July 30, 2025 • 31 mins
Talked with Sandra Raffaelli, Founder & CEO, Azul Fashion Art Design. Azul's mission is to empower adults of all abilities and their caregivers using Fashion, Art and Design on their path to achieve artistic recognition, dignity and financial independence. It's a non-profit "dedicated to offering alternative art-focused programs for adults with disabilities (i.e. down syndrome, autism, and other disabilities) and their caregivers/families. Our philosophy focuses on bringing empowering experiences that transform family dynamics, integrate social skills, workforce skills, personal skills, and therapeutic artistic activities for better mental health." When students age out of the school system at 24 years old this is an opportunity for them to see if a career in arts is something they'd like. Azul has programs starting with Active Art Lunch, Art Abilities and Follow the Thread. For more info, to become a volunteer, sponsor or enroll, listeners can go to www.azulfashionartdesign.org
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Ihearts Communities Presents, Palm Beach Treasure cost Perspective which dead now.
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Good morning, Welcome to Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective. I'm
your host, dev New Thanks for spending your weekend with me.
All kinds of great things going on. If you haven't
been in a while, head on over to Art's Garage
in Delray Beach. All kinds of great shows coming up
on August eighth, eight o'clock is going to be in
the Blues brother Soul Band, all kinds of fun tribute bands.
We have Gaffierra Rio Miami coming with Brazilian big band sound.
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That's gonna be on August ninth. Coming up on the
eighteenth is The Kittens, which is a nice jazz band,
so if you haven't had your jazz fix lately, go
check them out. Heart Shaped Box will be there on
the sixteenth of August. That's a Nirvana tribute band. And
then if you haven't been for a while, you definitely
put this one on your calendar. August twenty second is
the Yacht Rock Night, so it's always such a fun night,
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fun music, and then August twenty third is Big Mama
Blues featuring Kat Riggins, so they go to Artsgarage dot
org and they have all the details right there for you. Oh,
great things happening Mandale Public Library. Pop Art Workshops with
Alan Creery happening. They've got all things Pokemon Sunday, August third.
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It's good for Kay's grades K through five. They have
basic job and Online Assistance training on Tuesday, August fifth.
Coming up on the seventh is intro to Sewing with Dory,
So if you're interested in learning how to do that,
you know it'd be nice to go check that out.
And there's always so nice to have someone there to
answer those questions as you're doing it. Wednesday, August sixth,
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from ten thirty to one thirty in the lobby they're
doing the bike helmet fitting, so that's very important. No
registration required for that one. Kids Chess Club is coming
up on Thursday, August seventh. The Kids Space Second Friday
Book Club is going to be online on Friday August
eighth from eleven thirty to one pm, and then all
they have the driving simulators every day, so if you
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want to go practice your driving skills, definitely reach out
to them. Sign up for that one and their staff
pick This Much was a Month is Stone Angels by
Heleno Rowe. So if you're looking for a good book
to read, check that out and you go to wpbcitylibrary
dot org to find out more about that. And Saint
Lucy County Libraries have lots of good things happening as well.
They're doing some fun things. So on August sixth and
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the twentieth from one to four pm, it's a crochet
series they're starting, and it's Ambigurimi Teddy Bears. I've totally
pronouncing that wrong, so I apologize. It's a fun style
of koshang these little cute bears. That's good for the
grown ups, and you want to check that out. And
they also have film Club happening on Wednesdays August thirteenth
and the twenty seventh at three pm at the Pruit campus,
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so check that out. And you can also sign up
for their Canopy app. So they have a lot of
digital apps. There's the Hoopla app, there's Canopy and Canopies
with a K and it is movies free through the libraries,
and all the different library programs have different variations of it.
So hooplap might have like audiobooks and like TV series
and graphic novels. For one library series and system and
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then another has different things, so they're always fun to
check out and they're always free, so they reach out
to the library seven seven to two three three six
sixty three eighty one and they'll be happy to answer
all your questions about that. So definitely lots of fun
digital services available, and they also have some other fun
training techie kind of things. Take photos like a pro
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with your phone. That one's coming up on August fifth
at two thirty the Lewis Branch. And then there's if
you're back in the beginning of things, no problem, the
email basics. They offer classes for that as well, Get
everybody up to Speed Thursday, August seventh at two pm.
And then there's one on the twelfth it's called what
is the Cloud, talking about cloud based things and savings
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there and how that system works, Google Drive, iCloud, one Drive,
some of the newer ones that are coming up, and
how to free up some space on your phone by
using those cloud cloud features. And then of course on
the fifteenth very important one Cybersecurity Basics, and that's going
to be also happening at the per campus for more details.
Reach out to Eric seven to seven to two for
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six two seventeen ninety one and he's happy to give
you details on that. Oh in Saint Lucie County Chamber
and Planning Staff, they're going to be hosting a before
you Sign the least workshop, So before you sign at
least to rent something, go and find out more about that.
That's coming up on Tuesday, August nineteenth, starting eleven thirty am.
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It's going to be in the Planning Conference Room one
inside the Saint Lucie County Administration Complex. For more details,
called Eric seven seven to two four six two seventeen
ninety one. At Cultural Counts always has fun things going on,
sending over the links, so this when they're doing their
teaming up with Palm Beaches to offer a special summer
workshop as an extension of the Arts and Tourism Summit.
