UPCOMING EVENTS

Thursday – July 2 –   1:00 PM – Spirituality Seekers

Spiritual Seekers will meet at the home of MaryAnn Thompson. Discussion, lead by Ann Ruggaber, is based on Joan Chittister’s book Welcome to the Wisdom of the World, chapters 23-25.  All members are welcome to join this bi-monthly group.

Contact person is Ann Ruggaber

Thursday- July 9- 6:30 PM – ArtFlix via  Zoom only

Film:  Daughters

Discussion leader: Clare Pokorny

2024 documentary. Four young girls prepared for a special daddy/daughter dance with their incarcerated father as a part of a unique fatherhood program in Washington DC jail. The documentary reunite four girls with their fathers through dance. Natalie Ray and Angela Patton are behind the extraordinary film. Patton has been working with young people for more than two decades as CEO of Girls for a Change, a nonprofit that empowers black girls in her hometown of Richmond, Virginia by addressing their unique needs while making sure to reserve space for innocence and play. . The film won the audience award at the 2024 Sundance film festival.

For information contact Diane Woolever

Tuesday – July 21 -Field Trip to Raclin Museum of Art at Notre Dame

The Raclin Murphy Msueum of Art is the art museum of the University of Notre Dame, located on its campus near South Bend, Indiana.  The museum occupies a new 70,000 square foot building (which opened on December 1, 2023) and surrounding the Charles B Hayes Family Sculpture Park.  The more than 30,000 works of art in the collection span cultures, eras, and media and include fine art, design objects, decorative art, prints, drawings, textiles, photographs and art and artifacts from Mesoamerican, Spanish Colonial, Latin American, Mexican, Chicano and African cultures.

Look for an email from contact person, Lisa Rommelmann with details about carpool and lunch plans.

Wednesdays –  July 22 , 29 and Tuesdays – August 4, 11, 18 and Wednesday -August 26-10;00-11;15 am-PCCF

Nina Corazzo will offer a new art history series entitled Art of Social Conscience.  The classes are open, free, and registration is not required.  

We will consider whether art can play a role in healing social ills and if so, how have artists in the past used their art to achieve this.  We will then look at contemporary artists who are engaged in this endeavor as well.  We will first focus on two themes:  depictions of war in art and representations of poverty.

July 28 – 11:00 am – Spritual Seekers

Anu Garlapati invites members to her home to meet Swami Chidatmanandji, from Hyderabad, India.  Swami Chidatmanandji is a spiritual teacher whose core teaching emphasizes the oneness (non-duality) of all beings.  Anu will serve a light lunch after the talk.  Please RSVP to Anu by July 25 if you plan to attend.

Tuesday – July 28 – 4:00pm – PCCF and zoom – Book Group

Title: Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

Discussion leader:  Linda Cronk

This is historical fiction inspired by real events. The author called it “biographical fiction.”  It is a story about a midwife in Maine, in the late 1780’s. The US Constitution was only two years old at that time and the Bill of Rights had not yet been ratified. The author says that 75 % of what happens in the book closely follows the historical record.

 (NPR Book of the Year) Frozen River is based on the diaries of Martha Ballard, a midwife and healer in Maine in 1780. Clever, layered, and subversive, Ariel Lawhon’s newest offering introduces an unsung heroine who refused to accept anything less than justice at a time when women were considered best seen and not heard. The Frozen River is a thrilling, tense, and tender story about a remarkable woman who left an unparalleled legacy yet remains nearly forgotten.

For more information, contact Clare Pokorny.