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Sitt Nyein Aye Art's & Cultural Center Named for renowned Burmese
artist/activist U Sitt Nyein Aye, this complex is actually a lumberyard
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The Sitt Nyein Aye Art's & Cultural Center
Named
for renowned Burmese Artist/Activist U Sitt Nyein Aye, this complex is
actually a lumberyard set on two commercially zoned blocks (1 acre),
with approximately 30,000 sqft of covered space, 2 story building,
warehouses, blab, blab, blab. The story of how we managed to score this
primo piece of property is a story in itself for it was a hazardous
journey.
Now we own it all, lock, stock and tomahawk but we face
another daunting challenge, to bring the existing compound up to speed
with regard to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Disabled
People (CRPD), The International Disabilities Alliance (IDA) & The
American's With Disabilities Act (ADA).
Being that I am disabled
as well as many of my friends I know the struggles a disabled person
must endure during the course of just one day, both physical and the
emotional aspects of our condition. I don't simply want to comply with
disabilities mandates, I want to embrace these mandates.
Lessons
learned by the devastating Oakland Artist Collective Fire a few months
back exposed the critical need to address public safety from a variety
of vantage points. What about the disabled people who would not be as
ambulatory in escaping a fire? How would they escape & how would
they survive?
Adding to our concerns is the fact we want to
build an International Childrens Art Museum within this complex. How can
we make this facility safe for everyone who enters this compound,
especially kids? Toss in the myriad of shops, galleries and the visitors
they will being to our complex and it is all to clear, Public Safety
& Disabilities MUST be addressed from the very beginning NOT as an
after thouught.
After watching as our community races to comply
with Disabilities mandates after the fact, spending millions to renovate
and cobble ramps and doorways, we want to do things different and that
is why I am here, to petition the global art community for assistance.
I
mentioned 5 million dollars as the sum we would need to bring this arts
center into compliance in the very begining and believe me, this is a
conservative estimate since fire mitigation is also nessessary. So I am
petitioning for the assistance from the international commerical sector
as well as the citizens & artisans of the world in the evolution of
thes arts complex.
Along with funding it would be way cool to
have engineers, archetects and inovators in the field of Disabilities to
assist in the construction of this arts complex. This could be a
veritible showcase of inovation and design that could revolutionize how
we address the growing number of disabled clientele globally speaking.
Being
that I am disabled I can safely say that it would be nice to be able to
visit places that are accessable to the disabled regardless of
handicap. To have freedom of movement and share in the beauty of art
rather than wondering if your wheelchair will fit in the door. When I
was wheelchair bound I hated crashing into people because there was no
room on the walkpath for me to pass.
Who would benifit from this
Project? The Global Art Community & the disabled would by having
another international arts and cultural destination. But for the
disabled artists & entrepreneur this would be a blessing. To address
the needs for the disabled from the very begining would also open up
opportunity for the disabled to get innvolved with this arts &
cultural project from the very onset. Maybe have their own store or
gallery.
The lumberyard is raw, ready for development and is
prime for inovations in the world of disabilities. This must be
addressed before we can move forward. Addressing disabilities in the
design & construction of this complex will save millions if we
addrsss this in the begining. With the help of the global public and
experienced professionals in the World of Disabilities this could be
more than a real cool art & cultural center.
The Sitt Nyein
Aye Arts & Cultural Center would be an international showcase or
blueprint of how we can address the needs of disabled human beings in
the future. Now that would make history in anyones book.
My
mentor and dear friend the late Robert Perske championed the cause of
the disabled and he continues to be my inspiration. If only he was here
to see what I've gotten myself into now.
I know he would be proud...
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