Evento

AN EVENING IN CELEBRATION OF NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE

Southampton Arts Center & Members of the Shinnecock Nation Present
AN EVENING IN CELEBRATION OF NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 | 5-9:30 PM | FREE

5-6 PM/ 8-9 PM: Shinnecock Artisans Market (Cash Only)

6 PM: Welcome Ceremony by Shane Weeks

6:15 PM: Screening of THE BLESSING followed by Q&A with Directors Jordan Fein & Hunter Baker and Producer Laura Ball

8-9:30 PM: Harvest Pot Luck Dinner Seasonal & locally-sourced dishes welcome. Sassafras tea will be served.

THE BLESSING
(2017 | Documentary | 74 min.)
Personal and crucial, The Blessing follows a Navajo coal miner raising his secretive daughter as a single father, struggling with his part in the irreversible destruction of their sacred mountain at the hands of Americas largest coal producer. Captured over the course of five years, filmmakers Jordan Fein and Hunter Baker join a Navajo family for some of the most deeply personal and important moments in the characters lives, from a miner enduring a life threatening injury and confronting the deep spiritual sacrifice he makes to provide for his family to a young Navajo woman discovering her inner identity and managing the expectations of her traditional father, while playing on the mens varsity football team and being crowned homecoming queen. First and foremost a character-driven film, The Blessing brings the search for acceptance to broad audiences through the unprecedented and intimate access the filmmakers have been given to this under-reported social and environmental story on the Navajo Nation.

Film programming at SAC is sponsored, in part, by Suffolk County.