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...direction, the festival has gained financial stability due to sponsorship from Magners. Magners has also allowed the festival to widen its demographic appeal to Bostonians in general as well as its traditional audience of Irish and Irish-American moviegoers, hoping that viewers will be drawn to the festival??s unique cultural spin on cinema. Flynn credits Boston as particularly open to cultural festivals, citing local events like the French Film Festival and the Armenian Film Festival...
...adolescent son’s excruciating explanation of these events to his first real love interest. Written by Michael C. Mitnick ’06 and directed by Mary Birnbaum ’07, “A Slice of Life” stood out as one of the festival??s most fully conceived and professionally produced plays...
...African continent.” People are invited from all over the world; however, the events, which celebrate the history and progression of Pan-Africanism and discuss the major issues facing the African continent today, are geared specifically to Africans and members of the African Diaspora. Still, the festival??s various events spanning over the course of a week all had a good number of white participants...
...attend, slavery is the unavoidably central issue. The horrors conjured up by slave dungeons, shackles, the Middle Passage, and all the attendant misery of enslavement has the same resonance with these African-Americans that Auschwitz has for Jews. And so, slavery is the thing that irrevocably binds the festival??s American celebrants to their African brothers and forever alienates them from their “white oppressors,” an oft-heard term at Panafest...
...Lithgow returns nearly every year as the festival??s Grand Marshal and concurrently works with the Office for the Arts (OFA) to host discussions and visits by other renowned artists...