The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau to Host Special Documentary Screening & Gala Reception for Two Who Dared.
Garden City, NY (PRWEB) October 28, 2013 -- Two Who Dared: The Sharps' War, a documentary 10 years in the making, is showing Saturday, November 16th 2013 at 6:30 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau (UUCCN). The evening includes a Gala Reception hosted by UUCCN Reverend Hope Johnson DMin and UUCCN President, Dave Coddington as well as an appearance by the filmmaker, Artemis Joukowsky, III.
About the Film
Two Who Dared is the previously untold story of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, a Unitarian couple who left their young children in Wellesley, Massachusetts to help save imperiled refugees being persecuted in Europe, just days prior to the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. Told from the personal point of views of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, the film draws on recorded interviews, letters and unpublished memoirs, and includes interviews with noted scholars and rescued children.
Special Guests
Artemis Joukowsky
Filmmaker & Grandson of the Sharps
Rabbi Linda Henry Goodman DMin
President, New York Board of Rabbis: Rabbi, Union Temple, Brooklyn, NY
President, Garden City Clergy Fellowship
Rabbi Stephen Wise Goodman
Rabbi, Garden City Jewish Center
Charlie Clements
Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
About the Filmmaker
Artemis Joukowsky III, Director and Co-Producer, is a non-profit activist, film producer, and venture capitalist. Since 2000, Joukowsky has overseen and managed all aspects of the Two Who Dared Film Project and the Sharp Education Project. This includes the documentary film, the Sharp Archives at the United States Holocaust Museum and Brown University, and the educational curriculum developed by Facing History and Ourselves. He is currently writing a book about the Sharps, with the same title. As both the director and grandson of the Sharps, he is proud to present this remarkable story of courage, documenting the lives of Reverend Waitstill Sharp and his wife Martha.
About the UUCCN
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau is a community of religious persons whose beliefs and ethics are freely chosen and constantly evolve throughout their journey through life. While Unitarian Universalists seek the guidance and inspiration of the great pioneers of religious insight of many cultures, their final religious authority is their own reason and personal understanding.
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau (UUCCN) is located at 223 Stewart Avenue, Garden City, NY 11530 (at the corner of Nassau Blvd. & Stewart Ave.). For more information please contact (516)-248-8855.
The event is free and open to the public. Donations are being accepted to help defray the cost of the film's post-production efforts.
Please RSVP to [email protected]
For more information, please visit the website at http://www.twowhodared.com
Anna Pinchuk, No Limits Media Inc., 508-650-2077, [email protected]
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