• Read more about Living Longer, Living Better Lecture Series with Rabbi Richard Address

We Pray for Health and Wellness with Rabbi Richard Address

Session 2 of 3 Part Series: Living Longer, Living Better: How Jewish Texts and Traditions Can Help Navigate the Revolution in Longevity

There is a rich tradition in Judaism regarding the focus on health and wellness. In this session, we will look at some texts that form a foundation for an emphasis on physical health. Likewise, we will take a look at the approach our tradition has taken regarding mental health issues with texts drawn from the Tanach and Talmud.

• Read more about Spheres VR @ ASU

Narrated by Jessica Chastain, Millie Bobbie Brown, and Patti Smith, this three-chapter interactive virtual reality journey from writer/director Eliza McNitt and executive producers Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel uncovers the hidden songs of the cosmos. Spheres premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received the Grand Prize in VR at the Venice Film Festival.

Dive into the heart of a black hole to uncover the breakthrough discovery of gravitational waves. Fall into the darkness, and you will find the light.

• Read more about Ayahuasca / Shigeto:Hovering / Dinner Party VR @ ASU

Shigeto: Hovering by Conor Grebel and 79Ancestors is a transcendent tale of life-giving water brought to a dying planet. Constructed largely from physical elements digitally-scanned in nature, the vivid audiovisual collaboration offers an extraterrestrial virtual world built from terrestrial artifacts.

Dinner Party created by Charlotte Stoudt, Laura Wexler, Angel Soto, Skybound, Ryot and Telexist is based on the story of Betty and Barney HIll, the couple who reported the first nationally known UFO abduction case in America in the 1960’s.

• Read more about Traveling While Black VR @ ASU

Traveling While Black is a cinematic VR experience that immerses the viewer in the long history of restriction of movement for black Americans and the creation of safe spaces in our communities. Academy Award winner Roger Ross Williams and Emmy Award-winning Felix & Paul Studios' film transports you to historic Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington DC. The viewer shares an intimate series of moments with several of the patrons of Ben's as they reflect on their experiences of restricted movement and race relations in the U.S.

• Read more about Wonderspaces Virtual Reality Film Series—'Battlescar'”

Virtual reality movie series

• Read more about Free Cho Soo Lee: Film Screening and Discussion

Sentenced to death for a lurid 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement of Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Americans helped to overturn his conviction. After 10 years of fighting for his life inside San Quentin, Lee found himself in a new fight to rise to the expectations of the people who believed in him.

• Read more about Dispelling the Myths: The Deaf, the Hard of Hearing, and the DeafBlind

Join us for a community discussion in which we talk through the myths about the Deaf, the Hard of Hearing, and the DeafBlind. Often times these are regarded as "invisible" disabilities, and people a part of these communities are often misunderstood. In this event we will gather to learn and grow in awareness about these communities.

• Read more about Storming Caesars Palace: Film Screening and Discussion

Join us for a preview screening of an exclusive hour-long excerpt of Storming Caesars Palace, followed by a community discussion with local experts, academics, and activists working in the field of income equity and economic justice (guest details to come).

• Read more about History of the Future: Soylent Green

Join ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination in partnership with Majestic Neighborhood Cinema in Tempe to view Soylent Green on the silver screen. This screening is part of a greater film series: The History of the Future, exploring gripping, cinematic visions of the future across the past four decades.

Join us Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. for a screening of Soylent Green, an ecological thriller from 1973 that depicts food insecurity and overpopulation in the (then) far-off future year of 2022.

• Read more about Out of Darkness Walk

Join Devils4Devils, the Accessibility Coalition, IfYou’reReadingtThis.org and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention for the Out of the Darkness Campus Walk at Arizona State University on March 18. It's free to register or create a team! Funds raised benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and their work to fund research, create educational programs, advocate for public policy and support survivors of suicide loss.