UR Community Tech Center hosts Better Together Film Festival.

Throughout the week of April 15-21, 2024, as part of the seventh annual National Week of Conversation - community spaces across the country were invited to participate in the Better Together Film Festival. The festival aims to shift the culture of the country away from division and hatred, and toward cohesion and hope.

UR Community Tech Center will host this free, community movie as a way to turn down the heat and bridge divides, we are a hosting venue partner.  Please join us Thursday, April 18^th 1pm-2:30pm. Light refreshments will be served. You can sign up on https://calendly.com/urcommunitycares or call 860-430-4557.

According to Pearce Godwin, CEO of Listen First Project, "The Better Together Film Festival provides a free, easy, and entertaining way for communities to gather across lines of difference, enjoy high-caliber films, and explore what connects us during a year when so many are trying to divide us."

Hundreds of libraries, museums, community centers, faith institutions, colleges, and other local spaces across America will bring together diverse groups of people to view films that showcase hopeful stories of bridging divides. Audiences will be invited to engage in facilitated conversations following the screenings. 

We will feature "Dialogue Lab: America,".  Film Type: Documentary. Synopsis:  What happens when twelve Americans from across the political spectrum attempt to have a conversation? In 2021, twelve strangers joined Ideos Institute in an audacious social experiment: to test whether constructive dialogue is possible in today’s polarized culture, and if so, how dialogue might be the first step in healing our nation. The hour-long film chronicles the group’s journey as each individual shares their story, discovers common ground, and forges a path to mutual understanding.

The Better Together Film Festival is organized by the 500-member Listen First Coalition and inspired by the National Governors Association's #DisagreeBetter campaign.

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