The American Spaces in Georgia, Ukraine and Bulgaria invite you to a session of our hybrid-format Black Sea Speaker Series on December 19.

We invite you to join an open discussion about people with disabilities and art.

📢 About the speaker:

Regan Linton is an award-winning actor, filmmaker, writer, educator, and internationally-recognized leader in inclusive practices in the arts. Also, she is a co-director of the award-winning documentary IMPERFECT about professional theater artists with disabilities.

Join the hybrid meeting to talk with the speaker and ask questions about people with disabilities.

What shall we talk about?

🔸 How Regan became passionate about the disability community

🔸 Some of the realities around the barriers people with disabilities still face

🔸 Methods of how we are working to improve access and empower people with disabilities

🔸 The Americans with Disabilities Act in the US

🔸 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

🔸 Through the arts (speaker’s experience and work in the arts)

🕰 December 19, 19.00

📍 Online, but you can also watch it offline at America House Odesa — Hretska St. 1a

🎟 Entry is free

The Black Sea Speaker Series is a regional, hybrid virtual initiative of the U.S. Missions in Bulgaria, Georgia and Ukraine to educate youth leaders and emerging voices about key opportunities and challenges impacting countries on the Black Sea. Through digital & in-person American Spaces platforms, audiences can engage with American and local subject matter experts on a range of topics of strategic importance. Join and become part of a conversation across the Black Sea region.