Live Q&A with Crip Camp Film Makers July 20 at 5:30 PM

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When: Monday, July 20, 2020 at 5:30 PM

Where: WebEx--link below and call-in number below!

What: A Live Q&A with the Crip Camp Film Makers, hosted by DC Public Library (DCPL) Center for Accessibility 

Event address for attendees: https://dcnet.webex.com/dcnet/onstage/g.php?MTID=e5708e65483f6920afc84149c7834300b 

Event number: 160 300 0522

Event password: cripcamp

Call-in toll number (US/Canada) 1-650-479-3208; Access code: 160 300 0522

Join the DC Public Library for a live Q&A with Crip Camp filmmakers, Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht in honor of the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. 

In the early 1970s, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination and institutionalization. Camp Jened, a ramshackle camp “for the handicapped” (a term no longer used) in the Catskills, exploded those confines. Jened was their freewheeling Utopia, a place with summertime sports, smoking and make-out sessions awaiting everyone, and campers experienced liberation and full inclusion as human beings. 

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 equality and the freedom to exist. 

Crip Camp is executive produced by President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama; Tonia Davis and Priya Swaminathan; Oscar® nominee Howard Gertler (How to Survive a Plague) and Raymond Lifchez, Jonathan Logan and Patty Quillin; LeBrecht, Newnham and Sara Bolder produce. 

American Sign Language Interpreters and Real-Time Captioning will be provided.