BRAINWAVE asks how art, music, and meditation affect the brain and offers countless answers in more than a hundred public events, ranging from an exhibition of contemporary art and a cinema series to cutting-edge concerts, performances, talks, and panels.
This "only in New York" cultural festival is organized by six New York institutions: Rubin Museum of Art, Exit Art, Science & the Arts at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, The Philoctetes Center at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and the School of Visual Arts, in association with the Public Programs/American Museum of Natural History.
A Sampling of the Events:
RMA Friday, March 28, 7 p.m.
The Interfaith Experience: Spirituality, Science, and Consciousness: Exploring the Deepest Meeting Place The second of the two-part presentation will explore current frontier studies in consciousness, science, and spirituality. With Dr. Kurt Johnson and Loch Kelley. FREE
RMA, Wednesday, March 5, 1 p.m.
Carl Jung and the Journey to Self-Discovery
Discussion Moderator: Armin Wanner, S.T.L., earned his degree from the Institute Catholique de Paris and is a practicing Jungian analyst in New York. He is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich.
$10 / Free to RMA Members
RMA Saturday, February 9, 4 p.m.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
What happens in our brains as we die'?"from the Tibetan Buddhist perspective. With Dr. Ramon Prats. $15
RMA Monday, April 7, 7 p.m.
The Satyagraha Synapse
Are we genetically predisposed to violence? Or are there other emotional forces at work that we are only now coming to understand? Mark Kurlansky, bestselling author of Cod and Salt and now of Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea, exchanges ideas with neurologist Michael Meaney on the psychology of nonviolence to mark the new production of Philip Glass's opera Satyagraha at the Metropolitan Opera. Presented as part of The Satyagraha Forum $18
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