A TOWERING TASK will be screened at Yale University, November 9
Beautiful! Reminds me of Walt Whitman...only better!
A Towering Task is the documentary of the history of the Peace Corps. Sargent Shriver was the architect of the iconic organization. On November 9th, the 104th Anniversary of Shriver’s birthday, Yale University, Shriver’s Alma Mater, will screen “A Towering Task”.
Yale University Screening
When: Saturday, November 9, 2019 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Where:Edward P. Evans Hall – School of Management Zhang Auditorium, 165 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511
Description: A screening of the film that tells the story of Peace Corps – A Towering Task! Directed by Alana DeJoseph with Associate Producer Dave Steinke, the film is narrated by Annette Bening.
Founded during the Cold War, the Peace Corps stands as an icon of American idealism. From the beginning its mission of world peace and friendship proved to be a towering task. Imbued with the unbounded energy and vision of its charismatic leader, Sargent Shriver, and thousands of vigorous volunteers, the story of the Peace Corps is a uniquely American tale.
The film will be shown at the Alma mater of Sargent Shriver – Yale University – and on the date of his birth – November 9th.
Interested? Watch a short trailer to learn more
Contact: Nikole Allen
Sponsor: Connecticut Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
Open To: All Ages, General Public, Yale Alumni, Yale Faculty, Yale Postdoctoral Trainees, Yale Spouses & Partners, Yale Staff, Graduate & Professional, Undergraduate
Admission: Free
To RSVP, please contact Bryan Garcia and Michael Scanlon.
Topical Areas: Cultural & International, Health & Medicine, Law, Politics & Society, Libraries, Museums & Galleries, Film & Media Screenings
Be there or like me be a broken snow globe here in San Francisco across the Great plains to the Pacific like an anchor rusting dredged up onto the pier so it can be seen and mimetically imagined as authentically a part of what resides and even if no one imagines it is thinking about all the way there to my mother Atlantic as a Fact not a Fiction (as my poem I AM A FACT NOT A FICTION asserts).
I Am a Fact Not a Fiction
I am a fact, not a fiction
a rite, not a ritual
a progression, not a procedure
a song, not a schedule
I am in my life and I live it
— partake it, enjoy it, wonder at it
I’m green leaves aquiver
red clouds aflutter
whacky as Christopher Smart
talking to cats
and alone in dark forests
in short pants
I am Niagara River crashing
over the Falls
cascading through the gorge
to the Devil’s Hole
sweeping into the last Great Lake
— Erie to Ontario—
surging into the great Lawrence
into my mother Atlantic
rising forward & into the clouds
into hurricanes
I cut with the knife of the times
out onto the rocks
the Cape of Good Hope to India
South China Sea
sieving through Oceana’s islands
Pacific kingdoms
up past Galapagos north home shore
Mission Rock
San Francisco and my love’s bed
I am a fact not a fiction.
Edward Mycue
Beautiful! Reminds me of Walt Whitman…only better!