Sanctuary United Church of Christ presents its monthly Faith and Film program. Bring your own beer, wine or soda and experience the places where pop culture meets faith. Attendees watch a current film, followed by a discussion about themes of morality, faith, and humanity led by local theologians and community leaders. This month's film offers an inventive and singular exploration of legacy, loss, and the essential human longing for meaning and connection through an unmoored ghost’s journey of memory and history. An…

The Tufts University Department of Music presents a free screening of the newly released film Milford Graves Full Mantis. Milford Graves is a visionary. His expertise spans from his reputation as one of the foremost drummers of the avant-garde jazz movement to his involvement within the fields of natural healing, molecular biology, and martial arts. He is the recipient of honors including the Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment of the Arts Grant, and holds professor emeritus status at Bennington College, where…

In the 2018 documentary film "Because of the War," four brilliant singers and dancers—mothers, refugees, immigrants, survivors of Liberia’s civil wars—use their art to address injustice at home in West Africa and in exile in North America. The movie affords audiences the chance to explore relationships between traditional cultural knowledge and community well-being, especially in situations of violence and loss, and to consider how each one of us might hold the potential for constructive action, in the face of indignities…

Sanctuary United Church of Christ presents its monthly Faith and Film program. Bring your own beer, wine or soda and experience the places where pop culture meets faith. Attendees watch a current film, followed by a discussion about themes of morality, faith, and humanity led by local theologians and community leaders. In this month's film, a wife and her husband are excitedly planning a party to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary. However, one week before the celebration, a letter arrives for…

The Medford Film Collaborative introduces a new monthly series of thought-provoking films about art and artists with the showing of "My Kid Could Paint That." The 2007 film tells the fascinating story of a 4-year-old painter from Binghamton, N.Y., who is producing paintings that are being purchased for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Her father is a painter as well, and through watching her dad, she picked up the trait. The media has deemed her a "child prodigy" but this…

Community Baptist Church invites you to a screening of the film "Paper Clips," which tells the story of how one middle school in Tennessee has tackled the issue of prejudice. As a part of their study of the Holocaust, the children of the school try to collect 6 million paper clips, representing the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis, and the effort grows to include millions of others killed. The film details how the students met Holocaust survivors from around…

The Medford Film Collaborative presents the second installment of a new monthly series of thought-provoking films about art and artists with the showing of "The Art of the Steal." This film looks at the controversy surrounding the art collection of Dr. Albert C. Barnes, a millionaire who amassed a remarkable selection of significant works during the early 20th century. Barnes sought to keep his priceless pieces together as part of his foundation even after his death, but the involvement of…