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Time:6:45 PM – 9:30 PM
Where:East Side Institute
920 Broadway (at 20th Street) 14th Fl
New York, NY 10010
Cost:Suggested donation $10 RSVP
Join in for a sociable evening of film … it’s Friday-night-at-the-movies with a philosophical and methodological twist! Enjoy a favorite film, followed by some playful, philosophical conversation.
Ground Hog Day (1993). Meteorologist (Bill Murray) finds himself living the same day over and over again. Come discover what this simple guy and this absurdly comic film have to teach about some of philosophy’s thorniest questions.
Christine Helm earned an M.A. in Anthropology and Education and M.Ed. in Applied Anthropology at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is director of the Enterprise Center at the Fashion Institute of Technology/State University of New York and teaches at both the undergraduate and graduate level. For two decades she has participated in building the development community of which the Institute is a part and is a faculty member for the Institute’s International Class and Therapist Training Program.
Rafael Mendez is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Psychology at Bronx Community College, his alma mater. He earned his doctorate in Clinical-Community Psychology at Boston University in 1983 and was a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School at Children’s Hospital in Boston, MA. He’s a trained social therapist practicing at the Brooklyn Social Therapy Group and is on the faculty of the East Side Institute where he assists in leading Fred Newman’s Developmental Philosophy Group.