BOLD VENTURES
June 2022
Blind Outdoor Leisure Development
BOLD welcomes persons 18 and older with all degrees of vision: blind, low vision, partially sighted and fully sighted.
PO Box 8114
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
Editorial team: Veronique Schreurs and team
Email: boldwpa@gmail.com
Website: www.wpabold.blogspot.com
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/wpabold
Note: This newsletter has been formatted with headings on the first line of each item. If you are using JAWS or NVDA just press the letter H to move from item to item.
REMINDER: PLEASE PAY YOUR DUES! Thank you if you already have. The dues for 2022 are still $12. If you haven’t paid yet, you will get a call to ask if you still want to belong to BOLD.
CONFERENCE LINE: Whenever the conference line is mentioned in this newsletter,
the number to call is (385) 799-9487. There is no passcode for participants. To mute yourself, press *6, same to unmute.
NEWSLETTER RECORDING: Anyone can hear a recording of the newsletter,
call (401) 252-0029 Access Code: 265365#.
COVID-19: The board decided that for our in-person activities all participants are to be fully
vaccinated (on the honor system) and follow government guidelines about masks.
CALENDAR
Every Thursday from 2:45 until 3:45 pm on the conference line
YOGA KEEPS GOING free of charge to participate! Thank you to those who sent a contribution. Call Veronique 412-225-4038 if you want to be added to the email list for yoga. If you are enjoying yoga, please consider sending a donation to BOLD.
CHAT SESSION:
Continuing in June, we will only have the chat on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays. On those days starting at 7 pm we will have a one-hour chat session where our BOLD members can connect with each other or ask for help. Call the conference line to join. The conversation doesn’t have to be BOLD related. We are trying to have only one person talk at a time after the initial 5 minutes. The moderators are: May 24: Penny, June 14: Veronique, June 28: Karen S.
MAY
Saturdays May 21th through July 23rd (weather permitting) FREE Tennis Clinic
Highland Park Tennis Club will be hosting free spring/summer Blind/Visually impaired tennis clinics. Instructors will guide athletes through step-by-step verbal instruction on how to play Blind/VI tennis. All equipment will be provided. Blind tennis is played with softball-size foam balls that have a ping pong ball in the middle that makes sound. For specific session times, more information or to register, please visit www.blindtennis.org or call 412-576-4103.
Rowing: Three Rivers Rowing Association offers a variety of instructional rowing programming for persons with disabilities, including those with visual impairments. Spring is a good time of year to try or get back into rowing, so for more information, please contact Director of Adaptive & Para Rowing, adamherrick@threeriversrowing.org or call 412-231-8772
JUNE
Tuesday, June 7, from 6 to 8 BOLD Board Meeting at Human Services,
1 Smithfield St, downtown. In person! Any non-Board Members who want to attend must call Nancy at 412-561-3972 by June 5.
Saturday June 11, from noon to 5 pm, Ray Jablonowski will once again host a picnic with help from the Catholic Alumni at a different grove than before. Now it will be in Highland Park’s Lake Point Grove, on lake shore drive, with games, hiking, and food, at no cost, Reserve with Nancy Leverett 412-561-3972 by Tuesday June 7 at 9pm.
PAST EVENT
Good news: we bought 3 good tandem bikes from Wisconsin BOLD, and Ray Tweedale actually drove them to Pittsburgh with Marty Hutchings from Wisconsin riding with him! A few people met at the Waterfront and tried them out, and they passed with flying colors!
CULTURAL activities:
Anyone interested in finding out what tickets, if any are available, please call Joyce Driben at 412-521-4385.
LIBRARY EVENTS:
Book Club by Library for Accessible Media, on zoom or phone. Reserve by calling 800-242-0586 or email them at: LAMP@carnegielibrary.org. Thursday June 16, 1-2pm: Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster DB94170
BOLD BITS
Warm Wishes for a rapid recovery to Diane Popoleo as she continues to recover in the hospital from many medical challenges. Get Well wishes also to Natasha Kinder, Cindy Perseo, Peggy Walsh and Jim Winaught, all of whom are dealing with different concerns.
CONGRATULATIONS to Bill Burgunder for his job as an usher at Carnegie Music Hall!
Also, to Carol Lubecki on the birth of her grandson, Baron Alexander on April 13, 2022. (The baby, Carol's son, and his wife are all doing well.)
Happy June Birthday to Linda Davis, Natasha Brown, Peggy Walsh, Veronique Schreurs and
anyone else with a June birthday.
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE by Maggi Ostrowski
On May 15th, Gia Cacalano hosted four BOLD members for an embodied dance/workshop at the GRW Dance Studio of Point Park University. Gia defines dance as any movement. She believes that even breathing is dance so we started with breathing exercises to relax and start to feel into our bodies. We continued our warm up while sitting in a chair and doing movement improvisations of our head and limbs. Gia introduced the concepts of feeling our movements as if they were influenced by the Earth's rhythm, wind, water and fire/electricity. Gia had sound tracks for each of these elements, aiding in our improvisations. The workshop culminated in a simple, structured dance sequence accompanied by the appropriate Stevie Wonder song, "Higher Ground". I enjoyed this workshop and gained a new perspective of the body, the human spirit and the importance of relationships.
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