FIXED'S EAST BAY PREMIERE w/ AXIS DANCE and other special guests!
ED ROBERTS CAMPUS (ATRIUM) BERKELEY, CA
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FIXED'S EAST BAY PREMIERE w/ AXIS DANCE and other special guests!
Please join us for the homecoming of the award-winning, new documentary FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement!
The evening begins with a live performance by the AXIS Dance Company!
We will wrap up the evening with a post-film discussion with the director and many special guests from the film followed by an informal dance party for those who care to kick up their heels or spin their wheels a little! This is a celebration, after all! :)
Meet many of the stars of the film, including Uk-based artist Sue Austin (in underwater image here) Dominika Bednarska, Patty Berne, Jamais Cascio, Fernanda Castelo, Marcy Darnovsky, AXIS director Judith Smith and Silvia Yee, along with FIXED director Regan Brashear.
Thursday, Dec 5th from 7-10 PM
Doors open at 6:30 PM Event begins at 7 PM sharp Opening remarks 7-7:10pm Live dance performance 7:10-7:30pm Film screening 7:30pm - 8:30pm Panel discussion 8:30-9:10pm Mingling & dance party! 9:15-10pm.
***************************** ACCESS
The film will be played with captions and video description. This event is wheelchair accessible. There will be an area wired with an inductive hearing loop; please look for signs.
To request a sign language interpreter, child care or other accommodations, please contact Regan Brashear at (510) 470-0413 Pacific time, 9am-5pm, or info@fixedthemovie.com. Accommodation requests made more than 5 business days in advance will help to ensure availability. While we do our best to honor requests made less than five business days in advance, but scheduling may be difficult.
In consideration of persons with environmental sensitivities, please refrain from wearing scented products.
Co-sponsored by the Disability Rights Education Defense Fund.
***************************** MORE ABOUT THE FILM: (60 mins, playing with captions & video description)
From bionic limbs and neural implants to prenatal screening, researchers around the world are hard at work developing a myriad of technologies to fix or enhance the human body. FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement takes a close look at the drive to be "better than human" and the radical technological innovations that may take us there.
What does "disabled" mean when a man with no legs can run faster than most people in the world? What does "normal" mean when cosmetic surgery procedures have risen over 450% percent in the last fifteen years and increasing numbers of people turn to "smart drugs" every day to get ahead at school or work? With prenatal screening able to predict hundreds of probable conditions, who should determine what kind of people get to be born? If you could augment your body's abilities in any way imaginable, would you?
Starring Patty Berne, Gregor Wolbring, Dominika Bednarska, Hugh Herr, John Hockenberry, and Fernanda Castelo. Also featuring Rodney Brooks, Jamais Cascio, Marcy Darnovsky, Tim Hemmes, Cressida Heyes, James Hughes, Sujatha Jesudason and Silvia Yee, and on-camera performances by Anjali Dance Company, Sue Austin, AXIS Dance, Lisa Bufano, Candoco, GIMP, Antoine Hunter (Sins Invalid & Urban Jazz Dance Company), Kounterclockwise, and more.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FILM AND WATCH THE TRAILER AT WWW.FIXEDTHEMOVIE.COM!
MORE ABOUT AXIS DANCE: Named one of the five 'Best Dance Companies in San Francisco Bay Area' by CBS San Francisco, AXIS Dance Company has become one of the world's most acclaimed and innovative ensembles of performers with and without disabilities. Founded in 1987, they have paved the way for a powerful contemporary dance form called physically integrated dance. In 1997 Judith Smith led the company to new heights. Under her artistic direction, AXIS expanded from in-house choreographers to various commissions from outside the company. Since then, their performances have won numerous awards and the Company has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad. AXIS also dramatically expanded its education and outreach programs creating Dance Access for Adults and Dance Access/KIDS! Today, AXIS collaborates with world-class choreographers and composers to create completely new and innovative performances. Acclaimed by critics around the world, AXIS is the recipient of multiple awards and honors. Learn more about AXIS at: http://axisdance.org
MORE ABOUT OUR EVENT CO-SPONSOR, DREDF: The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, founded in 1979, is a leading national civil rights law and policy center directed by individuals with disabilities and parents who have children with disabilities. Their mission is to advance the civil and human rights of people with disabilities through legal advocacy, training, education, and public policy and legislative development. Learn more about DREDF at http://dredf.org
******************************************************************************** The Ed Roberts Campus (ERC) is located at 3075 Adeline Street, in Berkeley, California, which is south of Ashby Avenue between Tremont and Woolsey Streets. The ERC is located directly above Berkeley's Ashby BART Station. There is an elevator from the BART straight into the ERC building.
Getting to the Ed Roberts Campus: http://www.edrobertscampus.org/getting-here/
MORE ABOUT THE LOCATION: The Ed Roberts Campus is a nonprofit (501c3) corporation that has been formed by disability organizations that share a common history in the Independent Living Movement of People with Disabilities. These organizations joined together to build a universally designed, transitoriented campus located at the Ashby BART Station in South Berkeley. The ERC houses the offices of the collaborating organizations as well as fully accessible meeting rooms, a computer/media resource center, a fitness center, a cafe, and a child development center.
WWW.FIXEDTHEMOVIE.COM
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ED ROBERTS CAMPUS (ATRIUM) (View)
3075 ADELINE STREET
BERKELEY, CA 94703
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