The 2023 Arlington Film Festival submission season is now approaching its close

FILMMAKERS,

are you ready for an

amazing challenge!

WHEN: May 5 – 7, 2023

CHALLENGE: Make a film in 48 hours with a team – Write, Shoot, Edit & Screen! All levels are welcome.

The winning film will go up against

films from around the world at

Filmapalooza 2024

for a chance at the grand prize and an opportunity to screen at the 

Cannes Film Festival

2024 Short Film Corner!

https://www.48hourfilm.com/

They Called Us Enemy is a 2019 graphic memoir written by author, actor, and activist George Takei (Officer Sulu in the original Star Trek), co-written by Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott, and illustrated by Harmony Becker.

The story chronicles Takei’s childhood experience in the Japanese internment camps in America during World War II…

https://www.maldenreads.org/

Poetry Night at the Museum

Celebrate National Poetry Month with this special event featuring poets of Arlington’s past and present.

Tours of the Museum begin at 6 pm, followed by a reading by Arlington poet Teresa Cader and an open mic session at 7 pm.

Organized in partnership with Arlington’s Poet Laureate Jean Flanagan.

Thursday, April 27, 6-8:30 pm

Women In Film & Video New England presents

a marketing strategy session to assist you in your own self-promotion. 

Join Christine Merser, managing partner of Blue Shoe Strategy, a marketing company specializing in content creation for all media platforms.

April 19th at 5PM

Register for the Zoom link!

The Arlington Rainbow Commission  invites you to attend meetings (in-person or via ZOOM) to  show support for Arlington’s transgender and gender diverse youth.

Meetings are held at 6:30 to 8:30 PM on the 3rd Thursday of each month, the next meeting is April 20th.

Arlington High School – School Committee Room – Sixth Floor

ZOOM LINK https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86956181807

Dan Carey’s poetry has appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, DropOut
 

Literary Journal, the Red Letters, and is forthcoming in Suspended Magazine. He received his
M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Lesley University after attending Suffolk University for his
B.A. in English. He holds the position of Social Media Manager for Grid Books/Off the Grid
Press and has self-published three issues of Paradise in Limbo Literary Magazine under his own
Thinking Core Press. Dan grew up in Ipswich, and currently lives in Somerville, MA, working as
a substitute teacher and freelance manuscript consultant.

AIFF Film Screening  Arlington Council on Aging  April 27 

Do You Think God Loves Immigrant Kids, Mom?

Director Dena Lusin Bitmez

Doc | 2019 | Turkey

Synopsis

This film tells the struggle of Armenian families who migrated to Turkey/Istanbul in 2003 with the intent of providing education for their children despite circumstances. In the midst of their new home stands a dining hall/school, located in a basement of a church where migrant children receive education from volunteer educators.

Told through the eyes of 4 migrant children, we learn about their daily lives, former habits, longings, and hardships associated with living in a foreign land.

Official Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofer0BG6hBw