Greenfield Community College

Join our event which serves as a follow up to the film screening Join or Die, the story of America’s “civic unraveling” over the past 50 years as perceived by legendary social scientist Robert Putnam, who contends that joining a club, volunteering and participating in civic life has a powerful positive effect on individual personal wellbeing and on community health. Learn about different opportunities in Franklin County—and meet vendors and organizations that help us to… Get Outside! — Outdoor recreating, gardening, nature Help! — Charity, volunteering, mutual aid, service Make!— Building, crafting, journalism Play! — Sports, games Lead! — Local government, non-profit boards, foundations Learn! — Adult education, arts centers Hang Out! — Social clubs, Stone Soup café, RLCs Mentor! — Scouts, BBBS, 4H, etc. Perform! — Theater, singing Free food and activities for all participants! RSVP requested.

Join filmmaker—and local celebrity—Mike Haley as he discusses examples of the Murphy’s Law adage, “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong” as it applies to films he has helped make. With over 60 feature films and 18 television movies under his belt, Haley has extensive experience as an actor, assitant director and producer. He has worked with some of American’s greatest directors including Sidney Lumet, Sidney Pollock, Barry Levinson, Penny Marshall, Harold Ramis and Mike Nichols. His relationship with Nichols spans 30 years and 13 films including Biloxi Blues, Working Girl, Primary Colors, Angels in America and Charlie Wilson’s War. He’s also worked with actors and actresses including Katherine Hepburn, Harrison Ford, Meryl Streep, Madonna and Morris the Cat. He’s had a prolific career as an actor in roles opposite Sophia Loren, Christian Slater and John Travolta and played the umpire who throws Tom Hanks out of the game after the classic scene “There’s no crying in baseball!” in A League of Their Own. Mike has received two Humanitas Prizes, The Christopher Award, a Directors Guild of America citation and an Emmy. Locally, Mike is a member of Greenfield’s troupe Rosie Caine and her Wilde Irish Women and continues to…