This month’s Shawnee Poetry Reading will be held on November 20th, 7 p.m. at the Benedict Street Marketplace.
There will be an Open Mike session, as well as, the Woody Guthrie Readers. Hosted by Larry Smith.
Please note, there will not be a December meeting but you can catch slam poet Janice Smith in January!
OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY FILM INSTITUTE Our 27th Year, 2008-2009
Explore in eight international films the theme of “Finding Selfhood Through Exploring One’s Own History”
A discussion session follows each film for those who wish to stay.
November 9, 2008 Kerr McGee Auditorium, 2 PM
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne’s L’Enfant (The Child), Belgium (2005), 95 min.
Winning their second Cannes Golden Palm, L’Enfant confirms the Dardenne brothers’ standing as masters of modern cinema. Dispossessed twenty-year old Bruno lives with his eighteen-year-old girlfriend Sonia in a Belgian steel town. They live off Sonia’s unemployment benefits and Bruno’s panhandling and petty theft until a child complicates their lives. The parents then find themselves thrust into a kinetic journey reminiscent of Hitchcock as they move through sin and salvation in a spellbinding thriller some have called a gritty modern fairy tale.
-”Astonishingly vivid. The illusion of reality is so nearly complete in this magnificent French-language film that the screen becomes a perfectly transparent window on lives hanging in the balance.” Wall Street Journal
-”Their handheld camera catches tiny flickers of emotion that few filmmakers come near; you feel as if you’re watching the movements of a soul.” New York Magazine
-”Here is a film where God does not intervene and the directors do not mistake themselves for God. It makes the solutions at the ends of other pictures seem like child’s play.” Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
-”One of the greatest films of recent years; a prodigiously moving and powerful human story.” Salon.com
Celebrate the launch of Dorothy Alexander’s new book of poetry, Lessons from an Oklahoma Girlhood.
Art exhibit, book launching, and poetry reading!
Featuring a new collection of poetry by Dorothy Alexander and art created by Oklahoma women inspired by Dorothy’s poetry. Dorothy will be signing and reading from her book at the Opening.
OPENING RECEPTION
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH, 5:30 9:00 pm
ADELANTE! GALLERY
3003 PASEO, OKC
405-525-4039
For more information visit the Adelente! Gallery.
The Windmill Poets contest has wrapped up and it is time to announce the winners!
Windmill Poets
Piedmont Library
October 21, 2008
6:30-8:00 PM
Special, Special:
National Poetry Day “Power of Words” Awards
Come read your entry if it placed!
See who won the $25.00 1st Place gift certificate!!
Be inspired by poems about words!
We will review Chapter 5, Ted Kooser’s The Poetry Home Repair Kit
Bring 5 copies of any poem you want critiqued!
Did you remember to write about one or more of the illustrations on the Minneapolis Thesis Exhibition Post Cards?
Then plan to share your words.
Tell your poet friends! We welcome all who love poets & poetry!
Remember, The Poetry Society of Oklahoma meets Saturday, October 25 at Nino’s Restaurant.
Everyone who writes or likes poetry is encouraged to come!
Deadline - PSO Annual Contest - November 30
I hope to see YOU at Windmill Poets!
Vivian Stewart
373-0713
This is one of the most popular children’s plays ever written and has been produced in twenty countries. Presented in Commedia del arte tradition, using authentic staging and characters, Aesop’s fable becomes a colorful theatrical experience and glows with the warmth of “Friendship.”
Androcles and the Lion is a prize winning play, applauded around the world, again, and again.
Wednesday & Friday—11 am
Saturday & Sunday—2 pm
INDIVIDUAL TICKET PRICES
$5 ages 2—12 • $7 ages 13 & older
Group Rates Available
BOX OFFICE
951-0011
Tuesday—Friday, 1—5 pm
OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY FILM INSTITUTE - 27th Year, 2008-2009
Explore in eight international films the theme of Finding Selfhood Through Exploring One’s Own History. A discussion session follows each film for those who wish to stay.
Free Admission
October 12, 2008 Petree Recital Hall, 2 PM
Majid Majidi’s Father (1996), Iran, 96 min.
From Iran, the country once again most requested on evaluation forms last year, comes another film by Majid Majidi. In fact, people wrote, “Anything by Majidi.” The Oscar-nominated director of such masterpieces as Children of Heaven, The Color of Paradise, and Baran seems to have a finger on the pulse of humanity and suffering with an eye toward redemption and truth. In Father, a young adolescent returns home to discover his mother has remarried and to encounter one of those odysseys at the heart of the greatest storytelling. The kind of movie that makes one fall in love with film, this fable will live on in your moral imagination far beyond a Sunday afternoon. (Experience this film as a way of preparing to hear Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, who speaks at OCU on October 14.)
“Majidi’s gift for giving a cinematic texture to the emotional senses validates his work as a visionary.” Time Out
“The filmmaker that most easily comes to my mind when I watch Majidi’s film is Federico Fellini.” The Film Sufi
“Draws our deepest emotions with the simplest of stories.” Washington Post
On October 12th, at 2 p.m. in The Depot, Ken Hada will read some of his poetry. This even is free and open to the public. If you are in Norman or looking for a good Sunday afternoon activity - stop by! If you have any questions call 405-307-9320 or visit the Performing Arts Studio.
Buy, Borrow or Steal: Aquisitions and Interlibrary Loan.
In tough economic times, people need library materials more than ever and libraries have less funds available to meet those needs — without stealing. This workshop will discuss how to decide whether to buy or borrow, analyze ILL data to assist in materials selection, and handle requests to borrow through ILL efficiently.
Friday, October 24th, 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Midwest City Library
.48 CEUs
Check out the flyer or register online. The registration deadline is October 17th.
Howard F. Stein, Oklahoma Book Award finalist, will be reading from his newest book of poetry, Theme and Variations. You can catch him at Full Circle Bookstore on October 16th, from 6:30-8:00 p.m. He will also be available for signing.
Our 27th Year, 2008-2009
Explore in eight international films the theme of “Finding Selfhood Through Exploring One’s Own History”. A discussion session follows each film for those who wish to stay.
Sundays, 2 PM, Petree Recital Hall in the Kirkpatrick Fine Arts Center at NW 24th Street and Blackwelder or the Kerr McGee Auditorium in the Meinders School of Business at NW 27th Street and McKinley.
Free Admission
September 28, 2008
Petree Recital Hall, 2 PM
Zhang Yimou’s To Live (1994), China, 125 min.
From the much honored Zhang Yimou, arguably the greatest living film director, comes the extraordinary To Live, an epic portrayal of one family’s trials, triumphs and tragedies through the stormy decades of Chairman Mao’s Great Leap Forward of the 1950’s and the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960’s. Winner of the 1994 Grand Jury Prize and the Best Actor Award at Cannes, To Live stands as one of Zhang’s most accomplished films. The pageantry and splendor of the film’s movement echoes the grandeur of Zhang’s direction of China’s opening Olympic ceremony this past August.
“Zhang’s keen and universal view of human nature raises his work far above its own visual beauty and into the realm of timeless storytelling.” Janet Maslin, NY Times
“Zhang Yimou is a world-class artist who gives his films heartbreak and visual grandeur.” Time
“Those who wonder who will pick up the mantle from the retired, aging or dead Bergman, Kurosawa or Fellini in the international cinema should look to China and Zhang Yimou.” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
“A Chinese Gone With the Wind; an amazing achievement. Gong Li is the most exciting movie actress in the world today.” Andrew Sarris,Village Voice
