DREAM Events and Activities From the National DREAM Board

DREAM Chapters and Affiliates may host other online activities and events that are open to the public --
DREAM assists them in advertising their events to a national audience.
​The list below only includes things planned by the national DREAM Student Board.
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College of the Holy Cross DREAM Group Event Post-COVID with Author Keah Brown

DREAM & NCCSD Activities and Events

Webinar: Options and Resources for Dealing with Disability Accommodation Concerns
Join DREAM for an informative discussion on navigating disability accommodations in higher education. This webinar will bring together experts and student advocates to explore what to do when accommodation requests are delayed, denied, or ineffective. Panelists will share practical strategies and advice on self-advocacy while maintaining well-being. Whether you’re a student, faculty member, or ally, you’ll gain a clearer understanding of how to address challenges and support disability equity on campus.
📅 Date: Tuesday, November 4th
🕒 Time: 1:30 – 2:30 pm Pacific Time
🌐Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/AccommodationConcernsWebinar

DREAM Guided Tea Tasting
Take a mindful pause with DREAM at our guided tea tasting event! Together, we’ll explore a variety of teas, learn about their cultural roots, and share in the practice of slowing down and savoring each sip. This event is designed as an accessible, welcoming space for disabled students and allies to connect, relax, and build community.

📅 Date: Monday, November 14th
🕒 Time: 3:00 – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
🌐 Registration Link: www.tinyurl.com/GuidedTeaTastings
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📅 Date: Monday, November 17th
🕒 Time: 3:00 – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
🌐 Registration Link: www.tinyurl.com/GuidedTeaTasting

Midterm Coworking Session
Join DREAM for a supportive body-doubling coworking session! Body-doubling is the practice of working alongside others to boost focus, motivation, and accountability. Whether you’re tackling schoolwork, creative projects, or everyday tasks, this session offers a low-pressure, accessible space to get things done in community with other students.
📅 Date: Tuesday, November 18th
🕒 Time: 3:00 – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
🌐 Registration Link: www.tinyurl.com/MidtermCoWorkingSession
 
Lightning Talks & Open Mic
Step up to the mic and share what excites you! DREAM’s Lightning Talks & Open Mic is a chance for disabled students and allies to showcase passions, projects, or ideas in a fun and supportive space. From creative work to research to personal stories, all topics are welcome.
📅 Date: Wednesday, November 5th
🕒 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm Pacific Time
🌐 Registration Link: www.tinyurl.com/DreamOpenMic
 
Finals Week Coworking Session
Join DREAM for a supportive body-doubling coworking session! Body-doubling is the practice of working alongside others to boost focus, motivation, and accountability. Whether you’re tackling schoolwork, creative projects, or everyday tasks, this session offers a low-pressure, accessible space to get things done in community with other students.
📅 Date: December 3rd and 10th
🕒 Time: 2:00 – 4:00 pm Pacific Time
🌐 Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/CoWorkingSession

Connect with DREAM


Examples of Past DREAM Activities

  • DREAM Fall Town Hall: DREAM invites chapters, affiliates, and students interested in starting disability student groups to join our Fall Town Hall!
    This event is an opportunity to connect with fellow student leaders across the country. Share experiences, challenges, and successes. ​Learn strategies for building sustainable disability culture and advocacy on campus. ​Strengthen the DREAM network and grow your student group.
  • Disability Cultural Centers' Student Activism: Join DREAM for an interactive panel featuring student leaders from campus disability cultural centers! Together, we’ll explore how students grow as leaders, advocate for campus improvements, and create networking and connections in their communities. This is an exciting opportunity to learn from peers, share strategies, and discuss ways to elevate the impact of disabled students on campuses and beyond.
  • Community Documentary Night: Without Pity
  • Community Documentary Night: Change, Not Charity
  • Intersectionality in Disability: A Panel of Diverse Voices
  • DREAM Community Film Screening & Gathering: Ride Ahead with the Directors
  • Teaching Disability History with EasterSeals Massachusetts: An engaging and interactive event on disability history, presented in collaboration with EasterSeals Massachusetts. This session offered an educational exploration of key moments, figures, and movements in disability history while encouraging active participation and discussion.
  • DREAM Community Film Screening & Gathering: Unseen
  • DREAM Community Film Screening & Gathering: Inside Out 2
  • Panel Discussion: Disabled Graduates on Careers, Access and Advocacy
  • Disability Visibility Bimonthly Book Club.​
  • Graduate and Undergraduate Chats: Students meet to talk about their experiences as graduate students studying disability and/or being a disabled graduate student. 
  • ​DREAM Author Talks: Disability, Empowerment, and Change: Offers an opportunity to learn more about ​authors, their ideas, and their work in a discussion format with time for questions. On December 7th 2023 we heard from Julie Minich, author of Radical Health: Unwellness, Care and Latinx Expressive Culture. Dr. Katherine Aquino of Johns Hopkins University was the Moderator. Link to YouTube.
  • Disability History Game Night: DREAM had a fun interactive event on November 9th, 2023 where everyone played games while learning about disability history.  This activity was offered in partnership with Easter Seals, Massachusetts. Link to Youtube.
  • College Transition Series: Author Elizabeth Hamblet offered a four-part series in Fall 2023 on transition to college for students, their families, K-12 educators and other professionals. Much of the content that she presented is available on her site: LDAVISORY.COM
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  • ​"Crip Camp" Netflix Watch Party: In 2019, DREAM hosted a Netflix Watch Party for the film "Crip Camp," about a group of kids with disabilities who met at a segregated camp for disabled kids.  The movie follows the children as they grow up to become disability activists who created major legal, societal, and cultural changes related to disability.
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  • Disabled & Proud Conferences: DREAM held two in-person Disabled & Proud conferences for students with disabilities in 2011 and 2014.  In 2018, DREAM held its first Disabled & Proud online conference. The conferences were modeled after the first Disabled & Proud conference in 1999, hosted by the world's first Disability Cultural Center at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.   Their purpose was, according to the Board, to help disabled students network and build community, and to help students learn ways to create change on their campuses.

  • #LowOnSpoons Week: In 2020, as many campuses switched to remote learning during early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, DREAM brought students together to talk about being Low on Spoons (which means low on resources, time, energy, etc.) and how to recharge and care for each other.  Click here to see information about #LowOnSpoons Week.

  • Mentoring: ​DREAM has had mentoring projects almost every semester since it started in 2011.  DREAM had group mentoring in the Spring of 2023, and we're currently figuring out which kind of mentoring the Board wants in 2024. Click here to learn more about mentoring and DREAM.

  • #TeachDisabilityHistory: In 2021, DREAM hosted a panel discussion about the importance of children and adults learning history, and panelists discussed how knowing (or not knowing) disability history affected them and their ability to advocate for themselves.  Click here to learn more about #TeachDisabilityHistory
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