"Crip Camp" Film Screening and Discussion
with Susan Werk
Sponsored by the CAI Inclusion Committee and Adult Education

Tuesday, Feb. 15 at 6:15 pm
on Zoom

In the early 1970s, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination and institutionalization. Camp Jened, a ramshackle camp "for the handicapped" in the Catskills, exploded those confines. Jened was their freewheeling Utopia, a place with summertime sports, smoking and makeout sessions awaiting everyone, and campers who felt fulfilled as human beings. Their bonds endured as they migrated West to Berkeley, California - a promised land for a growing and diverse disability community - where friends from Camp Jened realized that disruption and unity might secure life-changing accessibility for millions. Co-directed by Emmy®-winning filmmaker Nicole Newnham and film mixer and former camper Jim LeBrecht, this joyous and exuberant documentary arrives the same year as the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, at a time when the country's largest minority group still battles daily for the freedom to exist. CRIP CAMP: A DISABILITY REVOLUTION is executive produced by President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama; Tonia Davis and Priya Swaminathan; Oscar® nominee Howard Gertler and Ray Lifchez, Jonathan Logan and Patty Quillin; LeBrecht, Newnham and Sara Bolder produce.
—Netflix
 

We will be screening the Netflix documentary "Crip Camp" at 6:15 pm on Zoom, followed by a discussion led by Susan Werk at 8:15 pm. Download Flyer
 
In preparation for the film screening and discussion, we encourage you to read "Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist" by civil rights activist, Judith Heumann.


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