"From Cambridge to PBS" with former AiR Roberto Mighty

Schedule

Thu Apr 03 2025 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Bigelow Chapel | Cambridge, MA

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A one-night-only event where Roberto shares his journey from Cambridge to becoming “that cemetery guy” on PBS.
About this Event

In 2014, Roberto Mighty became Mount Auburn Cemetery’s first Artist-in-Residence. His AiR project earth.sky, inspired by and filmed at Mount Auburn, is an immersive multimedia meditation on life, death, ritual, history, landscape, nature and culture. The traveling multi-screen exhibit evokes the contemporaneous life force of diverse individuals interred at Mount Auburn from its consecration in 1831 to the present.


After finishing his residency at Mount Auburn, Roberto went on to create and host the PBS series, World’s Greatest Cemeteries. The TV show premiered in October 2021 and episode #1 focuses on Mount Auburn Cemetery right here in Cambridge, MA! Since then, the show has traveled to France, England, Hollywood and New York.


How did this all come about, and why does Roberto credit Mount Auburn with convincing him that a whole nation might watch a series about graveyards? Find out at this one-night-only event where Roberto shares his journey from Cambridge to becoming “that cemetery guy” on PBS. The 20-minute talk will be followed by a Q&A with Roberto and MAC’s Curator of Historical Collections & Archives, Meg Winslow.


The talk will take place in Bigelow Chapel at Mount Auburn. Prior to the event, there will be a reception where attendees will have the opportunity to meet and chat with Roberto and MAC leadership. If you are interested in attending the reception, please email Vice President of Institutional Advancement, Beth Brown, at bbrown@mountauburn.org.


Capacity: 50 people

Check-in at Bigelow Chapel.

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Roberto Mighty, MFA is Producer and Host of “World’s Greatest Cemeteries” and “getting dot OLDER” on PBS TV stations. He was Harvard Forest’s Artist-in-Residence in 2011 and . He is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, with projects about trees, history, landscape and the arts. He is also the Producer, Director and Writer of “Legacy of Love”, about Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott's meeting and romance in the 1950’s. A former Adjunct Professor at Emerson College and Boston University, Roberto does across the USA.

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Bigelow Chapel, Chapel Ave, Cambridge, United States

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