VSA Presents "Motion Disabled" December 3, 2010

Friday, Dec. 3, 2010
9:00 a.m. – midnight
Verizon Center Outdoor Video Marquee
Corner of 7th St. NW & G St. NW
Washington, DC 20004

Running time: 30 seconds, interspersed with Verizon Center advertisements.

VSA, the international organization on arts and disability, will celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Dec. 3 with a larger than life screening of Simon Mckeown’s groundbreaking video installation Motion Disabled. Seventeen countries around the world will also be screening the work.

This mesmerizing installation explores the uniqueness of each person’s physicality and challenges conventional ideas of motion.

The International Day of Persons with Disabilities was instituted by the United Nations in 1992 to encourage support for disability rights around the world. For more information, please visit www.facebook.com/vsa123.

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