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Author Michael Cunningham will read at FAWC on Sunday. |
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Cunningham to read in HRC benefit
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham will give a benefit reading for the Barnstable County Human Rights Commission at 8 p.m. on Sunday at the Fine Arts Work Center, 24 Pearl St. in Provincetown. Tickets are $10.
Cunningham, a longtime summer resident of Provincetown, is author of “A Home at the End of the World,” which was made into a film with Robin Wright Penn, Sissy Spacek and Colin Farrell. His book “Flesh and Blood” was made into a miniseries for Showtime, and in 1999 he received both the Pulitzer and PEN/Faulkner Awards for “The Hours.” That book was made into a movie with Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep.
He has also published another novel, “Specimen Days,” and a book of nonfiction, “Land’s End: A Walk Through Provincetown.”
Recently, Cunningham co-wrote the screenplay for “Evening,” based on Susan Minot’s book, currently showing in theaters.
HRC is an organization dedicated to fighting discrimination and to engendering tolerance and understanding through community outreach and education. Outer Cape representatives include Larry Mahan, Maria Flook, Molly Perdue, Margo Koch Ruth and Ernie Hadley.
Flook, an outspoken author and Truro resident, talked to the Banner about some of the recent HRC work, including taking on the Dept. of Motor Vehicles relative to issues with immigrants applying for driver’s licenses. Additionally, Flook says, every high school on the Cape except one has worked on a human rights project this past year. They have raised money for African nations, and each school held presentations of their projects.
Barnstable HRC has sponsored town meeting forums to discuss local issues and now is actively pursuing the No Place for Hate designation for every town on the Cape.
“A lot of people think Cape Cod has no discrimination, that it is paradise where all the rich come,” she says. “But who is serving them? People who need housing and licenses and more.”
Flook called Cunningham and asked him to read for HRC to help continue their work on the Cape. He quickly agreed.
“HRC is full of very lively, thinking people,” Flook says of those involved in the day-to-day fight against discrimination and loss of human rights. “There is a lot of emotional stuff involved in discrimination.” —SH
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Jul 12th, 2007