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Living on the Fault Line

An important new documentary film about race in America, “Living on the Fault Line” explores family love and racial injustice in the experience of transracial families created through adoption. An open-hearted look at race in America, it is also an intimate portrait that reveals the challenges transracial families face as children of color grow up in communities where racial discrimination, stereotyping and white privilege are often unspoken realities. Produced by Middlesex, Vt., filmmaker Jeff Farber.

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Alice Siegriest, the Clinical Director of Camp ForMe, who was featured in "Living on the Faultline," discusses the film.
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Community Dialogues
In May and June, Vermont Public Television and Vermont Children’s Aid Society present: “Vermont On The Fault Line, Community Dialogue on Race” in three Vermont communities.

Built around and following a screening of “Living on the Fault Line,” the audience will be invited to participate in a free ranging community discussion facilitated by a panel with both local and statewide personalities. The evening’s focus will be on ways to make the region a more welcoming, nurturing and understanding place for its children, students and citizens of color and is planned to be a precursor for other such conversations and dialogues in hopes that they become a regular part of the community’s ongoing business.

St. Johnsbury
Tuesday, May 20, 6:30 PM
The St. Johnsbury School Auditorium

Panel

  • Robert Appel, Executive Director, Vermont Human Rights Commission
  • Arthur Saffold, Parent of adopted children of color, Lyndonville, VT
  • Alice Siegriest, Clinical Director, Camp ForMe & Social Worker, Vermont Children's Aid Society
  • Shelley Vermilya, Parent of adopted children of color, Plainfield, VT

Co-hosted by

  • Vermont Children's Aid Society
  • Vermont Public Television

Additional Partners: Green Mountain United Way; North and South Congregational Churches; Umbrella, Inc; St. Johnsbury Community Justice Center; North Country Coalition for Justice & Peace; Psychology and Human Services Department, Lyndon State College.

Funded in part by a grant to VPT from the Walter Cerf Community Fund with the Vermont Community Foundation, KeyBank, and the Uprooting Task Force of the United Church of Christ.

Check back for information about upcoming forums in your community.

 
 
 
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