Outdoors SUGGESTED $10 DONATION
Great Friends Meeting House Lawn
21 Farewell St. Newport, RI
ABOUT THE FILM: Mary Oliver – best-selling poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, queer and out, but intensely private. Her poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites. She was America’s unlikely, contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself – and us, her readers – to the known and unknowable world.
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| 6:00 PM: | Venue Opens |
|---|---|
| 7:00 PM: | Live Music by John Monllos |
| Pre-film Conversation: | Michael Kantor (Executive Producer) Colin Channer (Brown University, Rhode Island Poet Laureate) |
| 8:40 PM: | Film Begins |
| Food Vendors: | Newport Sushi Co, Boru, Ben and Jerry's, Ja Patty |
| Rain Venue : | Rogers High School (15 Wickham Rd, Newport, RI); Please note that though our weekly film screenings do not require a RSVP, the back up rain venues are more limited in capacity than our outdoor venues. Please note that your RSVP does NOT guarantee a seat in the event that we move indoors due to rain. Seating is first come, first served and we recommend arriving at least 30 minutes prior to the start of film. |
| Parking : | Street parking is available at this venue. |
| Run time: | 91 min |
| Directors: | Sasha Waters |
| Producers: | Sasha Waters |
| Cast: | Mary Oliver, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Colbert, Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Lucy Dacus, John Waters, Jesse Welles, Jason Reynold |
