Join the National Glasses Association in celebration of America's love for being able to see things during the first annual National Glasses Day. Come enjoy an experience for a select audience: live musical entertainment (featuring "Glass-talica", "Sight 182", and "Opthalmologist Boy"), and educational and interactive displays about the past, present and future of glasses wearing. Major events will take place in Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Chicago and Los Angeles. Smaller events will include:

  • Denver, CO
  • Tampa, FL
  • Loganville, GA
  • Dubuque, IA
  • Kalamazoo, MI
  • Dearborn, MI
  • Meridian, MS
  • Brooklyn, NY
  • Burbank, OH
  • Norman, OK
  • Portland, OR
  • Gaffney, SC
  • Jackson, TN
  • Houston, TX
  • Dallas and Fort Worth, TX
  • Lacey, WA
  • Sturtevant, WI
From 12 am - 3 am (it was the most we could afford) at the major station events, you can enjoy the interactive Looking At Things Station, displays of model glasses as well as real glasses and historic monocles, displays of people wearing real glasses, displays of people wearing display glasses looking at displays of glasses, paintings from notable vision-impaired artist H. Wallace Sightmore and more. Bring the young ones to the Youth Sight Booth for educational hands-on activities (picking out new glasses, teasing people who wear contacts, and even making our own glasses out of saran wrap and pipe cleaner), appearances by MPR's This American Life, magicians, face painters, eye-doctors, pickpockets, face-painting magicians, magicians who can paint your face from really far away, eye-painters and lots of old people with hearing problems who don't know how to use a microphone. National Glasses Association employees, such as lens crafters and professional glasses wearers, will also be on hand to answer any questions you might be able to actually come up with.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition star and celebrity carpenter and tool-belt wearer Ty Pennington will join NGA in celebrating America's love for being able to function normally ina text-based society and act as the national spokesperson, appearing in Washington, DC for the first annual National Glasses Day. Lets all hope he can persuade the government to see all that glasses-wearers have to offer society.  For more information about National Glasses Day events, promotions and tours of real live glasses manufacturers visit

 


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