Please join the Arizona Daily Star and the nonprofit investigative news organization ProPublica on Wednesday, July 8, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. PDT, for a virtual storytelling event that is part of our reporting on the difficulties Arizonans with intellectual and developmental disabilities face with state services. Itβs important to us to hear from as many of those people as we can β and weβre starting here.
The live, digital event will feature artists with disabilities performing personal monologues developed at a five-week summer storytelling workshop with the Scottsdale-based Detour Company Theatre. Arizona Daily Star reporter Amy Silverman and Detour director Becca Monteleone will discuss storytelling methods used in performance and journalism, and youβll have a chance to try these techniques out yourself. Weβll also be disseminating a specialized storytelling curriculum at the end of the event so you can continue honing your storytelling skills.
"We're tough as saguaros," editorial cartoonist David Fitzsimmons says. He says he saw a video made for the people of Detroit and became inspired to do his own take for Tucson.
If you or someone you know has experience with services for people with disabilities, reporters with the Arizona Daily Star and ProPublica will be available for calls during (and after) the event.
Weβd love to have you. And if thereβs anyone else youβd like to bring with you, or anyone you think should know about this event, please ask them to join us, too!
This event will be hosted on Zoom. We’ll send out information about how to access the event in advance. Register at https://propub.li/AZevent
Photos: In Tucson, face masks are for more than just people
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A Jeep sports with eyes like those from the movie "Cars" sports a COVID19 mask outside Alpha Graphics near the corner of Tanque Verde and Kolb, Tucson, Ariz., July 3, 2020.
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The large Tiki head at the entrance of The Hut, 305 N. 4th Ave., wears a mask in response to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in Tucson, Ariz., on April 5, 2020.
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The noted bull testicles on the statue outside Casa Molina at Speedway and Wilmot, usually painted in various schemes and wild colors, are in these CONVID19 times now sporting a face mask, March 27, 2020, Tucson, Ariz.
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A dinosaur statue over the doors of MATS Dojo at 5929 E. 22nd St., sports an athletic cup for a face mask in the second week of COVID-19 restrictions, March 31, 2020, Tucson, Ariz.
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The venerable T-Rex outside the McDonald's at Grant and Tanque Verde comes around late, but strong, to the mask game, May 13, 2020, Tucson, Ariz.
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The iconic Casa Molina bull and matador statue both sported masks on the first full week of the loosening of COVID-19 restrictions in mid-May.
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Father Kino's horse practice safe social interaction by wearing a mask even if Father Kino himself isn't. The statue sits at Cherry Fields at 15th Street and Kino Boulevard, Saturday, May 2, 2020, Tucson, Ariz.
