New Parkway Theater, 474 24th Street, Oakland, CA
Sunday, September 30, 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM
12:00 pm Doors open
12:30 pm Film screening
2:00 pm Discussion
Options Recovery Services will provide a discussion of addiction recovery and a screening of local documentary film Dogtown Redemption as the third and final event in Options’ celebration of September as National Addiction Recovery Month. Options provides outpatient addiction treatment at three locations in Berkeley and Oakland with a fourth center opening shortly near the East Oakland/ San Leandro border. As an East Bay non-profit since 1997, Options has trained several hundred inmates in the California prison system to become certified addiction treatment counselors, and has served over 10,000 clients suffering the disease of addiction.
Chihiro Wimbush (film co-director with Amir Soltani) will introduce Dogtown Redemption – a documentary which follows the lives of three recyclers over seven years as they make their living on the cruel streets of West Oakland’s hidden Dogtown Neighborhood. Their struggles are raw and gritty, at times joyous, at times tragic, and ultimately redemptive for one of the film’s central subjects, Pastor Landon Goodwin.
Pastor Landon Goodwin, “the minister of the recyclers,” rose above Dogtown’s paths of addiction and homelessness where he still reaches out the hand of recovery. Thomas Gorham amassed hundreds of arrests and numerous incarcerations as an alcoholic for more than ten years on the streets of Oakland and Berkeley before finding his way to Options Recovery Services, first as a client and now, 20 years later, as its executive director. You are invited to join them in discussion following the screening.
Options is grateful to the New Parkway Theater for hosting this event.
Tickets: https://www.bit.ly/2Lfyfz9 ; suggested donation $10
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