WAWABILITY honors ADA’s 35th anniversary with shows at The Anthem

July is Disability Pride Month and this year not only does it celebrate those with disabilities but it also acknowledges the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act ADA Starting on Friday a two-night event at The Anthem spotlights artists who have disabilities and celebrates the th anniversary of the ADA in-article-vertical-video float right padding-left px width px major media only screen and max-width px in-article-vertical-video float none padding-left px in-article-vertical-video connatix video caption width px fundamental tnvbNcaMHUrl margin-bottom px padding px px background D text-align center font-weight bold color fff border-radius px connatix video caption margin-bottom px margin-top font-size px color font-weight text-align left display none This page contains a video which is being blocked by your ad blocker In order to view the video you must disable your ad blocker new Image src https capi connatix com tr si token be c -c - acb-af - a ccca cid c ffed c- - c -b f- c d a cnx cmd push function cnx playerId bc b - b- e d-b b - e mediaId b - - cd-bba - f render da ca ef b b c ec a e function renderError playerApi if renderError playerApi typeof playerApi getSize function var size playerApi getSize var captionElements document querySelectorAll connatix video caption var captionElementsArray captionElements captionElementsArray forEach el if el size el style width size width px el style display block WAWABILITY honors ADA s th anniversary with shows at The Anthem The first night of WAWABILITY on Friday was comedy and Saturday night celebrates the th anniversary of the ADA with Kodi Lee and Mandy Harvey from America s Got Talent members of the Omnium Circus and the man behind the event deaf recording artist Warren WAWA Snipe Chris Wilson one of the executive producers of WAWABILITY explained why it was so critical for Snipes to create this event Through his journey he realized there was a lot of challenges for himself and for others with disabilities declared Wilson So what he longed to do was put an event together that allowed individuals of all abilities to come out and demonstrate their gifts Snipe a graduate of Gallaudet University has been on the biggest stages in entertainment like crooning the national anthem at the Super Bowl and performing during the halftime show in two separate years Related stories Countdown begins for -year anniversary of key bill protecting those with disabilities The Trump administration withdrew pieces of ADA guidance How will it affect compliance DC sued by blind pedestrians who say they re subject to blindness tax There are to billion people in the world with disabilities and only have accessibility and largest part of that accessibility is here in Washington D C Snipe revealed Source