"Lives Well Lived" Online Screening Feb. 19-24

Fairfield CT – The Fairfield Museum, in partnership with Shaughnessey Banks Funeral Home and Mark This Day with Love (a service for commemorating the milestones in one’s life), is pleased to present a special free virtual event series around the film Lives Well Lived.  

The directorial debut of award-winning photographer and filmmaker Sky Bergman, Lives Well Lived celebrates the incredible wit, wisdom and experiences of adults aged 75 to 100 years old. Through their intimate memories and inspiring personal histories encompassing over 3,000 years of experience, forty people share their secrets and insights to living a meaningful life. These men and women open the vault on their journey into old age through family histories, personal triumph and tragedies, loves and losses -- seeing the best and worst of humanity along the way. Their stories will make you laugh, maybe cry, but mostly inspire you.

A 56-minute film, Lives Well Lived will be screened online beginning Friday, February 19 and run through Wednesday, February 24. Registrants will be sent a private link to watch the film at any time during the six day period. To register, visit www.fairfieldhistory.org/liveswelllived.

As a complement to the screening, on Sunday, February 21 at 7:00pm, Fairfield Museum will host a virtual live Q&A session through Zoom with Film Director Bergman. Registration is required and available online at www.fairfieldhistory.org/liveswelllived. A Zoom link will be provided upon registration. 

As another component of the “Lives Well Lived” series, the Fairfield Museum will also host two unique virtual workshops centered on memoir writing and oral history, as well as a more intimate Death Café. Workshops are free of charge; registration is required. To learn more, visit www.fairfieldhistory.org/liveswelllived

“Lives Well Lived” is presented by Fairfield Museum and History Center, Shaughnessey Banks Funeral Home and Mark This Day with Love. Special thanks to Pequot Library, Fairfield Public Library, SHU Community Theater, and the Bigelow Center of Fairfield for their support of the effort.

MORE ABOUT SKY BERGMAN
Sky Bergman is an accomplished, award-winning photographer. Lives Well Lived  is Bergman’s directorial debut. Her fine art work is included in permanent collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Her commercial work has appeared on book covers for Random House and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., and magazine spreads in Smithsonian, Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel, Reader’s Digest, and Archaeology Odyssey. Sky Bergman currently is a Professor of Photography and Video at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. 

MORE About the Fairfield Museum and History Center

Fairfield Museum and History Center is a vibrant nexus of community life offering dynamic family programs and exhibitions, sparking dialogue and deliberating the challenges of the future. Central to our community-focused mission is a desire to provide important historical context to pressing issues of our time, and to offer a safe, trustworthy environment where multiple perspectives can be heard, and collective solutions explored.

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