Calendar

This class is open to anyone at any skill level led by the lovely and talented Lucia Gonnella.

First Friday’s of each month:

Friday, December 6, 1-2:45pm

Friday, January 3, 1-2:45pm

Friday, February 7, 1-2:45pm

North Beach Library, 850 Columbus Avenue

Bring your watercolor supplies and a favorite photo as we’ll try painting portrait at the next class!

RSVP:  https://nextsf.helpfulvillage.com/events/734

Monday, December 9, 4-6pm* Moving to 2^ndMondays starting in Dec.
Everyone is welcome!
McCormick and Kuletto’s 900 North Point

RSVP not required:  https://nextsf.helpfulvillage.com/events/778!!!

BINGO – @ The Selesian Boys’ and Girls’ Club. Hosted by the Selesian’s, Telegraph Hill Dweller, & NEXT Village SF

Tuesday, December 10th 7-9 pm 680 Filbert (Auditorium)

BYO snacks and drinks. The Club will provide coffee, tea, water.

Registration begins at 6pm. Opens at 7. Admission is free but you will need to buy in for Bingo cards.
$20. For a pack of six Bingo cards, (10 games played)
$10. For additional 6-pack cards (half off)
$5. For each additional Strip Bingo games
$2. Each for daubers.
The bigger the crowd, the bigger the payout! Good luck!
More info: Randy DeMartini 415-397-3068 rdmartini@salesianclub.org

Lunch with the Bunch – Meet up with Village friends and enjoy a delicious meal and good company at one of our favorite restaurants in the neighborhood, Caffe Sapore!
Wed 12 / 11 / 2019 at 11:30AM – 1PM
Caffe Sapore, 790 Lombard St.
RSVP requested: https://nextsf.helpfulvillage.com/events/752

Sid’s Salon – Sid keeps the classic films coming!
The New World –– U.S. Terrence Malick Malle   2005, 172 minutes  

Wednesday, December 11, 6:00pm. Address given with RSVP.

Sid Says: I first saw this wonder filled Malick film when it came out, then watched it again at home. What most impressed me both times was the film’s opening: the arrival of the full-sailed English ships in the small bay where Jamestown was established, watched by Native Americans hiding in the grass, mystified and terrified by the ghostly ships.  What followed was both tense with anticipation of violence and amusing as the heavily armored English and the ferociously painted Algonquin touch each other with curiosity and apprehension. Malick holds this scene for what seems like an hour, the tension thick, the emotions intense between these two peoples, strange and unknown to each other.  Even more strange for Pocohantas was the world she was introduced to ultimately by John Rolfe  (Christian Bale).

Malick brought Native Americans from all over the country to the shooting site, which was as close as possible geographically to the location of the original Jamestown settlement, and had them study the dialect of Algonquin was used by Native Americans on the central east coast.  He also built a replica of the original settlement using wood only from the local trees. As a result, and because of Malick’s directorial genius, we are transported in time back to the original Jamestown, located in an inlet off Chesapeake Bay.

It is an astonishing recreation of a place from the past. But it is also a poetic depiction of what happens between two peoples (men and women?) who are completely unknown to each other. Through Emmanuel Lubezki’s always-moving camera, and characters who say more in narration than they do in dialogue, the film creates a dreamlike meditation on centuries old human emotions––from fear to trust to suspicion to betrayal. And also to love. After a wonderful scene in which Pocahontas (O’orianka Kilcher) and John Smith (Colin Farrell) teach each other words, Smith draws closer to Pocahontas’ people.  Malick uses Smith’s words spoken directly to us to poetically express his feelings––our feelings?––for the beautiful young woman, certainly, and for much more perhaps.  “Love, shall we deny it when it visits us? Shall we not take what we are given? There is only this. All else is unreal.”

As with many of Malick’s later works, this film is an experience you must enter, letting it carry you through its scenes of fierce reality and magical poetry.

RSVP:   https://nextsf.helpfulvillage.com/events/764