THE RIDE AHEAD Screening and Panel Discussion

Image Description: A yellow, orange, and gray animation still of Samuel smiling and wearing sunglasses with the city skyline behind him.

Turning 21, Samuel Habib wants to date, leave home, go to college. Yet every rite of passage is fraught with challenges. Seizures and uncontrollable movements. Friends' homes inaccessible to his wheelchair. Degrading ableist encounters. “No one tells you how to be an adult,” he says, “let alone an adult with a disability.” Can a community of disability activists help him follow his dreams?

Samuel is determined to avoid the statistical realities: unemployment, isolation, institutionalization. He seeks out wisdom through conversations with disabled mentors: comedian Maysoon Zayid, Americans with Disabilities Act legends Judy Heumann and Bob Williams; Tony-winning wheelchair-using pioneer Ali Stroker; hip-hop artist Keith Jones; autistic, queer activist Lydia X.Z. Brown; and marathon runner and disability activist Andrew Peterson.

This film is presented with open captions. ASL interpretation will be provided for opening remarks and post-screening panel discussion.

For more information on parking and accessibility, please visit https://thelittle.org/accessibility/. Additional accommodations may be requested during the registration process.

Please contact Sarah Murphy Abbamonte, Project Manager for Move to Include(TM), at [email protected] with any questions.

This event is presented as part of our annual , a partnership between the Al Sigl Community of Agencies and WXXI, in conjunction with the Herman and Margaret Schwartz Community Series. Dialogue on Disability is supported by the Fred L. Emerson Foundation with additional support from The Golisano Foundation.

This program is made possible by a grant from American Documentary | POV, with funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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