Two Non-Profits Team Up to Bring the Magic of Movies to Pediatric Patients.
Washington, DC -- Lollipop Theater Network (LOLLIPOP), the alms committed to bringing the abracadabra of movies to accouchement bedfast to hospitals due to abiding or life-threatening illnesses, is appreciative to accomplice with KIDS FIRST! to accompany a connected beck of above children’s media to pediatric patients nationwide. The accord will admission on March 25th with a screening of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment’s Little Manhattan at the Avalon Theatre in Washington, DC.
Outpatients and their families from Children’s National Medical Center and added DC across hospitals will be advised to the appropriate 10:00 a.m. screening. Additional accumulation and abreast screenings of the blur will be offered at all hospitals through April 7th.
Little Manhattan is a adventurous ball about life, the Big Apple - and that mysterious, maddening, and astounding affair accepted as "first love." The blur takes abode in New York City, a city-limits accepted for excitement, area two adolescent accompany are about to commence on the greatest adventitious of all. Gabe (Josh Hutcherson) and Rosemary (newcomer Charlie Ray) accept accepted anniversary added about all of their lives, but if they appear contiguous in a karate class, they see anniversary added in a accomplished new light. Filled with all the astonishing (and sometimes maddening) moments of aboriginal love, this absorbing blur is fun for the accomplished family.
Lollipop Theater Network
Founded in 2001, Lollipop Theater Network’s (LOLLIPOP) mission is to accompany the abracadabra of movies to pediatric patients adversity from abiding or life-threatening illnesses bedfast to hospitals nationwide. By alive in accord with arch Motion Picture Studios, LOLLIPOP conducts clandestine screenings of accepted G, PG and PG-13 blur releases for these admirable children. The alignment has buried about 100 films back its birth and offers its affairs to hospitals above the nation. For added information, amuse visit: www.lollipoptheater.org
KIDS FIRST!
KIDS FIRST! is an action of the 15 year old non-profit Coalition for Quality Children’s Media that evaluates, rates, and endorses children's affection films, DVDs, videos, audio recordings and television. The Coalition’s ambition is to empower accouchement to accomplish astute media choices and to advance above media articles that adorn their lives. The KIDS FIRST! brand of approval agency no chargeless violence, no inappropriate animal behavior, and no bent in agreement of race, gender, ability or religion. For added information, amuse visit: www.kidsfirst.org
Avalon Theatre
The Avalon is the District’s alone non-profit, absolute amphitheater committed to alms above aboriginal run films and different ancestors programming to the Greater Washington D.C. community. Every Saturday morning, Avalon presents a family-friendly affairs as allotment of their Weekend Family Matinee series. For added information, acquaintance 202-966-6000 or appointment www.theavalon.org
Children’s National Medical Center
Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC) is the alone absolute provider of pediatric affliction in the Washington Metropolitan area, and is the alone freestanding children’s hospital amid Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Norfolk and Atlanta. The apparatus of the Medical Center include: Children’s Hospital, with 279 beds, 40 of which are akin IV NICU bassinets, a Level I pediatric agony center, confined three states, and a analytical affliction alteration affairs via ambulance, helicopter and fixed-wing airplane; seven Regional Outpatient “specialty” Centers; a primary affliction affairs that includes endemic practices throughout the city area, as able-bodied as the Children’s National Health Network, with 400 affiliated pediatricians. CNMC aswell provides pediatric hospitalists to three hospitals. Children’s is proudly ranked a allotment of the top 10 top children’s hospitals in the country. For added information, amuse appointment www.cnmc.org
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