Simón Bolívar National Youth Choir of Venezuela and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela with conductor Maestro Gregory Carreño bring Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem to life. Recorded at the Sala Simón Bolívar, Centro de Acción Social por La Música on March 11, 2012.
TODD ALAN KERSH attended the University of Iowa where he majored in Flute Performance before receiving his B.A. in Dance. He has studied flute with Marcia Korb, Dr. Nathen Jones, Katherine Borst Jones and Roger Mather. As a professional dancer/singer/actor Todd's credits include A Chorus Line, Carousel, Funny Girl, Sweet Charity, West Side Story and...
Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious...
Scarred by the profound wounds of grief and guilt, couchbound Charlie, an online writing instructor living with chronic obesity, now has a clear view of his intentions. Confined to his apartment, the self-destructive shut-in has time to contemplate the damaging faults of the past. More than anything, Charlie longs for communication and reconnection, after all,...
Residents can stay active with morning exercise classes in person or watching Channel 2 on TV.
Violins of Hope: HEARING THE PAST. LISTENING FOR OUR FUTURE. Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 2:00 pm The Civic Orchestra of Chicago Performance and Storytelling Violins of Hope is a collection of 70 string instruments played by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust that have been painstakingly restored and now a quartet are coming...
Join us for Yiddish with Benna! An hour of music and schmooze. Prior Yiddish knowledge is not required.
A weekly discussion group of various topics led by residents and a staff member. Topics range from current events to historical topics.
Each week residents watch an episode or two of a different classic TV comedy and then discuss!
Harry Belafonte performs some of his best-loved songs, including Turn the World Around, Going Down Jordan and Marching to the Fair, recorded live in a BBC TV special filmed in November 1977.
Harry Belafonte performs some of his best-loved songs, including Turn the World Around, Going Down Jordan and Marching to the Fair, recorded live in a BBC TV special filmed in November 1977.
Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn't regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along...
Resident Art Showcase Monday, May 8, 2023 at 2:00 PM Come and see our resident artists in our first ever Resident Art Showcase. The showcase is being coordinated by Grace Gimple, Selfhelp's Art Therapist Intern from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Featuring Resident Artists: Sandra Perlow Sara Kurganoff Gayle Nelkin Phyllis Toback...
Residents can stay active with morning exercise classes in person or watching Channel 2 on TV.
Join us for Yiddish with Benna! An hour of music and schmooze. Prior Yiddish knowledge is not required.
A weekly discussion group of various topics led by residents and a staff member. Topics range from current events to historical topics.
Each week residents watch an episode or two of a different classic TV comedy and then discuss!
This eastward concert opens with Scheherazade, a symphonic suite composed in 1888 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Inspired by the tales of the Arabian Nights, this work shines with its shimmering colors and oriental atmosphere. Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 completes this Russian diptych. Traversed by the theme of destiny, this symphony sets to music the anxieties and...
This eastward concert opens with Scheherazade, a symphonic suite composed in 1888 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Inspired by the tales of the Arabian Nights, this work shines with its shimmering colors and oriental atmosphere. Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 completes this Russian diptych. Traversed by the theme of destiny, this symphony sets to music the anxieties...
Jazz singer, Elaine Dame, returns to The Selfhelp Home for a Mother’s Day concert on Sunday, May 14th at 2:30 PM! This live event will be followed by a special coffee klatsch. Elaine Dame sings - and people stop and listen. Since 1996, the woman Time Out Chicago calls “a jazz dynamo" and "a gem...
A documentary about Anthony Bourdain and his career as a chef, writer and host, revered and renowned for his authentic approach to food, culture and travel. Starring Asia Argento & Anthony Bourdain.
Residents can stay active with morning exercise classes in person or watching Channel 2 on TV.
Great presentation of the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by the Russian Maestro Valery Gergiev, in one of the most powerful and greatest presentation of The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu) of Igor Stravinsky at Salzburg Festival 2000.
Join us for Yiddish with Benna! An hour of music and schmooze. Prior Yiddish knowledge is not required.
A weekly discussion group of various topics led by residents and a staff member. Topics range from current events to historical topics.
Each week residents watch an episode or two of a different classic TV comedy and then discuss!
John Eliot Gardiner conducts Benjamin Britten's War Requiem at the SHMF final concert in Lübeck in 1992. The War Requiem premiered on May 30, 1962 in the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral. The cathedral was largely destroyed during the German bombing of the city of Coventry during World War II. In his almost 90-minute piece, Britten set...
Laura is suspicious of her career-driven, high-reaching husband, Dean. She reluctantly enlists the help of her father, the impeccably dressed, semi-retired art dealer, Felix. Amid a persistent writer's block, Felix's innocent flirts with random women, Martini-fuelled lunches, and high-speed car chases in Manhattan's neon-lit streets, Laura needs to know. Is her life falling apart? Starring...
John Eliot Gardiner conducts Benjamin Britten's War Requiem at the SHMF final concert in Lübeck in 1992. The War Requiem premiered on May 30, 1962 in the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral. The cathedral was largely destroyed during the German bombing of the city of Coventry during World War II. In his almost 90-minute piece, Britten set...
Laura is suspicious of her career-driven, high-reaching husband, Dean. She reluctantly enlists the help of her father, the impeccably dressed, semi-retired art dealer, Felix. Amid a persistent writer's block, Felix's innocent flirts with random women, Martini-fuelled lunches, and high-speed car chases in Manhattan's neon-lit streets, Laura needs to know. Is her life falling apart? Starring...
Visiting Scholar: Rabbi Shoshanah Conover, Temple Sholom Date: Monday, May 22, 2023 at 2:00 PM Discussion topic: TBA More About Rabbi Shoshanah Conover Rabbi Shoshanah Conover is the 8th Senior Rabbi of Temple Sholom of Chicago in its 152-year history. She earned a B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,...
Residents can stay active with morning exercise classes in person or watching Channel 2 on TV.
Join us for Yiddish with Benna! An hour of music and schmooze. Prior Yiddish knowledge is not required.
A weekly discussion group of various topics led by residents and a staff member. Topics range from current events to historical topics.
Carl Sagan examines life on earth discussing genes, DNA, the brain, and human social development.
Each week residents watch an episode or two of a different classic TV comedy and then discuss!
This HBO TV special celebrates the 25th Anniversary of The Rock and Roll Of Fame. It originally aired on Saturday Nov. 28, 09. The concert opens with Jerry Lee Lewis performing his timeless hit: "Great Balls Of Fire,” and ends with Aretha Franklin performing "Baby I Love You,” "Don't Play That Song" and joins Annie...
This HBO TV special celebrates the 25th Anniversary of The Rock and Roll Of Fame. It originally aired on Saturday Nov. 28, 09. The concert opens with Jerry Lee Lewis performing his timeless hit: "Great Balls Of Fire,” and ends with Aretha Franklin performing "Baby I Love You,” "Don't Play That Song" and joins Annie...
Western Australia, 1931. Government policy includes taking half-white, half-Aboriginal children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to indentured servitude, "to save them from themselves." Molly, Daisy, and Grace (two sisters and a cousin who are fourteen, ten, and eight) arrive at their Gulag and promptly escape, under...
Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The ninth film from the writer-director features a large ensemble cast and multiple storylines in a tribute...
Residents can stay active with morning exercise classes in person or watching Channel 2 on TV.
