W’town Fire District & Forest Warden Dept. host Fire Prevention OPEN HOUSE– Sparky the Fire Dog & Smokey the Bear… Balloons! REFRESHMENTS! Fire hats! Stickers.. fun fun!
TIX HERE. More info at WAM Theatre HERE — Rattled by a personal crisis, a playwright flees to Florence to study the letters between Galileo and his eldest daughter Maria Celeste. Caught up in the threats against her father, Maria must abandon her work and join a convent. The writer’s discovery of Maria’s strength and tenacity inspires her own pursuit of purpose. Alternating between past and present, this play is a personal examination of faith, forgiveness, and the cost of seeking and speaking truth.
Berkshire International Film Festival & Triplex Cinema present FARMING WHILE BLACK (tix HERE). More INFO.
FARMING WHILE BLACK directed by Mark Decena, will feature a Q&A immediately following the screening.
Leah Penniman, co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, reflects on the plight of Black farmers in the United States. From the height of Black-owned farms at 14% in 1910 to less than 2% today, Leah, and other compatriots help propel a rising generation of Black farmers finding strength in the deep historical knowledge of African agrarianism — and its potential to save the planet.
Farming While Black examines the historical plight of Black farmers in the United States and the rising generation of Black farmers reclaiming their rightful ownership to land and reconnecting with their ancestral roots.
As the co-founder of Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York, Leah Penniman finds strength in the deep historical knowledge of African agrarianism – agricultural practices that can heal people and the planet. Influenced and inspired by Karen Washington, a pioneer in urban community gardens in New York City, and fellow farmer and organizer Blain Snipstal, Leah galvanizes around farming as the basis of revolutionary justice.
In 1910, Black farmers owned 14 percent of all American farmland. Over the intervening decades, that number fell below two percent, the result of racism, discrimination, and dispossession. The film chronicles Penniman and two other Black farmers’ efforts to reclaim their agricultural heritage. Collectively, their work has a major impact, as each is a leader in sustainable agriculture and food justice movements.
W’town Chamber of Commerce celebrates “Trick-or-Treat on Spring Street” on THU, OCT.31, 4:30-5:30pm. Enjoy the W’town Community Preschool’s HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARADE down Spring St. on TUE, OCT. 29 at 10:00am! BOO!
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