FRIDAY , SEPTEMBER 19 (SLICHOT)
OUR SHABBAT SERVICE IS GOING TO START AT 5:30. WE ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO ATTEND THE FILM AT THE SV OPERA HOUSE FOLLOWING THE SERVICE. TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN ADVANCE.
7:00-9:30 PMEmbracing the Mystery: Learning to see with new eyes, Dr. Naomi Remen
Science has defined life in ways that are too small. Life is mysterious, filled with happenings we can witness but can never explain. Dr Rachel Naomi Remen shares stories of that mysterious force, the will to live, helping us to recognize and trust it, and to strengthen the life in ourselves and in each other.
Dr. Remen’s opening talk will be followed by the world premiere of God Made Them Blind, a story about faith, tenacity, the clash of cultures and personal transformation. This is the story of Australian artist John Fawcett, and the three Balinese whose lives he collides with and changes forever.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
9:30AM OPERA HOUSE
PRAYING WITH LIOR
Praying with Lior is not just an engrossing, wrenching and tender documentary film, it is also the centerpiece of an ambitious outreach campaign to change the way people with disabilities are perceived and received by faith communities. The movie poses difficult questions such as what is “disability” and who really talks to God? Lior has Down Syndrome, and has spent his entire life praying with utter abandon. The film follows Lior from birth through his Bar Mitzvah, through the eyes of his family and community members. Told with intimacy and humor, Praying with Lior is a family story, a triumph story, a grief story, and a divinely-inspired story.
Generously sponsored by the Wood River Valley Jewish Community Rabbi Barney Brickner to speak at screening
Sunday September 21
1:30 Opera House
RENEWAL
Faith leaders to conduct Q and A at screening .
Across the nation, people of faith are standing up for the environment. Evangelical Christians are fighting mountaintop removal, a coal mining process that is decimating Appalachia. Muslims are supporting sustainable farming. Jews are helping children experience the bond between nature and spirituality. Interfaith Power and Light is mobilizing people of all faiths in a religious response to global warming.
For the first time, the combined energy of these diverse activists is the driving force behind this feature-length documentary. Veteran film producers Marty Ostrow and Terry Kay Rockefeller have crisscrossed the country to capture these exciting stories of people whose passion and deep moral commitment are making a difference in a time of grave ecological threats.
Generously sponsored by the members of Wood River Jewish Community, Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Light on the Mountains Spiritual Center, and Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood,
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