Welcome to the CCB Happenings for October 13, 2023.
From the Convention Committee:
We invite CCB members to provide theme suggestions for our 2024 CCB virtual Conference and Convention. If your theme is selected, your idea will set the tone for our next convention and you will win a special prize to be announced. We also invite you to present your ideas for convention content at a roundtable discussion to be held on October 16 at 7:30 p.m. For more information or to submit theme suggestions, email:
Convention.ccb@gmail.com or call 714-921-0289 before November 1.
From the CCB Membership Committee:
The CCB Membership Committee Invites you to an open meeting to discuss ACB and its requested data collection. This is the beginning of implementing Resolution 2023-05, Aggregate Data Awareness, adopted at the last CCB Convention and your input is welcomed.! Join us October 18 at 7:30PM. Email joe.derrick.green@gmail.com if you’d like the Zoom information.
From the Publications Committee:
Everyone has a story to tell, an experience to share. What better place to do this than the Blind Californian! Its pages are eagerly awaiting your thoughts, your excitement, your annecdotes, your inspiration, your frustrations. Let's get to know each other through the BC. On Wednesday, October 18, at 7:30 PM, the Publications Committee invites you to talk about your stories and learn how we can help you put them on paper. Come join us! YOUR magazine welcomes and awaits you!
From Jeff Thom:
Legally blind individuals who have shopped at any The Container Store location in California since approximately 2011 have likely experienced a variety of inaccessible features, including flat-screen point-of-sale devices and tablets for Loyalty Program enrollment that have no VoiceOver features that blind shoppers can use. A case is pending against the Container Store in California based on its refusal to provide accessible services, and the lawyers pursuing that case would like to speak to any blind individuals who have shopped at that store and may have experienced these inaccessible devices. You may contact Jeff Thom either at jsthom@comcast.net or 916-995-3967 if you have shopped at any Container Store location in California at any time from 2011 through the present and are interested in participating in this case. He can provide you with contact information for the attorneys in the case.
From CCB Educator James Collins:
Power Saver Rewards is a free public program that gives you a credit on your energy bill when you reduce your energy use during a Flex Alert and help prevent a power outage. Flex Alerts generally occur during heatwaves when there’s a strain on the power grid as folks arrive home from school and work between 4:00 and 9:00 p.m. The best way to reduce energy use during a Flex Alert is to hold off on using major appliances, like the dishwasher, and turn your thermostat up to 78 degrees.
Get the whole family involved and remind everyone in your household to help keep energy use low during a Flex Alert. When you reduce energy use during a Flex Alert, you get a bill credit and help protect vulnerable community members from a power outage. Sign up today at PowerSaverRewards.org to start receiving credits.
Key of Genius
a short film seeking the LEAD role of DEREK.
SEEKING BLIND OR LOW VISION 6-10 YEAR OLD BOYS.
*all experience levels encouraged to submit (ie. performance experience or no performance experience is totally ok!)
*Talent can be based anywhere in the US (Shoots in Los Angeles, CA in November 2023)
This project is a SAG/AFTRA Short Project Agreement (SPA) which is a SAG/AFTRA contract that is NOT privy to the current strike.
Talent who are SAG/AFTRA members and Non-Union talent alike are both encouraged to submit.
The link to submit & audition instructions is here: https://bit.ly/KeyAir
Submissions are due ASAP.
Thank you for reading.
