Past Featured Guests
& Gatherings
Scroll down for the themes, screened content and Featured Guests who have participated in SSR's almost 40 online screening salons since these began in 2019.
Our profound gratitude to everyone involved in creating these experiences by adding their unique ingredients into the mix!

2022
Fall Series: Taking a Stand
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9/11: Stories of Service & Sacrifice
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Noah Rauch, Senior Vice President for Education & Public Programs, 9/11 Memorial & Museum
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David Lim, Lieutenant, Port Authority Police Department (ret.)
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Finding Courage
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Kay Rubacek, Producer & Co-Director
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Shaping Solutions: Women Leaders for Climate Justice
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Pat Mitchell, Media Executive, Producer, Curator
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Spring Series: Vulnerability & Connection
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Steven Ullman, Producer/Director and longtime friend of Jim Haynes
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Ece Ger, Director
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Mission JOY: Finding Happiness in Troubled Times
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Peggy Callahan, Producer & Co-Director
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with Jason Alexander, Co-Founder & CEO
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with LessonGivers: Bea Arthur, Ginny Glider, Karl Wagner

2021
Fall Series: CONNECTION & BELONGING
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Ground Operations: Battlefields to Farmfields
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Dulanie Ellis, Producer/Director
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Lisa Gossels, Director, Producer & Co-Editor
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Justin Schein, Director of Photography & Co-Producer
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Joline Makhlouf Rukab, Film Subject & Advisor
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Meredith Thomas, Actor In the role of the mother
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Monika Hochreutener, Executive Producer
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Summer Pop-Up: DHARMA REVISITED & SOUND SOUP
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Adam Schomer, Creator, Director Producer
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Dr. Michael Mollura, Score Composer
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with Ricardo Hambra & Lin James
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Spring Series: TAKING A STAND
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Period. End of Sentence, Winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary Short , 2018
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Laura Turner Seydel, international environmental advocate and eco-living expert, Chair of Captain Planet Foundation, Director of Turner Foundation
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Winter Series: THE POWER OF EXPRESSION
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Tim Seelig, Artistic Director, San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus & Program Director, National LGBTQ Center for the Arts
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Countdown to West Wing Live: The Debate Episode
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Jill Demby Guest, Producer
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Cole Gladis, Director & Producer
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Ron Gladis, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Gestalt Center & President, Mariah Fenton Gladis Foundation
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2020
Year-End Pop-Up: OUR MUSIC & OUR DREAMS
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Dr. Michael Mollura, PhD, MA, MFA Clinical Psychologist & Film/Television Music Composer
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Fall Series: LISTEN, LEARN... SPEAK
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Entire series screened created by Erahm Christopher, Filmmaker, Social Strategist, Speaker
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Summer Series: CONNECTION & BELONGING
- Generations
- Candice Holdorf, Writer
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- Gabriel Diamond & Candice Holdorf, Co-Producers & Co-Directors
- You and Me and the Space Between
- Mark Feuerstein, Actor & Producer of Playdate Theater's Virtual Theater Festival
- Hangups
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Mark Feuerstein, Actor, Director and Producer of Playdate Theater's Virtual Theater Festival
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Samara Handelsman, Director of Artistic Operations & Founding Member, Playdate Theatre
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Jeremy Seifert, Creator & Director
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Spring Series, PILGRIMAGE TO FREEDOM
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The Road to Dharma (episodes 1-10)
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Adam Schomer, Creator, Director Producer
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Dr. Michael Mollura, Score Composer
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Scott Christman, Director of Photography, Editor
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Ryan Phibbs & Elle Swan (riders on the series)
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