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SUMMARY:2025 Hands Around the Capitol
DESCRIPTION:Hands Around the Capitol Returns After a Decade to Celebrate 35 Years of the ADA\nThousands Expected in Boise for Historic Disability Rights Event\nEvent Date & Time:\nFriday\, July 25\, 2025\n11:00 AM – 4:00 PM\nLocation: Cecil D. Andrus Park\, directly south of the Idaho State Capitol \n\nAbout Hands Around the Capitol\n\nPlease join us for Hands Around the Capitol 2025\, celebrating the 35th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 25\, 2025 from 11am to 4pm in Cecil Andrus Park in Boise\, Idaho. This is a statewide in-person\, educational and awareness event that will be connected by live streaming platforms to coordinate with national ADA celebrations and awareness events across our nation. \n\nActivities\n\n\n Hands Around the Capitol: Attendees form a human circle around the Capitol to symbolize unity in support of people with disabilities\, community living and accessibility.\nGuest Speakers & Proclamations: Leaders and advocates address accessibility progress.\nMulticultural Performances: Celebrating cross-disability and multi-culture’s through music\, dance\, and storytelling.\nInteractive Awareness Booths: Covering ADA topics and other civil rights laws such as employment\, voting\, housing\, digital access\, service dogs\, assistive technology\, and more.\nChildren’s Activities & Community Engagement: Interactive painting wall\, simulations\, and accessible recreation.\n\n\nProgram Schedule:\n• 11:00 AM – Welcome\n• 11:05 AM – Native American Blessing\n• 11:10 AM – Las Señoras Idaho\n• 11:15 AM – Proclamations from the State of Idaho\n• 11:30 City of Boise\n• 11:45 AM – Line-up for Capitol encirclement (led by City of Trees Pipes & Drums)\n• 12:15 PM – Drone and Plane Flyover (Capitol Circle Photo)\n• 1:00 PM – Oinkari Basque Dancers\n• 1:20 PM – Kelly Buckland\n• 1:45 Pm Open Arms Dance\n• 2:15 PM – Danza Azteca Tonatiuh\n• 2:40 PM – Native American Dancers & Drummers\n• 4:00 PM – Event Concludes \n  \nOrganizations\n\nNW ADA Center-Idaho \nIdaho Access Project \nLiving Independence Network Corporation \nDisability Action Center NW \nLife\, A Center for Independent Living \n\n\n  \n\nEvent Sponsors & Partners:\n• City of Boise\n• Best Bath Systems\, Inc.\n• United Healthcare\n• Molina\n• Valley Regional Transist\n• Consortium of Idahoans with\nDisabilities\n• Idaho Council on Developmental\nDisabilities\n• Idaho Power Foundation\n• Idaho Commerce\n• Boise Cascade\n• The Idaho Coalition Against\nDomestic and Sexual Violence\n• Old Boise and Lucy Apartments\n• Idaho State Independent Living\nCouncil\n• Idaho Housing and Finance\nAssociation\n• LEARN\n• Idaho Council for the Blind and\nVision Impaired\n• Idaho Council For the Deaf and\nHard of Hearing\n• EqualTile\n• RISE\n• Idaho Parents Unlimited\n• Idaho Assistive Technology Project\n• Ada County Highway District\n• EqualTile\n• Living Independence Network\nCorporation\n• Disability Action Center NW\n• NW ADA Center-Idaho \n 
URL:https://www.valleyregionaltransit.org/event/2025-hands-around-the-capitol/
LOCATION:Idaho State Capitol\, 700 W Jefferson St\, Boise\, ID 83702\, Boise\, ID\, 83702
CATEGORIES:Community,Outreach
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ORGANIZER;CN="Idaho Access Project":MAILTO:info@idahoaccessproject.org
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