May 10 screening of disability rights movement documentary, Crip Camp, comes to Santa Cruz

Award-winning documentary, Crip Camp, which chronicled the disability rights movements of the 1970s, will be shown in Santa Cruz on Tues., May 10th at 7 p.m. and you are invited to attend this free screening by reserving your place HERE. The documentary follows several young people who attended Camp Jened, a New York campground for people with disabilities. That alone is a wonderful subject: a story about what happens when a group of teens neglected by society finally discovers a place where they are treated as complete, whole people. But Crip Camp is going somewhere incredible, and a story about how a camp changed a group of teenagers’ lives becomes a story about how the country was changed for the better.

After the film screening, a panel including filmmaker Jim LeBrecht and advocate John Daugherty, moderated by Brenda Gutierrez Baeza of Shared Adventures, will discuss the film and engage in Q&A with the audience.

Co-sponsors of this event are Shared Adventures, Santa Cruz County Commission on Disabilities, and the Pacific Blue Inn. COVID protocol for this in-person event requires masks and vaccination verification at the door.