Three local health care experts will discuss the current state of American medical care at Cinemapolis, 171 E. State St. in Ithaca, on Friday, July 13. The forum will follow a 7 p.m. screening of Sicko, filmmaker Michael Moore’s feature-length documentary on health care in the United States.
Dr. Vivian Lorenzo, a physician at Ithaca College’s Hammond Health Center and a representative for Physicians for a National Health Program, will join James X. Kennedy, executive director of Cayuga Community Health Network, and Eric Barnes, who teaches both philosophy and health care policy at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, to discuss the current state of health care in the United States.
Sponsored by 7th Art Corporation and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), the forum will take place after a screening of filmmaker Michael Moore’s Sicko, a feature-length documentary examining health care in the United States.
This special screening will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $8.00. The second screening of Sicko will start at 10 p.m. on Friday, July 13, for those who are unable to get a seat for the 7 p.m. show.
Gay Nicholson, program coordinator for Sustainable Tompkins, will moderate the forum. Sustainable Tompkins and Ithaca College's School of Health Science and Human Performance are teaming to present a Sustainability and Health conference on campus on September 15, intended for health care professionals and practitioners.
“This event is being offered to provide an on-going public dialogue and debate about the aesthetics, politics, and impact of contemporary international art cinemas,” said Tom Shevory professor of politics and, with Ithaca College faculty member Patricia Zimmermann, co-director of FLEFF.
Launched in 1997 as an outreach project sponsored by Ithaca College, Cornell University’s Center for the Environment and Eunadi Center for International Studies and others, FLEFF is now under the auspices of the Ithaca College Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies. FLEFF has become a major regional event in upstate New York and enjoys an international reputation as a cutting-edge, multi-arts program.
For more information and an updated list of forum participants, contact Shevory at shevory@ithaca.edu.
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