Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Friends members now get the JCCSF member price on select Arts & Ideas Events
Friends members at the $50 and above level now receive the JCCSF member price at select events including author talks, lectures and films. Check out the below events and discover how fun being a Friend can be!
Event tickets can be purchased by clicking
here or by calling the box office at 415.292.1233 and using the Promotional Code
JCCSPE. All programs are held at the JCCSF 3200 California Street, San Francisco, CA, 415.292.1200.
Upcoming JCCSF Events
January
Monday, January 11 • 8:00 pmNational Public Radio’s Andrei Codrescu on Impractical Lessons for Practical Living
Members $15 • Public $18 • Students $10
Romanian-born poet, novelist and essayist Andrei Codrescu delights NPR audiences with his audacious cultural commentary. He writes that his adopted city of New Orleans, especially post-Katrina is, “a city that steadfastly refuses to conform.” His new book, The Posthuman Dada Guide, is "an impractical handbook for practical living in our posthuman world.”
Wednesday, January 20 • 2:00 pmHow to Find a Better Career in Today’s Economy
Free; Reservations required
Richard Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute? More than five job-hunters for every opening. Thirteen million Americans looking for work. Do you need help tipping the odds in your favor? Richard Bolles can help. Learn 18 different ways to look for work. Know what to do when posting a résumé online fails to land you an interview. Arm yourself with the single most crucial question you can ask when angling for a job offer.
February
Monday, February 22 • 8:00 pmU.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan
Members $15 • Public $18 • Students $10
Rejecting the stylized self-consciousness that characterizes so much contemporary poetry, Kay Ryan chooses instead to write poetry accessible to a broad audience, coloring her poems with sly humor and dramatic imagination. Hear this renowned Bay Area poet read and discuss her work.
Tuesday, February 23 • 8:00 pmHealing Powers of Bedside Medicine with Dr. Abraham Verghese
Members $15 • Public $18 • Students $10
Dr. Verghese’s interest in a more patient-sensitive approach to medicine and his remarkable empathy for patient suffering have brought him national renoun. His acclaimed, My Own Country, is based on his experience in treating HIV patients, and his latest book, Cutting for Stone, mines the story of his own life, from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City.
March
Wednesday, March 17 7:00 pm Screening • 8:45 PM TalkbackFilm Pig Hunt Screening and Talkback with Co-director Robert Mailer Anderson
Members $15 • Public $18 • Students $10
The new horror film from the author of Boonville sends a group of San Francisco friends on a hunting trip in Mendocino County where they encounter an angry 3,000-pound pig and find themselves at war with an inbred clan of yokels and a cult of Amazonian throat-slitting babes. Not for the faint of heart!
April
Monday, April 12 • 6:30 pmThe Case for Raising Compassionate Children With Harvard psychologist Richard Weissbourd
Members $15 • Public $18
Weissbourd forcefully asserts that adults fail their children by insisting on a child’s happiness rather than moral goodness. Emphasizing empathy over personal fulfillment, his new book, The Parents We Mean To Be, makes the case that, as models of behavior, parents and must be vigilant about their own moral choices. Of special concern are parents who try too hard to be their kids’ friends.
