Program for Sunday, March 20, 2022
Myth meets science as angry gods confront humans for their misdeeds to the waters of earth in “Water Spirits Colloquy,” the first of Lee Roscoe’s Four Plays for a Planet in Peril to become available for public viewing. As filmed by collaborator Janet Murphy Robertson during the COVID-19, this production uses a combination of green screen and outdoor/on-location filming sessions with the actors, self-filming and/or audio recording by the actors themselves, photography and video by our producer or licensed from others, and licensed music and sound effects. This sneak preview features performances by Tom Wolfson, Judith Partelow and Rod Owens.
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A former Equity actor, New Yorker, and Yale Drama Series Finalist, Lee Roscoe now lives in Brewster. Her award-winning plays have been seen at the Living Theatre, NYC, Boston Playwrights Theater, Provincetown Theater, and heard on public radio stations in Boston, San Francisco and WOMR FM, which premiered “The Mooncusser’s Tale.” Roscoe is also a journalist and author whose newest book Wampanoag Art for the Ages, Traditional and Transitional will be released in spring summer of 2022.
Janet Murphy Robertson is the Executive Director and Founder of ArtistsAndMusicians.org, the producer of Shoestring Virtual Theater, as well as documentaries, stage plays, concerts, and other cultural events. Since landing on the Cape a decade ago, she has filmed and produced the documentary Icons of the Civil Rights Movement, spotlighting Pamela Chatterton-Purdy’s magnificent art exhibition of the same name. She is the documentarian for Zion Union Heritage Museum in Hyannis, MA.
its founding in 1979, the fellowship has distinguished itself by having its own membership develop all its programming. Co-founder Bob Seay will describe why and how that process originated and how it has changed over the years. What might we learn from our own history? When does collaboration bring joy to our daily lives? When does it create community? What is the “work” we need to do to broaden our ability to be a resource and succor our neighbors in difficult times? What does the future look like for our evolving congregation? Please join us for this highly interactive program.
delivered by Amanda Gorman and Langston Hughes of the Harlem Renaissance, has carried us emotionally through these difficult times, reminding us of what others have successfully endured. Pancheta Peterson will share some poems she hopes will be encouraging, assuring us that we are stronger than we think, reminding us of the inner strength we all have been exhibiting.
Wellfleet. A member of First Parish Lexington, Marianne Boswell is president and founder of Lexington Refugee Assistance Program (LexRAP). She recently retired from Boston Lighthouse Innovations, a startup tech company she launched in 2017. Based on Boswell’s work at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for the Integrated Diagnostics, Boston Lighthouse Innovations offers genomic software to help diagnose and treat disease in a more personalized way. She is a graduate of Skidmore College and holds a MBA from Northeastern University.
and documentary filmmaker, he has covered war in the Balkans, unrest in Latin America, national security issues in Washington D.C., terrorism in Boston, and climate change and poverty throughout New England. Born and raised in New York City, Abel’s career started in Mexico City, where he wrote for an expatriate newspaper covering the nation’s social movements and economic woes. Before that, he spent a year in San Francisco, writing poetry, fiction, and articles for the Haight Ashbury Free Press.
entirely on Southern music, all of it: Blues, rags, ballads, ditties, play-parties, the whole shootin’ match. He lives in Memphis now, the land where the Blues began, and studies it to this day, along with other forms. For this program, he’s going to reach deep in the repertory bag and pull out some deeply religious pieces, some down-in-the-alley blues numbers and maybe sprinkle in a few of his own songs and tunes.
a while by a cornet that his dad got him. At about fifteen, he got bitten by the Folk Music bug, and soon got to hear records by Big Bill Broonzy and the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, both of which reminded him of the music he grew up to. At sixteen, he saw Reverend Gary Davis, and his course was set. He knew he had it in him to follow, study, perform and promote the music of the southeast quadrant, America’s great musical fountainhead. Although he’s done other things, a certain amount of writing and physical labor from dishwashing and railroading to archeology, playing the old tunes is what he does best.
appearance of unusual vagrants make for plentiful birding opportunities on the Cape in the winter. Join the delightful Mark Faherty as he shares details of the most recent notable sightings and results from the 
current projects involve everything from oysters and horseshoe crabs to bats and butterflies, he has studied primarily bird ecology for the last 20 years, working on research projects in Kenya, Florida, Texas, California, Arizona, Mexico, and the Pacific Northwest. Mark’s 
starring Geraldine Page and Donnie Melvin with narration by Truman Capote. The largely autobiographical story, which takes place in the 1930s, describes a period in the lives of the seven-year-old narrator and an elderly woman who is his distant cousin and best friend. The evocative narrative focuses on country life, friendship, and the joy of giving during the Christmas season, and it also gently yet poignantly touches on loneliness and loss. Great fuel for conversation based on memory, values and our vision for the future, so we’ll be hanging out for a bit after the film to enjoy some of that.
magazine in December 1956, it was reprinted in The Selected Writings of Truman Capote in 1963 and issued in a stand-alone hardcover edition by Random House in 1966. “A Christmas Memory” was adapted for television for ABC Stage 67 by Truman Capote and Eleanor Perry. Both the teleplay and the program’s star, Geraldine Page, won Emmy Awards. The production also won a Peabody Award.
uplifting and enlightening repertoire will lift your spirits as we head into the darkest days of the year. A perennial (and popular) performer at First Encounter Coffeehouse, Roth is applauded for his humor, humility and insight. While Roth has resumed touring and live performances, he’ll be with us via the even more intimate platform of Zoom. Join us for what is sure to be a very special musical morning.