American Masters: Becoming Helen Keller Screening+Q&A: Accessible Media

Join Lights! Camera! Access! and American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) for a virtual screening and Q&A discussion of the new PBS documentary, "American Masters: Becoming Helen Keller.” We will be joined by Thomas Reid, audio describer and Producer of the podcast "Reid My Mind;" and Kirk Adams, AFB President and CEO. AFB oversees the Helen Keller Archive, the world’s largest repository of materials about and by Helen Keller, including correspondences, speeches, press clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, photograph albums, architectural drawings, audio recordings, audio-visual materials, artifacts, and more.

This event is open to all.

While most coverage of Helen Keller fixates on her as the “eternal child” around that “aha” moment at the water pump with her teacher Anne Sullivan, immortalized in play and movie "The Miracle Worker," this new documentary "Becoming Helen Keller" shatters that disability myth, transcends that image, takes back the narrative, and unlocks little-known and multi-faceted aspects of her life and commitment to social justice, disability rights, women’s rights, voting rights, civil rights, disabled veterans, support of the NAACP and ACLU, setting up State Commissions for the Blind and “talking books,” to name a few.

This dynamic documentary features little-known aspects of Keller's social justice activism and includes captions, audio descriptions by Thomas Reid, extended audio description, ASL interpreters and descriptive transcript so that DeafBlind audiences can experience this film independently. The Q&A will have captions and ASL interpreter.

You can find out more at http://pbs.org/americanmasters.

To RSVP and request accessibility accommodations please email your request with Becoming Helen Keller - Accessible Media in the Subject line to lights.camera.access.info@gmail.com

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