Film Forum
Friday, June 2
7:00 - 9:00 PM (doors open 6:30)
Room 507
NYSEC Film Forum will present On The Town (1949). This film is the classic “boy meets girl, boy loses girl” fable set to music, in which three sailors on a twenty-four hour shore leave find themselves for the first time in the Big City – New York.
Cheryl Gross and David and Valerie Leiman, will host the evening, introduce the film, and lead a lively discussion with the audience following the showing. Admission is $3.00 for members and $4.00 for nonmembers.
Sunday Meeting, June 4
Early Sunday Morning - 10:00 a.m. - Room 408
"Everyday Ethics" - Join Eva Yachnes as she helps us ponder the question: "What Difficult Decisions Did You Have to Make Last Year?
Sunday Meeting - 11:15 a.m. - Concert Hall
"Enlivening the Center and Brightening the Boundaries of Ethical Culture"
Tony Hileman, Senior Leader
Michael Bogdanffy-Kriegh Presides
New Member Recognition - meet and get to know new members who have joined the Society this year.
Sunday School - Ethics for Children - 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. - Adler Study
Generosity and Celebrations
Afternoon Activities - 12:30 p.m. - Room 507
"Potluck Picnic" - Join members of the Ethics for Children program to celebrate the completion of another year. Bring a dish of your choice. For more information call Lynda Kennedy at 212-874-5210, ext. 106.
Afternoon Activities - 1:30 p.m. - Ceremonial Hall – 4th fl.
"Ethics in the News" - The group continues to search for ethical positions to urge on 2006 candidates. Led by Abe Markman.
Men's Group
Wednesday, June 7
6:00 p.m. - Room 508
Great Books
Wednesday, June 7
7:30 p.m. - Room 507
Thoreau, Civil Disobedience.
Photography Workshop
Thursday, June 8
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Room 514
Photography Workshop
Thursdays: June 8 and 22; July 13 and 27; August 10 and 24; September 14 and 28
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Digital cameras and scanners have opened horizons never before available to amateur photographers, but they also demand new skills. This photography workshop will give you advice about your equipment and sharpen your eye to basic elements of the fine images: composition, lighting, color, depth, texture, movement, and impact, so that your photos will more truly reflect your vision.
Instructor Larry Yates, a NYSEC member, is President of the Manhattan Miniature Camera Club, and Vice-President of the Metropolitan Camera Club Council. Larry judges and presents regularly at regional camera clubs. His own photos have won numerous awards, both regionally and nationally.
Contact Gloria Chandler at 212-874-5210, ext. 117, to register. The cost for all 8 classes is $100 for members, $150 for nonmembers.
Thursday Writing Workshop
Thursday, June 8
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Room 508
Unforgotten Voices Creative Workshop
Friday, June 9
8:00 - 11:00 PM
Ceremonial Hall - 4th Floor
NYSEC, the Social Service Board, and Unforgotten Voices, a creative workshop directed by Judith Ginsburg, will present works by a collective of visual and performing artists who are or have been homeless, or are otherwise living on the edge. There will be singers, dancers, musicians, and artists, all sharing their talents and joy. Please join us for a wonderful and inspiring evening. Admission is free, and refreshments will be served.
Sunday Meeting, June 11
Early Sunday Morning - 10:00 a.m. - Room 408
"Colloquy" - A meditative hour to explore thoughts and feelings about a presented subject. Led by Larry Yates.
Sunday Meeting - 11:15 a.m. - Concert Hall
"Gay Liberation–From Self Acceptance to Social Acceptance"
Tom Ferrick, Humanist Chaplain and Activist
Tony Hileman Presides
Sunday School - Ethics for Children - Will resume again in September
Afternoon Activities - 1:30 p.m. - Ceremonial Hall - 4th Floor
"NYSEC's Task Force on Corporate Ethics" - a talk by Paula Lukats, of Just Food, about community-supported agriculture. She will show the video, The Future of Food.
Monday Writing Workshop
Monday, June 12
6:30 - 8:00 p.m. - Room 508
Please note class is full
Women's Group
Tuesday, June 13
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Room 514
Paul Krugman, Greg Palast, Amy Goodman
"The New Class War in America" - Tuesday, June 13
Download!
The audio file of the sold out program on "The New Class War in America" featuring Paul Krugman, Greg Palast, Amy Goodman and Randi Rhodes, is available by clicking on NY Sound Posse.
ECRDG: Ethical Culture Reading Discussion Group
Wednesday, June 14
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Room 507
J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace.
Ethics and the Theater
Wednesday, June 14
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Room 514
Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning theater classic. The play dramatizes the struggle of the two sons of a retired matinee idol and his morphine-addicted wife to survive the family’s past failures and its present painful truths. Director Elaine Berman. Muriel Berger will lead the discussion.
Call Suzy Frazer at 212-874-5210, ext. 113 to register. Members: $10 for each session. Nonmembers: $15.
