LINCROFT
Author Emily Cappello will be available to sign copies of her book “Reasons Why” from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 22, at Scroll and Pen Bookstore, on the Brookdale Community College campus, 765 Newman Springs Road.
Cappello, a resident of Monmouth Beach, wrote the memoir at age 16. Having battled depression and a fierce eating disorder most of her life, Cappello honestly tells of her unimagined and incredibly raw struggle through her teenage years. “Reasons Why” is a story of harsh lessons of life, love, and ultimately, hope.
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The Social Action Film Series at the Unitarian Meetinghouse will welcome Alrick Brown, maker of the award-winning film “Kinyarwanda,” at 6 p.m. Sunday, March 30, at the 1475 W. Front St. meetinghouse.
Set in Rwanda, the film features a young Tutsi woman and a young Hutu man who fall in love amidst chaos; a soldier who struggles to foster a greater good while absent from her family; and a priest who grapples with his faith in the face of unspeakable horror. On a greater scale, the film presents the classic struggle of good versus evil.
The screening will be followed by question-and-answer period.
The screening is free and open to the public.
Additional information is available by calling 732-284-6312.
MIDDLETOWN
The Garden State Daylily Growers will hold its spring meeting from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, March 23, in the Heath Room at Tatum Park on Red Hill Road.
The public is welcome to attend this free event.
Speakers for the day are nationally recognized daylily hybridizers Margo Reed and Jim Murphy. Known for their beautiful and exotic daylilies, the speakers work together at Woodhenge Gardens in Virginia. Reed has won close to 20 American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) awards and registered nearly 100 cultivars. Murphy is one of the founders of the Charlottesville Daylily Club and served as its president for nine years. He is also an AHS garden judge and senior exhibition judge.
Additional information about the Monmouth County Park System is available by visiting www.monmouthcountyparks.com or calling the park system at 732-842-4000. The TTY/TDD number for people with hearing impairment is 711.
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The Mental Health Association of Monmouth County will be presenting the film, “Between Iraq and a Hard Place,” at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 30, at the Middletown Arts Center, 36 Church St.
Tickets are $12 and can be purchased online or in person at the arts center.
The film is about what happens when a young man or woman goes to war and sees death, killing and tragedy and experiences fear on a daily basis. It asks the questions: do they return home the same, can the changes they experienced be reversed, altered or the effects reduced, and are we doing enough as a country and people to help our returning troops heal in body, mind and spirit? The answers are not clear but emerging information would lead us to believe that much more can and needs to be done.
“Between Iraq and a Hard Place” explores these questions from the perspective of the troops who need this help. If we can understand what our sons and daughters of war feel and fear, we can better know how to help them.
Additional information about the movie is available by visiting www.betweeniraq.com or by calling 732-542-6422, ext. 108.
