Men's Group
Wednesday, April 2
6:00 PM
Room 508
Conversation with the Leader
Wednesday, April 2
6:00 PM
Room 514
Adler's Sense of the Supersensible - join us as we delve into Ethical Culture founder Felix Adler’s curious metaphysics. Adler emphatically rejected supernaturalism, and he parted ways with the transcendentalism of Emerson and the Free Religion Association of which he was once president. Yet he never embraced the philosophic naturalism that characterizes Ethical Culture today. Instead he clung tenaciously to his unique construct of the trans-empirical realities of a “supersensible” realm he struggled throughout his later life to clarify and communicate.
Great Books
Wednesday, April 2
7:30 - 9:00 PM
Room 507
Shakespeare, The Tempest (complete work). List for the season
Film Forum
Friday, April 4
7:00 PM (Doors open 6:30)
Room 514
Antonia’s Line, (1995) - Directed by Marleen Gorris. This Academy Award winning Dutch film is about the remarkable story of a woman who builds a new life with her daughter in a quiet Dutch village after WWII. ”Earthy, sexy, romantic and filled with laughter and warmth” amid the sorrows, it’s a beautiful celebration of friendship, tolerance and enduring passions.
Discussion after the film will be led by Sue Dye. Admission: $5 donation requested to cover the cost of coffee, soda, and popcorn.
Sunday Meeting, April 6
Early Sunday Morning - 10:00 a.m. - Ceremonial Hall-4th floor
Singing Practice - Led by Patricia Bruder Debrovner and Jerry Ranck.
Sunday School - Ethics for Children - 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Rooms 507 & 508
Unity in Diversity: Exploring Ethics Through the Cultures of the World
Sunday Meeting - 11:15 a.m. - Auditorium
Community Service Award
"Doing for Others"
Tony Hileman, Senior Leader
Carol Nadell Van Deusen presides
Tony will speak about "Doing for Others." Michael O’Neal will be presented with the Society’s Community Service Award. Michael is the actively involved restaurateur who is the owner of O’Neals’ Restaurant. The award will be presented under a cosponsorship with Project Find, the Westside social service agency devoted to helping older adults lead more vital and independent lives.
$10.00 per person luncheon to follow - 12:30 p.m. - Social Hall
Afternoon Activities - 1:45 p.m. - Ceremonial Hall, 4th Floor
PIC: Speaker Alex Vitale, a Brooklyn College Sociology Professor, will speak on the CUNY Faculty Union Movement. Abe Markman presides.
Afternoon Activities - 2:00 p.m. - Room 507
Teen Ethical Leadership Program. For more
Video of today's event: April 6, 2008
Hileman - Salute to Michael ONeal
Teen Ethical Leadership Program
Sunday, April 6
2:00 - 4:00 PM
Room 507
Women's Group
Tuesday, April 8
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Room 514
Lost Weekends II: Addiction & Alcoholism in the Movies
7:00-9:30 PM
Room 514
Host and discussion leader: Kurt Brokaw, MS, teaches at The New School and The 92nd Street Y
8-week Spring Film Series. Screenings/discussions of more classic/rare feature films.
By subscription only, series $150. NYSEC members special series price $100. For additional information contact Gloria Chandler, at 212-874-5210, ext. 117. To register for this film series click here: registration form.
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| Apr. 8 | The Man With The Golden Arm, (1955) Nelson Algren’s Chicago novel, winner of the National Book Award, becomes Otto Preminger’s powerhouse drama. Kim Novak and Eleanor Parker support Frank Sinatra as Frankie Machine, the ex-con and recovering heroin addict. |
| Apr. 15 | The Connection Judith Malina’s Living Theater first performed Jack Gelber’s riveting play in 1959. This is the lost, taut 1961 filming by Shirley Clarke (The Cool World), as a loft of edgy heroin addicts wait for Cowboy. Critics’ Prize, Cannes. |
| Apr. 22 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe? Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are alcoholic George and Martha in Mike Nichols’ blistering 1966 film of Edward Albee’s play. Oscars for Taylor and Sandy Dennis (playing George Segal’s wife). |
| Apr. 29 | Fat City, (1972) John Huston’s modest, affecting drama of an alcoholic boxer’s comeback. Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges and Susan Tyrell, plus Leonard Gardner’s sreenplay and Conrad Hall’s camera make this tale into a rough-edged gem. |
| May 6 | The Rose Bette Midler never kicked out the jams harder than as the Joplin-inspired rocker who’s one pills/whisky & dope binge away from crashing and burning. 1979, directed with fury and compassion by Mark Rydell, with Alan Bates as her never-say-die road manager. |
| May 13 | Let's Get Lost Chet Baker’s trumpet built West Coast 50s cool jazz as his heroin habit ravaged his features beyond recognition (above). Fashion photog Bruce Weber’s 1988 Oscar-nom homage is unsentimental yet intimate. |
| May 20 | Hurlyburly David Rabe’s 1998 cocaine and liquor-drenched take on the Hollywood Hills movers-and-shakers. Casting partners Sean Penn and Kevin Spacey rip into Robin Penn Wright, Meg Ryan and Anna Paquin. |
| May 27 | The Bridge - Documentarian Eric Steel’s cameras filmed the Golden Gate Bridge 24/7 through 2004, catching 23 of 24 suicides. Tense, hypnotic and heartbreaking, his film intercuts seven leaps with the backstories of drugs and booze told by families, lovers, friends. |
ECRDG: Ethical Culture Reading Discussion Group
Wednesday, April 9
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Room 507
Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls.
List for the season
Come Hear Chicago's Finest
Friday, April 11
7:30 PM
Auditorium
Merit School of Music, a nonprofit community music school located in Chicago, IL, will be presenting a free concert, featuring the exceptionally talented student musicians, ages 12 to 18, of the Merit Symphony Orchestra, Latin Jazz Band and Alegre Strings. The performance is part of the School's 2008 New York City Tour. In addition to their performance at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, the students will participate in masterclasses and clinics with some of the world's finest artists and ensembles while enjoying all the sights and sounds of New York City. For more information about Merit School of Music, visit www.meritmusic.org.
Sunday Meeting, April 13
Early Sunday Morning - 10:00 a.m. Room 408
Colloquy - topic is “Heroes and Heroines.” If you can, bring in quotes from your own heroes and heroines. Harriet Bigus presides.
Sunday School - Ethics for Children - 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Rooms 507 & 508
Unity in Diversity: Exploring Ethics Through the Cultures of the World
Sunday Meeting - 11:15 a.m. - Auditorium
"A Sense of Humor"
Fritz Williams, Leader Emeritus, Baltimore Ethical Society
Vincent Navarro Presides
Lunch - 12:30 p.m. - Social Hall
Afternoon Activities - 1:45 p.m. - Ceremonial Hall, 4th Floor
Open PIC Meeting: Agenda — “Left Forum” report; and letter writing. Abe Markman presides.
Afternoon Activities - 2:00 p.m. - Room 507
Teen Ethical Leadership Program. For more
Video of today's event: April 13, 2008
Williams - A Sense of Humor
Teen Ethical Leadership Program
Sunday, April 13
2:00 - 4:00 PM
Room 507
Great Books: Great Conversations I
Wednesday, April 16
7:30 - 9:00 PM
Room 507
Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murad. List for the season
