Sept. 22: FOCUS Film Festival’s ‘Under Our Skin’ (Ticks!)

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What: FOCUS Film Festival presents: “Under Our Skin”

When: Tuesday, Sept. 22, 6 p.m.

Where: Redding Library Community Room

Cost: Free

FOCUS Film Festival presents: “Under Our Skin,” a documentary about the tick-borne Lyme disease.  Tens of thousands of people go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed every year. Centers for Disease Control says more than 300,000 people may acquire Lyme disease each year, a number greater than AIDS, West Nile virus, and swine and avian flu combined.

FREE admission.

Also showing in Chico on Oct. 21 and Quincy on Oct. 14.

Presented by FOCUS Film Festival, Far Northern Regional Center and You’re On Your Own (a Lyme disease support group), and with major funding support by Union Bank, Rural Education Institute, Council for Exceptional Children, Mains’l Services, Inc., We Care A Lot Foundation, Parent Infant Programs, Rowell Family Empowerment of Northern California, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Rotary Club of Paradise, Downtown Redding Business Association.

Contact Mary Ann Weston, 222-4791×3430 or maweston@farnorthernrc.org.

For additional information:

http://www.underourskin.com/

http://www.lymedisease.org/index.html

http://www.farnorthernrc.org/focusfilmfestival