Saturday @ the Movies Presents: Existenz

Saturday @ the Movies Presents: Existenz
Saturday, September 28th
3:00pm

Join us for a screening of director David Cronenberg's sci-fi thriller “Existenz." 

After an assassination attempt a computer designer, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, aligns herself with a security guard (Jude Law) and seduces him into playing Existenz, her latest game. The  game's technology is so revolutionary, that real and imagined incidents merge into a relentless game of nerves.

Rated R; 97 Minutes

Storycorps @ your library
Record Your San Francisco Story

Wednesday, September 25th

4:00pm - 7:00pm

Take part in our annual One City One Book: San Francisco Reads celebration by recording your own truly San Francisco story. This year's book is Cory Doctorow's Little Brother, which tells the story of a San Francisco high-school age hacker who leads an effort to protect democracy and freedom in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. We are recording stories around the themes of the book and about growing up in San Francisco – tell us about your high school experience, your neighborhood and family, or social justice efforts you participated in, here in the Bay Area. We’d love to hear and collect them.

Schedule an appointment to record your San Francisco story by calling (415) 557-4277 or email at publicaffairs@sfpl.org

Interviews are collected as part of StoryCorps @ your library, a project of the American Library Association and StoryCorps. Funding for Storycorps @ your library is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences. More information at www.storycorps.org.

Storycorps @ your library

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Yidishkayt 101- An Introduction to Secular Jewish Culture

Yidishkayt 101- An Introduction to Secular Jewish Culture
(You don’t have to be Jewish to find out about 'Yidishkayt'!)
Saturday, September 21
3:00pm

Have you ever wondered about the meaning of  “Yidishkayt” (Jewish culture, or way of life), as distinct from religious “Judaism,” or about its relationship to popular klezmer music?

Come and hear answers (to questions you may have had but didn’t know whom to ask) from members of the secular Jewish Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring of Northern California, about:

*  Yidishkayt’s deep roots in Eastern European Jewish (Ashkenazic) cultural history;

*  Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring’s beginnings here after the 1906 earthquake, for mutual aid and to improve working conditions of its Yiddish-speaking founders;

*  Current Bay Area Yiddish offerings: musical events, language & literature study groups, recent books, social justice campaigns, and English-Yiddish comic strips.

Yidishkayt 101- An Introduction to Secular Jewish Culture - See more at: http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1014242801#sthash.nWG6yBF3.dpuf

First Friday- Paint a creature!

Friday, September 6

4:00 pm

For children ages 6 and older.

We will have ceramic pigs, aliens and owls that you can paint with your own design and then take home.

We will have ceramic pigs, aliens and owls that you can paint with your own design and then take home. - See more at: http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1014333301#sthash.hApNiCDK.dpuf