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TNS Events
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Sunday, Sept 5
Stories and Poems at the End of Life
A Reading and Conversation with Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
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Thursday, Sept 16
Shodo Harada Roshi
Calligraphy demonstration at the Asian Art Museum,
San Francisco
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Sunday, Sept 19
Sacrifice Zones
Conversation with Steve Lerner
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Visit The New School website for more information.
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Art Exhibitions
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Ken Botto
Last Work 2008: White Hat and Mothership
Reception:
Sunday, October 10
3-5 pm
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The New School at Commonweal is a community of inquiry. We explore topics in health, the arts and sciences, the environment, and the inner life.
Over the past four years, The New School has presented more than 80 conversations with thought and action leaders who are shaping our world. Events are offered as a gift to The New School community unless otherwise noted, and donations are welcome. You can listen to podcasts of New School conversations on iTunes and on our website archives. Join The New School community!
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 Dear New School Friends:
This coming Sunday, September 5, from 2pm-4pm, Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., will be speaking at The New School on "Stories and Poems at the End of Life." Admission is free, donations are welcome.
Many of you know of Rachel's work. She is, among other things, a storyteller and the author of two international best-selling books, Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessing.
She is the founder and director of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal (ISHI), our project for medical reform through postgraduate and undergraduate medical education. ISHI's award winning course for medical students, the Healer's Art, is now taught annually in more than 70 medical schools across the country and around the world. Rachel is also co-founder and the medical director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program. She is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of Integrative Medicine and has worked for over 30 years as a therapist for people and families facing cancer and other life threatening illnesses.
This meeting with Rachel will be the first in a series of End of Life Conversations at The New School this year. Despite all of the recent attention to death and the process of dying in America, there are still many unmet needs. Many people are not well served and supported at this critical time in their lives and the lives of their families. We have listened deeply to people talking about these issues for decades through the Commonweal Cancer Help Program and ISHI. Our hope is to begin to open some of this life-enriching dialogue and the opportunity to share collective wisdom with a larger community of people.
What is our vision? Susan Braun, Commonweal executive director and former executive director of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, puts it simply: We'd like to contribute to a conversation about death in America. We'd like to create a public space where questions of death and dying can be explored in safety and without judgment. We want to start right here, in West Marin.
The End of Life Conversations (so far) are scheduled on the first Sunday of September, October, November, December, and February. The time is always 2pm-4pm. Mark your calendars!
Sunday, September 5, Rachel Naomi Remen--Stories and Poems at the End of Life Sunday, October 3, Michael Lerner--Death and Dying: Lessons from the Commonweal Cancer Help Program Sunday, November 7, Susan Braun--Fighting Till the End Sunday, December 5, Eric Karpeles--The Last Threshold: Artists and Mortality Sunday, February 6, Steve Heilig--The Modern Evolution of Death
Commonweal Board Member Eric Karpeles is a gifted painter, author of Paintings in Proust, and translator of Proust's Overcoat. Steve Heilig is director of Public Health and Education for the San Francisco Medical Society and the Collaborative on Health and the Environment at Commonweal, co-editor of the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, and a clinical ethicist at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Susan Braun has spent most of her career helping and advocating for people with cancer.
You may, of course, pick and choose among these conversations on the End of Life as among all New School events. But you can also choose to attend them all. We encourage those who intend to attend all sessions to let us know (TheNewSchool@Commonweal.org). We may also schedule smaller events on some Wednesdays, and will let you know.
Thanks for being part of The New School. Please support us as you can.
Michael Lerner
Founder, The New School
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 Rachel Naomi Remen
Stories and Poems at the End of Life
Sunday, September 5, 2010, 2pm-4pm
A last reminder about our next event, coming up this Sunday! Please RSVP if you plan to join us, so that we can accommodate everyone with seating in the room.
Join us in a conversation between New School founder Michael Lerner and Rachel Naomi Remen, co-founder and medical director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program. Rachel has been featured in the Bill Moyers PBS series Healing and the Mind, and is author of both Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal, and her newest book, My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge and Belonging - both national bestsellers.
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 Steve Lerner
Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States
Sunday, September 19, 2010, 2pm-4pm
The New School at Commonweal and Point Reyes Books are
pleased to present a book signing and conversation with Steve Lerner, author of Sacrifice Zones.
Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them
in low-income or minority communities, live next to heavily polluting
industrial sites. In Sacrifice Zones, Steve Lerner
tells the stories of twelve communities that rose
up to fight the industries and military bases causing disproportionately high
levels of chemical pollution. He calls these low-income neighborhoods
"sacrifice zones"--repurposing a Cold War term coined by U.S.
government officials to designate areas contaminated with radioactive
pollutants during the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
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