DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE OF STORY AND POETRY ABOUT LOVE AT LIFE'S END

DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE OF STORY AND POETRY ABOUT LOVE AT LIFE'S END
Editor: David Mills


ROCKLAND, ME - On Thursday May 10 at 6:00 PM in the Friends Community Room of the Rockland Public Library A dramatic performance of story and poetry about love at life's end will be performed. Titled, A Finished Heart, the work will be performed by author and composer, Eliott Cherry. A recorded version of the score will be used.

A Finished Heart is inspired by devotion, grief, play, and mystery. Eliott Cherry kept a diary of his conversations with his husband of sixteen years, Chris Chenard, as he cared for Chris at their home during three months of illness.  When Chris died in 2007, Eliott expanded his writings with poetry and prose that reveal how this loss, profound beyond words, has altered his relationship with the world. This journal is the source of A Finished Heart.

The performance encourages a sense of community by bringing the audience into the intimacy of two men who have committed their lives to each other.  A Finished Heart helps the audience reflect on dying, care-giving, and grief as a way of developing important perspectives on life. It helps stimulate the listener's imagination to discover compassionate ways to be with dying individuals and their loved ones.

Eliott Cherry is a Maine composer and cellist, focusing on bringing A Finished Heart to universities, congregations, hospitals, and other venues in Maine and beyond.

This performance is sponsored by the Rockland Public Library, and the JSL Foundation of New Gloucester, Maine.

For more information on the work, please visit www.afinishedheart.com.

Special accommodations for persons with disabilities can be made with 48 hours notice. Please call the Library at 594-0310.

This is one in a continuing Thursday series of literary, film and cultural offerings sponsored by the Rockland Public Library & The Friends of the Rockland Public Library. Admission is free.