Screening in the auditorium at the Manchester Public Library to raise ALS awareness and collect donations to support the ALSA

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This I AM BREATHING movie performance is one of various events during the Finnish AAC Awareness Week October 06. - 12. of 2013

The aim of the week is to increase awareness of speech impairment and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). This year 2013 we want to urge people to think about "How would you say it, if you could not speak?"

The I AM BREATHING event begins with a performance of the iPad -band  and with exhibition of organizations that are involved with the theme of the week.  Movie starts at 2 pm, and will be followed by a panel discussion about speech impairment and the right to communicate. Panelists include Finnish professionals of the sector.

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Join us for a Q&A after the screening that asks: "Who cares for the carers?"

This event is open to all MPs and members of the House of Lords. Although the event is not open to the general public, you can help us a great deal by sending an invitation to your MP. 

The Motor Neurone Disease Association has provided a very handy tool to help you look up your MP and send an automated e-mail. Keep in mind that a more personal email may work even better.

Lets do this!

After a full weekend of fascinating films we are happy to be screening one of the best received Scottish films of the year. At 6:15 we will be showing "I Am Breathing" which was produced by the Scottish Documentary Institute and recently nominated for The Scottish BAFTA Audience Award. The film is a powerful testament of the human condition as it follows Neil Platt, who over the course of single year goes from being a healthy 30 something to being paralysed from the neck down. Having been diagnosed with what is know as ALS, MND or Lou Gehrig’s Disease. As his body gets weaker, his perspective on life changes. His humour remains, but a new wisdom emerges: “It’s amazing how adaptable we are when we have to be. It’s what separates us and defines us as human beings.”
Through his determination to share his final journey, he makes us ask ourselves ques- tions about our own lives, our relation to- or denial of- our own mortality...

This screening is sponsored by The Drouth and the screening will be followed by Q & A with directors Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon, and Bryan Carroll from MND Scotland.

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