Transcending Sight: Thoreau in the Eye of the Beholder

September 15, 2019

Have you ever felt a compelling need to be somewhere? More than a desire to visit a place and more, even, than a wish to learn. A need to experience and to understand? It was that kind of need that drew Kara Snyder of Pittsburgh, PA to Concord, MA this past summer.

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Film Screening: Dream, a film by Raouf Zaki

9/27/25 2:00 pm EDT

Concord Free Public Library Film Screening: Dream, a film by Raouf Zaki

129 Main Street

Concord, MA

United States

Contact: Barbara Gugluizza

Join filmmaker Raouf Zaki on September 27 for a screening of his film Dream, in celebration of Blindness Awareness Month. Frank, an autistic man, loses his parents to COVID-19. He visits a petting zoo where he meets Daisy, a blind woman with dreams of sailing solo. Immersing himself in the world of the blind, Frank experiences how they rely on their other senses through activities such as fencing, and begins to face his own fears.

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