SPECIAL EVENTS
SHIFTING TIDES
Understanding Climate Change
THURSDAY, August 21st
6:00pm SHOWTIME
SPECIAL Q&A WITH FILM MAKERS & EXPERTS AFTER THE SHOW
Within the shifting tides of Cape Cod, where sea meets sky, a story unfolds—of rising seas, vanishing land, and the quiet wisdom of the Earth. This film is a reflection of our place within nature, not above or below it. Woven with threads of science and Indigenous knowledge, a compilation of interviews invites the audience to see the planet not as just a resource, but as part of themselves. In a world clouded by fear and doubt, it offers a gentle reminder: to restore balance is to honor the miraculous connectedness of the only life-sustaining planet available to us.
This film was funded in part by Lower Cape TV and Mass Humanities
FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLY AT THE BOX OFFICE
WHERE DID I PUT MY KEYS
HOW WE REMEMBER AND WHY WE FORGET
WEDNESDAY, August 27th
5:30pm SHOWTIME
An event to benefit the Alzheimer’s Family Support Center of Cape Cod
As a culture, we tend to cast Forgetting as the bad guy in the epic battle against everyone’s favorite hero, Remembering. But our memory system isn’t a war between good and evil. Most of what we forget every day is actually 100% normal. But we tend to lay a lot of fear, shame, and stress on ourselves every time we forget to take out the trash, where we put our phones, why we walked into the kitchen, or the name of that actor, you know, the one in that movie.
Dr. Lisa Genova will explain why these normal kinds of memory failures happen and how to recognize the difference between normal forgetting and dementia. You’ll learn how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do to protect our memories.
About Lisa: Neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa Genova has captured a special place in contemporary fiction, writing stories that are equally inspired by neurological conditions and our shared human condition. She is the bestselling author of the novels Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, Inside the O'Briens, and More or Less Maddy. Her TED talks on memory and Alzheimer’s have been viewed over 11 million times. A sought-after speaker/edutainer, she has headlined in speaker series alongside Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Gloria Steinem, Trevor Noah, Jay Leno, Bryan Stevenson, and Goldie Hawn.
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