By: centraljersey.com
‘Peaceable Kingdom’ film premiere
Award-winning filmmakers Jenny Stein and James LaVeck will be in Princeton at 7 p.m. for the New Jersey premiere of their documentary, "Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home."
The film, which recently won the Grand Jury Prize at the Canada International Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Environmental Film Festival at Yale, and the Best of Fest Audience Award at the Berkshire International Film Festival, will be featured on the opening weekend of the Princeton Environmental Film Festival.
The free screening will be followed by a Q&A with Ms. Stein and Mr. LaVeck, who will be joined by Harold Brown, a former beef farmer from Michigan, whose life-changing transformation is featured in the film.
A 78-minute documentary, "Peaceable Kingdom" shatters stereotypical notions of farming life.
The goal of the Princeton Environmental Film Festival, sponsored by the Princeton Public Library, is "to use film as a medium to encourage discussion about the environment, raise awareness about environmental concerns, and stimulate community action to develop and make more environmentally sustainable choices and create more livable communities. And to bring the community together to make this happen."
The Princeton Public Library is located at 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton Borough. On the Web: www.princetonlibrary.org. For a complete festival schedule, visit www.princetonlibrary.org/peff/.
Monday, Jan. 17
Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
The Princeton Clergy Association will host its annual Interfaith Service in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King at 7 p.m. at Princeton United Methodist Church, located at 7 Vandeventer Ave., at the intersection with Nassau Street. The Rev. Catherine Williams, Pastoral Care Assistant at the PUMC, will preach. Faith leaders and choirs from a range of traditions will participate. A freewill offering will be received, to be divided equally between the United Negro College Fund and the Princeton-based Coalition for Peace Action.
– Michael Redmond

