Disability and Aerial Arts
Meeting for the week of June 15 - June 21, 2020
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: Disability and Aerial Arts
Speaker: Sarah Tuberty
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Table of Contents
Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from President Tzviatko:
President Tzviatko
Guests, we are happy to have you join us this week!
As we see it, our flexibility as an online, asynchronous club allows a special type of service to Rotarians around the world: we make it easier for anyone to strive for and maintain 100% attendance. That keeps you engaged with Rotary's events and ideas, and provides a moment of inspiration for devoting your creativity, talents, and resources to good causes.
You are certainly not required to pay anything in order to attend our meetings. However, if you would like to make a small contribution to our service efforts, you are welcome to do so in our secure Happy Dollars section down the page. This could be what you normally pay at your own club's meetings for lunch, for example. Any amount is welcome, but first and foremost, we're happy you've joined us, and hope you will share with others who we are and what we do to help inspire Service Above Self.
And don't forget to fill out our attendance form so you get an email you can pass on to your club's secretary!
The Four Way Test
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships.
Of the things we think, say or do
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Members of the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley from around the world
Happy Birthday!!
Brett Sham (Jun 14)
Caleb LaPlante (Jun 12)
From around the world,
Wishing you all the best, on your birthday and always!
🎂 🎈 🎉 🎁 🍾
Members and guests, consider donating in their honor in our Happy Dollars section below.
Weekly Funny with the Lady of Laughter (LOL)
We believe laughter is an important part of life, and we should all make time to laugh a little. This segment of our meeting is meant to tickle you just enough. These funnies are curated by member Yvonne Kwan, our “Lady of Laughter!”
Orange you glad you're here this week? Here are some citrusy jokes to get you out of a sour mood!
What do you call a dancing pie?
Lemon Merengue!
Why did the orange stop rolling down the hill?
Because it ran out of juice!
Why did the fruit bat eat the orange?
It had appeal!
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
From the 19-ton Savoyarde at the Sacré-Coeur in Paris to replicas of the Liberty Bell that can be found all over the United States, the Paccard family has been making bells since 1796. There are currently three generations of Paccards working side-by-side at the Paccard Fonderie des Cloches in Annecy, France. It’s hard, physical labor. But the Paccards, including 16-year-old Clement, are dedicated to keeping this tradition alive. We visit one of the last remaining bell foundries in the world to see how the Paccards make bronze bells and tune them to perfection.
World of Rotary
Through a Rotarian's Lens
Sometimes a photo can capture an amazing moment. In this section Member Keith Marsh shares his incredible photography!
If you'd like to submit a photo for this section please contact Keith.
To my amazement, this was the first of my photographs published by National Geographic. It was taken in Havana in 2014 while photographing with Canadian Richard Martin. I call it my Cuba selfie taken as a reflection in the chrome bumper of a 1953 Buick. I love the distortions of the old Chevrolet and palms.
Learn Something New
This section is curated by members Shags Shagrin and Rushton Hurley and aims to teach our members and guests something new, fun and useful! If you have any ideas on a fun trick or skill you'd like to share please contact Rushton or Shags.
The IRS Calls You
You may have received messages like the one in this video. It purports to be from the IRS suggesting that there is a lawsuit in motion, but with a little detective work...
Coffee With a Rotarian
A natural part of Rotary is the networking and the fellowship you get out of meeting other Rotarians. Coffee With a Rotarian is a monthly program of our club where we match participating club members for one-on-one virtual (or in some cases in person) coffee meetings, so they can learn more about each other. This program is organized by member Tzviatko Chiderov.
This week we have Ferheen from Santa Clara, CA, USA reporting on a chat with Mark B from Perth, Western Australia
Did you know that Mark B. lives on an off-the-grid farm in Perth, Australia?! Did you also know that he has ALPACAS ON HIS FARM?! I jokingly told Mark that everyone will be dying to have a CWR with him to meet his Alpacas. But I had such a phenomenal coffee with him! We've exchanged many emails but this was the first time I got to talk to him about his life in ""Straya."" I mentioned that I had quite a bit of ""Ozzy"" friends when I was in Japan and they taught me words in Australian English, like ""dunny"" (Google it hehehe).
Mark works for a bank and is a data analytics manager. He tries his best to make sure customers have the best experience :) I got to meet Mark's cute little doggy and his 4 alpacas. We also talked a bit about how he got involved with Rotary and cites his Rotaractor niece Samantha as his inspiration! Thank you so much, Mark! I can't wait to visit you in Straya and live on your farm for a week and shovel alpaca dung at 6am. Haha.
