The Disability and Deaf Cultural Center (D Center) grand opening celebration will be on Friday, April 5, 4:30-7:30pm! We are located in Mary Gates Hall room 024, on the UW Seattle campus. All are invited!
The grand opening will be an informal gathering where everyone will get to meet some new wonderful people in our community and have free food! We will be offering gluten-free and vegetarian options.
D Center staff Lee and Christine will be giving some remarks and comments regarding the D Center’s missions and what we are looking forward to. Remarks will take place 4:30-4:45pm and again at 6:15-6:30pm.
Our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/354534267994149/
Our website: http://depts.washington.edu/dcenter/wordpress/
ACCESSIBILITY NEEDS: This event provides ASL interpreters and captioning. This space is wheelchair accessible. You may locate the elevator on the left when entering Mary Gates. This event will be fragrance-free. Here is a link for suggestions to be fragrance free: http://www.peggymunson.com/mcs/fragrancefree.html Baking soda will be available at the space.
To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at: 206.543.6450 (voice), 206.543.6452 (TTY), 206.685.7264 (fax), or email at dso@u.washington.edu. The University of Washington makes every effort to honor disability accommodation requests. Requests can be responded to most effectively if received as far in advance of the event as possible, preferably at least 10 days.
No flash photography will be taken at the event. Some of these pictures will be posted on Facebook as well as the D Center website. If there are any questions or concerns, please email dcenter@uw.edu.
Some other reminders include: The D Center has an Interpreter Request form. This form is available to request for ASL interpreting, Deaf-Blind interpreting and/or captioning. This request is a great way to create accessibility for folks. Any registered organizations or groups at the UW are eligible to apply for this request. The form to request for interpreting is found here: http://depts.washington.edu/dcenter/wordpress/?page_id=243 At the link of the form also includes a detailed policy list that we will abide by. Please let us know if you have any questions! Please forward widely.
The D Center also has a workshop/event ideas call. We will present these events during Spring Quarter. We welcome all ideas from anywhere (outside of Washington state too). The application may be found here: http://depts.washington.edu/dcenter/wordpress/?page_id=60 and it is due April 5, the same day as our opening!
I hope to see you all there at the Grand Opening!!
Christine Liao
Media and Publications Coordinator
D Center at the University of Washington
