Advertising and the End of the World at SJFC 3/18

PeaceWorks of Greater Rochester is presenting videos and discussion on three Sundays. All have to do with figuring out how we can repair our cultural stories.

PeaceWorks of Greater Rochester Presents:

Advertising and the End of the World

This 40-minute video by Sut Jhally, professor of communications, describes the role of advertising and consumerism in our culture. The film is 10 years old, but up to the minute in explaining ways our society’s cultural stories are perpetuated, and how they threaten our future.

Sections: Advertising as Culture / How Do We Become Happy? / What Is Society? / How Far into the Future Can We Think? / Imagining a Different Future

Discussion following the showing.

Date: Sunday, March 18th

Time: 7:00 PM

Place: Room 202, Ralph C. Wilson Building

St. John Fisher College, 3690 East Avenue

FREE and open to the public

Directions: St. John Fisher College is at 3690 East Avenue, east of Rochester and north of Pittsford on Route 96. Enter the campus at the light. Park in Lot A or B. You will see three buildings at the north of this lot. The Ralph Wilson Building is the furthest to the left.

This will be first in a series of three Sunday evening programs. In each case the format will be a presentation followed by discussion. The other programs will be:

Sunday, April 15th: Wal*Mart: The High Cost of Low Price 99-minute film by director Robert Greenwald, “takes a fair old swing at the US retail giant that, the movie claims, is less than ethical in its search of bigger profits.”

Sunday, May 20th: Creative Activism and Joy presented by Hank Stone. The world has big problems, including global warming, peak oil, genocide, war and poverty. We can help solve them, in our spare time, and with joy! But there are three secrets.

Come join us!

Information: Hank Stone hstone@rochester.rr.com