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  • Sharing art before next week’s Shared Visions @artacunningham @ArapahoeCC

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    Dan Burke

    Sharing art before next week’s Shared Visions @artacunningham @ArapahoeCC

    With just a week to go before the third annual exhibit, “Shared Visions Collaborative Artworks”, some Center art students traveled to Arapahoe Community College to make some art and to offer some feedback to painting students on their tactile works. For their very first class with Ann Cunningham, the newest group of CCB art students…

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  • Raise your Lemonade Glass to the Curtis Hotel @thecurtishotel #WeLovetheCurtis

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    Dan Burke

    Raise your Lemonade Glass to the Curtis Hotel @thecurtishotel #WeLovetheCurtis

    And now raise your lemonade glass in a toast to employees at the Curtis Hotel! Last weekend, at the 2016 National Federation of the Blind of Colorado Convention in Lone Tree, Marc Greytak of the Curtis Hotel in downtown Denver presented a check to CCB for $3141.25. That’s pretty exciting, you bet! What makes this…

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  • From Super Bowl Parade to Freedom Bells: A Video Retrospective of 2016

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    Dan Burke

    From Super Bowl Parade to Freedom Bells: A Video Retrospective of 2016

    Got about 20 minutes to be wowed? We’re just back from our 2016 National Federation of the Blind of Colorado Convention in Lone Tree from October 27 to 30. All staff and students attended and, since we’re an NFB training center (the NFB of Colorado started the Center in 1988), Executive Director Julie Deden always…

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  • Birding by Ear at CCB

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    Dan Burke

    Birding by Ear at CCB

    It was feathers and bird calls Tuesday morning in our first Birding by Ear class with Alie Mayes, Outreach Coordinator at Bird Conservancy of the Rockies in Brighton. Alie brought casts of bird skulls as well as mounts, giving everyone a sense of various differences in bird anatomy, size and aerodynamics. Then we got down…

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  • The Excited Hostess: Hindley’s Mini-meal

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    Dan Burke

    The Excited Hostess: Hindley’s Mini-meal

    Hindley didn’t really cook when she first arrived at the Center. She’d never used a hot oven. That’s all changed, as her mini-meal clearly demonstrated:

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  • Tactile Art Exhibits Coming to @ArapahoeCC & UCAR @ArtACunningham

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    Dan Burke

    Tactile Art Exhibits Coming to @ArapahoeCC & UCAR @ArtACunningham

    Tactile art and art shows are in the works this fall, with collaboration and coordination from the Colorado Center for the Blind’s Ann Cunningham as the common medium. First, Arapahoe Community College’s now-annual “Shared Visions” tactile art show will open with a reception on November 10 at the Colorado Gallery of the Arts from 5…

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  • High Fives at Mile High Academy #MeettheBlind #HowEyeSeeIt

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    Dan Burke

    High Fives at Mile High Academy #MeettheBlind #HowEyeSeeIt

    We are always excited to be invited to talk at schools in the area about what it really means to be blind. It’s a great chance to dispel myths and stereotypes and to teach kids that blind people are just folks, too. So, we were delighted when we received a call from Diane Harris, a…

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  • Body Pads and Karate Punches: Tuesday’s Orange Belts

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    Dan Burke

    Another round of testing for the Martial Arts class on Tuesday was followed by an awards ceremony. The entire Center turned out in the gym as five students and Travel Instructor Steve Patten all received orange belts from Karate Denver instructors Rachel and Travis. Steve is a bit of a ringer, of course, since he…

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  • Green Tomatoes and Ripe Pumpkins: Last Days in the Garden

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    Dan Burke

    Green Tomatoes and Ripe Pumpkins: Last Days in the Garden

    The mornings are cool and the colors turning. There were still loads of tomoatoes, green to read, not to mention the ripe pumpkins on wat may be one of the last weeks our sudents work in our Legacy Garden with the Arapahoe Master Gardeners. This week it was the first-hour Tech Classes who got to…

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  • Hindley Can Take the Heat #HowEyeSeeIt

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    Dan Burke

    Hindley Can Take the Heat #HowEyeSeeIt

    Hindley loves to cook and entertain, something she learned from positive role models. She gives her thoughts on the negative impact of the #HowEyeSeeIt challenge.

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