Hello everyone,
This is Andi the blind woodturner. We now have set up woodturning programs for the blind and visually impaired in Tampa, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, and Atlanta. This year will be Kansas City. At the AAW Kansas City symposium we will as at past symposiums bring in a group of blind and visually impaired people from the local organization for them. The date is Friday June 23rd. We take them around the Instant Gallery where they can handle the Empty Bowl pieces, then we have a special session with them with tactile pieces, and finally we take them into the Youth Room area where they each make a pen, with one-on-one instruction from volunteers. This penturning session will be at 2pm and it is in the Trade Show area. If you are attending the symposium we can really use help in assisting our blind and visually impaired guests to each make and take home a pen they have made. It is very simple - we use mainly EasyWood tools and the blanks are already pre-drilled and somewhat rounded. It will take only about an hour, during the first rotation after the lunch hour.
If you can give us a little bit of your time doing this you will find it very rewarding. Contact me at 727-688-0520.
Thank you,
Andi
This is Andi the blind woodturner. We now have set up woodturning programs for the blind and visually impaired in Tampa, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, and Atlanta. This year will be Kansas City. At the AAW Kansas City symposium we will as at past symposiums bring in a group of blind and visually impaired people from the local organization for them. The date is Friday June 23rd. We take them around the Instant Gallery where they can handle the Empty Bowl pieces, then we have a special session with them with tactile pieces, and finally we take them into the Youth Room area where they each make a pen, with one-on-one instruction from volunteers. This penturning session will be at 2pm and it is in the Trade Show area. If you are attending the symposium we can really use help in assisting our blind and visually impaired guests to each make and take home a pen they have made. It is very simple - we use mainly EasyWood tools and the blanks are already pre-drilled and somewhat rounded. It will take only about an hour, during the first rotation after the lunch hour.
If you can give us a little bit of your time doing this you will find it very rewarding. Contact me at 727-688-0520.
Thank you,
Andi
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