“Voices of Veterans” will be a panel of veterans and veteran service organizations discussing the challenges veterans face as they reintegrate into the civilian community. Veteran service programs in Massachusetts and on the Cape are integral to the success and well-being of the veterans who have given us their all. (See panelists below.)
Veterans confront visible and invisible challenges as they transition from miliary to civilian life, navigating work, family, and everyday living. Many of our veterans have experienced the physical, emotional, and mental impact of combat. All have experienced the unique military culture of service, chain of command hierarchy, self-expectations of strength and control, strong sense of rules and regulations, “never leave a brother behind” ethos, and self-sacrifice.
Understanding and addressing these challenges is imperative for both those who have served in the military and for civilians. Our veterans have not only given their all to preserve our freedoms and our way of life, but they continue to live with a strong sense of service and purpose.
Veterans represent an invaluable and unique resource for our community. Their experience is incredible. Often, they are not aware of this and do not see how valuable their military skills and experience are to the community and the workforce. To shine a light on what our veterans will be facing and the people and organizations that have developed programs and tools to serve the veterans as they reintegrate into civilian life, we will be hosting a panel discussion.
Steven G. Xiarhos – Founder of The Nicholas G. Xiarhos Memorial Foundation, Derek Hill – Marine Raider, Nicole Sheridan – Program Director of Emerald Hollow Therapeutic Riding Center, Inc. , Damon Green – VP Director of BFWVP (Be Free Wellness Veterans Program), BJ Ganem – CEO and Founder of Sierra Delta – Service Dog Network for Veterans, Jeremiah Jones – Outreach Coordinator Clear Path for Veterans New England, Don Cox – Founder, The Massachusetts Military Support Foundation

One of opera’s most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in 19 years—a daring vision by renowned English director Simon McBurney that The Wall Street Journal declared “the best production I’ve ever witnessed of Mozart’s opera.” Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the Met Orchestra, with the pit raised to make the musicians visible to the audience and allow interaction with the cast. In his Met-debut staging, McBurney lets loose a volley of theatrical flourishes, incorporating projections, sound effects, and acrobatics to match the spectacle and drama of Mozart’s fable. The brilliant cast includes soprano Erin Morley as Pamina, tenor Lawrence Brownlee as Tamino, baritone Thomas Oliemans in his Met debut as Papageno, soprano Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, and bass Stephen Milling as Sarastro.

In 1938, after his father goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against the Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.

Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the dark corners of the story and its characters. Maestro Nathalie Stutzmann makes her Met debut conducting a star-studded cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as a magnetic Don Giovanni, alongside the Leporello of bass-baritone Adam Plachetka. Sopranos Federica Lombardi, Ana María Martínez, and Ying Fang make a superlative trio as Giovanni’s conquests—Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina—and tenor Ben Bliss is Don Ottavio.

In collaboration with the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, we will be hosting a panel discussion following the screening. In 2014, the citizens of Toledo, Ohio, had to go without running water for three days when a bloom of toxic algae entered the drinking water plant from Lake Erie. This should have been a wake-up call for politicians, big agriculture, and citizens everywhere that freshwater resources are at risk of becoming toxic worldwide. THE ERIE SITUATION explores the confluence of science, public sentiment, politics, and the powerful farming lobby as Ohio wrestles with how to confront the drivers of toxic algae. What’s at stake? Who’s at risk? And will volunteer measures be enough to confront this growing crisis, both in Ohio and beyond?

*Panel Discussion to follow the screening From Food to Freedom tells the story of a life-changing live-in immersion program in Greensboro, NC with six participants diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The 10-day program includes daily plant-based meals.

When Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones opened the Met’s 2021–22 season to universal acclaim, it marked a historic moment in the annals of the company. Now, the six-time Grammy Award–winning composer’s first opera arrives at the Met. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith, who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, and bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays Griffith’s older self, haunted by the ghosts of his past. Soprano Latonia Moore is Emelda Griffith, the boxer’s estranged mother, and mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe is the bar owner Kathy Hagen. Yannick Nézet-Séguin is again on the podium for Blanchard’s second Met premiere, and director James Robinson—whose productions of Fire and Porgy and Bess brought down the house—oversees the staging. Camille A. Brown, whose choreography electrified audiences in Fire and Porgy, also returns.