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So on Tuesday, August twelfth, you can join them for
Community Dialogue at the Multi Jupiter Theater. It's about a
panel of arts and cultural experts discuss all the different
cultural programs and platforms and events as bridges between the arts,
residents and tourists. So it's gonna be extra special fun
things so defely check that out. Something go to Culturalcouncil
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dot org and the details are there. Oh of course,
oxbod Eco centerizes all kinds of fun things happening when
head outside and check out the different preserves. Some pople
go to Saint Lucypreserves dot com. You can also go
to SLC Hikes dot com and they've got a lot
of the different like programs, kayaks and paddles and things
they do listed there, as well as pbc ERM dot com,
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Pombach County Environmental Resources and of course kids can get
in free at the Palm Beach Zoo through August tenth,
So don't buy your tickets online. Go buy your ticket
and so for one adult ticket, I believe four kids
can get in, but you do at the gate there
in person, so don't buy those online anyway. From more
information on that, you can reach out to them Pombeach
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Zoo dot org and they're happy to give you all
the details on that. Getting kids getting in free program
and lots of fun things happening. As far as aret,
I love it. So we've got Urban Pop and that's
happening at the Rosenbaum Contemporaries Studio in Boca. Lots of
cool things going on with that. Gallery hours are Tuesday
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through Saturday from ten am till five pm, and their
phone number is five six one five zero eight six
one seven four if you need more information. The Waterworks
Distillations exhibit is happening now through September twenty first, and
that's going to be the Spady Museum in Delray Beach.
All kinds of cool things happening there. I can reach
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out to Miss Charlene five six one two seven nine
eighty eight eighty three and she's happen to give me
more details on that. Speaking getting more details, I want
to welcome my guests for today. I have Sandra Rofelli,
founder and CEO of a Zool Fashion Art Design.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Good morning, Good morning, dev Thank you so much for
inviting me.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well, thank you for coming in so total listeners, and
I am what is I'm going to call it a
zool for sure? What is a Zool?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Well? As well as a non profit organization that serves
the community in Pambach County that has been created for
adults with unique abilities or adults with special needs who
graduate from the school system to have an opportunity to
discover the artistic purpose and connect with dignifying interactions. In fact,
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our organization is unique because, besides offering these programs are
very innovated, we also include in the process the caregivers,
which hasn't happened in the past for so many organizations.
So is what's been happening is that the parent or
caregiver drop off the adults with unic abilities at therapy
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or the classroom, and they don't know how to continue
the process at home. So we have created uniquely methodologies
that help the whole family grow.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
So the students are the creatives in your terminology, and
then the parents are considered the collaborators. Correct, that's right, Yes,
I love that terminology. So because they work together. This
is for students who are twenty four or older, right,
they've aged out of the system as.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
First school exactly. That's the reason why we created it. Yeah,
well I think it's perfect. Because we were talking before
the show. My youngest sister had TMR when she was younger.
It's a different label now, but when she aged out
at twenty four a very very small town I grew
up in Pennsylvania, there were no services, so she was
just stuck sitting at home watching TV and it was
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not She wasn't thriving, it wasn't a good fit. So
I like that there's something here in Palm Beach County
for folks to do. So say I have a student,
they're twenty four, they've aged out, and they're on the
autism spectrum. I can my student come to you? Yes,
the family can reach out to us, And for our organization,
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it's very important to offer some dignity and enough information
for the adult to make an informed decision. When we're
looking for a career after we each of high school,
all of us have the choice to learn about different options.
Sometimes what happens in the family is that the parents
make the decision. So when the parent calls us, the
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first program that we suggest they get enrolled is in
our Active Art program, which is artistic field trips that
include lunch where the creative, the adult with disabilities it
goes in a group to visit different museum galleries and
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connect with local artists with the intention that they learn
how does it look like to be an artist from
the outside. So we suggest our artists to share information
such as how long does it take them to put
together an artistic piece, how do they price it, how
do they sell it, how do they network? So our
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creatives start having an idea about what's the meaning or
how is it to have an artistic career. They also
explore different art mediums, So there is dance, writing, pottery, painting, sculpture,
infinite ways of expressing arts or living the arts, and
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they don't know. So by day visiting different spaces, they
will have an idea about what they like.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Oh I love that idea. I love that idea for
music grown.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Up right right, because we don't know what to choose from.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well yeah, and like when you grow up, Like what
do you want to be when you grow up? I'm like, well,
so ballerina, princess, astronaut write rocket scientists on air DJ.
So you never know which one you're going to get
kind of thing. But I think it's awesome. Like you
said that lunch and that active chour. Yah, they have
that honest conversation. They can see it. Yes, they might
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resonate with a mixed medium, they might resonate with the ballet.
You never know exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yes, so we go there like we actually wear the
Florida Vallette Foundation last month, and when I also share,
like for those who are interested. Right after the visit
artistic visit, we take them to high end restaurants. So
my question for those who are listening to us is like,
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how many times have you seen an adult with disabilities
at a high end restaurant? Not many times? Right, there's
a fear around that there is an area of improvement
an inclusion for us. So we are doing that and
the restaurant owners are feeling more comfortable now as they
get to connect with our community. In our community, they
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feel dignified because they're also now trying different food that
they don't agree to try with their parents. But when
they're with us, because they'll be treated at this high
end level standard, they respond with the same. So they're
willing to experience themselves at a high end. They feel empowered,
they feel happy, and we take them on all these
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field trips and limo buses. So it's the whole special
treatment connected with education that they're like going through.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Well that's perfect, So it makes it something very engaging
to them, something they want to do. Me Almo bus,
are you kidding? You're going to a cool art thing
to check out and then a nice restaurant. Yes, again,
I need to sign up, right, So can I be
a collaborator for somebody? Everybody's welcome.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
In fact, we welcome in our programs neurotypical so just
interviduals like you and I and neurodiverse community.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Absolutely so who a can participate in programs, all the
students that are aging out at twenty four.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Absolutely yes, Like I said before, with those who are neurotypical,
and our specialty and our heart or grows and goes
to those with disabilities. But everybody's welcome. There is so much.
It's such an enriching experience where both communities are in
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the same space. These adults with disabilities have so much
to teach us. Oh my gosh, those have been my
biggest teachers in life. And they love to learn from neurotypical.
