What's Happening in Your Area?

The enormous growth in local and regional NOAH activities recently is a tribute to the wonderful NOAH members who chose to step up and take the lead. With their initiative, NOAH helps spread the word and encourage people to get together and enjoy the fellowship of the albinism community. For more information about getting local activities organized in your area, contact NOAH at info@albinism.org or call 800.473.2310.

Information about NOAH teleconferences and webinars can be found on our NOAH Parents Page!

NOAH's Get Involved Committee Week!

Here is your opportunity to use your talents for a greater good! NOAH needs volunteers like you who are willing to share their talents, gifts and time. By joining a committee, you will have an avenue to use your talents while helping others and you will meet a lot of wonderful people within the albinism community! Come see what we’re all about!

NOAH is hosting informational teleconferences the week of May 21st to give you a chance to learn about committees and volunteer opportunities that might be of interest to you.


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Annual Spring Family Picnic!

Sunday, May 20, 2012
Aidan's Place at Westwood Rec Center
1350 S. Sepulveda
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Come join us for our first NOAH SoCal event: a picnic!

All NOAH SoCal members, families and friends are invited. Bring your own lunch, a picnic blanket and a snack or side to share. We will provide water and juice to drink (email us if you would like to bring anything else!). We look forward to seeing everyone!










Special Touch Tour for NYC Area NOAH Members!
The Whitney Museum of American Art is pleased to invite you to a 
Verbal Description and Touch Tour of Whitney Biennial 2012

Friday, May 18
11 am–12:30 pm
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York, NY

Please join us for a free guided tour of the 2012 Whitney Biennial. Whitney verbal description tours provide an opportunity for visitors who are blind or have low vision and their companions to experience the richness and diversity of twentieth and twenty-first century American art through vivid descriptions and tactile opportunities. These small group tours, which provide in-depth focus on a selection of artworks in a variety of media, are offered when the Museum is closed to the general public. 

Admission is free; reservations are required. Please call (212) 570-7789 or email AccessFeedback@Whitney.org to RSVP.

To learn more about this program and the Whitney’s access services, visit: whitney.org/Education/Access 

About the Exhibition: Whitney Biennial 2012Through May 27
Sculpture, painting, installations, and photography—as well as dance, theater, music, and film—fill the galleries in the latest edition of the Whitney Biennial. With a roster of artists at all points in their careers the Biennial provides a look at the current state of contemporary art in America. This is the seventy-sixth in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded.

Please visit the exhibition website for more information: whitney.org/Exhibitions/2012Biennial


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Meet me in St. Louis!
NOAH's 14th National Conference

July 12-15, 2012
Millennium Hotel St. Louis
200 S. 4th Street
St. Louis, MO 63102
Special conference lodging rate (single/quad) of $125 per night plus tax for a standard room or $189 per night for a one bedroom suite.

Reserve your room online or call the Reservations Department at 1-800-325-7353.If you encounter any difficulties, or require a suite, please call the hotel directly at 314-241-9500  and confirm that you are speaking to someone in-house

Download the conference brochure.

For more information about the hotel, visit www.millenniumhotels.com/millenniumstlouis.

Funding Sources: Interested in learning more about how to raise the funds to attend the NOAH Conference? Download the NOAH Funding Sources Packet.

Personal Grants! Round one of the personal grant application process has closed. Additional applications may still be submitted, but will be reviewed only if funds remain. 

NOAH will make personal grants to to those needing financial assistance to attend the conference based on donations received for the program.  Please be advised that such funds are limited. When you access  NOAH's Online Personal Grant Application please provide documentation of application for other funding sources.