Teaching Social Skills 

A Social Skills Curriculum from Family Interplay Education

This twenty minute video documentary invites the viewer into a complex, other-worldly, yet somehow familiar community of Transylvanian village women and their daughters. It reveals many of the issues and challenges they face in post-Communist Transylvania: decreasing village population, poverty, unyielding physical labor, sending their children away to school, the burden of the roles and responsibilities they face as women, and questions of how their children can have a hopeful future.

In this documentary we also see the cultural intertwining of these village women with their Unitarian heritage (which is so strong), and the effects of their relationship with their Partner Church in the United States.   They have found new ways to be together as women, as they develop a new Sunday School program, and start a popular UU women's group. In many ways it seems as if the future of the village may be in the hands of the women.

Funding for this project was provided by the Margaret Fuller Award Program (Feminist Theology Award), a Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation Program for Religious Feminism.

VHS $25.00; 

DVD $35