They love to feel that they are treated at the
same level as other neurotypical They're not isolated as it
happens in some areas.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Oh that's a great thing. So for businesses who would
like to participate, whether they have like an art center
or if they have a high end restaurant, how do
they reach out to you and sign up to become
part of the program.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Through our website which is www. A Zool Fashion Art
Design dot org or the easier way that I tell
everybody just type in on Google fashion and fashion and
a zool or fashion or a zool and art those
keywords and they will come up.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Okay, Yeah, I like it because I know people are
trying to be more inclusive, especially businesses right because they
want everybody to come.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
It speaks volumes of them.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And I think part of too, is we're getting better
about communicating about things and people are becoming more open
to experiencing folks it might be different from them, so
and sometimes you get a little scared because they don't
really know what to do, And once they've had your
Glovely group through, they'll be like, oh, well, I don't
know what I was worried about.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yes, yes, before I continue with all the programs. That's
a great point that you're bringing up, because if you
have a business and you don't know how to communicate
interact with those with special needs, and you don't know
when you're going to be rude or what is right
to say or not, please give us a call because
we offer probel sensitivity trainings for big corporations as well
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as small business to get more comfortable and to feel
confident when they're interacting with our community in different ways.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah. Oh, I think it's fantastic win win for everybody. Yes,
so they can reach out to you again like on
the website where they can call you exactly.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yes, yes, I'll give my phone number right now nine
to five four six zero zero five three three zero
and again google a zool and fashion Pompbage County will
come up. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Very cool. So let's go back to your program. So
I wouldly the first one we were talking about is
the Active Art Lunch, which just sounds fantastic, and this
is for creatives and their collaborators. Collaborators can come as well. Yes,
so when they get a feel and they can experience
that together.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Right, yes, they get to it's like windows shopping, but
in art and for life. And then right after uh,
they go into the field trips. We offer something that
we call Artabilities. That's our program. What is it continuing
of the Active Art launch. So for example, in August,
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we're going to the Northern Museum because there's a jurially
exhibition there. And after we visit the Northern Museum, hopefully
they take us in because that's our plan. After that,
we offer an artability class in jury. So the person
got to see the exhibition, got to learn how it's
being exhibited, high end work, and then we'll bring them
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in the classroom and in a two hour session they
get to experience the art medium they learned about in
there on with their own hands. Right, they get to
make probably jurally. So this active arts is a continuum
from the artabilities is a continue from the active art
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field trips.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Oh, I think it's a great idea. So they've seen it.
Now they actually do the hands on exactly. It's not
as you know, once you put your hands on you've
done it. It really helps you understand it better. And
then you we would go like maybe journaling is not
for me, insactly. Journalinge's not really for me. My best
friend loves it. She does it every night before she
goes to bed. She's doing it for like forty years, right,
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and like really every night she's like every night, and
I'm like, yeah, you you got it.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You got it. That's the reason what we do it.
So then like you learn about it first from the outside,
then you come inspirencing and you're on hands and then
you say like no, I don't like this, or you
said I like it, so I want to continue learning
and make it my career and make it my purpose.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And I can also say, like, if it's not something
you'd like right away, you can also try it again later.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Might it might resonate with a little bit bit later
in a different stage in your life. You're like, Okay,
maybe I want to write some things down right right.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
So out of the Artabilities program, we also have something
that we call a Zoom Moves, and a Zoom Moves
is dance classes that have been offered every Tuesday, say,
for one hour and fifteen minutes to adults with unicpabilities. Currently,
we have five young ladies who had been putting together
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choreographies to travel around Pambage County dancing as senior centers.
They feel empowered, they have a purpose. They feel that
they're dancing to bring joy and movement to the seniors,
and the seniors love supporting them and they feel they're
supporting the adults with unique abilities. So it's a double
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a way. It's a double impact on the empowerment that
we're doing around Pambage County.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Well, I really like that because a lot of the
senior centers. I work in healthcare briefly and with see patients.
Like in the care centers, either family's busy, they can't
make it, or some of them didn't have any family,
it was just them. So the loneliness and the isolation
is a big problem in those centers. So I know
they really appreciate when people, when programs like yours come
in and help you engage with the residents.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yes, yes, there's so much joy. There's so much joy, and.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
What you said, some of your creatives are actually thriving
during that. They've been doing it for a while and
you're like, now it's they're getting They personally are improving
even more.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yes, there's this story about this young lady whom used
her words to not to communicate, but just to make sounds,
and she's very repetitive, and after five years of dancing
with us, last month, after the performance, she came out
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and she says, I'm proud of me. And that is
something that we never heard that she was using words
in contexts. So it's so heartwarming to see it and
to witness that her empowerment is leading her to say
it aloud, to use the words.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That was great it's fantastic and I know a lot
of parents would love to hear their kids do something
like that, right, So this is a great program for
them to help enrich their kids and give them a
purpose and like find out what their career is going
to be next exactly. I like that. So that is
the moving part of it. So getting up dancing. What
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are some of the other.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Programs for those who probably came to our tabilities and
then we hosted a class in fabric painting perhaps or
working with a textile if they feel that that's something
that they want to explore more. We offer our fashionable programs,
and our fashion programs are offering two folds. So if
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you're a family and you and your creative or your
adult with unic abilities is interested in sustainable fashion, we
offer our program Follow the Thread, which is five months.
It's like going to college, but a little bit adapted
for the abilities of our community.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Right.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
So it's a twenty week program. Twice a week. They
come put their caregivers and their caregivers collaborators for us.
They come to learn to so they don't come to help,
they come to learn the trade. We have got feedback
from parents from collaborators. That is therapeutic that it is
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relaxing for them, and it's relaxing because they get to
see also their adult with disabilities learning and they're learning
from the facilitators hard to get to how to lead
them into working and to spot new skill set because
sometimes parents don't know how to do that. So it's
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like a whole redefining of the relationship from carrying dynamic
to becoming a team. We're both create a purpose.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
So they become a peer, peer to peer and for
the day might become their little you know.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
For the adult disabilities to see that their parents is
learning something, that they're both on the same level learning
something is amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
That's empowering. Yeah, because yes, well, and I think that's
actually double empowering because it helps them to learn. But
then they see their parents learning like from the ground
up with them, so they realize they might not know
everything and that's okay because you can go and learn.