We encourage all club members to participate in Coffee With a Rotarian. You can sign up here!
Relay for Life
Thanks again to everyone who contributed messages, photos, and donations to help with our club's fight against cancer! The money raised ($1122.62) goes to research, education, and programs for patients and caregivers. It makes a difference, and we want to honor all 34 members who took part:
When the event rolls around in October (hopefully), we'll look to get as many of our members who are able to join our team for walking.
Keep spreading hope!
Service Report
Tell us about service you’ve done recently in your community.
Click here to fill out The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley Service Survey
On the first meeting of every month, we feature service reports from club members for the previous month. Thanks for your service everyone!
Help the vulnerable in your community during COVID-19
Helping Hands is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the most at-risk people in our community stay safe at home, while getting the supplies they need. It works by connecting local volunteers who can run critical errands, such as grocery shopping, with the most vulnerable members of our community. If you or someone you know needs help, fill out a request. If you are healthy and able to volunteer, please sign up to help. Together, we can help flatten the curve of COVID-19 by protecting our community’s most vulnerable.
Additional resources:
Club Announcements
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Our Events & Projects
We hold our meetings online, but we do regular service projects and social events in the Silicon Valley! This section is updated every week with our upcoming events. We welcome guests to all of the events and service projects listed here.
Past Events:
Upcoming Events:
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
District 5170 Events
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
More events coming soon! All events are open to guests, unless otherwise mentioned. Feel free to join us! If you ever have questions, please email inquiries@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Happy Dollars: Do Good by Sharing Something Good
Each week we ask our members to share stories with the club and toss in a few dollars to support our efforts. The primary goal of this section is to provide a fun way of getting to know each fellow members and guests, while giving back to a good cause.
Happy dollars is an opportunity to share something positive that has happened in your life whether it is personal or business. Think of it as your opportunity to brag a little, but also put a little bit into a karma jar. The money donated through happy dollars is put to charitable use, and the message that you leave for happy dollars will be posted in our online meeting the following week for the entire week for folks to see! (Pending that it’s appropriate!)
Here are the happy dollars contributions from last week!
This section is usually updated on the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Rory Olsen made a $20 donation.
Been a weird bunch of days this past week. Friday we started the day with a small leak from the living room ceiling. Plumber thought he fixed it. He didn't. It came back on Friday night. Saturday morning my plumber realized that a conduit has broken loose. We are surviving and waiting for it to be repaired on Thursday morning. The weather was unusually nice today. The forecast was for a sunny week. It was in the eighties when I went out for a walk this morning. The sky was clear, which is unusual in Houston. When I got home it had moved up to ninety, Not much later, the heavy rains started. My friend, Jazzmine went to bed then and will probably stay tucked in all day. Smart cat.
MONIQUE ZIESENHENNE made a $20 donation.
My twins (a boy and girl) turned 30 at the end of May. With their older brother, we have been having regular Zoom meetings to stay in touch and I share videos from our Rotary meetings with them - the love it. Please apply to TRF-Annual Fund.
Anonymous? made a $10 donation.
Anonymous? made a $10 donation.
Selected Comments
Every week at the bottom of our meetings, there is a comments section for members and guests to tell us what they enjoyed about the meeting or to ask questions to the speaker. We select a few comments every week from last week’s meeting to be featured during this week’s meeting.
Here are the comments selected from last week’s meeting.
Sarah Tuberty said:
Happy Birthday Brett and Happy Birthday Caleb!! So excited to use Slack- I find it hard to make online socials and meeting recordings, something always seems to come up! I feel that many of you are my friends as I see all of you from week to week, but then realized I am doing little to actually engage and connect. I am happy for Slack as a platform to help facilitate that. I find that it is almost way we can allow "side conversations" to happen. Great program!!
Phil Dean said:
I had never heard of a 3-minute PhD dissertation. Neat and very informative for the busy person.
Thanks to Nick and Ferheen for their discussion about Slack, which I had never heard of before. It's a great idea and one that I might recommend to others. I can see that Slack is very versatile with lots of options. Is there a Users Guidebook or Manual? I am rather elderly and would need one.Phil
Mahmood Khan said:
Happy birthday to Brett and Caleb and many happy returns.Nice job on Slack. It is a great tool to stay connected when you want to be connected. Much better as a eRotary Club group.
