Are you a senior looking for unique art experiences, love film and meeting fellow life-long learners? Join us at the AGA on Friday, August 8th at 2 pm for our next Cinema for Seniors, a monthly film matinee curated by our Ageing Artfully Advisory Committee.
Our feature film is the 2020 documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution. This film transports us to 1971, to Camp Jened, a “loose, free-spirited camp designed for teens with disabilities” and the activism this camp inspired.
About the Film
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, directed by Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham and produced by the Obamas, takes viewers inside Camp Jened, a pioneering summer camp for teenagers and young adults with disabilities, located in the Catskills of New York from 1952 to 1977. The camp played a significant role in sparking the US disability rights movement.
The film follows a group of teens and counsellors who, through radical accessibility, found a place to be seen, cherished and to flourish free of discrimination at a time when folks with disabilities were largely hidden from view.
Many of the participants, emboldened by these transformative experiences, go on to demand change and actively participate in political action that brought about changes in disability rights legislation affecting them.
“I hope that this plants a seed within all of these students that they do talk, they do think differently, and that this is something they hold for the rest of their lives that will make the world a better place.” – Former Camp Jened camper, Jim Lebrecht
For more information about this program and other programming for seniors or to sign up for our mailing list, contact us at programming@youraga.ca.