So it's okay not to know Something's where I'm going
with that and saying with the parents, it's okay not
to know something, And I like the collaborators are coming
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because then they're learning as well, so they're both learning
together and then if there's questions at home, they can
both help each other exactly that.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
That was the reason why we created this methodology to
have a whole impact in the family.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Oh yeah, because I'm the one that's like, wait, how
did you how did you fold that? But that not
does not look new? How did you do that again?
And they have to show me again because that's not
my skill set, right and fascinated by it, but not
my skill set.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Well, I hear that. And also, uh, some parents, some caregivers,
have their jobs so they can take care of their
adult who now is not going to school, and they
also have lost their purpose. So when they graduate, when
they complete the program, they graduate with everything they need
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to start their own business such as collateral material, business cards,
mannequin's racks, a full collection, and they get to start selling.
It's a small business, it's not something really big. But
the whole point is to give them both a purpose.
So now the parent, the collaborator has also a reason
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to be engaged with and a reason and an activity
to get engaged with adult with disabilities with the creative
and create something together and share with the world their
new project. That is very empowering.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
That is so ampowering. I love it. So where does
the funding come from? Because I know people always ask
me that can they can business a sponsor? Can they
do like a giving it work thing like they do
in the United Way.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yeah, Well, we welcome sponsorships from corporate organizations, individual individual donors.
We also have our annual a Zool Nights event, which
is fabulous, And I'm so grateful for all the funders
out there that had supported and believed in our missions
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such as the Cultural Council Pambage County, the Office of
Equity of Pambage County, Palm Health Foundation, and the Autism
Autism Plates Also they are fabulous at funding our programs
and uh the Gym Moren Foundation. I mean if I
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said all our the found the funders right now, the
list will be really long. But I want to take
a moment to express our gratitude to all the funders
that keep continuing supporting our programs and making this this possible.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Well, I'm saying here big kudos because it is so important.
Like we talked before the show, it's important to have.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Purpose, yes, yes, yes, no.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Matter what age you're at, whether you're retiring, you're working,
you've just aged out of school. That purpose and focus
is important, and so many people have an artistic creative
side that they're not even necessarily aware of. So I
think this is a great opportunity for them to explore that.
And like you said, the art active art lunch thing
is great idea. Actually find the one that they like
click with I like that. Yeah. So anyway, so we
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have the thing where the parents are they sorry, where
the creatives and the collaborators are taking the class together,
like especially for the fabric thing. Yes, what else? What
are the programs? Come after that?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So after that, we hold accountable the creative team to
create two collections for the spring summer session season and
for the full winter season, and we host two big
events where the community gets to come and purchase the
designs from them. We hosted one event with the Northern
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Museum in July and we'll be hosting another one we
call fashion Fest in December. If you're interested, go and
follow us on social media so you can be up
to dating all our events. So they want to they
might want to grow their business, they might want to
take it to the next level, but they don't know how,
so to help them in that process. We created a program.
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There's a business mentorship program where business leaders that want
to help, they want to satisfy their social services UH desire,
can come and they become mentors for our creative teams,
which consistent once a month. They meet and they talk
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about either their interactions with clients, their branding connections, how
to fill out received and employe like little items that
they might want to start exploring to grow their business.
So that's another program that we offer after they graduate
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and as we keep them engaged because now they are
on purpose, we invite corporate organizations to connect with us
so our designers can create their corporate given at the
end of the year. So if they have gifts they're
going to send to their clients, or they're hosting a
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conference or any type of event, our designers can get
employment by creating either toe bags or sweaters, or hats
or different bracelets, so different knick knacks that the corporate
organization will desire to give to their clients and it's
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just a Then they've been given gifts that have a
mission and have a purpose that's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
So they can create like like four hundred items or
so yes, So if you call early, they might be
able to create eight hundred items, but you need to
call now right and when they reach out to you,
is there like a catalog of the things that are
available you created.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
We have like a many of items that our designers
that created in the past were so grateful for the
West k Cira because they always hire our designers. The
Palm Beaches also have been hiring our designers twice or
ready to create waki taki sweaters for the clients and
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they're so fabulous.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Those are fun. Yes, yes, well, and that's the thing
I think sometimes corporations go for like the serious thing
and sometimes they go for the fun thing. And I
think the fun thing tends to go over better than
they realize.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
It opens to heart, yes, and it has the story
when they when they connect.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
With us, I think that's fantastic. So again they can
go to what's your website.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
W w w azol fa art and design dot org
and the zul.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Is a z u l And are you on on Instagram?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
We are in all platforms. We're on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I always love to Instagram, especially when it's the visual things,
like when they're creating this art Instagram. It's just it's
it's a perfect platform for that.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Yes, yes, and it allows us to also when we're
in social media and if you're following us, it allows
us to also highlight our partnerships. We're really big in partnerships.
We collour. We partner with other nonprofits in Pambage County
by bringing our fashion programs to their clients. So we
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partner with UH the Arc of the Glades, the Arc
Pambach County, they have Center boc Raton, the Jewish Family
Service Foundation, and we keep adding more nonprofits partners to
our list because when we we come together, the impact
that we have in our community is healthier and it's higher.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
So yeah, oh, I think that's fantastic. So can they
can reach out to you as well?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Absolutely, if you have nonprofit there's serving adults with disabilities
and you're interested in having them supposed to what sustainable
fashion is, please reach out when we host these events
for them. We host fashion shows, so we host like
about eight to ten fashion shows a year and they're
(30:32):
open to the public. All the information is in social
media for people. If we want to attend to our
fashion shows, we welcome guests to our fashion shows.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
That's fantastic. Well, thank you for coming in and sharing
all this with us. It's so cool. Thank you for
doing such a cool thing in the community. Is very
much needed and definitely appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Thank you so much. I'm so happy here smiling for
the opportunity to share with the community our mission and everybody.
