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Weekly Film Screening: Call Jane

This Thursday, January 12 we are showing Call Jane. Movies are shown every Thursday starting at 7 PM.

Rated R | History, Drama | 2h 1m

Chicago, 1968. As the city and the nation are poised on the brink of political upheaval, suburban housewife Joy (Elizabeth Banks) leads an ordinary life with her husband and daughter. When Joy’s pregnancy leads to a life-threatening heart condition, she must navigate an all-male medical establishment unwilling to terminate her pregnancy in order to save her life. Her journey for a solution leads her to Virginia (Sigourney Weaver), an independent visionary fiercely committed to women’s health, and Gwen (Wunmi Mosaku), an activist who dreams of a day when all women will have access to abortion, regardless of their ability to pay. Joy is so inspired by their work, she decides to join forces with them, putting every aspect of her life on the line.

Future Films:

Thursday, January 19
Thursday, January 26

Holiday Book Sale

Shop local, shop sustainable! The Friends will have beautiful books in barely used condition—and ideas for pairing suggestions to match your gifts. Example: a cookbook with a bottle of wine or a grow your own herbs kit, or a gardening book with a new plant or bulbs. There is a terrific anatomy book for sale, designed as a very sophisticated coloring book to learn anatomy by drawing. This could be paired with drawing pencils.

Film Screening: N. Scott Momaday: Words From a Bear

This Thursday’s film on November 17 is N. Scott Momaday: Words From a Bear. Film Screenings begin promptly at 7 PM. Seating is first come, first served. No registration required.

2019 | Documentary, Literature | 1h 25m

Delve into the enigmatic life and mind of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet N. Scott Momaday, best known for House Made of Dawn and a formative voice of the Native American Renaissance in art and literature.

Come see Top Gun: Maverick Thursday at 7 PM!

Film Screenings begin promptly at 7 PM. Seating is first come, first served. No registration required.

Rated PG-13 | Action, Adventure | 2h 11m

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose”. Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.

Zoom Lecture: Meditation and Psychological Stability in an Unstable Time

Dr. Fleischman, a Vipassana Meditation instructor in the tradition of S.N. Goenka, is a retired psychiatrist and former chief resident in psychiatry at Yale who has been honored by the American Psychiatric Association for his contribution to the study of psychiatry and religion. This lecture will be delivered via Zoom. You must register to receive a Zoom link before the event.

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