[Imc-events] Upcoming Events at the UCIMC and in our Community

[Nicole Pion]

*Saturday, January 31, 7-9pm*

* The Prairie Greens' first City Council and Mayoral candidates!*
2007 S. George Huff Drive, Urbana
Celebrate the steady growth and development of the Green Party in
Champaign/Urbana and the Green Party's status as an Established Party
(meaning ballot access) in Illinois!

Green party candidates for this Spring's April election are:

     Mark Mallon (Urbana City Council Ward 2)
     Gary Storm (Urbana City Council Ward 7)
     Durl Kruse (Urbana Mayor)

Help kick off their campaign efforts by joining in this celebration
-> Bring a dish, drink or dessert if you can.
-> Bring ideas, concerns, energy and support
-> Take advantage of available opportunities to contribute and volunteer

*Saturday, January 31, 7-9pm
The Situation in Tibet from the Cultural Revolution to the Present: A
Slideshow and Presentation by Arjia Rinpoche
*Unitarian Universalist Church 309 W. Green Street, Urbana*
*Free, with donations accepted*
*Arjia Thubten Lobsang Rinpoche, Director of the TIbetan Mongolian Cultural
Center in Bloomington, Illinois, a high lama from China and Tibet, will
discuss the continuing effects of the Chinese invasion on Tibet, the
devastations of the Cultural Revolution, the policy of "patriotic education"
in monastaries across Tibet, the March 2008 protests in Lhasa and other
Tibetan areas, and the onging imprisonment and torture of polictical
prisoners.

*Sunday, February 1, 1:30-4pm
Dependent Arising: A Buddhist Dharma Talk
*Christ Unity Church 1206 E. Main Street, Urbana
In this slideshow, Arjia Rinpoche will speak on the Twelve Llinks of
Dependent Arising.  This talk is primarily for Buddhists or those with some
prior instruction and understanding, but all are welcome.



*Friday, Saturday & Sunday, February 6-8 (see schedule below)
The IMC Film Fest
*At the UCIMC

Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center (IMC) <http://www.ucimc.org/> will
be hosting the IMC Film Festival
(www.imcfilmfest.org<http://production.ucimc.org/>).
This three day celebration of the art of cinematography will highlight local
and independent artists and kickoff monthly IMC Film Nights.   It will also
be a chance for local and independent filmmakers to share their work and
connect with other artists, community members, and organizations.

*Schedule:*

Friday, Feb 6:    6pm-12am - Local and independent films [Citizens Watch;
Sugar; The Midwesterner; The Transient; and more]

                                            - Performance by DJ Belly

                                            - TV Dance Party (12-3am)

Saturday, Feb 7:    12-2pm - Family and children's films

                             5pm-12am - Films about art and being an artist
[Prelude; Firedancing; Proceed and Be Bold!; This American Gothic; and more]

                                            - Performance by Elizabeth
Simpson and George Turner

Sunday, Feb 8:    4pm-10pm - Performance by Zoo Improv Comedy
                                              - Documentaries [And the Beat
Goes On; DTEC; and more]; Variety/Open

 Please see our website for more information: www.imcfilmfest.org

*Wednesday, February 25. 8-10pm
Roy Zimmerman "Faulty Intelligence*"
At the UCIMC
$15 at the door

>From Roy's website: "What's funny about war, poverty, ignorance, bigotry,
neo-conservatism, homophobia, greed, lust and fear? Ask Roy Zimmerman. He's
been writing satirical songs for twenty years. The Los Angeles Times says,
"Zimmerman displays a lacerating wit and keen awareness of society's foibles
that bring to mind a latter-day Tom Lehrer."

Zimmerman has played clubs across the country, and shared the stage with
George Carlin, Bill Maher, Kate Clinton, Dennis Miller, Sandra Tsing Loh, kd
lang, Andy Borowitz and Paul Krassner. He's done several shows with The
Pixies' Frank Black, swapping songs in a solo acoustic setting. His
up-to-the-moment topical songs are featured on American Public Media's
syndicated broadcast "Weekend America" and Sirius Radio's "West Coast Live."


He's currently touring a one-man show called "Faulty Intelligence." It's a
ninety minute theatrical presentation of Zimmerman's original songs and
comic commentary - an inidictment of the Bush administration to accompany
Patrick Fitzgerald's."
More information available at: http://www.royzimmerman.com/index.php





-- 
Nicole Pion
Outreach and Development Adviser
AmeriCorps CTC VISTA
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
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