Where Can We Live in Peace? – Documentary Screening & Discussion
Sun, May 17
|Michigan Friends Center
Join us for film that offers an intimate portrait of migrants seeking safety and the remarkable shelter that meets them with dignity, care, and hope.


Time & Location
May 17, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Michigan Friends Center, 7748 Clark Lake Rd, Chelsea, MI 48118, USA
Guests
About the event
Join us for a screening of Where Can We Live in Peace?, an award-winning documentary by filmmaker Judy Jackson that follows Pastor Ignacio Ramirez and the ABBA migrant shelter he founded in Celaya, Mexico — a sanctuary where thousands of migrants fleeing gang violence, poverty, and climate catastrophe find rest, medical care, and human dignity. The film offers an intimate and deeply humanizing portrait of people on one of the world's most dangerous journeys, and of the extraordinary compassion that meets them along the way.
The screening will be followed by a discussion led by Hernán Drobny, an Ann Arbor Friends Meeting attender, physician, and board member of both the Latin American Relief Fund and ABBA Shelter, who brings decades of personal and professional connection to this community and its work. This event is part of Michigan Friends Center's film series grounded in our values of peace, social justice, and…
