This Meetup group is for fans of indies, documentaries, and international films.  Sarasota is fortunate to have Burns Court Cinema, which is run by the Sarasota Film Society, and shows the thought-provoking, beautiful, amusing, and unusual films the mainstream cinemas are not interested in.  These films often better represent the experience of being human—joy, sadness, camaraderie, loneliness, discoveries, and blunders.  The Burns Court Cinema is located in a cute neighborhood in the middle of S …

This is a meetup for liberal thinkers that happen to like film and also like to cook, or have a partner that likes to cook, or can cut up a watermelon. The film selections will range from movies staring big name actors to esoteric art films, documentaries, and foreign films.  We tend to choose movies that have a broad base of good reviews and hopefully each film will stimulate our thinking and provoke conversation. Everyone is expected to bring a dish from the menu list. Before the meetup, each …

Interested in music, films, or an information exchange with other humans? Feel like getting out from behind your desk and meet some cool new people? This meetup is for you! Have you been going to Meetups and finding mostly drinking and sports or going to meetups on subjects of interest but just not meeting the people you are looking for? Have you longed to parlay about books, philosophy, religion, politics, science, history, current events, computers? Do you wish to gain knowledge and exchange i …