[Access] Immobility at the Auction

[Cindy Pitcairn]

d. maria wrote:
> OK, this is the part where you-all sit on me and hold me down.  
maria,

I am sitting on you and although I myself may not weigh all that much, 
my wheelchair does. :-D

For me, this is mainly a space issue and the problem, as I see it, is to 
try to help event planners think in new terms.  The people who set up 
for the auction thought that they were allowing enough space for 
wheelchair access, they just didn't take into account the people who 
would gather in front of tables of food in hallways and in front of the 
silent auction tables making for impassibility. Maybe having a few 
marshals to guide the hungry people into a single file would have 
helped. Maybe having food in just one hallway would have worked better.

In the case of the Music soiree, perhaps the food could be made 
available after the show instead of during it, so that tables wouldn't 
need to be set up at all in the sanctuary.

Just random thoughts which I offer to suggest that because we have grown 
so much in numbers, maybe we need to think up new configurations.

Cindy