Community

FA Community Series

Falmouth Academy is committed to serving the Falmouth community as a cultural resource, and one of the ways in which we fulfill that commitment is through the Falmouth Academy Community Series (FACS), a yearly speakers’ series that features experts who lecture on topics of global interest. This series introduces the community to provocative and entertaining ideas in a forum that allows interaction; every speaker opens the floor to audience questions, and our audiences are often standing-room only. The series has featured several prominent speakers in past years, including Robert Kaplan, Ambassador Richard Morningstar, Peter Gammons, Beth Schwarzman, Stefan Behnisch and Stephen Prothero. All lectures are free and open to the public, thanks in part to the generosity of the Woods Hole Foundation.

2009-10 Falmouth Academy Community Series Speakers

December 7, 2009, 7 p.m.

Allison Argo, filmmaker
As a producer, director and writer, Allison Argo’s films have won numerous awards, including six national Emmys, Dupont-Columbia, Genesis, Chris, Cindy Gold, CINE Golden Eagle, Jackson Hole, Missoula and the Japan Wildlife Film Festival awards. Her most recent film, Frogs: The Thin Green Line, revisits the amphibian world and examines one of the greatest environmental crises of our time: the escalating extinction of frogs. Shot in Australia, Central America and throughout the US, the film premiered on PBS in April 2009.

March 1, 2010, 7 p.m.

George Howe Colt,”The Big House”
Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt returned for one last stay with his wife and children. The Big House is a poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for five generations. Colt will weave a discussion of the National Book Award finalist book with readings.

May 24, 2010, 6:30 p.m.

Beth Murphy, ”Beyond Belief: Women and the War in Afghanistan”
Award-winning filmmaker Beth Murphy will screen and discuss her documentary film, Beyond Belief. The film chronicles the journey of two American women, both September 11th widows, as they discover an unlikely kinship with war widows in Afghanistan and a profound way to move beyond tragedy. Murphy has been directing, producing, and reporting for documentaries and television & radio news for 18 years. As the founder of Principle Pictures, she has contributed programming to The History Channel, Discovery Channel, Lifetime Television, PBS and numerous international media outlets. Beyond Belief premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007 and won “Best of the Fest” at the Woods Hole Film Festival.

For more information about the Falmouth Academy Community Series, please contact Director of Development at 508-457-9696, x. 240.