Watch Paralympian athlete Kenny Churchill as he participates in the Motion Disabled project leading up to London 2012.
http://www.motiondisabledunlimited.com/athletes/kenny-churchill/
Saturday 17 December 2011
Wednesday 16 November 2011
Kenny "Mooseman" Churchill Biography
Kenny Churchill – Kenny has thrown javelin for Great Britain at an incredible 5 Paralympic Games. He won gold in Atlanta in 1996 and retained his Paralympic title at the Sydney Games in 2000 and the Athens Games in 2004 – breaking the world record in the process. Kenny lives in Leicstershire and has a daughter, Gracie, with fellow Paralympian Claire Williams and also 2 children named Ewan (11 yrs) and Amber (8 yrs).
Paralympics 2012 Athletes To Support Event
Paralympics 2012 – ‘1 year to go’ event
Phoenix Square Film & Digital Media Centre
Monday 29th August (Bank Holiday)
11.00am – 3.00pm
Meet Paralympians Kenny Churchill & Anton Raimondo who will be talking about their sporting careers and the commitment needed to compete at a Paralympics.
Find out about the Community Media Centre 2012 project being hosted at Phoenix Square and organised by John Coster, Editor of the Citizens’ Eye Community News Agency with Hollie Sturgess, Editor of the Dzine Disability News Agency.
The Marketplace includes:
Animation taster sessions run by the Aniscape Animation Festival organisers Andrew Leeke & James Lewis (23rd-25th March 2012)
‘Have-a-Go’ media sessions – photography, filming, interviewing etc.
The Screen Room will be showing a series of short films.
Find out about the Dzine Disability Film Festival being hosted at Phoenix Square on Sunday 6th November during Community Media Week (2nd – 8th November)
Meet our Special Olympics athletes
Further details from John Coster editor@citizenseye.org
Phoenix Square Film & Digital Media Centre
Monday 29th August (Bank Holiday)
11.00am – 3.00pm
Meet Paralympians Kenny Churchill & Anton Raimondo who will be talking about their sporting careers and the commitment needed to compete at a Paralympics.
Find out about the Community Media Centre 2012 project being hosted at Phoenix Square and organised by John Coster, Editor of the Citizens’ Eye Community News Agency with Hollie Sturgess, Editor of the Dzine Disability News Agency.
The Marketplace includes:
Animation taster sessions run by the Aniscape Animation Festival organisers Andrew Leeke & James Lewis (23rd-25th March 2012)
‘Have-a-Go’ media sessions – photography, filming, interviewing etc.
The Screen Room will be showing a series of short films.
Find out about the Dzine Disability Film Festival being hosted at Phoenix Square on Sunday 6th November during Community Media Week (2nd – 8th November)
Meet our Special Olympics athletes
Further details from John Coster editor@citizenseye.org
Paralympics Comes To Sainsburys Fosse Park
On Saturday 5th November, Paralympian Kenny “Mooseman” Churchill visited Sainsburys Fosse Park with four young reporters. They held a Community Media Cafe in the cafe area as part of Citizens Eyes Community Media Week.
Kenny was in store to raise awareness of himself and the upcoming London Paralympic Games. With Kenny wearing his Team GB tracksuit and three gold medals, the young reporters armed themselves with cameras, flip cams and dictaphones to photograph and interview Sainsburys customers and colleagues. Many Sainsburys customers got the chance to have their pictures taken with Kenny along with his medals.
While there, Kenny’s supporting army grew bigger as he became even more popular with local Leicester and Leicestershire families. The young reporters made signs saying “We support Kenny for 2012!” for customers to hold while having their pictures taken.
As Sainsburys is a tier one sponsor for the London 2012 Paralympic Games, the young reporters were on a mission to find out what the Paralympics mean to the Sainsburys staff and how they felt to be a part of such an important and undoubtably incredible sporting event. They got a mixture of opinions surrounding the Paralympics and were eager to hear whether or not the Sainsburys staff thought that society treated the Paralympics as equally as the Olympics.
Laid out on a table in the cafe was Kenny’s Union Jack flag which he is going to be taking to the London Games with him. He was asking customers and colleagues to sign his flag full of good luck wishes ready for London. He received a huge amount of interest from the public and staff about himself, what he previously won his three gold medals in and generally about London 2012 itself. A lot of the young people whose families were shopping at Sainsburys were incredibly joyed about being given the chance to wear Kenny’s medals and getting to meet the Mooseman himself.
Kenny was in store to raise awareness of himself and the upcoming London Paralympic Games. With Kenny wearing his Team GB tracksuit and three gold medals, the young reporters armed themselves with cameras, flip cams and dictaphones to photograph and interview Sainsburys customers and colleagues. Many Sainsburys customers got the chance to have their pictures taken with Kenny along with his medals.
While there, Kenny’s supporting army grew bigger as he became even more popular with local Leicester and Leicestershire families. The young reporters made signs saying “We support Kenny for 2012!” for customers to hold while having their pictures taken.
As Sainsburys is a tier one sponsor for the London 2012 Paralympic Games, the young reporters were on a mission to find out what the Paralympics mean to the Sainsburys staff and how they felt to be a part of such an important and undoubtably incredible sporting event. They got a mixture of opinions surrounding the Paralympics and were eager to hear whether or not the Sainsburys staff thought that society treated the Paralympics as equally as the Olympics.
Laid out on a table in the cafe was Kenny’s Union Jack flag which he is going to be taking to the London Games with him. He was asking customers and colleagues to sign his flag full of good luck wishes ready for London. He received a huge amount of interest from the public and staff about himself, what he previously won his three gold medals in and generally about London 2012 itself. A lot of the young people whose families were shopping at Sainsburys were incredibly joyed about being given the chance to wear Kenny’s medals and getting to meet the Mooseman himself.
Tuesday 30 August 2011
1 Year To Go Until London Paralympics 2012
Join me on my journey over the next 12 months to get selected in the Shot Putt event as a Paralympics 2012 Team GB member.
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