DisOrientation: Silent Disco

This year to kick off the start of the school year, the Disability Access Center (DAC) and Disability Outreach Center (DOC) are hosting a silent disco! While traditional indoor dance events can be fun, they can also be overstimulating which is why we are hosting an outdoor silent disco where you can still hang out and dance with your friends but be in control of your own sound via your own headphones. The silent disco will be on Thursday, September 26 from 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM in Red Square (with VU 565ABC as a rain back-up). Everyone is welcome. Bring your friends and come dance! 

Check in by scanning the QR code at the event for a chance to spin our prize wheel to win one of our DOC giveaway prizes! After each event, people who answer the evaluation questions on WIN will be entered into a raffle to win a prize including Loop earplugs and Zenni FL-41 rose tinted glasses.

DisOrientation is the Disability Access Center (DAC) and Disability Outreach Center (DOC)’s Western Welcome programming. Join us for a week-long welcome (back) to Western for all students, including new first year, transfer, and graduate students as well as returning students. Join us to build community and connections, learn about how to access and navigate university services and resources at Western including the DAC and DOC, and have fun!

Other DisOrientation events:
• DAC and DOC at the AS Fall Info Fair (Day 1 & Day 2)
• DAC and DOC Open House
• Glam Up Your Mobility Devices and Campus Accessibility Tour
• Speed Friending
• Fidget Fun Friday
• Adaptive Late Night at the Rec Center

AA/EO. Accessibility Statement: This event is intended for all participants including those with apparent or non-apparent disabilities. For disability accommodation(s) (such as ASL interpretation or TypeWell transcription), please contact Axel.Cichocki@wwu.edu. Advanced notice is appreciated and sometimes necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.

Masks are strongly encouraged and will be available at entrances and upon request.

Red Square is the bricked plaza near the center of North Campus with the fountain in the middle. Red Square is ADA accessible by accessible paths of travel and ramps. We will be providing chairs in Red Square for people who need to sit and take a break and there will be a designated low-sensory chill out zone. An ADA accessible and all-gender bathroom will be available in Wilson Library near the DAC and DOC. Wilson Library is an ADA accessible building. There is signage for the Disability Access Center, the Disability Outreach Center, and lecture hall WL 164. This building has an accessible and all-gender restroom around the corner from the DOC in WL 165A.

The rain back-up location is Viking Union (VU) 565ABC. Viking Union is an ADA accessible building. Button activated entrances are located on the southeast side and northwest side of the building near Garden Street. Elevators provide access to all levels. ADA accessible and all-gender bathrooms are located on the 3rd floor (VU 714 are all-gender and ADA accessible and VU 351 and 353 are all-gender) and the 7th floor (VU 714 and 717 are ADA accessible and all-gender and VU 715 and 716 are all-gender). There is a quiet Meditation Room on the 7^th floor of the VU.

Please refer to the Campus Map and select the ‘Accessibility’ filter for information about the nearest accessible doors, elevators, walkways, routes, and parking spots and refer to the reflection and meditation spaces page for low-sensory spaces on campus.

Image Description: Banner with white background with 'DisOrientation:' in blue letters and 'YOUR GUIDE TO AN ACCESSIBLE CAMPUS' in green all-capital letters with a light blue shadow behind the letters.