10 second films
I am curious to know if anyone went to the 10 second film festival at The Soap Factory on the 4th. I had plans to attend it up they fell through. I would be interested to hear anyone's opinions of it...that is if anyone went.
July 6, 2008
June 26, 2008
Event: Queer Takes Film Fest at the Walker
Queer Takes Film Festival
June 25 - 29
Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis
While this season marks only the third edition of Queer Takes at the Walker, the series continues a rich history of LGBT cinema in the Twin Cities that started in the late 1980s with Jenni Olson’s series Lavender Images, which grew into a program at Film in the Cities, which initiated the first Minneapolis/St. Paul LGBT Film Festival. In 1995, the University Film Society picked up the festival and the series continued for the next few years at the Bell Auditorium, when I offered to assist in the programming. In 1999 the University Film Society and Oak Street Cinema merged, and the festival continued over the next few years at Oak Street until Minnesota Film Arts could no longer produce the festival and the Walker launched Queer Takes.
This new edition of Queer Takes has deep connections to the institution. Abigail Child, whose work was included in the 2006 Women with Vision Festival and is part of the Walker’s collection, has a new documentary on the African American male “downlow� scene. Gregg Araki presented his early feature film Long Weekend O’ Despair at the Walker in May 1989. In 1992 Araki’s The Living End, which had an area premiere at the Walker as a 16mm print, returns in an enhanced version through a high-definition transfer and a remixed sound track.
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Events in June and July (after the jump)
Thursday, June 26: WomenVenture. WomenVenture Networks. 2324 University Ave W, Suite 120, St. Paul. 651/646-3808.
June 26: PFLAG St. Paul/Minneapolis. PFLAG Support Group - St. Paul
7-8:30 PM. St. Paul Jewish Community Center, 1375 St. Paul Ave., St.
Paul.
June 26: Minnesota Lynx vs Sacramento Monarchs. 7 PM. Target Center. Tickets.
June 26: OutFront Minnesota. Screening of the Oscar-winning short subject documentary Freeheld. Free. 7 PM at the Walker Art Center. More info: 612-375-7600.
Also: OutFront Minnesota and Casa de Esperanza. Screening of My Girlfriend Did It. Followed by discussion, training and lunch. Enhance your understanding of intimate partner violence in GLBT relationships.
8:15 AM - 4 PM at Landmark Center, St. Paul. To Register: Contact Casa
de Esperanza.
June 26, 27, 28: Minnesota NOW to benefit from play "State of the Union" by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay presented by Lex-Ham Community Theater and Sweet Charities Theater Company. Tickets: $17
general adminission; $15 students/seniors. Paul & Sheila Wellstone Center, 179 Robie Street East, St. Paul. More info.
Friday, June 27: OutFront Minnesota. Anne DeGroot Reception. Help honor Anne. 5:30 - 7:30 PM at the Private Dining Room Carlson School of Management. RSVP.
Saturday, June 28: Women's Environmental Institute. ORGANIC FARM SCHOOL "Field Trip: Dream of Wild Health" with Donna LaChappelle, Dream of Wild Health Farm Manager at Peta Wakan Tipi. Alternate
Location (Time TBD): 459 Wheeler St. N, St. Paul.
June 28: The Marsh, A Center for Balance and Fitness. Restorative Yoga with Leslie Johnson, certified Svaroopa Yoga teacher. 3 PM - 5 PM.
Members $25, Non-members $35.
June 28 and 29: NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota. Looking for volunteers to help out at their booth at the Twin Cities Pride Festival in Loring Park, Mpls.
June 28 and June 29: Visit Women Against Military Madness at the Peace Booth during the Pride Festival. Saturday: 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM and Sunday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM. Loring Park, Minneapolis. More info.
Monday, June 30: Children's Defense Fund Minnesota. "Kids Count Coffees". Learn how children in your area and across the state are doing. 2:30 - 4 PM. Minneapolis Urban League, Laura Scott Williams
Training Center, Minneapolis.
June 30: Women's Environmental Institute. ORGANIC FARM SCHOOL "Soil Health and Biodiversity in Practice - Harnessing Biology, Ecology, and Resiliency on the Farm" with Atina Diffley, Gardens of Eagan. 6 PM - 8 PM at Open Book, Minneapolis.
June 30: Women's Programs of Minnesota Advocates. 2008 Human Rights Law and Policy Conference 2008: Human Rights and the U.S.: The Past, Present and Future of Dignity and Justice for All. 8:30 AM - 4 PM at Dorsey and Whitney, Minneapolis.
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