Lunch Matters
Wednesdays at 1 p.m.
$10 / Free for members
A series of short films followed by moderated discussions. Visitors are welcome to bring their lunch from the Cafe @ RMA into the theater for this program.
New Series!
Beginning in the new year, Lunch Matters will take its inspiration from RMA's newest exhibition Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe with the screening of Carl Sagan's Cosmos series.
The screening of this Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series by Carl Sagan is made possible with the kind permission of Ann Druyan, Cosmos Studios, Inc.
Tickets for Lunch Matters include gallery admission and a post-program tour.
The Edge of Forever
Wednesday March 17, 2010 @ 1:00 PM
Price: $10.00
Dr. Sagan leads us on some awesome trips - to a time when galaxies were beginning to form, to India to explore the infinite cycles of Hindu cosmology, and to show how humans of this century discovered the expanding universe and its origin in the big bang.
The Persistence of Memory
Wednesday March 24, 2010 @ 1:00 PM
Price: $10.00
The brain is the focus of this fascinating portion of our journey as Dr. Sagan examines another of the intelligent creatures with whom we share the planet Earth - whales.
Post-screening discussion with marine conservationist Richard Ellis, author of The Book of Whales.
Encyclopedia Galactica
Wednesday March 31, 2010 @ 1:00 PM
Price: $10.00
Are there alien intelligences? How could we communicate with them? What about UFOs? The answers to these questions take us to Egypt to decode ancient hieroglyphics, to the largest radio telescope on Earth and, in the Spaceship of the Imagination, to visit other civilizations in space.
Who Speaks for Earth?
Wednesday April 7, 2010 @ 1:00 PM
Price: $10.00
Through the use of special effects we retrace the 15-billion-year journey from the big bang to the present. We also hear the tragic story of the martyrdom of Hypatia, the woman scientist of ancient Alexandria.
Post-screening discussion with Brian Schwartz, Vice President for Research and Sponsored Programs and Professor of Physics,The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
