Documentary gets special screening
| Wednesday, Dec 09 2009 04:10 PM
Last Updated Wednesday, Dec 09 2009 04:11 PM
Beginning Saturday, Valley Plaza 16 is kicking off its "Reel Kids B4 Noon" series of ticket and concession discounts.
Tickets for children 3-11 are $5 every Saturday before noon.
Also, buy one Kids Tray Combo (popcorn, soda and small candy) and get a second Kids Tray Combo for free.
To usher in the series, Valley Plaza 16 is hosting a special event: All youngsters who dress up as a princess or frog for the 11 a.m. showing of Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" will be eligible to win a $500 Disney gift card that can be used for a family trip for four to Disneyland. All children in attendance will receive a special "Princess and the Frog" gift bag as well.
Valley Plaza 16 is a 2000 Wible Road.
Details: 833-2230, readingcinemasus.com.
GO & DO
WHAT: Special screening of "Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders"
WHEN: 8 p.m. Monday
WHERE: Edwards Stadium 14, The Marketplace, 9000 Ming Ave.
TICKETS: $12.50
DETAILS: To purchase tickets, FathomEvents.com/ doctorswithoutborders
Theater offers chance to win trip to Disneyland
Take an inside look at the challenges faced by the Doctors Without Borders medical teams in a special screening of "Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders," a documentary being shown at 8 p.m. Monday at Edwards Stadium 14 in The Marketplace.
The event is being broadcast live via satellite from New York to some 450 theaters across the country, hosted by ABC News journalist Elizabeth Vargas, who will moderate a town-hall discussion on today's humanitarian crises.
"Living in Emergency" is set in war-torn regions of Africa where four aid workers struggle to provide care under extreme conditions. Two of the doctors are new recruits: a 26-year-old Australian doctor stranded in a remote bush clinic, and an American surgeon struggling to cope under the load of emergency cases in a shattered capital city.
Two others are experienced field hands: a dynamic Head of Mission, valiantly trying to keep morale high and tensions under control, and an exhausted veteran, who has seen too much horror and wants out.
Amid the chaos, each doctor must confront the severe challenges of the work, the tough choices and the limits of their idealism.
