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The City of Redwood City, in collaboration with the Fox Theatre and SNS FiReFilms, invites the community to a special screening of the award-winning film, Alive Inside.
This film reveals a remarkable, music-based breakthrough in the care of Alzheimer’s and dementia patients, which has already transformed lives. Fostered by non-profit Music & Memory, the initiative is led by social worker Dan Cohen and is captured on camera over the course of three years by filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett. The film documents how songs from Alzheimer’s and dementia patients’ past can awaken memories and emotions that have been asleep for years, sometimes decades.
This film screening is open to the entire community as a way to raise awareness of this methodology for enriching the lives of the senior population, and celebrate the at 6:30 p.m.
East Side Story And Chicano Soul: Lowrider photo exhibit and more
In conjunction with the Lowriding season MCCLA is thrilled to present featured artists: Yolanda López, Art Meza, Adolfo Arias, and Fern Balladares whose art work represent lowrider culture past and present. Join us at the opening reception to meet the artists, hear excerpts of Meza’s Lowriting book, view screening of Why I Ride a documentary on 80s lowrider car scene in San Francisco, walk along the display of lowrider cars parked in front of the center, and listen to oldies by DJ Soulera. Be a part of reclaiming public space. Don’t miss out.
Exhibit runs through Sept. 12, at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission Street, San Francisco.
My Music is Who I Am – lecture series featuring John Santos
My Music is Who I Am: Identity & Resistance in Cuban and Puerto Rican Music with John Santos in partnership with SFJazz and Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. The six-week lecture series is part of the museum’s offsite summer programming called MoAD in the Neighborhood, and will be held at the W Hotel at 3rd and Howard Streets in San Francisco. Only the Aug. 27 program will be held at the California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street in San Francisco. MoAD will be closed for renovation and reinvention through September.
The lecture series is hosted by The MoAD Vanguard held on Wednesdays from 7-9 p.m. at the W Hotel. On Wednesdays through to Sept. 10. Member admission just $15 per program. For more info and to purchase tickets:
http://www.sfjazz.org/events/sessions/2014/education/discover-jazz-moad
