Mark your calendar in January 2020 for our first Community Discovery to Grouse Mountain to try skiing! What: Come join us on Saturday, January 25 for some downhill skiing with Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports (VASS). The day will start with a gondola ride up Grouse Mountain, followed by a two hour intro to skiing session and a group hot chocolate in the ski lodge.… Read more Community Discovery to Grouse Mountain to Try Skiing
You’re invited to knock it out of the lane with us at an afternoon of bowling and pizza! What: Bowling, pizza, and a chance to make connections and have fun with other visually impaired children, youth, and their families. When: Saturday December 7 Time: 1-3 PM Where: Falcon Lanes Bowling, 2020 Falcon Road, Kamloops BC… Read more Community Discovery to Falcon Lanes Bowling in Kamloops
Next Online Parent Group topic is arming yourself for the unexpected! As we approach the holidays, you will likely be encountering more people than usual. Extended family and friends you haven’t seen in a while, and/or strangers in the malls and grocery stores. Friends and family will likely have questions about how things are going with… Read more Monthly Online Parent Group on Dec 12
Giving Tuesday Our #GivingTuesday goal is to raise $2500 to support our programs and services for children and youth in BC who are blind or partially sighted, and their families. » Learn more International Day of People with Disabilities Today we also celebrate International Day of People with Disabilities. Today is a special day… Read more Giving Tuesday
A reminder to register for our Creating Confidence Youth Workshop, where we will be talking about how to make people comfortable with our visual impairment. This Friday’s workshop will be especially EXCITING because we will be filming some video footage, which will be part of a promo video for Blind Beginnings. We really hope to… Read more Reminder: Creating Confidence Youth Workshop this Friday Nov 29
Youth aged 13 – 19 from across BC are invited to this month’s Creating Confidence Youth Workshop, where we will be talking about how to make people comfortable with our visual impairment! Making others comfortable begins with us being comfortable. Join us at 7:00pm as we talk about: Misconceptions people may have about blindness What… Read more Creating Confidence Youth Workshop on Friday November 29
Blind Beginnings invites you to our annual Holiday Party on Saturday December 14th This year we are trying something new and we hope you will be as excited about this as we are. You and your family are invited to a Blind Beginnings Breakfast with Santa! What to expect: A delicious pancake breakfast with pancakes,… Read more Annual Holiday Party on December 14
Next Online Parent Group topic is Advocacy! What is advocacy you ask? It’s just a fancy word for asking for what you need. Being a parent of a child with a visual impairment means you will need to ask for some accommodations from time to time, and figuring out how to do that takes some… Read more Monthly Online Parent Group
Blind Beginnings is pleased to announce our December Community Discovery outing to Bad Hats Theatre’s Peter Pan play with audio-description! What: Come join us for an afternoon to Neverland with pirates, lost boys, a ticking crocodile and a child who never wants to grow up. With live folk music, this imaginative adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s… Read more Community Discovery to an audio-described theatre production of Peter Pan
Youth aged 13 – 19 from across BC, are invited to this month’s Creating Confidence Youth Workshop where we will be talking about Being Active! Join us at 7:00 PM on November 1st to talk about: Why it is important to be active The wide range of sports & activities we can do What to… Read more Creating Confidence Youth Workshop on Being Active
