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ADA Festival – July 26, 2025

The official site for the Sioux Falls Americans with Disabilities Act celebrations, and disability-related media.

A dark blue background with a brown shape symbolizing stairs becoming a ramp (also a nod to the Capitol Crawl). The image reads: Leveling the Steps to Freedom and Equity, A Celebration, Sioux Falls, July 2025 on the left. On the right is a crest that reads Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA Festival 35.

About the Festival

The ADA Sioux Falls Committee and the City of Sioux Falls Disability Awareness and Accessibility Review Board (DAARB) are excited to announce The ADA Festival: Strengthening Connections & Moving Forward Together, taking place July 26, 2025. The milestone celebration of the Americans with Disabilities Act, in partnership with Levitt at the Falls, will commemorate the presence of disabilities richly interwoven into the fabric of our community. It will honor the history of disability rights, foster connection and understanding, and focus on our future as a community of diverse perspectives and abilities.

Festival Events for July
A graphic showing event accommodations including accessible parking, ASL interpreters, family restrooms, in-person and online access and sensory bags.
The program for the festival: Saturday, July 26, 2025 5:00     Stage Performance: Holly VandenBerg 5:30     Performance break with Jeff Harkness, Emcee                  Curb-Cut Effect Digital Short 6:00     Stage Performance:                   Lifescape/Black Hills Playhouse present                      Change, Not Charity 6:30     Performance break with Jeff Harkness, Emcee 7:00     Stage Performance: BetterRide 7:30     7:45     Mayor’s Proclamation Performance break             8:00     Stage Performance Headliner:               Johnny Wheels and the Swamp Donkeys

Program

Saturday, July 26, 2025
5:00 – Stage Performance: Holly VandenBerg
5:30 – Performance break with Jeff Harkness, Emcee – Curb-Cut Effect Digital Short
6:00 – Stage Performance: Lifescape/Black Hills Playhouse present Change, Not Charity
6:30 – Performance break with Jeff Harkness, Emcee
7:00 – Stage Performance: BetterRide
7:45 – Mayor’s Proclamation
           Performance break
8:00 – Stage Performance Headliner: Johnny Wheels and the Swamp Donkeys

Event Map

Map of the event.

Our Sponsors

Leader Level sponsors listing Sanford Health and First Premier Bank.
A list of Steward Level Sponsors including Forward Sioux Falls, Experience Sioux Falls, First Premier Bank and the Journey Group.
A list of Friend Level Sponsors including the Center for Disabilities Sanford, School of Medicine, Click Rain, CorTrust Bank, ELO CPA's & Advisors, First Dakota National Bank, First Western Bank, First National Bank, Five Star Call Centers, Hofer, Humpal and Hadler, P.C., Parlyzed Veterans of America and South Dakota Parent Connection.
A thank you to in kind sponsors including Firelink Digital Marketing and Chesterman Company.
Graphic thanking our Fiscal Agent, Independent Living Choices.
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Welcome to Our Vendors

Check out our fantastic vendors for the evening!

  • Accessible IEP
  • Avera
  • Call to Freedom
  • Center for Disabilities – USD
  • CPCM (Center for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment – USD)
  • Dakota Link
  • Disability Rights
  • Health Connect
  • Horsepower
  • Human Relations Commission
  • LssSD
  • Mobility Works
  • Moms Demand Action
  • Owen’s Outfitters
  • Sanford
  • SD DD Council
  • SD Drop
  • Sertoma
  • Sioux Empire TNR
  • Siouxland Library Book Mobile
  • South Dakota Parent Connection
  • State Library
  • Walmart
  • Wheelchair Adventures
  • Yours on the Spot

Become a Volunteer

We need volunteers for several roles including:

  • Greeters
  • Clean Up
  • Errands
  • Parking Attendants
  • and More!

Sign up to volunteer!

For more information, contact adafestivalsf@gmail.com

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