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Community Celebration | Blindness Awareness Month 🎶💃

  • Taste of West Africa: Awo's Cuisine · Fayetteville
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Celebrating Blind Americans Equality Day & White Cane Day
Join us at Taste of West Africa in Downtown Fayetteville for our main Blindness Awareness Month celebration!
This FREE community event, organized by the Vision Resource Center of Cumberland County in partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and with the support of the Fayetteville Lions Club, brings our community together to celebrate independence, accessibility, inclusion, and the lives and achievements of people who are blind or visually impaired.
Thursday, October 15 | 11:00 AM–1:00 PM
Throughout the event, enjoy:
• Successful Stories & Community Voices
• VRC UPLIFT Moment
• Chair Zumba
• Yoga Session
• Live Music by Michael Macias & Sha’Zion Newkirk + Open Mic
• DJ Quince Lanford
• Live Painting by local artist Malcolm Chester
• Community Resource Tables
• Special Menu available from Taste of West Africa
Come to listen, learn, connect, and enjoy!
Everyone is welcome! Come be part of Blindness Awareness Month with the VRC!
More info at visionresourcecentercc.org/blindnessawarenessmonth
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Taste of West Africa: Awo's Cuisine, 116 Person St, Fayetteville, NC 28301-5722, United States

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