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  • bike friendly
  • bug spray available
  • community event
  • food vendors on-site
  • live music
  • picnics allowed

Far From The Tree follows families meeting extraordinary challenges through love, empathy, and understanding.  This life-affirming documentary encourages us to cherish loved ones for all they are, not who they might have been. Based on Andrew Solomon’s award-winning, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling non-fiction book “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity.”

EVENT DETAILS:

  • Free popcorn + water station
  • On-site food vendors:  Boru Noodle Bar, LaForge’s Restaurant, A Fork in the Road, Tricycle Ice Cream
  • Live music courtesy of Kiel James Patrick
  • BYO picnic, blankets & chairs
  • Rain Venue: Casino Theatre (9 Freebody Street, Newport)
6:30pm: Venue & food vendors open
7:15pm: Live music by Julio Amaro
8:30pm: Film followed by Q&A with film subject and producer Andrew Solomon moderated by CBS News Anchor Tanya Rivero Warren
Run time: 98 min
Director: Rachel Dretzin
Producers: Rachel Dretzin, Jamila Ephron, Andrew Solomon
Far From the Tree
This is a past event

...moving and extremely thoughtful                 

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