Works by Laurie Collyer, Pamela Walker, Terry Amidei, Peni Hall, Jim Keegan-Sommers Convention demands that people with disabilities be represented as victims, be reduced to a prosthesis, an impairment, an absence. The works in tonight's program would have it otherwise, depicting the desires, the ambitions, the creativity and, simply, the humanity of people challenged by physical disability. Laurie Collyer's Thahn (1993, 9 mins) follows a young Vietnamese girl and her "voice-talker" device, using a generated voice to "speak" for her. Wheels of Alchemy (1991, 15 mins) is an unflinching performance work by Pamela Walker, featuring herself, Dave Deweerd and Jay Yarnell. Her troupe, Hephaestus, named after a disabled Greek god, offers a triptych of autobiographical vignettes. Terry Amidei's Sometimes the Metro Bus Doesn't Stop for Me (1990, 26 mins) is a beautifully wrought anthology that broaches marriage, sexuality, loneliness and other issues with a rare exuberance. No Apologies (1992, 18 mins) brings Peni Hall and her female cohorts in the satirical group Wry Crips to the stage for a performance that banishes many a misconception about desire and disability. Artist Jim Keegan-Sommers worked with residents of the Little City Foundation to dramatize a tale of two cities in Big Belly Little City (1992, 25 mins). This underwater allegory is about the struggle to attain autonomy in a hostile world.-Steve Seid