Mochitsuki
The ancient tradition of preparing Mochi to celebrate the Japanese New Year goes back centuries. Join one close-knit intergenerational community who revels in the ceremonial pounding of the cooked rice, the forming of the warm Mochi cakes, and of course eating the yummy results!! Elders and kids alike reflect on what Mochi means to them, leaving not a cheek untouched by rice flour.
Upcoming Festivals:
January 19th, Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Forever Voters
Why do only 36% of 18-25 year olds actually vote? Many high school seniors are eligible to vote and have very strong opinions about what needs to change! But they don’t really know much about the voting process or how to register. The league of Women Voters is stepping in to educate high schoolers to prepare them for voting, because they know that people who vote early, vote forever.
Upcoming Festivals:
Oxford Film Festival, March 18, 2020, Mississippi
Lives Well Lived
Lives Well Lived is a feature documentary film by Sky Bergman that celebrates the incredible wit and wisdom of adults 75 to 100 years old who are living their lives to the fullest. Encompassing over 3000 years of experience, forty people share their secrets and insights to living a meaningful life. Their intimate memories and inspiring personal histories will make you laugh, perhaps cry, but mostly inspire you.
Upcoming Screenings:
December 7th, Sustainability Practices Film Series, Chatham, MA, 9:30 a.m.
December 13th, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at FIU, Miami, FL, 12:30 p.m.
January 20th, Cross City Christian Church, sponsored by Somerford Place and The Windham, Fresno, CA, doors open 1 p.m. screening begins at 1:30 p.m.
January 24th, The Wabi Sabi Film Festival, The Lake Theater, Oak Park, IL, 10 a.m.
February 11th, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at FAU, Boca Raton, FL, 7 p.m.
Sky Bergman, Filmmaker
Sky Bergman is an accomplished, award-winning photographer. Lives Well Lived was Sky’s directorial debut.
Her fine art work is included in permanent collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (National Library of France) in Paris. Her book, The Naked & The Nude: Images from the Sculpture Series, includes an introduction by Hèléne Pinet, curator of photography at the Rodin Museum in Paris. She has shot book covers for Random House and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., and magazine spreads that appeared in Smithsonian, Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel, Reader’s Digest, and Archaeology Odyssey.
Sky Bergman was the former chair of the Art & Design department at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, CA (2007 - 2013) and is currently a Professor of Photography and Video where she has been teaching since 1995.