Brain/Food
All are welcome to Brain/Food, where discussions of fiction, poetry and films and lectures will take place on Thursday evenings at 7 PM at the DeWire Center unless noted otherwise. Click on event titles to see full program details.
Brain/Food events are free, but we hope you will show your support by becoming a member or making a donation.
There will be a Potluck supper preceding the evening’s program beginning at 6 PM. Supper attendees are asked to bring a dish to share. Beverages will be provided.
For additional information, please call Betsy Beaugard, 570 525-3381.
Click on each event title for full program details.
Brain/Food: Poetry Night
June 27 - Poetry Night. Bring a poem to read and a dish to share. Shanfelter-Freeman house. Limited to 20. Call 215 275-6473 or email rgfrim@gmail.com for reservation and location.
Brain/Food: Film, Where the Tracks End
Film, Where the Tracks End (Mexico, 2023). A Mexican family, who lives in a railway car, travel across the country as the father works in the repair and construction of railways. This prevents the family from settling in one place for a while and for the son to attend school. However, at the last stop,…
Brain/Food: TIME Magazine Covers and AI
July 18 – Tim O’Brien, TIME Magazine Covers and AI Tim O’Brien will share stories of his work in the past tumultuous decade and his thoughts about generative AI and the artist. Tim is an award-winning illustrator, whose works have appeared numerous times on the cover of TIME magazine and many other periodicals, as well…
Brain/Food: Lift, A Journey from Homelessness to the Ballet Stage
Thursday, July 25 . BrainFood. 7 PM . Film/ Discussion. Documentary, Lift, A Journey from Homelessness to the Ballet Stage (2022). Steven Melendez, the artistic director of the New York Theatre Ballet, will be present to discuss his part in this amazing story about ballet students recruited from NYC homeless shelters. Steven was one of…
Brain/Food: Climate Change and the Ocean
Aug. 1 - Climate Change and the Ocean, lecture by oceanographer, Jack Barth Jack Barth, an oceanographer at Oregon State University and summer visitor to Eagles Mere, will discuss what he knows about climate change's effects on the ocean, including warming, ocean acidification, and decreasing levels of dissolved oxygen. He will share his research using…
Brain/Food: Film, Charm City Kings (2020)
Aug. 8 - Film, Charm City Kings (2020). Mouse, 14-year-old boy, is fascinated by the street bike culture in Baltimore, Maryland. He desperately wants to join the Midnight Clique, a group of Baltimore dirt-bike riders who rule the summertime streets. His mother disapproves of his interest in motorbikes as his older brother Stro died in…
Brain/Food: Documentary, My Name is Pauli Murray (2020)
Aug 13 - Documentary, My Name is Pauli Murray (2020). Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, Pauli Murray was arrested for doing this very same thing! Murray, who would become a pre-eminent poet, writer, lawyer, civil and women’s rights activist, and Episcopal priest, then began a journey…
Brain/Food: Film, The Quiet Girl (2022)
Aug. 22 – Film, The Quiet Girl (Ireland 2022 PG-13). Set in 1981, a withdrawn nine-year-old girl raised by impoverished parents among many other siblings. She is sent to spend the summer on a farm with a loving married couple, who are distant relatives. The discussion afterwards will also include the 88 page long short…
Brain/Food: Film, Hold Me Tight
Aug. 29 – Film, Hold Me Tight (France 2021) The central character, Clarisse, is on the run from her family for reasons that are not immediately clear. The film alternates between her adventures and scenes of her abandoned husband, Marc, as he struggles to care for his children at home. In director Mathieu Amalric’s carefully…