
10:50 a.m. – Love in M otion Signing Choir* / Blue Cavern
11:00 a.m. – Sharks Show / Shark Lagoon
11:15 a.m. – Blue Cavern Dive Show / Great Hall
11:15 a.m. – Seals & Sea Lions Show / Southern California/Baja Gallery 2nd Floor
11:30 a.m. – Children’s Interactive Program/ Marine Life Theater
11:35 a.m. – 10th Anniversary Tribute / Great Hall
11:45 a.m. – Kodi and the Chill Bodi’s – music band* /Blue Cavern
12:00 p.m. – Tropical Reef Dive Show / Tropical Pacific Gallery 2nd Floor
12:05 p.m. – Kodi and the Chill Bodi’s – music band* /Blue Cavern
12:30 p.m. – Children’s Storytelling --Michaelangelo the Diver by Dana
Commandatore* / W atershed Classroom
12:35 p.m. – Whales: A Journey with Giants Show / Great Hall
12:45 p.m. – Blue Cavern Dive Show / Great Hall
1:00 p.m. - Hip H op W heelchair Dance by Colours ‘N’ M otion* / Blue Cavern
1:15 p.m. – Seals & Sea Lions Show / Southern California/Baja Gallery 2nd Floor
1:30 p.m. – Live music entertainment* / Shark Lagoon
1:30 p.m. – Tropical Reef Dive Show / Tropical Pacific Gallery 2nd Floor
1:30 p.m. – 10th Anniversary Tribute / Great Hall
1:45 p.m. -
Heritage Award honoring Cody Unser* / Blue Cavern
2:00 p.m. – Sharks Show / Shark Lagoon
2:15 p.m. – Blue Cavern Dive Show / Great Hall
2:15 p.m. – Sea Otters Show / Northern Pacific Gallery 2nd Floor
2:20 p.m. -- Keynote Presentation: Cody Unser* / Honda Theater
2:30 p.m. -
Hip H op W heelchair Dance by Colours ‘N’ M otion* / Blue Cavern
2:30 p.m. – Live music entertainment* / Shark Lagoon
3:00 p.m. – Whales: A Journey with Giants Show / Great Hall
3:00 p.m. – Tropical Reef Dive Show / Tropical Pacific Gallery 2nd Floor
3:10 p.m. -
W orld Music with Bayadera* / Blue Cavern
3:15 p.m. – Seals & Sea Lions Show / Southern California/Baja Gallery 2nd Floor
Provisional festival schedule provided as a courtesy.
Events may be weather dependant and can change without notice.
If you have any questions, please call (562) 590-3100, ext 0.
3:30 p.m. –Storytelling- A puppy helps a paralyzed police officer* / W atershed
Classroom
3:45 p.m. –Blue Cavern Dive Show featuring paralyzed scuba diver Cody Unser* /
Great H all
4:00 p.m. – Sea Otters Show / Northern Pacific Gallery 2nd Floor
4:00 p.m. - W orld Music with Bayadera* / Blue Cavern
4:15 p.m. – Tropical Reef Dive Show / Tropical Pacific Gallery 2nd Floor
4:35 p.m. –- Service Dog Demonstration with Glenn McIntyre and Zander*/ Blue
Cavern
5:00 p.m. – 10th Anniversary Tribute / Great Hall
All programs subject to change and weather dependent.
Demonstrators & Exhibitors/ Great Hall
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Diveheart
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Cody Unser First Step Foundation
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Swim with Mike— Benefiting Physcially Challenged Athletes Fund
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Accessible pinball presented by Disabled Dealer Magazine
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Mouthstick Art Demonstrations & Displays by Ruben Rios, Esvin Rodriguez, Ann Ruth,
and Jose Robledo
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Michael Seale – Art Demonstration & Display
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Tommy Hollenstein – Art Demonstration & Display (Saturday)
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Arts and Services for Disabled— Art Display
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McIntyre and Associates
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CCI (Canine Companions for Independence)
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Colours Wheelchairs
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Exbound/Ex Music— Expanding boundaries through music
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Community Resource Table
Children’s Craft / Outside Tropical Pacific Gallery 2nd Floor
Heritage Award Presentation
Sunday 1:45 p.m. at Blue Cavern
Cody Unser
Provisional festival schedule provided as a courtesy.
Events may be weather dependant and can change without notice.
If you have any questions, please call (562) 590-3100, ext 0.
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In February 1999, Unser was in 6 grade when diagnosed with Transverse Myelitis (TM), a rare and often
paralyzing spinal cord inflammation. In April 1999 she returned home, paralyzed and in a wheelchair but
energized in her quest to build awareness of TM. Today, this 22 year-old Redlands college student is an
experienced SCUBA diver who will become the first person who is paralyzed to SCUBA dive at the
Aquarium of the Pacific. Over the past decade, Unser has helped many others with disabilities and has
served as National Disabilities spokesperson for New Mexico Governor and former presidential candidate
Bill Richardson. Her accomplishments have won national acclaim, including being featured in People
magazine and on CBS 48 Hours. In fall of 1999 the Cody Unser First Step Foundation was created to
generate awareness and research of TM. NASCAR star Bobby Labonte serves as honorary chairman. After
becoming SCUBA diving certified, Unser formed “Operation Deep Down”, a military diving program that
introduces wounded veterans to SCUBA diving as a way to rehabilitate through recreation. In 2001 Unser
announced the formation of a TM research consortium spearheaded by Johns Hopkins Hospital. Unser won
Prudential’s national 2001 “Spirit of Community Award” as one of America’s Top 10 youth volunteers. Unser
has introduced SmashMouth at its 1999 Albuquerque concert, was the guest of Luc Longley at a Phoenix
Suns game, met pop group “N’Sync” in Phoenix, received a citation from the New Mexico Speaker of the
House, and has an ongoing relationship with the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation. For more
information visit http://www.cufsf.org
On Saturday and Sunday, Cody will be making our keynote presentation in Honda Theater at 2:20
p.m. and scuba diving in our Blue Cavern exhibit at 3:45 p.m.
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Sign language interpreters will be available at major presentations and all gallery videos are
closed captioned. Scripts for all major presentations will be available for checkout at information
desk.
Free Audio Tours are available for checkout at the Information Desk for people who
have a visual disability. Please see a Guest Services Representative at the Information
Desk to check out an audio tour.
Behind-the-Scenes Tours are fully accessible and can be booked at the Information Desk.
Extra elevators are available on request: See Information Desk.
Assistance Dog Relief area is located outside the front of the Aquarium. See info desk for
an escort.
If you would like a detailed map of the Festival of Human Abilities events and services,
please request one at the information desk.
Emcee: Glenn McIntyre
The Festival of Human Abilities is a joint project of the Aquarium of the Pacific and McIntyre and
Associates.
Special thanks to Diveheart for partnering with the Aquarium to bring scuba diving opportunities
to people with disabilities.
Provisional festival schedule provided as a courtesy.
Events may be weather dependant and can change without notice.
If you have any questions, please call (562) 590-3100, ext 0.
Special thanks to Mike Steiner of Exbound for his assistance in coordinating several of this
weekend’s musical performances.
Special thanks to Gloria Williams for coordinating signing interpreters.
Festival Sponsors:
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
The Westin Long Beach