An Evening with Robert Redford – Actor, Director, Environmentalist

In celebration of the 16th anniversary of the Middlesex Community College Celebrity Forum, the MCC Foundation will feature acclaimed actor, director, environmentalist and Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford at 8 p.m. Friday, June 20, 2014, in the Lowell Memorial Auditorium.

One of the most acclaimed actors of the last half-century, Redford is best known for his leading roles in such films as “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “The Way We Were,” “The Sting,” “All the President’s Men,” “The Natural,” “The Horse Whisperer” and, most recently, the highly acclaimed “All Is Lost.”

Among the causes Redford supports are Greenpeace, the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign, the James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness, and the Sundance Institute. In 1981, he also founded the Sundance Film Festival.

The Middlesex Community College Celebrity Forum is an annual event that presents well-known personalities for the educational and cultural enrichment of area residents. Proceeds help raise funds for the MCC Foundation. Presenting Sponsor of all 16 Celebrity Forum events is The TJX Companies, Inc. Past Celebrity Forum speakers include Walter Cronkite with Doris Kearns Goodwin, Colin Powell, former President George Bush with former First Lady Barbara Bush, Rudy Giuliani, David McCullough, Barbara Walters, Tim Russert, Geena Davis, Mike Wallace and Chris Wallace, Jay Leno, Sarah Ferguson, Ken Burns, Robin Roberts, Michael J. Fox, and former First Lady Laura Bush with Jenna Bush Hager.

Tickets to An Evening with Robert Redford are $65 and $45, and can be purchased online at www.lowellauditorium.com or at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium Box Office, 50 E. Merrimack St., Lowell, or by calling the LMA Box Office at 866-722-8881. For group sales (15 tickets or more), call Joe Fellini at 978-934-5751 or email jfellini@lowellauditorium.com

For information about Celebrity Forum corporate sponsorship opportunities, visit http://www.middlesex.mass.edu/CF14 or contact MCC Dean of College Advancement Dennis Malvers at 781-280-3514.