Remember when we are around somebody with disabilities, focus and
abilities and capabilities.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
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Good morning, Welcome to Palm Beach Treasure Coast Perspective. I'm
your host, dev New Thanks for spending your weekend with me.
All kinds of great things going on. If you haven't
been in a while, head on over to Art's Garage
in Delray Beach. All kinds of great shows coming up
on August eighth, eight o'clock is going to be in
the Blues brother Soul Band, all kinds of fun tribute bands.
We have Gaffierra Rio Miami coming with Brazilian big band sound.
(00:30):
That's gonna be on August ninth. Coming up on the
eighteenth is The Kittens, which is a nice jazz band,
so if you haven't had your jazz fix lately, go
check them out. Heart Shaped Box will be there on
the sixteenth of August. That's a Nirvana tribute band. And
then if you haven't been for a while, you definitely
put this one on your calendar. August twenty second is
the Yacht Rock Night, so it's always such a fun night,
(00:52):
fun music, and then August twenty third is Big Mama
Blues featuring Kat Riggins, so they go to Artsgarage dot
org and they have all the details right there for you. Oh,
great things happening Mandale Public Library. Pop Art Workshops with
Alan Creery happening. They've got all things Pokemon Sunday, August third.
(01:13):
It's good for Kay's grades K through five. They have
basic job and Online Assistance training on Tuesday, August fifth.
Coming up on the seventh is intro to Sewing with Dory,
So if you're interested in learning how to do that,
you know it'd be nice to go check that out.
And there's always so nice to have someone there to
answer those questions as you're doing it. Wednesday, August sixth,
(01:36):
from ten thirty to one thirty in the lobby they're
doing the bike helmet fitting, so that's very important. No
registration required for that one. Kids Chess Club is coming
up on Thursday, August seventh. The Kids Space Second Friday
Book Club is going to be online on Friday August
eighth from eleven thirty to one pm, and then all
they have the driving simulators every day, so if you
(01:57):
want to go practice your driving skills, definitely reach out
to them. Sign up for that one and their staff
pick This Much was a Month is Stone Angels by
Heleno Rowe. So if you're looking for a good book
to read, check that out and you go to wpbcitylibrary
dot org to find out more about that. And Saint
Lucy County Libraries have lots of good things happening as well.
They're doing some fun things. So on August sixth and
(02:18):
the twentieth from one to four pm, it's a crochet
series they're starting, and it's Ambigurimi Teddy Bears. I've totally
pronouncing that wrong, so I apologize. It's a fun style
of koshang these little cute bears. That's good for the
grown ups, and you want to check that out. And
they also have film Club happening on Wednesdays August thirteenth
and the twenty seventh at three pm at the Pruit campus,
(02:41):
so check that out. And you can also sign up
for their Canopy app. So they have a lot of
digital apps. There's the Hoopla app, there's Canopy and Canopies
with a K and it is movies free through the libraries,
and all the different library programs have different variations of it.
So hooplap might have like audiobooks and like TV series
and graphic novels. For one library series and system and
(03:03):
then another has different things, so they're always fun to
check out and they're always free, so they reach out
to the library seven seven to two three three six
sixty three eighty one and they'll be happy to answer
all your questions about that. So definitely lots of fun
digital services available, and they also have some other fun
training techie kind of things. Take photos like a pro
(03:24):
with your phone. That one's coming up on August fifth
at two thirty the Lewis Branch. And then there's if
you're back in the beginning of things, no problem, the
email basics. They offer classes for that as well, Get
everybody up to Speed Thursday, August seventh at two pm.
And then there's one on the twelfth it's called what
is the Cloud, talking about cloud based things and savings
(03:44):
there and how that system works, Google Drive, iCloud, one Drive,
some of the newer ones that are coming up, and
how to free up some space on your phone by
using those cloud cloud features. And then of course on
the fifteenth very important one Cybersecurity Basics, and that's going
to be also happening at the per campus for more details.
Reach out to Eric seven to seven to two for
(04:07):
six two seventeen ninety one and he's happy to give
you details on that. Oh in Saint Lucie County Chamber
and Planning Staff, they're going to be hosting a before
you Sign the least workshop, So before you sign at
least to rent something, go and find out more about that.
That's coming up on Tuesday, August nineteenth, starting eleven thirty am.
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It's going to be in the Planning Conference Room one
inside the Saint Lucie County Administration Complex. For more details,
called Eric seven seven to two four six two seventeen
ninety one. At Cultural Counts always has fun things going on,
sending over the links, so this when they're doing their
teaming up with Palm Beaches to offer a special summer
workshop as an extension of the Arts and Tourism Summit.
(04:51):
So on Tuesday, August twelfth, you can join them for
Community Dialogue at the Multi Jupiter Theater. It's about a
panel of arts and cultural experts discuss all the different
cultural programs and platforms and events as bridges between the arts,
residents and tourists. So it's gonna be extra special fun
things so defely check that out. Something go to Culturalcouncil
(05:13):
dot org and the details are there. Oh of course,
oxbod Eco centerizes all kinds of fun things happening when
head outside and check out the different preserves. Some pople
go to Saint Lucypreserves dot com. You can also go
to SLC Hikes dot com and they've got a lot
of the different like programs, kayaks and paddles and things
they do listed there, as well as pbc ERM dot com,
(05:36):
Pombach County Environmental Resources and of course kids can get
in free at the Palm Beach Zoo through August tenth,
So don't buy your tickets online. Go buy your ticket
and so for one adult ticket, I believe four kids
can get in, but you do at the gate there
in person, so don't buy those online anyway. From more
information on that, you can reach out to them Pombeach
(05:57):
Zoo dot org and they're happy to give you all
the details on that. Getting kids getting in free program
and lots of fun things happening. As far as aret,
I love it. So we've got Urban Pop and that's
happening at the Rosenbaum Contemporaries Studio in Boca. Lots of
cool things going on with that. Gallery hours are Tuesday
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through Saturday from ten am till five pm, and their
phone number is five six one five zero eight six
one seven four if you need more information. The Waterworks
Distillations exhibit is happening now through September twenty first, and
that's going to be the Spady Museum in Delray Beach.
