SFCJL and UCSF Highlight Brain Health and Aging Through June Community Events

San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living (SFCJL) is hosting two community events in June in recognition of Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month, highlighting the shared commitment to advancing brain health, aging, and dementia care.

Jazz on the Silver Screen
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time: 5:00pm
Location: San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living | 302 Silver Avenue, San Francisco
Cost: FREE, registration required
Website: Register here
About: Join us for a special free concert celebrating the debut of Byer Square, the new community hub at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, bringing together culture, connection, and longevity to inspire how we live and age. In a multimedia narrative performance, New York City’s Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman Quartet explores jazz music that originated in film, revealing how movies helped carry jazz into the collective imagination. The program spans a wide range of film styles and eras, including silent films, early talkies, animation, noir, gothic horror and supernatural films, romance, musicals, Hollywood classics, independent and arthouse cinema, and avant-garde works. Special emphasis is placed on the contributions of Jewish composers, whose influence on 20th-century film and popular music is profound and lasting.

Whole Person Approaches to Brain Health
Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2026
Time: 4:30-6:00 pm
Location: San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living | 302 Silver Avenue, San Francisco
Cost: FREE, registration required
Website: Register here
About: Join us for a special panel conversation with Theresa Allison, MD, M. Music, PhD, the Harris Fishbon Distinguished Professor in Clinical Translational Research in Aging at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living and UCSF. Drawing on her unique background as a family physician, geriatrician, and ethnomusicologist, Dr. Allison will share how non‑pharmacological approaches such as music, spirituality, creativity, art, and social connection can play a powerful role in supporting people living with dementia and those who care for them. Dr. Allison’s research centers on lived experience, identifying real-world, reproducible approaches to the care of older adults and people living with dementia. By listening to the voices of older adults and care partners, we can reshape how we think about aging and quality of life. This conversation will highlight how simple, human‑centered experiences can foster connection and support cognitive and emotional health throughout the aging journey.

Please also see a blog article written by a student volunteer highlighting the partnership between San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living (SFCJL) and UCSF’s Geriatric Research Team as they work to better support older adults and improve transitions to long-term care.