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2024 Challenger Exhibition Fames at The Little League World Series • WXXI-TV

WXXI-TV is proud to bring viewers WVIA Public Media’s special broadcast of the Challenger Exhibition Game held annually in August during the Little League World Series in Williamsport.

2024 Challenger Exhibition Game at the Little League World Series airs Saturday, August 24 at 10:30 a.m. on WXXI-TV

As a part of Move to IncludeTM, WXXI and The Golisano Foundation’s award-winning national initiative to promote disability inclusion, representation, and accessibility in public media, WXXI-TV presents this special that spotlights The Challenger Division, a separate division of Little League that enables boys and girls with physical and developmental challenges who are enrolled in high school to enjoy the game of baseball. Since 2001, two Little League Challenger Division teams have been invited to play an exhibition game at the Little League World Series. The teams participating in the Challenger Division represent more than 30,000 players in over 900 leagues worldwide.

The teams participating in the 2024 game include Manalapan Township (NJ) Little League and California District 68 (Mission Viejo, CA).

Episodes of your favorite PBS KIDS shows in ASL

Watch your favorite PBS KIDS series with an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter on-screen. PBS KIDS is integrating ASL interpretations into multiple series, which are now available for free on PBS KIDS digital streaming platforms.

Watch PBS KIDS ASL Episodes

“Name Me Lawand” Advance Screening and Panel Discussion • The Little Theatre

Join WXXI and Move to Include^TM for a special FREE advance screening and discussion of Name Me Lawand, a film that follows a deaf Kurdish boy’s transformative journey to communicate through learning sign language.

Monday, August 19, 2024 | 6:30pm
Little Theatre 1 (240 East Ave.)
Reserve your FREE tickets online.

About the Film: Lawand, deaf from birth, seeks a fresh start with his family in the UK after a traumatic year in a refugee camp. At Derby’s Royal School for the Deaf, he learns sign language and discovers a way to communicate with the world. As he thrives, his family faces deportation, challenging their stability. Name Me Lawand is a love letter to the power of friendship and community.

ASL interpretation will be provided for opening remarks and post-screening panel discussion. This film is presented with open captions.

For more information on parking and accessibility, please visit https://thelittle.org/accessibility/. Additional accommodations may be requested during the registration process.

Please contact Sarah Murphy Abbamonte, Project Manager for Move to Include^TM , at sabbamonte@wxxi.org with any questions.

Original Move to Include Content from WXXI

This collection of WXXI’s original content is produced for the Move to Include^TM initiative. Move to Include^TM is an award-winning national initiative that uses the power of public media to promote inclusion. The content in this collection spotlights the lived experiences of people with disabilities and important disability issues, including education, healthcare, housing, employment, and more – through television, radio, news, community events, and digital media.

You can access it through the PBS App or WXXI Move to Include Collection website at PBS

POV: Fauna • WXXI-TV

POV poetically and playfully contrasts humanity’s complex and contradictory relationship with nature in the dreamy and lyrical pastoral tale Fauna.

POV: Fauna airs Monday, August 5 at 10 p.m. on WXXI-TV.

An old shepherd and his flock live alongside a high-tech laboratory for animal experimentation. Two worlds that are two sides of the same coin. While the shepherd, afflicted with a bone disease, witnesses his profession disappearing, scientists are busier than ever researching the COVID vaccine. Fauna explores the relationship between humans, animals and science in post-pandemic times.

This film is presented as part of Move to Include^TM, an award-winning national initiative to promote disability inclusion, representation, and accessibility in public media.

Fit 2 Stitch Sewing Careers for the Blind• WXXI-CREATE

Disability doesn’t stop these blind and visually impaired individuals from having a fulfilling career in sewing for the US Military

Fit 2 Stitch Sewing Careers for the Blind airs Thursday, August 1 at 9:30 p.m. on WXXI-CREATE.

On this episode of Fit 2 Stitch, the gang travels to Envision Dallas, where people who are blind or visually impaired are taught to sew. We all want a job that’s more than just a way to make money; a job that makes a difference. At Envision, while sewing articles for the US military, workers develop a sense of independence and accomplishment in their careers.

This Old House Veteran’s Special House Project• WXXI-TV

This Old House partners with Homes for Our Troops (HFOT).

This Old House Veteran’s Special House Project airs on Wednesday, August 21 at 12:30 a.m. on WXXI-TV

In this special feel-good episode of This Old House, the crew builds and renovates a house with a cause in Hopkinton, New Hampshire for a wounded Iraq War veteran.

Arts + Medicine: Disability, Culture and Creativity• WXXI-WORLD

Artists and healthcare clinicians present alternative perspectives on disability.

Arts + Medicine: Disability, Culture and Creativity airs Thursday, October 31 at 11 a.m. on WXXI-WORLD.

Through stories and performances, artists and medical professionals redefine what we perceive as “normal.” Co-hosted by artist and storyteller Kevin Kling, professor Jessica Horvath Williams, Ph.D., and Dr. Tsegaensh Selameab, the program discusses issues of varying abilities through the arts and shares unique perspectives from a wide range of contributors who offer insight on the meaning of accessibility.

This documentary is presented as part of WXXI and the Golisano Foundation’s Move to Include^TM, an award-winning national initiative to promote disability inclusion, representation, and accessibility in public media.