All kinds of cool things happening there. I can reach
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out to Miss Charlene five six one two seven nine
eighty eight eighty three and she's happen to give me
more details on that. Speaking getting more details, I want
to welcome my guests for today. I have Sandra Rofelli,
founder and CEO of a Zool Fashion Art Design.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Good morning, Good morning, dev Thank you so much for
inviting me.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well, thank you for coming in so total listeners, and
I am what is I'm going to call it a
zool for sure? What is a Zool?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Well? As well as a non profit organization that serves
the community in Pambach County that has been created for
adults with unique abilities or adults with special needs who
graduate from the school system to have an opportunity to
discover the artistic purpose and connect with dignifying interactions. In fact,
(07:31):
our organization is unique because, besides offering these programs are
very innovated, we also include in the process the caregivers,
which hasn't happened in the past for so many organizations.
So is what's been happening is that the parent or
caregiver drop off the adults with unic abilities at therapy
(07:52):
or the classroom, and they don't know how to continue
the process at home. So we have created uniquely methodologies
that help the whole family grow.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
So the students are the creatives in your terminology, and
then the parents are considered the collaborators. Correct, that's right, Yes,
I love that terminology. So because they work together. This
is for students who are twenty four or older, right,
they've aged out of the system as.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
First school exactly. That's the reason why we created it. Yeah,
well I think it's perfect. Because we were talking before
the show. My youngest sister had TMR when she was younger.
It's a different label now, but when she aged out
at twenty four a very very small town I grew
up in Pennsylvania, there were no services, so she was
just stuck sitting at home watching TV and it was
(08:37):
not She wasn't thriving, it wasn't a good fit. So
I like that there's something here in Palm Beach County
for folks to do. So say I have a student,
they're twenty four, they've aged out, and they're on the
autism spectrum. I can my student come to you? Yes,
the family can reach out to us, And for our organization,
(09:01):
it's very important to offer some dignity and enough information
for the adult to make an informed decision. When we're
looking for a career after we each of high school,
all of us have the choice to learn about different options.
Sometimes what happens in the family is that the parents
make the decision. So when the parent calls us, the
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first program that we suggest they get enrolled is in
our Active Art program, which is artistic field trips that
include lunch where the creative, the adult with disabilities it
goes in a group to visit different museum galleries and
(09:45):
connect with local artists with the intention that they learn
how does it look like to be an artist from
the outside. So we suggest our artists to share information
such as how long does it take them to put
together an artistic piece, how do they price it, how
do they sell it, how do they network? So our
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creatives start having an idea about what's the meaning or
how is it to have an artistic career. They also
explore different art mediums, So there is dance, writing, pottery, painting, sculpture,
infinite ways of expressing arts or living the arts, and
(10:28):
they don't know. So by day visiting different spaces, they
will have an idea about what they like.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Oh I love that idea. I love that idea for
music grown.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Up right right, because we don't know what to choose from.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well yeah, and like when you grow up, Like what
do you want to be when you grow up? I'm like, well,
so ballerina, princess, astronaut write rocket scientists on air DJ.
So you never know which one you're going to get
kind of thing. But I think it's awesome. Like you
said that lunch and that active chour. Yah, they have
that honest conversation. They can see it. Yes, they might
(11:03):
resonate with a mixed medium, they might resonate with the ballet.
You never know exactly.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yes, so we go there like we actually wear the
Florida Vallette Foundation last month, and when I also share,
like for those who are interested. Right after the visit
artistic visit, we take them to high end restaurants. So
my question for those who are listening to us is like,
(11:30):
how many times have you seen an adult with disabilities
at a high end restaurant? Not many times? Right, there's
a fear around that there is an area of improvement
an inclusion for us. So we are doing that and
the restaurant owners are feeling more comfortable now as they
get to connect with our community. In our community, they
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feel dignified because they're also now trying different food that
they don't agree to try with their parents. But when
they're with us, because they'll be treated at this high
end level standard, they respond with the same. So they're
willing to experience themselves at a high end. They feel empowered,
they feel happy, and we take them on all these
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field trips and limo buses. So it's the whole special
treatment connected with education that they're like going through.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Well that's perfect, So it makes it something very engaging
to them, something they want to do. Me Almo bus,
are you kidding? You're going to a cool art thing
to check out and then a nice restaurant. Yes, again,
I need to sign up, right, So can I be
a collaborator for somebody? Everybody's welcome.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
In fact, we welcome in our programs neurotypical so just
interviduals like you and I and neurodiverse community.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Absolutely so who a can participate in programs, all the
students that are aging out at twenty four.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Absolutely yes, Like I said before, with those who are neurotypical,
and our specialty and our heart or grows and goes
to those with disabilities. But everybody's welcome. There is so much.
It's such an enriching experience where both communities are in
(13:13):
the same space. These adults with disabilities have so much
to teach us. Oh my gosh, those have been my
biggest teachers in life. And they love to learn from neurotypical.
