DHARMA@CINEMA: Little Miss Sunshine
Movie Screening cum Sharing by Shen Shian
The movie ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ (Winner of 2 Oscars in 2007) is a hilarious yet touching family drama on the nature of winning and losing on many levels, about ‘the wisdom that often comes not with success but with failure’. Like all good road trip stories, the family travelling together experiences the process of being divided through much squabbling, before being bonded by being there for one another. But there’s nothing typical about this family!
Meet the father who tries to sell his motivational success program with little motivation or success, meet the pro-honesty mother who supports her eccentric family, meet her depressed brother jilted by his lover, meet the seven-year-old beauty queen wannabe daughter, meet the teenage son who took a vow of silence, and meet the foul-mouthed grandpa! Don’t miss this entertaining and ‘enlightening’ flick on what could make a dysfunctional family tick just right!
Venue: Awareness Place [Well-Being] Centre, #03-39 Bras Basah Complex
Date/Time: Thu 9 April 2009, 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Register: Email wsdp@kmspks.org, Tel 6849 5346 or SMS 8100 3587 your name and contact info
About the Speaker: Shen Shi’an was one of the founding members of Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery’s Dharma Propagation Division in 1997. Holding an MA in Buddhist Studies, he currently serves as a Dharma Trainer and Project Coordinator in the Community Development & Training Department, focusing on research, writing and teaching on various subjects of Buddhism.
He was the founder of the monastery’s Youth Mission (now named Youth Ministry), a purchaser for its Awareness Place bookshop project, and the Chief Editor of the Web and Library Department, which co-supported Buddhanet.net, the world’s most popular Buddhist website. He is the founder and editor of TheDailyEnlightenment.com, one of the world’s largest independent Buddhist inspirational e-newsletter with over 26,000 members, the editor of ‘Be a Lamp Upon Yourself’, ‘Awaken: Gateway to Buddhism’ and ‘The Daily Enlightenment (1,2,3)’. He also contributes occasionally to magazines such as ‘Nanyang Buddhist’, ‘Awaken’ and ‘For You (Information)’, and writes Dharma movie reviews for BuddhistChannel.tv, the world’s leading international Buddhist news network.
He is used to conducting Dharma discussions for youths at tertiary institutions’ Buddhist societies, and has taught at the Singapore Buddhist Federation’s English Dharma Class. He has represented Buddhist perspectives in NACLI, NHB, NHG, SAF, SPF and ACM events and is a member of the Inter-Religious Organisation, through which he participates in interfaith harmony projects. He also co-runs Moonpointer.com, which is a community blog that promotes sharing of Buddhism via writing.
Organised by kmsYM (Youth Ministry of Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery): offering young adults effective ways to learn Buddhism while achieving personal & spiritual growths: www.kmspks.org/youth
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