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Friday, February 26, 2021

Date:

February 26

Location:

Teleconference

Details:

Weekly Wrap Up: 11am ET, 8am PT, 6am HT

It's Friday, that means the weekend is near, and it's the last day of work for most. Celebrate the end of the week with your fellow community members with some lively chatter and fun. Meet new people, re-acquaint with old friends, and give yourself 60 minutes of smiles and good conversation.

CCLVI Coffee Break: 11am ET, 8am PT, 6am HT

Come sip some coffee, tea, or whatever keeps you going on a Friday morning! Join Kathy and Tom for a relaxing chat to prepare for the weekend.

Sponsored by Council of Citizens with Low Vision International

Friday Crafty Gab: 1pm ET, 10am PT, 8am HT

Grab a seat, prop your feet and get ready to meet new friends!!
A place where we share our thoughts, ideas, and viewpoints as well as our crafty adventures. Looking forward to meeting all of you!!

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Descriptive Teleconference Tour: 2PM ET, 11AM HT, 9AM HT

Descriptive Teleconference Tours offer in-depth verbal descriptions of artworks and opportunities for group discussion over the phone. February's tour will be a look back at the special exhibition Sincerely Yours: Treasures of the Queen City, continued from the December 2020 tour.

Apple Presentation – Time Check, Part 1: 3pm ET, 12pm PT, 10am HT

Join Apple Teacher Matt Vollbrecht and the TTJ Team as they explain how to use an Apple Watch with Voiceover. Learn how to select the right size Apple Watch for you, then learn about how to set it up with Voiceover. Learn how to view and change watch faces, navigate content, get quick access to the information that matters most, and more.

Sponsored by The Tech Juggernaut www.ttjtech.net

Happy Hour Cardio: 3:30pm ET, 12:30pm PT, 10:30am HT

Come and have fun with Leslie for an enthusiastic ride or walk on your cardio machine of choice. Whether using the stationary bike, treadmill, or elliptical, you don’t need to be advanced to join this class.

Blindness Plus Other Disabilities Equals Courage and Overcoming: 4pm ET, 1pm PT, 11am HT

This is a call for those who are blind with another disability. We will share with and encourage one another in a supportive and respectful environment.

Disclaimer: The purpose of this group is for peer support only. It is not a therapy group nor will it be facilitated by a health care professional serving in a professional capacity and does not purport to provide mental health services.

Line Dancing: 5pm ET, 2pm PT, 12pm HT

Line dancing can be a very effective exercise routine. Needed: shoes with a little slide to them, non-carpeted floor if possible, and be ready to have fun! If you’d like to get an understanding of some of the terminology before joining in, check out the Vicki Jackson Youtube video on basic steps for line dancing: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLY9Ppq0ApxetCoRuJGWLvftA6gKvam72

In Perspective podcast: 5pm ET, 2pm PT, 12pm HT

Join us as we record the In Perspective podcast where we build bridges and empower through interviews and conversation. This week's guest: John Leboutillier, former no-Trump conservative New York City Congressman

Blind Health, Beauty, and Fashion: 6pm ET, 3pm PT, 1pm HT

This week we talk all About Breast Cancer and how to prevent it.

The Joy of Music: 7:30pm ET, 4:30pm PT, 2:30pm HT

Come and join your friends for fun with music. Let’s have some fun discussions about that thing in our life that brings us so many emotions while evoking so much joy in our hearts.

BITS Chat Meeting: 8pm ET, 5pm PT, 3pm HT

These chat meetings are informal opportunities for members and friends to get together in an open chat setting. If you have a technology question, you may find the answer you are looking for in the BITS chat meeting.

Sponsored by Blind Information Technology Specialists

It’s Play Time: 9pm ET, 6pm PT, 4pm HT

Meka and Cindy welcome you to join in for another fun Friday night filled with games and laughter.

Event Category:

Community Events

Saturday, February 27, 2021

Date:

February 27

Location:

Teleconference

Details:

Weekend Wind Down: 11am ET, 8am PT, 6am HT

Grab your favorite morning beverage and let’s join Danette as we share an hour together, winding down from a long week.

Angel Eyes Class: 12pm ET, 9am PT, 7am HT

Clear, simplified movement to fun, upbeat rhythms makes for a winning, sweat-inducing cardio workout every time. Add in light weights to get those muscles popping and body will get movin’.

Sponsored by Angel Eyes Fitness and Nutrition

Healthy Living Encouragement: 2pm ET, 11am PT, 9am HT

If you're pursuing health and well-being and you'd like to share support with like-minded friends, we'd love to have you join us for an hour of encouragement, resources, ideas, and fun. There is no one right way to well-being, so we welcome all, no matter your path. In January we will be discussing the book, Atomic Habits by James Clear (DB92857).

Disclaimer: The purpose of this group is for peer support only. It is not a therapy group nor will it be facilitated by a health care professional and does not purport to provide mental health services.

Exploring NVDA – Google Forms: 3pm ET, 12pm PT, 10am HT

This week we will be discussing how to create forms using google forms!

Google forms is a tool to create and manage forms for people to fill out. So, take a step with me and let’s take a safari into the wonderful world of google forms. For ease of use we will use the chrome browser. Each week we will go through the ins and outs of NVDA, a free and open source screen reader for windows. as well as NVDA, we will take a deep dive into windows products such as the office suite and windows ecosystem.

To grab your very own copy of NVDA please visit: https://www.nvaccess.org/download/

If you are looking for help with NVDA such as user guides go here: https://www.nvaccess.org/get-help/

Finally, if you are looking for addons to help enhance your NVDA experience go here: https://addons.nvda-project.org/index.en.html

Psychic Development: 4pm ET, 1pm PT, 11am HT

Welcome to week four of the intuition development class. This is our second of two parts on developing clairvoyance. Clairvoyance means Psychic site. As we learned last week, this is accomplished by using your third eye. Contact Julia at mysticmilieu@gmail.com.

Let’s Talk Finance: 5pm ET, 2pm PT, 12pm HT

Let’s talk Finance
All of us face the “f” and “M” and “c” words. Yes, finance, money, and credit. In this zoom meeting, let’s share our knowledge and wisdom on these subjects. This week Lane Waters from ACB joins us to continue our discussion on investment accounts.

Grief Journey: 6pm ET, 3pm PT, 1pm HT

Have you lost someone important in your life? Many of us are experiencing a journey of grieving. Please join us to share and support each other, at whatever point we are in our journey.

Saturday Night Live Hangouts – Black History Month Conversations: 8PM ET, 5PM PT, 3PM HT

Join us alongside ACB’s MultiCultural Affairs Committee and Will Burley in Black History month conversations. In the first hour, Sandra Sermons, Mary Haroyan, Pamela Hill and Cheryl Cumings will share the origins of Black History month and highlight contributions of a few Blind African-Americans. And in the second hour, social justice, disability and L.G.B.T.Q.U.I.A+ advocate Will will explore and discuss possibilities for survival, sustainability and care during COVID-19 rooted in the law of attraction. We invite you to learn, ask questions and share.

BITS Chat Meeting: 8pm ET, 5pm PT, 3pm HT

Sponsored by Blind Information Technology Specialists

Karaoke: 9pm ET, 6pm PT, 4pm HT

Meka and Cindy are besties who love to go to Karaoke together, but now they live 2300 miles apart and there’s a pandemic. So they’re opening their Zoom Room for some crazy singing fun and hope you’ll decide to join in. Get your karaoke song queued up on your computer, grab your favorite beverage of choice, and whether you come to sing or not, take part in some community time.

Event Category:

Community Events