Be sure to leave a comment at the end of this week’s meeting after you watch the program below, and perhaps you’ll see your comment featured next week!
Program: Disability and Aerial Arts
Speaker: Sarah Tuberty
Every week we bring to you a new program on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education, and how those contribute to service to others. Special thanks to member Roger Plested for leading our club's Programs Committee in finding us amazing speakers each week.
The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley seeks to explore perspectives on service from across the world. The views of the speakers in our programs are their own, and unless stated otherwise, are not necessarily reflective of the views of our eClub nor Rotary International.
If you have an idea for a cool speaker, please feel free to reach out to them directly or submit THIS FORM so our Program Committee can contact them!
One of our very own club members, Dr. Sarah Tuberty, OTR/L has the lived experience of a congenital hand difference, meaning she was born without fingers on her left hand and was a patient of the Shriners Hospital for Children – Northern California. After earning a BS in Biology from Saint Mary’s College of California, she became an AmeriCorps volunteer, and then a flight attendant.
In volunteering at the Shriners Hospital for Children – Philadelphia and her work on the Planning Team with Camp Winning Hands, in Livermore, California. She discovered the profession of Occupational Therapy. Her life has been a journey of adaptation and understanding of the disability experience. These have been incredible assets to her professional education. She just earned her Doctorate of Occupational Therapy Boston University and her license to provide therapeutic services in the state of Pennsylvania. Her doctorate project was the development of the Congenital Hand Differences Resource website, which is an online resource for parents of children with hand differences.
Sarah’s particular interests surround the social and emotional aspects of growing up with physical differences. Her work includes co-founding and co-hosting Disarming Disability, a podcast on deconstructing the social construct on disability and an author of Super-Abled Comics, featuring 6 short stories of superheroes with limb differences written by authors who have limb differences. She serves on the planning committee for Camp Winning Hands, a Northern California summer camp for children with congenital hand differences. She is a training aerialist with an emphasis on adaptive aerial arts, incorporating disability into her performances to help re-write the narrative we have on disability.
She just started booking gigs for silks, lyra, and trapeze. She is training with Erin Ball, a limb different aerial artist, to develop adaptive strategies for the aerial arts, and has written a section of the adaptive aerial arts manual. She has worked to provide consulting services on disability related topics, modeling, and has presented at multiple events on topics around inclusion, disability stigma, and lived experience with a congenital hand difference. All of these efforts are to create a true and positive narrative of disability, where we can all be proud of who we are and what our bodies look like and how they move.
She is undoubtedly grateful for those who mentored her, and those who have taken the time to share their journey!! She enjoys hiking around, going to night markets in far off places, reading on porches, drinking tea with friends, and caring for her tiny jungle of houseplants.
This is a presentation to help briefly cover disability history as it exists in the social climate of the United States of America, define disability related terminology and concepts, provide tangible actions we can all take to create a more inclusive society, and will use aerial arts to help challenge and re-write the narrative of disability.
Additional Resources:
Doctorate Project: http://shrinerschildrens.org/handdifferences/
Disarming Disability Podcast: https://www.disarmingdisability.com
Personal Blog: https://www.instagram.com/aerials.and.airplanes/
American Airlines Video: http://news.aa.com/american-stories/american-stories-details/2019/Ready-willing-and-able-ID-DB/default.aspx
Social Animation Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s3NZaLhcc4&t=7s
504 Sit in Article: https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/sitting-disability-rights-section-504-protests-1970s
Drunk History: Judy Heumann and the 504 sit in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y505KwHp4O4
Jennifer Keelan, Capital Crawl, ADA of 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU9cDyqvH-g&t=85s
Judy Heumann and our fort for disability rights: TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/judith_heumann_our_fight_for_disability_rights_and_why_we_re_not_done_yet
Crip Camp, Netflix Documentary Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRrIs22plz0
Upcoming Program Recording Schedule
All of our guest speakers and programs are recorded live online over Zoom video conference. We welcome members and guests to join us in one of these upcoming recordings. Recordings are approximately 30 minutes long and are subject to change without notice.
Our online video conference room link for these recordings is always http://zoom.siliconvalleyrotary.com/. You are welcome to join us! Please note the timezone listed for all recordings is US Pacific Time (San Francisco, California, USA).
If you can’t join the live recording, please send your questions for an upcoming speaker to programs@siliconvalleyrotary.com.
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