CV Field Trip: The Dalai Lama: My Religion Is Kindness Film Screening + Director Q&A
📽️ Come join Community Village for a film screening and director Q&A at the Roxie Theater 🎞️
We'll be gathering at the Roxie to watch the film and participate in the Q&A, potentially followed by an optional group dinner.
"For many people HH the Dalai Lama remains an enigma. Almost everybody that meets Him seems to be touched, yet cannot explain what exactly it is that ignites this spark. In the documentary “My Religion is Kindness,” filmmaker Babeth Mondini VanLoo seeks to unravel that enigma...
...In honor of His 90th birthday the filmmaker creates with this documentary a kaleidoscopic view of the impact the Dalai Lama had in the Netherlands during His visits there since 1973. How did the Dalai Lama’s powerful counter-voice of inner peace and universal connectedness function as an antidote in a world full of polarization, war and conflict. The expressive and vividness with which the memories are recounted is striking: what is it that resonated so directly? His warmth? His embodiment of non-violence and compassion? His infectious laughter?
…In addition to preservation of the planet, the documentary focuses on the power of non-violence—a core value of the Dalai Lama—as a necessary attitude in a world struggling with conflict, resource depletion, and social inequality.”
Director Babeth Mondini-VanLoo will be there in person for a Q&A moderated by Gaetano Kazuo Maida, Executive Director of the Buddhist Film Foundation.
🧘♂️ This is a group field trip coordinated by Community Village, to an independent film screening at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. Tickets are required for entry. You can learn more about the film, and buy tickets here.
🙏 For the comfort of all participants, we request that you not wear scented products while attending CV field trips
All are welcome. We look forward to sharing the day with you! 😊
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What's Community Village?
Community Village is a community-first approach to meditation oriented towards people in their 20s and 30s - and open to ALL (we don’t check IDs! :)). Whether you want to learn how to meditate, or are an experienced practitioner: our intention is to co-create welcoming and supportive environments to build meaningful connections, get inspired and learn how to bring practice into everyday life. We are a peer-led community, co-created by its members. Some come join in!
What's the Roxie Theater?
"The Roxie Theater, also known as the Roxie Cinema or just The Roxie, is a historic movie theater, founded in 1912, at 3117 16th Street in the Mission District of San Francisco. It is a non-profit community arthouse cinema."