'From Baghdad to Beijing' and The Creative Arts Program at Walter Reed
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Date:
Friday, February 8, 2013 - 1:00pm
In Room A5, we will be showing a free captioned film:
Warrior Champions: From Baghdad to Beijing
Warrior Champions: From Baghdad to Beijing
(80 minutes – documentary)
Follow four service members, severely wounded in Iraq, as they recover and compete for a place on the U.S. Paralympic Team headed for the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing.
It will be followed by a presentation and panel discussion, “The Creative Arts Program at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center,” at 2:30 p.m. It will be ASL-Interpreted.
The discussion will be led by:
- Commander Moira G. McGuire, NC, USPHS, Program Manager, Warrior Clinic & Director, Creative Arts Program
- Seema Reza, JTF CapMed-WRNMMC-FBCH Arts Program Coordinator
- Micah J. Sickel, M.D., Ph.D., child psychiatrist, Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Service, Dep’t. of Psychiatry & Director, Stages of Healing
- Ermyn F. King, M.A., Creative Arts Program Coordinator
- Amanda Kelly, CTRS, Adaptive Sports Site Coordinator, Military Adaptive Sports Program (MASP)
For more information, call:
DC Public Library, Adaptive Services Division: 202-727-2142
This film showing is part of the Second Annual ReelAbilities Greater DC Disabilities Film Festival, organized by the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia.
(Metro: Red, Green, Yellow Lines: Gallery Place/Chinatown, 9th St. Exit
Orange, Blue, Red Lines: Metro Center, 11th St. Exit)