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Feature Film: The Whale
Feature Film: The Whale
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,...
Feature Film: The Whale
Feature Film: The Whale
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,...
8 events,
Exercise Time: “Chair Dancing Fitness”
Exercise Time: “Chair Dancing Fitness”
Residents can stay active with morning exercise classes in person or watching Channel 2 on TV.
7 events,
Live Concert and Performance: Violins of Hope
Live Concert and Performance: Violins of Hope
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...
8 events,
Yiddish Club with Benna
Yiddish Club with Benna
Join us for Yiddish with Benna! An hour of music and schmooze. Prior Yiddish knowledge is not required.
Friday Discussion Group with Harry
Friday Discussion Group with Harry
A weekly discussion group of various topics led by residents and a staff member. Topics range from current events to historical topics.
7 events,
Old Time Comedy Hour
Old Time Comedy Hour
Each week residents watch an episode or two of a different classic TV comedy and then discuss!
Video Concert: Harry Belafonte
Video Concert: Harry Belafonte
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.
5 events,
Video Concert: Harry Belafonte
Video Concert: Harry Belafonte
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.
Feature Film: Parallel Mothers
Feature Film: Parallel Mothers
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...
6 events,
Resident Art Showcase
Resident Art Showcase
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...
Feature Film: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Feature Film: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline, in Daniel Goldhaber's taut and timely thriller that is part high-stakes heist, part radical exploration of the climate crisis. Based on the controversial book by Andreas Malm. Starring Ariela Barer & Kristine Froseth.
5 events,
Feature Film: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Feature Film: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline, in Daniel Goldhaber's taut and timely thriller that is part high-stakes heist, part radical exploration of the climate crisis. Based on the controversial book by Andreas Malm. Starring Ariela Barer & Kristine Froseth.
8 events,
Exercise Time: “Chair Dancing Fitness”
Exercise Time: “Chair Dancing Fitness”
Residents can stay active with morning exercise classes in person or watching Channel 2 on TV.
8 events,
Yiddish Club with Benna
Yiddish Club with Benna
Join us for Yiddish with Benna! An hour of music and schmooze. Prior Yiddish knowledge is not required.
Friday Discussion Group with Harry
Friday Discussion Group with Harry
A weekly discussion group of various topics led by residents and a staff member. Topics range from current events to historical topics.
7 events,
Old Time Comedy Hour
Old Time Comedy Hour
Each week residents watch an episode or two of a different classic TV comedy and then discuss!
Video Concert: Tugan Sokhiev
Video Concert: Tugan Sokhiev
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...
5 events,
Video Concert: Tugan Sokhiev
Video Concert: Tugan Sokhiev
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...
Live Mother’s Day Concert & Coffee Klatsch
Live Mother’s Day Concert & Coffee Klatsch
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...
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
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.
7 events,
The Elephant Whisperer / Stranger at the Gate
The Elephant Whisperer / Stranger at the Gate
The Elephant Whisperer: Bomman and Bellie, a couple in South India, devote their lives to caring for an orphaned baby elephant named Raghu, forging a family like no other that tests the barrier between the human and the animal world. (2023 Oscar Winner for Best Documentary Short Film) Starring Bomman & Bellie.
5 events,
The Elephant Whisperer / Stranger at the Gate
The Elephant Whisperer / Stranger at the Gate
The Elephant Whisperer: Bomman and Bellie, a couple in South India, devote their lives to caring for an orphaned baby elephant named Raghu, forging a family like no other that tests the barrier between the human and the animal world. (2023 Oscar Winner for Best Documentary Short Film) Starring Bomman & Bellie.
7 events,
Exercise Time: “Chair Dancing Fitness”
Exercise Time: “Chair Dancing Fitness”
Residents can stay active with morning exercise classes in person or watching Channel 2 on TV.
6 events,
Video Concert: Stravinsky: The Firebird / Gergiev
Video Concert: Stravinsky: The Firebird / Gergiev
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.
9 events,
Yiddish Club with Benna
Yiddish Club with Benna
Join us for Yiddish with Benna! An hour of music and schmooze. Prior Yiddish knowledge is not required.
Friday Discussion Group with Harry
Friday Discussion Group with Harry
A weekly discussion group of various topics led by residents and a staff member. Topics range from current events to historical topics.
6 events,
Old Time Comedy Hour
Old Time Comedy Hour
Each week residents watch an episode or two of a different classic TV comedy and then discuss!
Video Concert: Britten: War Requiem with John Eliot Gardiner
Video Concert: Britten: War Requiem with John Eliot Gardiner
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...
Feature Film: On the Rocks
Feature Film: On the Rocks
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...
5 events,
Video Concert: Britten: War Requiem with John Eliot Gardiner
Video Concert: Britten: War Requiem with John Eliot Gardiner
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...
Feature Film: On the Rocks
Feature Film: On the Rocks
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...
7 events,
Visiting Scholar: Rabbi Shoshanah Conover
Visiting Scholar: Rabbi Shoshanah Conover
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,...
Feature Film: The Graduate
Feature Film: The Graduate
Benjamin Braddock returns home to California after successfully completing college. He gets a hero's welcome from his parents but Ben isn't quite sure what to do with the rest of his life. He is soon seduced by Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's partner, who methodically pursues the inexperienced young man. Soon, they are...
5 events,
Feature Film: The Graduate
Feature Film: The Graduate
Benjamin Braddock returns home to California after successfully completing college. He gets a hero's welcome from his parents but Ben isn't quite sure what to do with the rest of his life. He is soon seduced by Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's partner, who methodically pursues the inexperienced young man. Soon, they are...
7 events,
Exercise Time: “Chair Dancing Fitness”
Exercise Time: “Chair Dancing Fitness”
Residents can stay active with morning exercise classes in person or watching Channel 2 on TV.
7 events,
Video Concert: Shchedrin: Carmen Suite
Video Concert: Shchedrin: Carmen Suite
The Carmen Suite is a one-act ballet created in 1967 by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso to music by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin for his wife, prima ballerina assoluta Maya Plisetskaya. The music, taken from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet and has been considered Shchedrin's best-known work. It has remained popular in the West for...
8 events,
Yiddish Club with Benna
Yiddish Club with Benna
Join us for Yiddish with Benna! An hour of music and schmooze. Prior Yiddish knowledge is not required.
Friday Discussion Group with Harry
Friday Discussion Group with Harry
A weekly discussion group of various topics led by residents and a staff member. Topics range from current events to historical topics.
7 events,
Old Time Comedy Hour
Old Time Comedy Hour
Each week residents watch an episode or two of a different classic TV comedy and then discuss!
Video Concert: The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Video Concert: The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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...
5 events,
Video Concert: The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Video Concert: The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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...
Feature Film: Rabbit Proof Fence
Feature Film: Rabbit Proof Fence
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...
5 events,
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5 events,
Exercise Time: “Chair Dancing Fitness”
Exercise Time: “Chair Dancing Fitness”
Residents can stay active with morning exercise classes in person or watching Channel 2 on TV.