Salsa ASL by the Shell

Silent Rhythms, Think Outside the Vox and Esplanade Association present Salsa ASL by the Shell, an accessible ASL Salsa dance celebration led by DeafBlind Dance Instructor Kerry Thompson. This Disability Joy event is designed to bring together disabled and non-disabled dancers, Deaf, Blind, DeafBlind, and wheelchair users on a radically inclusive dance floor. With a DJ, Audio Description, ASL and ProTactile interpreters, sighted guides, and adaptive dance instruction, access is built into every beat. Read more and RSVP for the free event on Saturday, May 2nd at 1:00pm: https://forms.gle/wgxBR1ZvxuWpv25F6 - open to the public and funded by a Neighborhood Activation Grant by the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture. ID: a purple infographic for Salsa ASL by the Shell. On the top, logos for Esplanade Association, Department of Conservation & Recreation, City of Boston Arts and Culture, Think Outside the Vox and Silent Rhythms. In the center, a photo of the bronze DCR Hatch Memorial Shell, an amphitheater on the Charles River Esplanade. Floating above the arch of the shell, white icons of the ASL spelling for SALSA ASL. Layered on top of the Shell is the SALSA ASL logo, a white square background with black and purple letters spelling out SALSA, and ASL mirrored and upside down the LSA of salsa. White text with black background underneath, “BY THE SHELL.” Below the logo is a photo from VOX’s Embrace Salsa event from 2023, showing a diverse group of disabled, non-disabled, Deaf, Blind, hearing and sighted adults social dancing, having conversations, and observing on flat stone ground at the Embrace Memorial on the Boston Common. White text below, “Saturday, May 2nd at 1:00pm. Hatch Grove on the Charles River Esplanade. then icons of Blind/Low-Vision accessibility, wheelchair accessibility, Audio Description, and sign language.