Join LAVA for film screenings every 2nd Thursday! We’ll share films made by local filmmakers, films with a social or environmental focus brought to you by local organizations, films we just think you should see! There will be time after each screening for a talkback session. Check back as we add more films!
On May 8, Traprock Center for Peace & Justice will screen their new documentary, Our Projects, Our Visions 2025.
Just days before the presidential inauguration in January, 300 people filled the Second Congregational Church in Greenfield for a program called Our Projects for 2025, Envisioning the World we Want.
The program’s vibrant area speakers and musicians gave voice to the hopes and plans of area activists ready to confront the new administration.
Now a one-hour film of the main event will be shown at the LAVA Center, produced and organized by the Traprock Center for Peace & Justice and its Climate & Democracy project.
The film was made by new Traprock board member Liam O’Shea, filmmaker and social media editor living in Shelburne Falls.
During discussion afterwards, participants can share the reactions, concerns — and actions — that have developed during the first 100 days of the Trump presidency.
The film features the following speakers and musicians performing that afternoon, starting with the Twice as Smart Singers, directed by Gloria Matlock (pictured in photo):
Program Speakers:
- Susan Triolo, emcee, is a retired preschool/elementary teacher, long time peace & social justice activist and member of FCCPR & W. MA Code Pink Women for Peace.
- Kate Stevens is a retired UCC minister and member of the Interfaith Council of Franklin County.
- Juliet Margola is a member of the Amherst Young Feminist Party. With a degree in journalism and gender studies, she is now a teaching assistant at Four Rivers Charter Public School.
- Kaia Jackson is a core organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace for Western MA, as well as a healing arts facilitator, storyteller and movement chaplain who calls Great Falls home.
- Bill Stubblefield has a doctorate in evolutionary biology and ecology and works with a variety of groups to protect forests and wild lands.
- Marieange LaRoche is on the staff of Jewish Family Services and organizing a group for Haitian immigrants.
Program Musicians
- Twice as Smart Singers, directed by Gloria Matlock, are members of the Twice as Smart after school program, teaching them to think big and dream boldly.
- The Raging Grannies are concerned elder women who sing truth to power with satirical lyrics: “we are gadflies, provocateurs.”
- Sarah Pirtle writes and sings songs of peace and justice and works with Journey Camp (Traprock). She teaches a song by Melanie DeMore.
- Ann Ferguson is a local feminist, a peace and social justice musician, and former teacher.
- Annie Hassett is a well-known local feminist peace and social justice musician.
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For more information contact:
Anna Gyorgy; anna.gyorgy@crocker.com
978-544-1815 (landline, leave message)
