Arts

Putney Friends Meeting presents film series

PUTNEY — A November film series sponsored by Putney Friends Meeting begins on Thursday, Nov. 6, at Next Stage, 15 Kimball Hill, to benefit the Putney Foodshelf and homeless shelter.

The series begins with “A Song of Love,” a documentary about the life and work of Pete Seeger.

On Nov. 13 catch “The Dhamma Brothers” (2008), a documentary about the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility - an overcrowded, violent maximum-security prison, the end of the line in Alabama's prison system - and how it is dramatically changed by the introduction and influence of an ancient meditation program.

On Nov. 20, the documentary “The Two Row Wampum,” along with a discussion and Q&A, are presented by Leslie Haines and Buffy Curtis, along with members of the Onondaga Nation. Their travels together - two weeks by kayak and canoe to New York City and the United Nations in celebration of the renewal of a 400-year-old treaty - is documented in this program.

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