Events
The Firefly Project: "The Space Between" - May 23
"Sacred Stories as Companions to Pain, Suffering, and Care" - May 24
The Firefly Project: "The Space Between" - May 23
The UCSF Art for Recovery program presents a dramatic reading of letters exchanged between adults from UCSF Medical Center coping with illness and students from Bay Area High Schools. This performance is open to the public. Script created and written by Cindy Perlis. Directed by Virginia Reed.
To learn more about the Firefly Project, visit the Art for Recovery website. This Project is generously supported by the Mount Zion Health Fund of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund, the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Lloyd Symington Foundation, Theta Delta Xi, RadioALICE @ 97.3, and Barbara and Charles Goodman.
A $10.00 donation is appreciated.
Date: Wednesday, May 23
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Place: Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Fisher Family Hall, 3200 California St.
Contact: Cindy Perlis, 415.885.7221 or cynthia.perlis@ucsfmedctr.org.
"Sacred Stories as Companions to Pain, Suffering, and Care" - May 24
The 2012 Thelma Shobe Lectureship
Sophocles's penultimate play, Philoctetes, exemplifies how a sacred story can be a good companion to both ill people and those who care for them. Philoctetes depicts a man with a debilitating injury who has spent ten years marooned on a desolate, uninhabited island. Yet when help comes, he refuses it--for good reasons. The play poses dangerous questions about professional practice and the goals of healing. The resolution of these questions presents an ideal of the relationship between persons who suffer and those who offer care.
Date: Thursday, May 24
Time: 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Place: Cole Hall Auditorium in the Medical Sciences Bldg.
UCSF, 513 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco
Speaker: Arthur W. Frank, PhD
Professor, Department of Sociology,
University of Calgary
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