03/08/2020
and are at it again this Tuesday (this will be our 5th screening!) with our comrades for this screening of “Crip Camp”, the feature doc where 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 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.
Directed by Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht
Curation of film
Projection by
Community orgs
People’s Neighborhood Legal Collective
ASL Interpreters
Zines
Free houseplants for BIPOC
Sound
Snacks and vegan burgers
•Bring a chair/blanket
•Wear a mask
•Practice safe social distancing