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.
Blues for a Red Planet
Wednesday February 10, 2010 @ 1:00 PM
Price: $10.00
Is there life on Mars? Dr. Sagan takes viewers on a tour of the red planet first through the eyes of science fiction authors, and then through the unblinking eyes of two Viking spacecrafts that have sent thousands of pictures of the stunning Martian landscape back to Earth since 1976. Though based on older Mars missions, Sagan's analysis still holds true.
Traveler's Tales
Wednesday February 17, 2010 @ 1:00 PM
Price: $10.00
Dr. Sagan compares the exhilaration of 17th-century Dutch explorers who ventured in sailing ships halfway around our planet in their quest for wealth and knowledge to an inside view of the excitement around Voyager's expeditions to Jupiter and Saturn.
The Backbone of Night
Wednesday February 24, 2010 @ 1:00 PM
Price: $10.00
Humans once thought the stars were campfires in the sky and the Milky Way the backbone of night.
In this fascinating segment Dr. Sagan takes us back to ancient Greece, when the basic question "what are the stars?" was first asked. He visits the Brooklyn elementary school of his childhood, where this same question is still on students' minds.
Travels in Space and Time
Wednesday March 3, 2010 @ 1:00 PM
Price: $10.00
A voyage to see how star patterns change over millions of years is followed by a journey to the planets of other stars, and a look at the possibility of time travel.
The Lives of the Stars
Wednesday March 10, 2010 @ 1:00 PM
Price: $10.00
Using computer animation and amazing astronomical art, Dr. Sagan shows how stars are born, live, die and sometimes collapse to form neutron stars or black holes.
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.
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. This is the famous episode on nuclear war in which Dr. Sagan argues that our responsibility for survival is owed not just to ourselves, but also to the cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