They love to feel that they are treated at the
same level as other neurotypical They're not isolated as it
happens in some areas.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Oh that's a great thing. So for businesses who would
like to participate, whether they have like an art center
or if they have a high end restaurant, how do
they reach out to you and sign up to become
part of the program.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Through our website which is www. A Zool Fashion Art
Design dot org or the easier way that I tell
everybody just type in on Google fashion and fashion and
a zool or fashion or a zool and art those
keywords and they will come up.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Okay, Yeah, I like it because I know people are
trying to be more inclusive, especially businesses right because they
want everybody to come.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
It speaks volumes of them.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And I think part of too, is we're getting better
about communicating about things and people are becoming more open
to experiencing folks it might be different from them, so
and sometimes you get a little scared because they don't
really know what to do, And once they've had your
Glovely group through, they'll be like, oh, well, I don't
know what I was worried about.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yes, yes, before I continue with all the programs. That's
a great point that you're bringing up, because if you
have a business and you don't know how to communicate
interact with those with special needs, and you don't know
when you're going to be rude or what is right
to say or not, please give us a call because
we offer probel sensitivity trainings for big corporations as well
(14:57):
as small business to get more comfortable and to feel
confident when they're interacting with our community in different ways.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah. Oh, I think it's fantastic win win for everybody. Yes,
so they can reach out to you again like on
the website where they can call you exactly.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yes, yes, I'll give my phone number right now nine
to five four six zero zero five three three zero
and again google a zool and fashion Pompbage County will
come up. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Very cool. So let's go back to your program. So
I wouldly the first one we were talking about is
the Active Art Lunch, which just sounds fantastic, and this
is for creatives and their collaborators. Collaborators can come as well. Yes,
so when they get a feel and they can experience
that together.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Right, yes, they get to it's like windows shopping, but
in art and for life. And then right after uh,
they go into the field trips. We offer something that
we call Artabilities. That's our program. What is it continuing
of the Active Art launch. So for example, in August,
(16:05):
we're going to the Northern Museum because there's a jurially
exhibition there. And after we visit the Northern Museum, hopefully
they take us in because that's our plan. After that,
we offer an artability class in jury. So the person
got to see the exhibition, got to learn how it's
being exhibited, high end work, and then we'll bring them
(16:30):
in the classroom and in a two hour session they
get to experience the art medium they learned about in
there on with their own hands. Right, they get to
make probably jurally. So this active arts is a continuum
from the artabilities is a continue from the active art
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field trips.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Oh, I think it's a great idea. So they've seen it.
Now they actually do the hands on exactly. It's not
as you know, once you put your hands on you've
done it. It really helps you understand it better. And
then you we would go like maybe journaling is not
for me, insactly. Journalinge's not really for me. My best
friend loves it. She does it every night before she
goes to bed. She's doing it for like forty years, right,
(17:14):
and like really every night she's like every night, and
I'm like, yeah, you you got it.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You got it. That's the reason what we do it.
So then like you learn about it first from the outside,
then you come inspirencing and you're on hands and then
you say like no, I don't like this, or you
said I like it, so I want to continue learning
and make it my career and make it my purpose.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And I can also say, like, if it's not something
you'd like right away, you can also try it again later.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Might it might resonate with a little bit bit later
in a different stage in your life. You're like, Okay,
maybe I want to write some things down right right.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
So out of the Artabilities program, we also have something
that we call a Zoom Moves, and a Zoom Moves
is dance classes that have been offered every Tuesday, say,
for one hour and fifteen minutes to adults with unicpabilities. Currently,
we have five young ladies who had been putting together
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choreographies to travel around Pambage County dancing as senior centers.
They feel empowered, they have a purpose. They feel that
they're dancing to bring joy and movement to the seniors,
and the seniors love supporting them and they feel they're
supporting the adults with unique abilities. So it's a double
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a way. It's a double impact on the empowerment that
we're doing around Pambage County.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Well, I really like that because a lot of the
senior centers. I work in healthcare briefly and with see patients.
Like in the care centers, either family's busy, they can't
make it, or some of them didn't have any family,
it was just them. So the loneliness and the isolation
is a big problem in those centers. So I know
they really appreciate when people, when programs like yours come
in and help you engage with the residents.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yes, yes, there's so much joy. There's so much joy, and.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
What you said, some of your creatives are actually thriving
during that. They've been doing it for a while and
you're like, now it's they're getting They personally are improving
even more.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yes, there's this story about this young lady whom used
her words to not to communicate, but just to make sounds,
and she's very repetitive, and after five years of dancing
with us, last month, after the performance, she came out
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and she says, I'm proud of me. And that is
something that we never heard that she was using words
in contexts. So it's so heartwarming to see it and
to witness that her empowerment is leading her to say
it aloud, to use the words.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That was great it's fantastic and I know a lot
of parents would love to hear their kids do something
like that, right, So this is a great program for
them to help enrich their kids and give them a
purpose and like find out what their career is going
to be next exactly. I like that. So that is
the moving part of it. So getting up dancing. What
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are some of the other.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Programs for those who probably came to our tabilities and
then we hosted a class in fabric painting perhaps or
working with a textile if they feel that that's something
that they want to explore more. We offer our fashionable programs,
and our fashion programs are offering two folds. So if
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you're a family and you and your creative or your
adult with unic abilities is interested in sustainable fashion, we
offer our program Follow the Thread, which is five months.
It's like going to college, but a little bit adapted
for the abilities of our community.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Right.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
So it's a twenty week program. Twice a week. They
come put their caregivers and their caregivers collaborators for us.
They come to learn to so they don't come to help,
they come to learn the trade. We have got feedback
from parents from collaborators. That is therapeutic that it is
(21:16):
relaxing for them, and it's relaxing because they get to
see also their adult with disabilities learning and they're learning
from the facilitators hard to get to how to lead
them into working and to spot new skill set because
sometimes parents don't know how to do that. So it's
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like a whole redefining of the relationship from carrying dynamic
to becoming a team. We're both create a purpose.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
So they become a peer, peer to peer and for
the day might become their little you know.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
For the adult disabilities to see that their parents is
learning something, that they're both on the same level learning
something is amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
That's empowering. Yeah, because yes, well, and I think that's
actually double empowering because it helps them to learn. But
then they see their parents learning like from the ground
up with them, so they realize they might not know
everything and that's okay because you can go and learn.
So it's okay not to know Something's where I'm going
with that and saying with the parents, it's okay not
to know something, And I like the collaborators are coming
(22:23):
because then they're learning as well, so they're both learning
together and then if there's questions at home, they can
both help each other exactly that.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
That was the reason why we created this methodology to
have a whole impact in the family.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Oh yeah, because I'm the one that's like, wait, how
did you how did you fold that? But that not
does not look new? How did you do that again?
