First-Friday, The Peace Center of Delaware County Just-Reel  Free Movie Series

First Fridays, 7 p.m., at the Peace Center of Delaware County/Springfield Friends Meetinghouse, 1001 Old Sproul Road, Springfield, Delaware County, with light refreshments and after-film discussion.  Co-sponsored by the Brandywine Peace Community.  For more information or directions, www.delcopeacecenter.org, or  call 610.544.1818

Friday, June 5, Screening of "I Cannot Be Silent: Testimonies of Peacemaking", which documents inter-generational dialogues on peace with elder peace advocates sharing their adventures in peacemaking and their timely and timeless wisdom with young people.  Their inspiring stories address historical and current violence: escape from slavery, opposition to war, childhood escape from a Nazi concentration camp; and opposition to urban violence. 

The film, by Philadelphia film maker Vic Compher, features such elder peace activists as Quaker legends, George Willoughby and Lilllian Willoughby (recently deceased); Dorothy Johnson-Speight, co-founder of Mothers in Charge, an anti-violence neighborhood project in Philadelphia; and Dr. Henry Parens, renowned psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor.  

Opening film short: "Generation Gap", made by University of the Arts students, contrasts younger and older people's views on the importance and role of activism and features long-time activists of the Brandywine Peace Community.