Boston’s 82-year-old award-winning documentary filmmaker, Ruth Abrams, will host a premiere of her new DVD, Many Ways to See the World, on Friday July 28th at 6PM at the Media Education Foundation Community Screening Room.

Reception immediately to follow at 7- 8:30 pm at Ten Thousand Villages with free fair trade coffee and chocolate. Ten Thousand Villages is located at 82 Main St, Northampton and they will be selling a limited quantity of the new DVD ($89 for institutional use), and the companion book, Seeing Through Maps ($24.95) at a special “Valley” price of $14.95 each in celebration of the premiere. Ten Thousand Villages provides vital, fair income to Third World people by marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America. Ten Thousand Villages uses a variety of ODT maps as part of their education and outreach efforts on fair trade and social justice issues.

ODT is an Amherst, MA-based publishing company, known for their innovative world maps, including the Peters Map, the World Population Map, the Hobo-Dyer and a series of maps that show south at the top. Many of their maps are available at Ten Thousand Villages stores or on the web at www.odt.org.

HOSTED BY: MEF, ODT, Ten Thousand Villages (reception to follow).