A documentary film on Touchstone Farm & Center
will be premiering
at the Academy of Music
http://www.academyofmusictheatre.com/
in Northampton
on Friday, May 16th
at 7 in the evening.
Begun by a local videographers before we were closed,
the documentary has captured
the flourishing, death and rebirth of Touchstone.
a valley farm, nature and spiritual retreat center
which is at the same time a socio-political center;
and which has been an active member of the community
for two decades.
In the film are many many many members
of the wide Touchstone circles.
And, at the same time,
the film captured
the death and rebirth
of Shaker now Debbie McNeil.
The film
stands entirely on its own as a work of art.
The film will be preceded
by live music with Anja Daniel and friends
and followed by a commentary and question and answer period
with
the film-makers (David Fine and Rebecca Rideout)
and with Anja and Debbie (co-directors of Touchstone)
Please please please do come
and celebrate this moment of birth with us !!!
And please please please do tell your friends and circles
of this wonderful film
of the death and rebirth of a center and a community;
of the birth of an eco-village;
of a transgender journey into a new and wondrous world
and of the magnificence and beauty of our wide community
which so wondrously helped us through
these difficult seasons into triumph.
ever,
walking beauty way
in the winds of grace,
Anja & Debbie
Touchstone
132`West Street
Easthampton, Ma
413-527-8723