Sally Menke, longtime film editor for Quentin Tarantino, was found dead near Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California.
Menke, 56, worked with Tarantino on popular films such as Jackie Brown, Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction.
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The 7th Amakula Kampala International Film Festival for 2010: Inevitable Transition
We are pleased to announce that the seventh edition of the Amakula Kampala International Film Festival for 2010 will occur from October 29th to November 6th, 2010 with the theme of Inevitable Transition.
The festival will be presented at the National Theatre as well as twenty video halls located in the five districts of Kampala. The festival will welcome international guests from the African filmmaking community as well as a range of programs prompted by the festival theme. Films will be presented from around the world but as usual most of the program is devoted to covering the African continent through classic and contemporary cinema.
The festival will also present the regular events that have become customary: The Congress on the East African Cinema, The VJ Slam, the Golden Impala Award for the best short film from Eastern Africa, the Symposium on the festival theme, the Bon Fire Celebration and a range of multi-disciplinary performances specially commissioned for the festival.
To learn more, visit www.amakula.com.
Fear of a Bleak Planet: Rapping About Race, Poverty, and the Environment
In conjunction with the College of Art and Sciences’ Themester focus on “Sustain.ability: Thriving on a Small Planet,” the Archives of African American Music and Culture is sponsoring a panel discussion/exhibit opening reception, Fear of a Bleak Planet: Rapping About Race, Poverty, and the Environment on Monday, Oct. 4th, 5-7pm.
Fear of a Bleak Planet: Rapping About Race, Poverty, and the Environment
Event: Panel Discussion and Exhibit Opening Reception
Where: Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center
When: October 4, 2010 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. (Grand Hall)
October 4-31, 2010 Exhibit (Bridgwaters Lounge)
Departmental Sponsors: Archives of African American Music and Culture, College of Arts and Sciences, College Arts and Humanities Institute, Office of Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs
5th Annual Archives & Special Collections Month at Indiana University
Sustainability of our Cultural Heritage:
Preserving and Making Accessible Society’s Digital Records
Throughout October, the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries will celebrate their fifth annual “Archives and Special Collections Month,” as a means of highlighting the many ways that archives and special collections enrich our lives. This year’s theme focuses on IU’s College of Arts and Sciences Themester celebration, “Sustainability: Thriving on a Small Planet.” To highlight the Libraries’ sustainability efforts, the IUB special collection units are hosting the following sessions, tours, and exhibits.
The celebration offers informational sessions, a variety of exhibitions and a tour. For more detailed descriptions of the events, please click here.
Sessions
“Fear of a Bleak Planet: Rapping About Race, Poverty, and the Environment”
Monday, Oct. 4, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center—Grand Hall
“‘Who Wants [Their Facebook Posts] to Live Forever’”
Wednesday, Oct. 6, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., at Wells Library, room E174
“Are We Losing Our Identity? Preserving and Making Accessible Electronic Records at our State and University Archives”
Friday, Oct. 15, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., at the Black Film Center/Archive, Wells Library, room 044
“Preserving Home Movies”
Sunday, Oct. 17, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., in the Fine Arts Building, Auditorium
“‘The Times They Are A-Changin’: Preservation of and Access to the Digital Output of Researchers”
Tuesday, Oct. 19, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., at Wells Library, room E174
“A Celebration of World Day for Audiovisual Heritage: Announcing the IUB Media Preservation Initiative”
Wednesday, Oct. 27, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., at Wells Library, room E174
For Colored Girls: October 5, 2010
Tyler Perry’s newest film, For Colored Girls, will open on October 5th.
Based on Ntozake Shange’s 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Was Enuf, this film boasts a cast of talented actors such as Janet Jackson, Kerry Washington, Thandie Newton, Loretta Devine, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Kimberly Elise, Whoopi Goldberg, Macy Gray, Hill Harper, Michael Ealy, Omar Hardwick, and Richard Lawson.
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African Reinventions: Reused Materials in Popular Culture
African Reinventions:
Reused Materials in Popular Culture
September 25–December 17, 2010
Special Exhibitions Gallery, The Judi and Milt Stewart Hexagon Gallery, first floor
Plastic bags, aluminum cans, wire, and scraps of wood, cloth, metal, and plastic are given second lives throughout sub-Saharan Africa when they are transformed into a variety of utilitarian and decorative items. With objects including a working radio, a movie poster (from the Black Film Center/Archive) painted on an old flour sack, and a menagerie of animals made out of cans and wire, African Reinventions presents an engaging assortment of creative uses of recycled materials.
