Join us for a dialogue between Eric Poche (retired Volunteer Coordinator at Zen Hospice Project and Shanti; current volunteer mentor at the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center) and Rabbi Eric Weiss (President and CEO of the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center) as they survey thirty-six years of end-of-life care in San Francisco. Themes will range from the AIDS epidemic; gay history of end-of-life care; how spirituality built a culture of caring around dying; stories of strangers learning to care for each other; and how race and gender impact care. Photographer A. Raja Hornstein will share photographs from Zen Hospice Project during the depths of the AIDS epidemic and will share insights into the role of the arts in understanding this moment.
Q and A moderated by Rabbi Elliot Kukla from the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center. This program is presented in partnership with the Reimagine Festival
Image description: Photography by A. Raja Hornstein, “Hospice concert.” Two women musicians, one playing a violin, and the other playing a guitar, are seated in chairs playing to a younger woman who is lying in a relaxed pose on a bed that has sidebars, and a raised back so her upper body is upright. She is smiling so fully, her eyes are closed mid laughter, one of her legs is upright with her foot resting on the leg that is on the bed, making a heart shape. The palms of her hands are pressed together clapping or making rhythm to the music playing. Besides her bed is a table with a water jug, a towel, and a window letting in sunshine, the view of a large tree and it’s leaves and trunk, with Mickey and Minnie dolls sitting on the window sill.
