Local Teens Debut Film on Skating in LOVE Park

Local Teens Debut Film on Skating in LOVE Park

WHAT: World Premiere: Skaters in LOVE teen documentary followed by
Panel discussion
Admission Free

WHEN: Wednesday, February 1, 2006
7 to 9 p.m.

WHERE: Blauvelt Theatre
Friends Select School
17th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia

WHO: Student documentary filmmakers: 9th graders Emmett Drueding,
Paul Sanders and Axel Tuveson
Rose Hagan, head of school, Friends Select School
Greg Heller, president, Ed Bacon Foundation
Craig Santoro, WHYY Learning Lab instructor

Panel: Brett Mandel, moderator, Philadelphia Forward
Scott Kip, president, Skateboard Advocacy Network
Barry Bessler, chief of staff, Fairmount Park Commission

BACKGROUND:

In the summer of 2005, three Philadelphia teenagers, concerned over the skating ban in iconic LOVE Park, explored the history, controversy and public reaction surrounding the ban through digital video. The video was produced under the guidance of the Learning Lab at WHYY as part of the Friends Select Summer Academic Program. In addition to man-on-the-street interviews, the students spoke to LOVE Park creator Ed Bacon; former city managing director Phil Goldsmith; and representatives from the Skateboard Advocacy Network, Educated to Skate and the Ed Bacon Foundation. Approx. 33 minutes.

Friends Select School is a coed, college preparatory, Quaker day school serving 500 students in grades pre-k through 12. The school, which traces its roots to 1689, is located on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, in the heart of Philadelphia's business, cultural and governmental districts.

For more information: Colleen Puckett
Friends Select School
215-561-5900, x145

Anna Christopher
WHYY
215-351-2066

PRNewswire -- Jan. 30

Source: Friends Select School; WHYY

Web site: http://www.friends-select.org/

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