This event is funded through NORVA's PAGE Grant initiative. Member's dues, donations and fundraising efforts throughout the year have made this event possible. THANK YOU! 

The International Institute of Akron, in collaboration with Free Akron Outdoor Movies (FAOM), will host a free event in honor of World Refugee Day, on June 26 at Waters Park on North Hill. Please join us for entertainment, food, stories from former refugees, and the screening of the movie The Good Lie.

7-8:30 PM: 
Food from Nepali Kitchen and Stray Dog Cart
Entertainment
Stories from former refugees

8:30 PM:
Screening of the film, The Good Lie - Movie. 
After their village is destroyed and their parents killed by Northern militia, Sudanese orphans Theo, his siblings and other survivors make a difficult journey to a refugee camp in Kenya. Thirteen years later, the group gets the chance to settle in the U.S. They are met in Kansas by Carrie Davis (Reese Witherspoon), who has been charged with finding them jobs. However, seeing how adrift they are in 20th-century America, Carrie endeavors to help them in rebuilding their shattered lives.

This showing of The Good Lie is free and open to the public.This is an outdoor event. Please dress for weather and insects. Feel free to bring lawn chairs, blankets and/or pillows for sitting.