[Peace] African dance, Patch Adams, Gays and the Church, Zimbabwean Pop - Allen Hall!!

[Laura Haber]

  Next week we have a full lineup of great events - African Dance class, Patch Adams on health care, Dr. Michael Adee on Gays and Lesbians and the Church, and Mhondoro Zimbabwean pop music. See below for details:

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  West African Dance Class 
  Last class of the semester at Allen Hall!
  Taught by 
  Djibril Camara of Guinea, West Africa
  Accompanied by 
  LIVE African drumming 
  by Champaign/Urbana's Mara-Giri Drum Project
  Everyone is welcome. No need to have been to the other classes.

  Monday, October 8
  7:00pm
  Main Lounge of Allen Hall
  Free!
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  "Inside My Heart But Outside the Box: Designing Health Care Systems"
  A talk by Patch Adams

  Wednesday, October 10
  7pm
  Main Lounge of Allen Hall
  Free and open to the public

  Patch Adams, M.D., is a nationally known speaker on wellness, laughter, and humor as well as on health care and health care systems. He approaches the issues of personal, community, and global health with zestful exuberance, according to Time Magazine. After conducting a small free hospital out of his home for several years, Patch has devoted the last 36 years of his life to building a large-scale free hospital in rural West Virginia. Patch is also trained as a clown and organizes yearly "clowning trips" to Russian orphanages and hospitals. A movie about Patch’s life stars Robin Williams.
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  "Toward the Light: Gays and Lesbians and the Church"
  A talk by Dr. Michael Adee about Gays in Christianity, gay marriage, politics and religion, and the separation of church and state.

  Thursday, October 11
  7pm
  Main Lounge of Allen Hall
  Free and open to the public!
  Sponsored by the Office of LGBT Resources, PRIDE, McKinley Church, and Unit One/Allen Hall
   
  Dr. Michael Adee is a Presbyterian minister and religious LGBT activist. In the late 1980s, he was fired from his job as a professor of communications at the University of Northern Kentucky over his attempts to begin a non-university sanctioned support group for LGBT students. Following his departure from the university, he attended seminary and went on to be an activist against Christianity-based oppression of LGBTQ people as the National Field Organizer for More Light Presbyterians, an organization working for full participation of LGBT people in the Presbyterian Church.
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  Allen Hall Lounge featuring Mhondoro - Zimbabwean pop music

  Friday, October 12
  7pm
  Main Lounge of Allen Hall
  Free and open to the public
   
  The Allen Lounge is a series of musical concerts that explore various cultures through music. This session will feature Mhondoro, an ensemble that plays popular Zimbabwean music. Mhondoro play in several local genres ranging from the mbira-based Chimurenga music of Thomas Mapfumo, to the fast Jit styles of the Bhundu Boys and Oliver Mtukudzi, to songs by the sungura stars Leonard Dembo and John Chibadura. 
   
  Laura Haber
  Program Coordinator of Unit One
  University of Illinois
  68 Allen Hall (MC 050)
  1005 W. Gregory
  Urbana, IL 61801
  (217) 244-2317
  lhaber at admin.housing.uiuc.edu
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