This exhibition was organized in conjunction with sustain•ability: Thriving on a Small Planet, the Fall 2010 College of Arts and Sciences Themester. For more information about this Themester, visit http://themester.indiana.edu/
This exhibition has been made possible with funds provided by the Class of 1949 Endowed Curatorship for the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
2nd Annual Men and Women of Color Leadership Conference
2010 Conference Theme:
“Pluralism, Antagonism & Civil Engagement: Developing Leaders in 21st Century America.”
Click here for an updated agenda.
Date:
November 12 – 13, 2010
Location:
Godfrey Graduate and Executive Education Center
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
Deadline: October 25th, 2010
Haitian Awareness Month
Screening of “The Road to Fondwa” and Q+A with co-director Justin Brandon
Tuesday, September 14, 7:30-9pm
at Boxcar Books, 408 E 6th St
View the film trailer at http://fondwa.org/about/
RSVP and FMI: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113079255416353
Emeline Michel and her band perform Haitian roots music at the 17th annual Lotus World Music & Arts Festival
Friday, September 17 and Saturday, September 18, from 8:45-10pm
Tickets available online: http://lotusfest.org/ticket-info)
“Like other Haitian artists of her generation, Michel marries social and political content to the distinctive, danceable Afro-Caribbean rhythms of Haitian traditional music, including the Haitian original compas, the troubador-style twoubadou, and the Afro-Haitian festival style of music known as rara. “Everybody knows that Haiti is in trouble,” she says. As a Haitian living abroad, Michel uses her music “to show a side of Haitian culture that is positive.”
More information at http://lotusfest.org/emeline-michel and http://www.emeline-michel.com/
“A chat about Haitian music and culture” with Emeline Michel
Monday, September 20, 4-5pm
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 1125 E. Atwater
Please note: This conversation will be conducted mostly in Haitian Creole.
“An Evening with Emeline Michel”
Tuesday, September 21, 7:30-9pm
in the Formal Lounge of the Foster International Learning-Living Center
Join us as this dynamic Haitian vocalist, songwriter, and dancer will discuss her life and career.
“Reforestation as Restoration:
An Examination of the Link between Environmental and Economic Restoration in Post-Earthquake Haiti”
a public presentation on sustainable reforestation and the impacts of the 2010 earthquake on the environment in Haiti
by Lizzie Cooke, Co-founder of Imagine Haitian(www.ImagineHaitian.org)
Friday, September 24, from 7-9:00 pm (Donations accepted)
at Boxcar Books, 408 E 6th St
Proceeds from the sale of Haitian arts and crafts will support Imagine Haitian’s reforestation efforts in Haiti.
Refreshments will be served.
RSVP and FMI: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159551054055750
“A Night of Haitian Poetry”
Saturday, October 2, 7:30-9pm
at the Pour House, 314 E Kirkwood Ave
Join us for readings of Haitian and Haitian-American poetry and literature. Selections will be read in English, French, and Haitian Creole. Discussion will follow.
Indiana University Coffeehouse Nights: Bernard Woma
On Thursday, September 16th, at 7pm Ghanaian drummer and xylophonist Bernard Woma will perform at the Indiana University Art Museum for the final installment of the Coffeehouse Nights series.
IUAM offers music and other diversions to make for an enjoyable evening. Enjoy coffee samples and sweet treats compliments of Bloomingfoods and Angles in the museum’s atrium. See art from a new perspective as you browse the Raymond and Laura Wiegus Gallery of the Arts of Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas while enjoying Woma’s performace. Participate in an art scavenger hunt for a chance to win prizes from the IU Art Museum and Angles Cafe & Gift Shop.
Hope to see you there.
Tripping the Lightbox Fantastic: Toronto International Film Festival's New Home
“Though inspired by cinephile meccas such as the British Film Institute, [the Lightbox is] unique in the world – an art-house rebuttal to the multiplex that recombines fine art, film and pop culture in a blockbuster hybrid of cinemas, galleries, learning studios and public spaces.”
Maclean’s (Canada) 09/07/10