Autism is not one experience – it is many unique experiences. It is dreams, skills, relationships, challenges, successes, and everything in between. Join us as we are introduced to the joyous faces of individuals living with Autism through photographs produced by Kim Roderiques. As honorary host, Joseph Carr, Founder/Vintner of Joseph Carr & Josh Cellars Winery, will welcome the evening’s guests. The powerful and illustrious panel discussion will break down the gifts and challenges of Autism. The panel of speakers will discuss Autism and the ways we can provide safety, acceptance, job opportunities, and inclusion in our community. The panel discussion will be moderated by Carol Kenner, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, retired; Special Assistant Attorney General; Co-Founder of a non-profit to help educate Syrian refugee children and a professor at Suffolk University School of Law. Carol is the mother of a young man who is supported by Cape Abilities. She has served on the board of Cape Abilities for over ten years. She now works with the Cape Cod Disability Network in advocating with legislators for better wages and benefits for direct support professionals in these life-changing organizations. Presenting on the panel will be Kim McElholm, President & CEO of Cape Abilities; James Barnes, Vice President of Philanthropy and Engagement at Cape Abilities; Kathy Ohman, Founder and Board President of FORWARD, and licensed independent social worker; Shana Grogan, a special education teacher for 20 years on Cape Cod, as well as the co-founder of Special Abilities Fitness; and, Sarah McCracken, Executive Director of Dogs for Better Lives. Special guests will be Tom Campbell and his son, Liam, as well as the ambassador at the Cape Abilities Farm, Hank Svirsky. We will build a network and celebrate the amazing ways people with Autism are unique and make positive and impactful changes that greatly improve our community. Hear about the gifts and challenges in the world of Autism and join us in building a more inclusive Cape Cod.

An extraordinary new production of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy, directed by Clint Dyer with a cast that includes Giles Terera (Hamilton), Rosy McEwean (The Alienist) and Paul Hilton (The Inheritance). She’s a bright, headstrong daughter of a senator; elevated by her status but stifled by its expectations. He’s refugee of slavery; having risen to the top of a white world, he finds love across racial lines has a cost. Wed in secret, Desdemona and Othello crave a new life together. But as unseen forces conspire against them, they find their future is not theirs to decide. Othello is filmed live on the Lyttleton stage of the National Theatre.

A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.

Join us on Superman Comic Day to celebrate the “birthday” of the Superman character, the day the first issue was released on April 18, 1938, the 45th Anniversary of Superman the Movie, and in commemoration of 100 years of Warner Bros for a special screening. An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home’s first and greatest superhero.

In the spring of 2023, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will open its doors to the largest Vermeer exhibition in history. With loans from across the world, this major retrospective will bring together Vermeer’s most famous masterpieces including Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Geographer, The Milkmaid, The Little Street, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, and Woman Holding a Balance. This new Exhibition on Screen film invites audiences to a private view of the exhibition, accompanied by the director of the Rijksmuseum and the curator of the show. A truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! As well as bringing Vermeer’s works together, both the Rijksmuseum and the Mauritshuis in the Hague have conducted research into Vermeer’s artistry, his artistic choices and motivations for his compositions, as well as the creative process behind his paintings. Exclusive access to THE world’s biggest blockbuster exhibition of 2023. Includes the first time the newly restored Girl Reading a Letter at the Open Window will be displayed.

A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey as her lover Octavian and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Bass Günther Groissböck returns as the churlish Baron Ochs, and Markus Brück is Sophie’s wealthy father, Faninal. Maestro Simone Young takes the Met podium to oversee Robert Carsen’s fin-de-siècle staging. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

A love story that took 50 years to tell, “The Lost Weekend: A Love Story” explores the 18-month romantic relationship between John Lennon and his Chinese-American assistant May Pang,

Eight teenagers get trapped in a shopping centre after hours and three murderous security robots chase them.

In 1970, Blood, Sweat and Tears was one of the biggest bands in the world. They had exploded on the scene with both daring and promise, selling millions of records, winning multiple Grammy Awards. Their future was limitless. And then it all went wrong.

Verdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy features a brilliant ensemble cast in Robert Carsen’s celebrated staging. Baritone Michael Volle sings his first Verdi role at the Met as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance. Reuniting after their acclaimed turns in the production’s 2019 run are soprano Ailyn Pérez as Alice Ford, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano as Meg Page, and contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Mistress Quickly. Soprano Hera Hyesang Park and tenor Bogdan Volkov are the young couple Nannetta and Fenton, and Maestro Daniele Rustioni conducts.

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t…

An amateur historian defies the stodgy academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III’s remains, which were lost for over 500 years.

