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Archive for the ‘Special Event’ Category
The Civic Media Center Presents “Virus”
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009The Civic Media Presents “Brazil”
Monday, June 22nd, 2009| July 8, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
“Brazil,” made in 1985 shows us a world in which the populace is completely controlled by the state, but technology remains almost as it was in the 1970’s. Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) is a civil servant who one day spots a mistake in the paperwork passing through his office. The mistake led to the arrest of an innocent man instead of the terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert DeNiro). Lowry attempts to correct the mistake but in the process becomes tagged as an enemy of the state.
WHERE: Civic Media Center, 433 S. Main St.
WHEN: Wednesday, July 8 @ 8pm
COST: $3-5 donation appreciated
The Civic Media Center Presents Music with: The Early Twenties, Dirty Fist, and The Impossible Shoelace
Monday, June 22nd, 2009| July 3, 2009 | ||
| 9:00 pm |
The Early Twenties, Dirty Fist, and The Impossible Shoelace will be performing Friday, July 3 at 9:00pm at the Civic Media Center.
Dirty Fist has just finished a new album and are back in Gainesville after a summer tour. The bands are all local to Gainesville and have a folk/indie sound.
WHERE: Civic Media Center, 433 S. Main St.
WHEN: Friday, July 3 @ 9pm
COST: $5 donation requested
The Civic Media Center presents: “The Wild One”
Monday, June 22nd, 2009| July 1, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
“The Wild One” features Marlon Brando as Johnny, the gang leader of the Black Rebels Motorcycle Club. Johnny and his gang first crash a legitimate motorcycle race, steel the second-prize trophy, then ride into Wrightsville, California. The sheriff is not happy with the disturbance the bikers make, especially after Johnny falls for his daughter. When rival gang The Beetles ride into town, trouble ensues.
This 1950’s film is one of the first to examine outlaw motorcycle gang violence in America. “The Wild One” is inspired and loosely based on a real-life incident that occurred in Hollister, California, over Fourth of July weekend in 1947.
WHEN: Wednesday, July 1st at 8 pm
WHERE: Civic Media Center, 433 S. Main Street
COST: $3 to $5 donation appreciated
94.7 WGOT Music and Art Show Benefit
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009| June 26, 2009 | ||
| 9:00 pm |
Join WGOT for a night filled with music, art, and dancing. DJs Professor Drew, Mike G, and Cameron will provide the dance music. Artists Jorelle Laakso, Baku, and Burne Richardson will display photography, abstract art, and graffiti art. This show is part of the downtown Artwalk event.
WHEN: Friday, June 26th @ 9pm
WHERE: Civic Media Center, 433 S. Main St.
COST: $3 donation requested
Film Screening: “Iran is Not the Problem”
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009| June 20, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
In light of the events unfolding in Iran, the CMC has hastily scheduled a showing of the recent documentary” Iran is Not the Problem” for 8pm this Saturday June 20th.
The film is described as “a feature length film responding to the failure of the American mass media to provide the public with relevant and accurate information about the standoff between the US and Iran, as happened before with the lead up to the invasion of Iraq.”
It is a great way to gain a better perspective on historical relations and the current situation in Iran; a nation which in this moment has entered uncharted waters in its evolution with the recent election. We will also invite discussion after the film.
WHEN: Saturday, June 20 @ 8pm
WHERE: Civic Media Center, 433 S. Main St.
COST: $3-5 donation appreciated
The CMC and the Gainesville International Socialist Organization Present: “The Take”
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009| June 5, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
“The Take” is a documentary film which follows thirty auto-parts workers in the wake of Argentina’s dramatic economic collapse in 2001. They became part of a daring new movement of workers who occupied bankrupt businesses and created jobs in the ruins of the failed system. The workers fought the courts, cops and politicians who could either give their project legal protection or violently evict them from the factory.
WHEN: Friday, June 5 at 8pm
WHERE: Civic Media Center, 433 S. Main St.
COST: $5 donation requested
Son of Sham Productions and the CMC Present: “You Are Not Frank Sinatra” Movie Premier
Thursday, May 14th, 2009| May 28, 2009 | ||
| 8:30 pm |
The Civic Media Center will host a premier screening of the new Son of Sham Productions film, “You Are Not Frank Sinatra” on Thursday, May 28th at 8 pm.
This surrealistic madcap adventure in art and underground culture is set and filmed entirely in Gainesville. From the Son of Sham original “You Are Not Frank Sinatra” press release:
A day and a night and then some in Gainesville, Florida. Put your thinking cap on for a trip to higher education in Hogtown – so the pigs won’t eat it. Oxymorons adumbrate in the night world where the Singer (Robert Dean Mowry) sings and the Poets pick poesy and fights You are not Frank Sinatra. And neither is anybody else. Wanna bet? Fact and fiction blur on a quaint strip of University Avenue in Gainesville, Florida, for a moment in May, 2007, when the Shamrock Pub faded into oblivion. Here gather the poets, truth-seekers, philosophers, lovers, and singers, for what Rimbaud called “The deliberate disordering of the Senses.” What is real? What is not? Are You Frank Sinatra?
Copies of the movie are available for $15 at the screenings with deleted songs and poems.
WHEN: Thursday, May 28th @ 8:30pm
WHERE: Civic Media Center, 433 S. Main St.
COST: $5 suggested donation
New Environmental Threats and Social Movements in the Southwestern Amazon
Thursday, May 14th, 2009| May 27, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
UF Professor Steven Perz will present a pictorial lecture on his research in the Southwestern Amazon at the Civic Media Center on Wednesday, May 27th at 8pm.
He will share information and insights gleaned from a recent trip to Peru through a power point presentation and discussion. Dr. Perz works with indigenous people, campesinos, ranchers, foresters, mining companies and other resource extraction interests, and the tourism industry to create sustainable development projects.
WHEN: Wednesday, May 27th at 8:00pm
WHERE: Civic Media Center, 433 S. Main St.
COST: Donations appreciated
Florida Black History: Where We Stand in the Age of Barack Obama
Saturday, February 28th, 2009The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida is presenting an exciting public program titled Florida Black History: Where We Stand in the Age of Barack Obama. The event will be held on Tuesday, March 17 at 6 pm at the UF Library East on the first floor.
Featured speakers will include United States Senator Bill Nelson, UF President Dr. J. Bernard Machen and Dr. Harry Shaw. Dr. Shaw served as a charter member of the Affirmative Action Advisory Council as well as overseeing minority recruitment, retention and mentoring at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UF for many years.
Mr. Joel Buchanan, a leading figure and historian of the civil rights movement in Gainesville will facilitate an exciting roundtable of distinguished speakers on the evening of the seventeenth including: Professor Sherry DuPree, Mrs. Evelyn Marie Moore Mickle, Dr. Gwendolyn Zohara Simmons and Dan Harmeling. The evening will also feature entertainment by the UF Gospel Choir and Madear’s Kids!
We hope to facilitate a dialog on the importance of African American history as well as the urgent need to gather, preserve, and promote Florida Black History to younger generations before this history is lost forever.
WHEN:Tuesday, March 17 @ 6pm
WHERE: University of Florida Library East, 1st floor
