Optional Events
Fine Arts and Desserts Soiree
Cost: $35
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008
This event will take place at the beautiful Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, FL, located just ½ mile from the conference hotel. It will include docent-guided tours and delicious dessert assortments from one of the area's finest caterers. Stroll through the Membership and Sculpture Gardens and enjoy full access to the 21 galleries that will showcase several pieces of the museum's permanent collection, some of which have never before been on display. This event follows the ICADI Poster Session, during which heavy hors d'oeurves will be served. The facility is wheelchair accessible. Limited space is available, therefore, this event is offered on a first-come-first-served basis. This was an ICADI 2006 favorite that you will not want to miss!
Networking Breakfast
Cost: $20
Date: Friday, February 22, 2008
The Columbia Restaurant Dinner Networking Extravaganza
Cost: $65
Date: Friday, February 22, 2008
The Columbia Restaurant, located just 1 mile from the conference hotel, is one of the featured restaurants on the Pier in downtown St. Petersburg. Enjoy amazing views of the bay while first sampling traditional Cuban hors d'oeurves, and then sitting down to one of the finest dinners St. Petersburg has to offer. Musical entertainment will be provided and a cash bar will be available. The restaurant is wheelchair accessible. Limited space is available, therefore this event is offered on a first-come-first-served basis. Join your colleagues for a fun evening on the waterfront!
City of St. Petersburg Accessibility Projects Excursion
Cost: FREE
Date: Saturday, February 23, 2008
Would you enjoy an afternoon at the Beach? Pool? Movies? Sailing Center?
Join us for a fun afternoon filled with activities and learning about accessibility projects in the City of St. Petersburg. The City of St. Petersburg, Committee to Advocate for Persons with Impairments (CAPI) will be hosting a shuttle and facilitating tours and activities for conference attendees from 1:30 - 4:00 pm.
The shuttle will pick up participants at 1:30 pm at the main entrance of the Hilton Hotel. You will have the opportunity to take part in one or all of the following activities and get on and off the shuttle at places of interest to you. You may choose to:
- Participate in a small group sailing trip and tour of accessibility features at the Sailing Center;
- Visit Baywalk shopping center and see a special presentation at Muvico of a Mopix rear-window captioning system;
- Visit North Shore Pool and Spa Beach to view and use the in-pool ramp; and/or
- Take a leisurely walk around our waterfront Palm Arboretum, or try out our waterproof and beach wheelchairs.
If you are interested in learning more, please visit the City of St. Petersburg Information Table during the conference.
Tour of Accessible Courtroom, Stetson University Elder Law Center
Cost: FREE
Date: Saturday, February 23, 2008
Rebecca C. Morgan, Boston Asset Management Faculty Chair in Elder Law, has graciously offered a guided tour highlighting the numerous design elements that make this courtroom accessible and user-friendly to older persons and persons with disability.
The accessible courtroom was dedicated two years ago on the fifteenth (15th) anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and was designed as a model courtroom to provide maximum access to the court for older persons and people with disability in response to nationwide concerns about lack of access to full participation in society and to legal proceedings in particular.
About 15-20 minutes from the Hilton, it may be reached by use of participants' personal cars. The tour will begin at 4 pm and the duration will be approximately 30 minutes depending on questions from our group.
There is no charge for this tour. We request registration to help limit the size of the touring group and to help organize ride sharing.