In the first nine years of his pontificate, Pope Francis made 37 trips visiting 53 countries, focusing on his most important issues: poverty, migration, the environment, solidarity and war. Intrigued by the fact that two of Francis’s trips – the first to the refugees landing in Lampedusa; the second in 2021 to the Middle East – so closely mirrored the itineraries of his films Fuocoammare (Fire At Sea, 2016) and Notturno (2020), Rosi follows the Pope’s Stations of the Cross. He sees what he sees, hears what he says and creates a dialogue between archival footage of Francis’ travels, images taken by Rosi himself, recent history and the state of the world today.

A twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to Korea, the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple, for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn. This film is in French/Korean with English captions.

Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, feminine and real, which was a major shift in the way women appeared in art. Presenting her astonishing prints, pastels, and paintings, this film introduces us to the often-overlooked Impressionist whose own career was as full of contradiction as the women she painted. She printed, sketched, and painted dozens of images of mothers and children yet she never married or had children herself. She was a classically trained artist but chose to join a group of Parisian radicals – the Impressionists – a movement that transformed the language of art. The world’s most eminent Cassatt curators and scholars help tell this riveting tale of great social and cultural change; a time when women were fighting for their rights and the language of art was completely re-written. Mary Cassatt and her modern women were at the heart of it all. Despite being a prolific painter of women, Cassatt detested being described as a ‘woman painter’. Cassatt was born in America and became one of America’s most well-known artists.

A Highway Patrol Officer, two criminals and a station secretary defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct office against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.

Academy Award Winner Brendan Fraser stars with a career-defining performance! From Darren Aronofsky comes The Whale, the story of a reclusive English teacher living with severe obesity who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption. Based on the acclaimed play by Samuel D. Hunter.

Nominated for Best International Feature at the 2023 Academy Awards, set in rural Ireland 1981, A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

*Panel discussion following screening with Julian Assange’s father John Shipton and brother Gabriel Shipton.
Filmed over two years across the UK, Europe and the US, this documentary follows 76 year-old retired builder, John Shipton’s tireless campaign to save his son, Julian Assange.
The world’s most famous political prisoner, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has become an emblem of an international arm wrestle over freedom of journalism, government corruption and unpunished war crimes. Now with Julian facing a 175 year sentence if extradited to the US, his family members are confronting the prospect of losing Julian forever to the abyss of the US justice system.
This David-and-Goliath struggle is personal – and, with Julian’s health declining in a British maximum-security prison and American government prosecutors attempting to extradite him to face trial in the US , the clock is ticking.
Weaving historic archive and intimate behind-the-scenes footage, this story tracks John’s journey alongside Julian’s fiancée, Stella Moris, as they join forces to advocate for Julian. We witness John embark on a European odyssey to rally a global network of supporters, advocate to politicians and cautiously step into the media’s glare – where he is forced to confront events that made Julian a global flashpoint.
Ithaka provides a timely reminder of the global issues at stake in this case, as well as an insight into the personal toll inflicted by the arduous, often lonely task of fighting for a cause bigger than oneself.
Written & Directed by Ben Lawrence. Produced by Gabriel Shipton. With John Shipton, Stella Moris, Ai Weiwei, Vivienne Westwood, Daniel Ellsberg & John Pilger. Original Music by Brian Eno.

A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.

In Collaboration with the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History The Life and Gardens of Beatrix Farrand, a forty-minute documentary film by Karyl Evans, six-time Emmy Award winning director, writer, editor, and producer of more than 100 historical documentaries over the past 30 years. The film takes viewers on an inspiring journey across the country exploring Farrand’s most spectacular gardens including Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden, and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Bar Harbor, Maine. Following the screening there will be a Q&A with Karyl Evans. Visit her website: www.karylevansproductions.com

Wagner’s soaring masterpiece makes its triumphant return to the Met stage after 17 years. In a sequel to his revelatory production of Parsifal, director François Girard unveils an atmospheric staging that once again weds his striking visual style and keen dramatic insight to Wagner’s breathtaking music, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct a supreme cast led by tenor Piotr Beczała in the title role of the mysterious swan knight. Soprano Tamara Wilson is the virtuous duchess Elsa, falsely accused of murder, going head-to-head with soprano Christine Goerke as the cunning sorceress Ortrud, who seeks to lay her low. Bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin is Ortrud’s power-hungry husband, Telramund, and bass Günther Groissböck is King Heinrich.