New Opportunity for Ceus: First Sunday Matinees!

New Opportunity for CEUs: First Sunday Matinees!

Here at the NASW-MD Chapter office, we are always trying to offer new opportunities for our readers to earn CEUs, and our newest offering for the spring is First Sunday Matinees. Beginning in March, and on the first Sunday of each consecutive month, we will host a feature length movie followed by a 1-hour discussion which will directly relate to the film. The discussions will be led each month by an expert in the field. The First Sunday Matinees will be offered at a reduced cost to attendees ($25 for members and $35 for non-members) and will be worth 3 Cat I CEUs!

White Oleander, Sunday, March 3, 2013, 2–5 pm. Alison Lohman, Robin Wright Penn,Michelle Pfeiffer, Renee Zellweger, Warner Bros.Directed by Peter Kosminsky Rated PG-13; 109 minutes; 2002 ©Copyright Warner Bros. Based on the best-selling novel by Janet Fitch, this film tells the story of Astrid, a young teenager who is passed from foster home to foster home after her mother commits murder. Her mother Ingrid is an independent woman and ardent free spirit who has raised her daughter likewise. Ingrid’s crime of passion leaves Astrid to struggle to find her true self through forbidden love, abandonment, religion, near-death experiences and drugs. Astrid is finally able to repay her mother’s gifts by teaching her how to love.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Sunday April 7, 2013, 2-5 pm Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock,John Goodman, Warner Bros., Directed by Stephen Daldry Rated PG-13; 129 minutes; 2012, ©Copyright Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. A nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist, searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks.

The Visitor, May 5, 2013, 2-5 pm Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira, Overture Films, Directed by Tom McCarthy Rated PG-13; 108 minutes; 2008 ©Copyright Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. Walter, a college professor, travels to New York to attend a conference and returns to finds a Syrian man and his Senegalese girlfriend living in his apartment. The couple has nowhere to go and when Walter reluctantly allows the couple to stay with him they return his kindness by teaching him the exuberant rhythms of the African drum and rekindling his passion for life.

The Impossible, Sunday, June 2, 2013, 2-5 pm Naomi Watts, Ewan Mcgregor, Tom Holland Summit Entertainment, Directed by J.A. Bayona Rated PG-13; 2013 © Copyright Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand, looking forward to a few days in tropical paradise. But on the morning of December 26th, as the family relaxes around the pool after their Christmas festivities the night before, a terrifying roar rises up from the center of the earth. As Maria freezes in fear, a huge wall of black water races across the hotel grounds toward her. This film is the unforgettable account of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one ofthe worst natural catastrophes of our time.

Movies will be shown at UMBC in Room 102 of the ITE (Information Technology/ Engineering) building which is a theatre style room, and will be ideal for movie viewing! Attendees will be urged to park in the circle which surrounds the campus in D or A spots, or in the closest lots to the ITE building (lots 8 and 9). Parking is free and there are plenty of spaces, but if you park at a meter, it will cost $.25/15 minutes. A map to the campus can be found here: www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/ campusmap/pdf/2012Map_Parking.pdf. No refreshments will be served, so please plan to bring your own movie snacks. We hope to see you at the movies!