And they have to show me again because that's not
my skill set, right and fascinated by it, but not
my skill set.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Well, I hear that. And also, uh, some parents, some caregivers,
have their jobs so they can take care of their
adult who now is not going to school, and they
also have lost their purpose. So when they graduate, when
they complete the program, they graduate with everything they need
(23:13):
to start their own business such as collateral material, business cards,
mannequin's racks, a full collection, and they get to start selling.
It's a small business, it's not something really big. But
the whole point is to give them both a purpose.
So now the parent, the collaborator has also a reason
(23:33):
to be engaged with and a reason and an activity
to get engaged with adult with disabilities with the creative
and create something together and share with the world their
new project. That is very empowering.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
That is so ampowering. I love it. So where does
the funding come from? Because I know people always ask
me that can they can business a sponsor? Can they
do like a giving it work thing like they do
in the United Way.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yeah, Well, we welcome sponsorships from corporate organizations, individual individual donors.
We also have our annual a Zool Nights event, which
is fabulous, And I'm so grateful for all the funders
out there that had supported and believed in our missions
(24:20):
such as the Cultural Council Pambage County, the Office of
Equity of Pambage County, Palm Health Foundation, and the Autism
Autism Plates Also they are fabulous at funding our programs
and uh the Gym Moren Foundation. I mean if I
(24:40):
said all our the found the funders right now, the
list will be really long. But I want to take
a moment to express our gratitude to all the funders
that keep continuing supporting our programs and making this this possible.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Well, I'm saying here big kudos because it is so important.
Like we talked before the show, it's important to have.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Purpose, yes, yes, yes, no.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Matter what age you're at, whether you're retiring, you're working,
you've just aged out of school. That purpose and focus
is important, and so many people have an artistic creative
side that they're not even necessarily aware of. So I
think this is a great opportunity for them to explore that.
And like you said, the art active art lunch thing
is great idea. Actually find the one that they like
click with I like that. Yeah. So anyway, so we
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have the thing where the parents are they sorry, where
the creatives and the collaborators are taking the class together,
like especially for the fabric thing. Yes, what else? What
are the programs? Come after that?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So after that, we hold accountable the creative team to
create two collections for the spring summer session season and
for the full winter season, and we host two big
events where the community gets to come and purchase the
designs from them. We hosted one event with the Northern
(26:00):
Museum in July and we'll be hosting another one we
call fashion Fest in December. If you're interested, go and
follow us on social media so you can be up
to dating all our events. So they want to they
might want to grow their business, they might want to
take it to the next level, but they don't know how,
so to help them in that process. We created a program.
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There's a business mentorship program where business leaders that want
to help, they want to satisfy their social services UH desire,
can come and they become mentors for our creative teams,
which consistent once a month. They meet and they talk
(26:46):
about either their interactions with clients, their branding connections, how
to fill out received and employe like little items that
they might want to start exploring to grow their business.
So that's another program that we offer after they graduate
(27:08):
and as we keep them engaged because now they are
on purpose, we invite corporate organizations to connect with us
so our designers can create their corporate given at the
end of the year. So if they have gifts they're
going to send to their clients, or they're hosting a
(27:30):
conference or any type of event, our designers can get
employment by creating either toe bags or sweaters, or hats
or different bracelets, so different knick knacks that the corporate
organization will desire to give to their clients and it's
(27:51):
just a Then they've been given gifts that have a
mission and have a purpose that's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
So they can create like like four hundred items or
so yes, So if you call early, they might be
able to create eight hundred items, but you need to
call now right and when they reach out to you,
is there like a catalog of the things that are
available you created.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
We have like a many of items that our designers
that created in the past were so grateful for the
West k Cira because they always hire our designers. The
Palm Beaches also have been hiring our designers twice or
ready to create waki taki sweaters for the clients and
(28:34):
they're so fabulous.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Those are fun. Yes, yes, well, and that's the thing
I think sometimes corporations go for like the serious thing
and sometimes they go for the fun thing. And I
think the fun thing tends to go over better than
they realize.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
It opens to heart, yes, and it has the story
when they when they connect.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
With us, I think that's fantastic. So again they can
go to what's your website.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
W w w azol fa art and design dot org
and the zul.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Is a z u l And are you on on Instagram?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
We are in all platforms. We're on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I always love to Instagram, especially when it's the visual things,
like when they're creating this art Instagram. It's just it's
it's a perfect platform for that.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Yes, yes, and it allows us to also when we're
in social media and if you're following us, it allows
us to also highlight our partnerships. We're really big in partnerships.
We collour. We partner with other nonprofits in Pambage County
by bringing our fashion programs to their clients. So we
(29:45):
partner with UH the Arc of the Glades, the Arc
Pambach County, they have Center boc Raton, the Jewish Family
Service Foundation, and we keep adding more nonprofits partners to
our list because when we we come together, the impact
that we have in our community is healthier and it's higher.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
So yeah, oh, I think that's fantastic. So can they
can reach out to you as well?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Absolutely, if you have nonprofit there's serving adults with disabilities
and you're interested in having them supposed to what sustainable
fashion is, please reach out when we host these events
for them. We host fashion shows, so we host like
about eight to ten fashion shows a year and they're
(30:32):
open to the public. All the information is in social
media for people. If we want to attend to our
fashion shows, we welcome guests to our fashion shows.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
That's fantastic. Well, thank you for coming in and sharing
all this with us. It's so cool. Thank you for
doing such a cool thing in the community. Is very
much needed and definitely appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Thank you so much. I'm so happy here smiling for
the opportunity to share with the community our mission and everybody.
Remember when we are around somebody with disabilities, focus and
abilities and capabilities.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I love it. If you need more information, reach out
to me Palm Beach Perspective at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm
happy for it on the details. Don't forget you're always
download the shows of podcast on our iHeartRadio app. And
hope everybody has a wonderful weekend. I'm dev Nev and
this has been my perspective. Remember life is good, so
be your healthiest view and let's get out there and
live it. Until next week, enjoy I.
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